Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Devorah Lauter – The Age – Wednesday, 06 February 2013 (originally published 04 Feb) Paris: A 200-year-old law forbidding women to wear trousers in Paris has finally been revoked. On January 31, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France’s minister of women’s rights, made it officially impossible to arrest a woman for wearing trousers in the French capital. The law [...]
News International – Wednesday, 16 January 2013 (originally published 09 Jan) PARIS: The Taliban are fighting a lost cause and must accept peace talks, the father of Malala Yousafzai said Wednesday, accepting a key French award for the Pakistani schoolgirl shot for campaigning for girls’ education. In an impassioned speech after accepting the Simone de [...]
Sara Miller Llana – Christian Science Monitor – Wednesday, 09 January 2013 (originally published 08 Jan) When ex-model and former French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy made comments in the December issue of Paris Vogue declaring, “My generation doesn’t need feminism,” Anne-Cécile Mailfert, one of many French women catching the news on her iPhone, was aghast. [...]
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 – Gulfnews.com – Monday, 19 March 2012 (originally published 9 Mar as: “Self-esteem make-overs for women in need”) 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 [...]
