We are indebted to Dahr Jamail for his ongoing reporting about what is really happening in Iraq. In his latest dispatch, Dahr reports that women are being kidnapped on a regular basis in Iraq. One woman he interviewed told him,
“I was taken by Americans for three days recently,” Um Ahmed told IPS in […]
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This post is from Sheroes.
Lately it seems that uppity grannies are in motion everywhere. A group calling itself the Granny Peace Brigade has called for grannies everywhere to gather in Washington on January 18th to lobby Congress. This is a picture of the Grannies on the Brooklyn Bridge on Grandparents’ Day, 2006. […]
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from the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS THREATENED
HUMAN rights organisations and individuals have been threatened with
violence, including rape, for speaking out on the current impasse in Fiji.
The Fiji Women¹s Rights Movement office and FWRM Board member Imrana Jalal,
received threatening phone calls last week.
The threats follow public statements by FWRM and an […]
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This is an informative article, but we need to get away from this notion that stoning is “primarily a women’s issue”. Stoning is primarily done to women, but it is done by men and is therefore a man’s issue, an issue of patriarchal privilege and power.
“Currently, in Iran, there are nine women sentenced to death […]
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Yanar Mohammed will be on the Laura Flanders show tonight at 8-9 pm EST talking about the Iraq Study Group.Dear Friends The debate can be heard online later at:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadionationPodcast
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Radio Nation With Laura Flanders Saturday
The women Baker-Hamilton forgot: Iraqi feminist Yanar Mohammed and Carolyn Ho, mother of Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned […]
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Yesterday, shortly after I posted Yanar Mohammed’s report about the current conditions facing women in Iraq, my phone rang. It was Dr. Lynette Dumble of the Global Sisterhood Network. In as much as she is in Australia and I am in the U.S., this was not an everyday occurence. Lynette was deeply […]
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The following is from Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI). Since the U.S. invasion, Yanar has worked tirelessly in horrifically dangerous conditions to provide safe shelter for women as well as campaigning for women’s rights in Iraq. Yanar’s courage in speaking the truth and making sure that the […]
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Here are several links regarding the Subic Bay rape verdicts. The first is a news story that was forwarded to us by Hisako Motoyama, Secretary-General of the Asia-Japan Resource Center.
US Marine guilty of raping Filipina, 3 others acquitted
The following statements from the Gabriela Network were sent out by WAIL, the Women’s Anti-Imperialist League:
4 December […]
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More than 155,000 women have been deployed by the U.S. military in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many are now coming home suffering from serious psychological trauma. The VA reports that more than a third of the female vets that were evaluated between 2002 and last August had a preliminary diagnosis of PTSD and […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 1, 2006
1:35 PM
CONTACT: Public Citizen
(202) 588-1000
Drug-Company Sponsored Research Trial Needlessly Put Indigent Pregnant Women and Their Infants at Risk
Placebos Administered to Pregnant Women With Genital Herpes Simplex Virus Resulted in Unnecessary Cesarean Deliveries
WASHINGTON - December 1 - Dozens of primarily indigent pregnant women enrolled in a drug-company sponsored research […]
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