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 national march organized by United for Peace and Justice on Washington, D.C., on Saturday, January 27, to call on Congress to take immediate action to bring the troops home. Continue reading »
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 commander said,
“Women police are seen to be much less threatening, although they can be just as tough as men. But in a conflict situation, they are more approachable and it makes women and children feel safer,”
Sounds like a concept that’s time has come.
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 affairs department in Helmand Province. and then there is this:
“Afghanistan and its female population are at the bottom of the global poverty scale. The country is the fourth lowest in the world for living standards and third lowest in gender disparities, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) stated in August 2006.”
And this is what we call liberation?
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 MiloÅ¡
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 (a youth
cultural center), where they were awaiting the results of the
parliamentary election with the electoral staff of the Liberal
Democratic Party-Social Democratic Union coalition.
Miloš was heckled, “see that faggot. I know you. You are part of
Women in Black. Because of you, I have a criminal record.�
Violeta reacted, turning to the heckler, “Are you saying something to
me?� Upon hearing that, he turned towards the activists. He grabbed
Miloš by the hair and dragged him to the ground. Violeta sprayed him
in the eye. Then, another neo-Nazi grabbed her hand. She sprayed him
in the eye as well. In that moment, he threw her and she flew towards
the stairs. She fell down the stairs, bruising the right side of her face.
She was taken to the emergency room, where it was concluded that there
was no serious damage besides contusions on her face. The police were
called. They said that they would come the following day to take
statements instead of appearing right away.
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Women who are poor, less-educated and/or obese receive less treatment for their breast cancer
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,
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