February 28th, 2007
From The Organisation for Women’s Liberation-Iran:
No to women’s oppression
8th March is a day against women’s oppression. On this day, people through out the world have protested and shown their hatred of gender discrimination, violence and inequality. They have achieved gains too. However, women every where still suffer inequality. In parts of the world women […]
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February 28th, 2007
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FEBRUARY 27, 2007
10:39 AM
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Human Rights Watch
Iran: Women on Trial for Peaceful Demonstration
Activists Arrested for Protesting Discriminatory Laws
NEW YORK - February 27 - The Iranian Judiciary should immediately end its prosecution of several women’s rights advocates for exercising their right to freedom of peaceful assembly, Human Rights Watch said today.
On March 4, […]
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February 27th, 2007
Kudos to the folks at The Historic State Theater Complex in Elizabethtown, KY for not backing down when one of their board members objected to putting the name of a play being performed at the theater on the marquee. The name of the play? Yes you guessed it, “The Vagina Monologues” and no […]
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February 26th, 2007
Despite Dubya’s fantasy liberation of women in Afghanistan, a new report illustrates how truly delusional that story line is. According to IRIN,
“Every 28 minutes a woman dies in Afghanistan during childbirth. 54 percent of Afghan children are born stunted. The fertility rate in Afghanistan is the world’s second highest at 7.5 children per […]
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February 23rd, 2007
The following is a statement by Yanar Mohammed, President of the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI). As she eloquently points out and as Yifat Susskind said as well in the Madre statement posted earlier today, there is nothing new about rape in Iraq or for that matter in any military conflict. Rape is […]
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February 23rd, 2007
The following commentary by Jennifer Drew is reprinted with her kind permission:
“The American Psychological Association published research yesterday
wherein they claim the media’s overwhelming one-dimensional obsession
with portraying young girls as sexualised commodoties, harms young
women’s physical and mental health.
Interestingly, Professor Andrew Hill, professor of medical psychology at
the University of Leeds stated ‘it was hard to disagree with […]
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February 23rd, 2007
Many thanks to Barbara Snow for kind permission to reprint this beautiful message:
Imbolc, 2007
Precious Daughters, Cherished Sisters,
As the return of the Goddess moves from myth to reality, you may be feeling Her presence. You may recognize the stirrings of Gaia’s soul as She turns and stretches within our planet like every fetus in the womb. […]
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February 23rd, 2007
Madre’s Yifat Susskind has written an excellent analysis of the newest rape allegations to surface in Iraq rightly pointing out that the news coverage of these allegations have not addressed the context in which these women are speaking out,
“As Iraqi women’s organizations have documented, sexualized torture is a routine horror in Iraqi jails. While this […]
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February 23rd, 2007
So a couple of little old ladies go to visit their Senator’s office and they ask if they can meet with the Senator to talk about Iraq. The Senator’s staff gives them the run around and when the little old ladies refuse to leave, yes, you guessed it, they got arrested. Here is […]
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February 22nd, 2007
Here are some excellent links for commentary/info regarding the reports of rapes in Iraq that have surfaced in the last few days.
Riverbend:
No Iraqi woman under the circumstances- under any circumstances- would publicly, falsely claim she was raped. There are just too many risks. There is the risk of being shunned socially. There is the risk […]
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