Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Alice Fordham – National – Friday, 17 May 2013 (originally published 14 May) ALGIERS // It was early on a weekend morning, but the teams of women technology entrepreneurs were full of energy as they had coffee and croissants before a morning polishing their business pitches. Dressed in coloured hijabs or with bare heads, speaking [...]
Derek Lambie – Scotsman.com – Thursday, 16 May 2013 (originally published 10 May) RECORD numbers of women in Scotland are taking up a career in farming in what is being viewed as a modern-day revival of the war-time “land girls”. Attracted by the prospect of a better work-life balance and the chance to run their [...]
Sunanda Creagh – The Conversation – 15 May, 2013 (originally published May 6) Some groups of migrant women in Australia are at a higher risk of medical interventions in childbirth that may lead to health problems for the mother or child, a new study has found. Medical interventions include caesarean sections, use of epidural painkillers, [...]
Detroit Free Press – Tuesday 14 May, 2013 (originally published 10 May) Viola Liuzzo was a homemaker and mother of five children when she suddenly told her husband in 1965 that she was heading south to register black Southerners to vote during the civil rights movement. Liuzzo, who paid for her idealism with her life [...]
Dr. Arzu Rana Deuba – Republica – Monday, 13 May 2013 (originally published 09 May) Indira Gandhi, when asked to state her greatest moment in life, reportedly said, “When I became a mother.” Indeed, if one of the most powerful women in world history regarded becoming a mother as the greatest moment in her life, [...]
