Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Syjil Ashraf – Daily Targum – Wednesday, 09 November 2011 (originally published 06 Nov) The Women Farmers Project, a program launched in part by a University professor, centers on training Turkish women how to grow as farmers. Robin Brumfield, a farm management specialist at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and Mick Minard, strategic [...]
Aaron Stein - Southeast European Times – Monday, 12 September 2011 (originally published 07 Sept) Turkish women have theoretically been equal to men since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk introduced the country’s drastic modernisation reforms during the 1920s. Having changed the law, Ataturk then closed the book on women’s rights, believing that he had solved the problem. Despite [...]
Benjamin Peim – Kuwait Times – Thursday, 23 December (originally published 21 Dec) In October, Turkish President Abdullah Gul’s Republic Day reception was boycotted by the army and opposition politicians because the first lady wore a headscarf to the event. Indeed, Ms Gul’s headscarf nearly cost her husband his bid for the presidency three years [...]
Sehrish Wasif – The Express Tribune – Tuesday, 14 December, 2010 (originally published 11 Dec) ISLAMABAD: To motivate the youth, develop a gender-sensitive media and highlight issues of violence against women, a handbook was launched on Friday. Uks Research, Resource and Publication Centre on Women and Media in collaboration with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) [...]
