January 26th, 2007
According to a report from ABC News, women who are poor, less educated and or obese are likely to get less chemotherapy for breast cancer than richer, better educated and skinnier women. A study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that,
“women with less education were more than three times as […]
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January 25th, 2007
Here is a schedule of events in Washington, DC for this weekend. Please check the Code Pink website for updates and more details:
Join CODEPINK and many others in a […]
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January 25th, 2007
After all the problems there have been with U.N. Peacekeepers being accused of sexual assault, the idea of an all-woman team of peacekeepers sounds like a worthy concept. The U.N. will soon send it’s first such team, made up of 105 Indian policewomen to Liberia.
In an article in USA Today, Seema Dhundia, a unit […]
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January 24th, 2007
Here is yet another report documenting the dire conditions being endured by women in Afghanistan. In the last 10 months more than 20 women and girls have committed suicide, “most of them had been handed over to dealers instead of drugs, or to settle family disputes,” according to Fawzia Ulomi, head of the women’s […]
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January 24th, 2007
The following is a report on the attack of 2 Women in Black activists in Belgrade:
“At 12:30 in the morning on January 22, Violeta ikanovi and Miloš
Uroševi , two Women in Black activists, were violently attacked by
three skinheads in the passage between Sremska Street and Zeleni Venac
in central Belgrade. They were returning from Dom Omladine […]
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January 23rd, 2007
Rates of intimate partner violence decreased between 1993 and 2004, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Justice. However the news was not good for all segments of the population.
According to an article in Indian Country Today by Sarah Deer, the rate of vicitmizations per 1000 women over the age of 12 […]
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January 22nd, 2007
From the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq:
Please send letters to support our campaign to remove Article No 7 from the proposed constitution for Kurdistan.
To all women’s group, secularist organisations, trade unions and political activists, we need your help to prevent Islamic Sharia law being implemented in Kurdistan.
In December, we declared a campaign to repeal […]
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January 21st, 2007
“The Cost of Sexual Violence in the US Armed Forces” by Christine Hansen, Executive Director, The Miles Foundation, presented at the University of Buffalo Law School, details preliminary research relative to the physical and mental health implications and workforce and financial impact of sexual harassment and assault in the US Armed Forces. The paper will […]
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January 19th, 2007
Adapted from Sheroes:
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) has come up with a comprehensive proposal to withdraw our troops from Iraq. Her plan includes the following points:
Withdraw all U.S. troops and military contractors from Iraq within six months from the date of enactment.
Accelerate, during the six-month transition, training of a permanent […]
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January 18th, 2007
The following is excerpted from the Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran E-Zan Newsletter dated January 15, 2007:
To our readers,
Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi is an Iranian teenager who was sentenced to be hanged for murder by an Iranian court. Just a few hours ago, according to various Newswires, an international campaign to save Nazanin’s life […]
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