Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Radha Sharma – Indian Express – Thursday, 06 June 2013 (originally published 04 Jun) In her red cotton summer dress, necklace and white bag slung over her shoulder she might have been floating across the lawn at a garden party; but before her crouches a masked policeman firing teargas spray that sends her long hair [...]
Dorian Jones – Voice of America – Monday, 18 February 2013 (originally published 14 Feb) STANBUL — Women rights groups demonstrated in Istanbul earlier this month in support of abortion rights, accusing state institutions of complying with a government campaign to systematically curtail the practice. Now the protests are continuing across the country as [...]
Jennifer Hattam – UPI – Tuesday, 24 July 2012 (originally published 17 Jul) (WOMENSENEWS}–Beating drums and blowing whistles, hundreds of women marched last month on Istanbul’s central Taksim Square, in one of dozens of rallies that have been held around the country to protest a new threat to reproductive rights. Abortion until the 10th week [...]
PRI – Friday, 22 June 2012 (originally published 18 Jun) In Islam, men and women are expected to pray separately. For a long time, in Turkey at least, that meant men prayed at the mosques and women, well, didn’t. But as Turkey becomes more affluent and Islam plays an important role in the government, there’s [...]
Selcan Hacoglu – ABC News – Thursday, 07 June 2012 (originally published 03 Jun) Thousands of demonstrators on Sunday staged the largest protest yet against plans by Turkey’s Islamic-rooted government to curb abortion, which critics say will amount to a virtual ban. Around 3,000 women — their ages ranging from 20 to 60 years [...]
