Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Farakh Shahzad – Pakistan Today – Wednesday, 22 February 2012 (originally published 19 Feb) Pakistan has a population of about 180 million, over half of which are women. Keeping in view the 51 per cent of the total population, it is a smart economics to ensure gender equality as a guarantee towards economic self reliance. [...]
Todd Neale – MedPage Today – Tuesday, 21 February 2012 (originally published 18 Feb) The variation in rankings of perinatal and infant mortality between countries, which is often used as an indicator of healthcare quality, is probably related to differences in how the smallest and most premature babies are registered in national databases, researchers found. [...]
Carla Salazar & Frank Bajak – The Ledger – Mondy, 20 February 2012 (originally published 14 Feb) LIMA, Peru | It was 1996 when Micaela Flores and 15 other women from Peru’s highlands accepted an ambulance ride to a Cuzco clinic, lured by the offer of a free medical checkup. But when they arrived, the [...]
Chris Rickleton – IPS – Friday, 17 February 2012 (originally published 11 Feb) BISHKEK, Feb 11, 2012 (IPS/EurasiaNet) – Legislation designed to discourage the controversial practice of bride kidnapping fizzled recently in Kyrgyzstan’s parliament. The bill lost support because a key provision could also be used to crack down on the ostensibly illegal, yet quietly [...]
Tevita Tuiwavu – Fiji Times – Thursday, 16 February 2012 (originally published 14 Feb) GENERATION Next Fiji is dedicating its one-week broadcast to the empowerment of rural women in the lead-up to International Women’s Day next month. This was part of FemLINK Pacific’s newly-launched programs during World Radio Day celebrations in Suva yesterday. “The one-week [...]
Dateline Philippines – Wednesday, 15 February 2012 (originally published 13 Feb) “UNITE for MDGs” is a night of inspiring ideas and celebrating partnerships to strengthen the country’s commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. MDG advocates Iya Villania, Bam Aquino, Albay Governor Joey Salceda, and Iza Abeja will share messages of support on [...]
Shoba Shukla – Asia Sentinel – Tuesday, 14 February 2012 (originally published 09 Feb) The Gender Agenda: Making HIV Responses Work for Key Affected Women and Girls The health of women and girls across the world, particularly from HIV transmissions, is threatened by a long list of inequalities simply because they are females. In a [...]
Robin Brant – BBC – Monday, 13 February 2012 (originally published 9 Feb) Tax breaks to help working mothers to pay someone to do the housework is an idea the prime minister wants to “look at further”. David Cameron described it as a “very interesting” proposal, during a meeting with other European leaders in Sweden [...]
Pamela Constable – Washington Post – Friday, 10 February 2012 (originally published 08 Feb) Teresa Gomez, a Salvadoran woman in her 20s, and Margaret Ashong, a grandmother from Ghana, endured regular beatings, threats and insults by the fathers of their children. Like many battered immigrant women in the Washington area, they mostly suffered in silence, [...]
Sharifa Ghanem – Bikyamasr – Thursday, 09 February 2012 (originally published 05 Feb) DUBAI: A Saudi Arabia woman who pressed the government last year after she drove a vehicle in the country has filed a lawsuit against the government for refusing her a driver’s license. Manal al-Sharif, the mastermind behind the Women 2 Drive campaign, [...]
