April 30th, 2007
Public Statement by Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran
FOR IMMIDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: press@wfafi.org
BOSTON, MA- -Since April 23, 2007, Tehran’s regime has launched an extensive and brutal crackdown on women for “promoting virtues and combating vice.” Thousands of women have been beaten, arrested and warned to follow the strict dress code of the Islamic Republic. Comments by […]
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April 29th, 2007
While being very appreciative of Amnesty for bringing this to the public spotlight, I’m not sure “appalled is quite the right adjective here…:
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
AI Index:MDE 14/027/2007
Public News Service No: 084
27 April 2007
Iraq: Amnesty International appalled by stoning to death of Yezidi girl and subsequent killings
Amnesty International is appalled by the killing of Du’a Khalil Aswad, […]
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April 29th, 2007
The Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp has a wonderful website, treat yourself to an inspiring visit!
Arianna Huffington vivisects Hillary Cintonn’s denial for her own complicity in the Iraq debacle.
So the U.S. gave tacit approval to the continued sexual enslavement of women after the Japanese surrendered. What is astounding is how long it took for this story […]
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April 27th, 2007
Read Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Corrigan Maguire’s account of being attacked by Israeli soldiers during a peace vigil sponsored by Bil’in Peoples Committee, a Palestinian peace group. As we must ask all too often, in what way does such violence ever make us stronger, safer or free?
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April 27th, 2007
Throughout the last several years, many of us have been deeply touched by a blog written by a young Iraqi woman who uses the name Riverbend. Her missives about what life is really like in Baghdad and throughout Iraq have offered a much needed lens of reality to our perceptions. Her bravery in writing this […]
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April 26th, 2007
URGENT ALERT!!
ABC’s The View and 20/20 will be giving Alec Baldwin a platform to excuse
his abuse and to perpetuate the discredited theory of Parental Alienation
that gives custody to abusers and places women and children at risk of harm.
ACT NOW!!!
Go to http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/463
to learn more and to send an urgent message to ABC before The View airs […]
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April 26th, 2007
I don’t have stats for the number of scripts that are written every year for other commonly prescribed medicines, but I just came across some jaw-dropping numbers relevant to the prescription of Hormone Replacement Therapy. According to Medical News Today, in 2000 62 million scripts were written for Premarin and Prempro, the 2 most commonly […]
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April 25th, 2007
Amnesty International has just issued an excellent report on the impact of sexual assault on indigenous American women. While much progress has been made in naming and addressing the problem of sexual assault against women in general (albeit with much remaining to accomplish), the specific harms and context relative to American Indian and Alaska […]
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April 25th, 2007
Jessica Valenti, executive editor for Feministing has a fabulous new book out called Full Frontal Feminism. Check out this interview with the author.
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April 25th, 2007
As Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai has taught us, trees are an important part of the peace equation. Jane Goodall weighs in on deforestration in an essay about species extinction,
“The irony of cutting down forests for biofuels is that forests store a significant fraction of the world’s stocks of carbon. If these carbon-capturing trees […]
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