Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Angelique Chrisafis – Guardian – Thursday, 10 May 2012 (originally published 04 May) Socialist frontrunner offers more women in top jobs, a ministry of women’s rights and sexual harassment laws He has promised an equal number of men and women in cabinet, and to reintroduce a ministry of women’s rights. But will François Hollande be [...]
AP – NZ Herald – Monday, 19 March 2012 (originally published 15 Mar) The Josephine beauty parlour in northern Paris is celebrating its first birthday today and the success of a simple idea: When life is ugly, make women feel beautiful. Some 1,200 disadvantaged women – abuse victims, former convicts or addicts, disabled women, single [...]
A.D.McKenzie – IPS – 02 February 2012 (originally published 27 Jan) PARIS, Jan 27, 2012 (IPS) – When Louisamène Joseph Alionat unexpectedly began singing in a packed hall at the United Nations cultural agency here this week, it was an attempt to give encouragement to her peers engaged in the uphill battle of trying to [...]
History.com – Friday, 06 January 2012 (originally published 03 Jan) Nearly 250 years after Jeanne Baret became the first woman to circumnavigate the planet, scientists have named a new plant species in her honor. A French botanist who disguised herself as a man to join Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s journey around the world, she helped [...]
