March 5th, 2007
International Women’s Day 2007: We Stand with the Women of the World*
Lucinda Marshall, @ 2006
For the past 5000 years, give or take a century or two, there has been a persistent tendency to leave unexamined the impact that social, economic, environmental, and military policies have on the lives of women throughout the world. […]
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March 5th, 2007
Here is a link to the United Natons IWD website. Pretty cut and dry, but some statistics worth quoting:
“It is estimated that between 113 million and 200 million women are demographically “missing.” They have been the victims of infanticide (boys are preferred to girls) or have not received the same amount of food and […]
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March 5th, 2007
cross-posted from WIMN’s Voices:
Why is it that even the most left-leaning of publications seem to feel a need to write in the style section genre when they are describing empowered women? In a Mother Jones piece about Ava Lowery, a 16 year old activist who has gained much-deserved national attention for her fabulous anti-war videos, […]
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March 5th, 2007
From Stop Family Violence:
In the Violence Against Women Act of 2005, Congress authorized spending $50 million per year for Sexual Assault Services. This section of VAWA, known as the Sexual Assault Services Act (SASA), would provide the first federal funding stream dedicated entirely to the provision of direct services for victims of sexual violence. However, […]
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March 4th, 2007
Felicity Arbuthnot has written a remarkable piece in which she pleas for attention to be paid not only to ‘bringing the troops home’ but to ending the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq. This week Dahr Jamail has written a piece about 3 women who have been condemned to death in Iraq, one on […]
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March 4th, 2007
March 2, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Celebrate International Women’s Day with Activist/Author for Global Women’s Health!
Author and activist Jane Roberts, co-founder of the grassroots 34 Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund, will be in the Northwest area March 5–9th speaking to women’s rights, health and environmental groups, bookstores and to college and university classes and […]
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March 3rd, 2007
OpenDemocracy.net’s Women UNlimited is doing a fantastic job blogging the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) which is meeting from February 26-March 9, 2007. They also have a 50:50 Intiative which is designed to be a current affairs forum written and read equally by men and women because, “A global debate without the […]
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March 3rd, 2007
From: Redstockings of the Women’s Liberation Movement
Help spread the word. Forward widely!
NY: Feminist Speak Out at the United Nations, NYC
(Ralph Bunche Park, 1st Ave & 43rd St)
On International Women’s Day, Thurs March 8th 12:30pm
FL: Feminist Speak Out, Gainesville FL
(Hoggetowne Middle School, 3930 NE 15th St)
On International Women’s Day, Thurs March 8th 6pm
(more info at the […]
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March 2nd, 2007
We are starting to receive announcements of events for International Women’s Day (March 8th). While we no longer maintain a complete calendar, we will try to post announcements on the blog as space and time permit. For more information about the history of IWD and other calendars of events around […]
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March 2nd, 2007
The Lancet, a well-respected British medical journal, has just issues a report on the status of women in the world in conjunction with International Women’s Day 2007. Here are some of the depressing highlights:
“More than one in five girls of primary school age are not in school compared with about one in six boys. […]
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