Here is an excellent report on ways that corporations can and do help employees who are victims of domestic violence. Lynn Harman, Corporate Counsel for Harman International has this view,
“I cannot for the life of me understand why every corporation in America doesn’t do this,” Harman said. “It’s inexpensive. It’s simple. The sense […]
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The Times (UK) has an exhaustive piece about the horrendous rates of femicide in India. While it may look like the quotes below are long, they are only a small part of the article and I highly recommend reading the entire article although I guarantee it won’t be an easy read. According to […]
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The military has once again shown that it is not serious about stopping sexual assault in the ranks. According to the Air Force Times:
“Staff Sgts. Brandon M. Donovan and Jonathon M. Fehl, of the 332nd Recruiting Squadron in Oak Ridge, Tenn., both pleaded guilty to multiple sexual misconduct charges at May 30 courts-martial. Both men […]
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Congragulations to Mary Pipher, author of “Reviving Ophelia” for receiving this week’s Buzzflash Wings of Justice Award for returning her Presidential Citation Award to the American Psychological Association after it refused to ban its members from participating in acts of torture aka interrogation. Click here to read Pipher’s remarks.
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This website keeps tabs of female members of the U.S. military that have died in Iraq. It also lists the cause of death–seems like a rather high number of non-hostile deaths for unspecified reasons listed, as well as several suicides.
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An International History Project and Essay Competition
A Project of Herstoric Proportions
Capturing Forever the Words of Women
Words of Women, since 2000, is an international effort to chronicle the important events in the lives of women and to tell the stories of the Most Influential Women in Our Lives for the next 100 years. […]
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As if what we’ve posted to this blog in the last week isn’t bad enough, here are 2 more horrific stories about what is happening to women in Iraq.
The Taipei Times reports on the mind-boggling number of honor killings and suicides in Kurdish Iraq. According to one of their sources, Aso Kamal, there have been […]
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Many, many thanks to Christine Cupaiuolo at Our Bodies Our Blog for her wonderful post on the posts on our blog about the crisis facing Iraqi women and the connection that has to women in the U.S.
Thanks also to Adam Howard and Heather Gehlert at Alternet for cross-posting “The Specific Impact of the Violence of […]
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Will someone please explain to me how it is that the rate of maternal childbirth deaths are going UP in the richest nation in the world? The official explanation? Increased maternal obesity and the ridiculously high and medically inappropriate rate of c-section births.
“Some researchers point to the rising C-section rate, now 29 percent of […]
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Press Release from WOZA (Women of Zimbabwe Arise):
At four am yesterday, Law and Order police officers went door-to-door in Bulawayo arresting members of WOZA. Six women and a one-year-old-baby were taken. Other members refused to open their doors in the dark.
At 4:45 am they arrived at the gate of Magodonga Mahlangu, broke her gate padlock […]
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