Ann Wright, a retired U.S. Army Reserves Colonel has written an outstanding analysis of why attacking Iran is both illegal and an inappropriate military decision. She reminds us that,
“Iran is a country with a remarkable 2,500 year history. Iran has a population of 68 million people, 80,000 of whom still suffer […]
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The latest newsletter from Breast Cancer Action contains a chilling report about how
allowable standards of radiation exposure are determined. Note that the terrm here is ‘allowable’ because there is no such thing as safe exposure, radiation is a known cause of cancer and is not safe in any amount. What is blood-curdling […]
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Human rights lawyer Jocelynne Scutt has a wonderful opinion piece out about the importance of including women in the Eminent Persons Group that has been tasked with investigating the recent coup in Fiji. Prior to the coup, women were a very important part of the effort to stop the government takeover. It is quite ironic […]
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These two reports are the latest confirmation about the dire situation for women in Iraq,
According to Amnesty International, four women have been sentenced to death, and at least one of them is in imminent danger of execution.
and this first person account of a rape by an Iraqi soldier on Irin.
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Ann Jones’ recent piece, “Women in Afghanistan” is an excellent reminder of the every day horrors that women in that country face. Jones writes,
“The fact is that the “liberation” of Afghan women is mostly theoretical. The Afghan Constitution adopted in 2004 declares that “The Citizens of Afghanistan — whether man or woman — have […]
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With the caveat that this isn’t a cute little book that you put on your coffee table or a good read before sleep, Tara McKelvey’s anthology, “One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers” is an excellent collection of essays looking at the role of women at Abu Ghraib. This is a perfectly unbiased […]
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The Moscow Times reports that a mass grave containing the remains of as many as 30 women and girls who had been kidnapped and forced to work as prostitutes has been found in the Ural Mountains,
“The girls were reportedly lured to an apartment, raped and told they would have to work as prostitutes. Both refused […]
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Action Alert from WOLA:
TAKE ACTION!
Support Efforts to End the Cycle of Impunity in the Killings of Women in Guatemala
Since 2001, thousands of young women and girls have been killed in Guatemala in an epidemic of unsolved murders. According to police statistics, the number of women slain has risen steadily from 383 in 2003, to […]
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Oh we just can’t get enough of these wonderful grannies! Six Grannies were arrested last week at a Portland, OR recruiting station. They were there because as Patricia Schwiebert, age 61 put it,
“We just don’t want our children coming in here and getting enlisted.”
Cindy Sheehan had this to say about the wonderful Grannies everywhere […]
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Three Iranian women journalists were recently arrested on their way to attend a journalism conference in India and face prosecution. According to a report on the Ms. Magazine website,
“Two of the three, Talat Taghinia and Mansoureh Shojai write for online journal Zanestan (which translates to “City of Women”), an Iranian web-based journal that […]
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