We’ll take it for granted that everyone knows that Aug. 26th is Women’s Equality Day (you did know, didn’t you?), but thanks to Gloria Feldt for flagging this little gem–seems a friend of hers was trying to find a card to commemorate the occaision on AOL. That was when she found out that that the […]
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Oh how I wish Hillary Clinton would stop trying to out-macho the Republicans… at the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Clinton described the government of Iraq “as “on vacation,” leaving American troops in the middle of a sectarian war.” She’s blaming the danger our troops are in on a […]
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Yesterday I got an email from Yanar Mohammed who wrote to clarify something I had posted from Al Jazeera the day before. She pointed out that while OWFI estimates the disappearance of 4000 Iraqi women, given that they are a small organization working in horrific conditions, it would be impossible to verify that number. […]
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Most days I somehow manage to maintain a functional level of distancing that enables me to post to this blog. Today wasn’t one of those days. The proverbial last straw was a Letter to the Editor in the Boulder Daily Camera from Janine D’Anniballe, the Executive Director of Moving to End Sexual […]
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Getting news about what is happening to Iraqi women is difficult at best. Two sources that I find to be quite useful are:
Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq
and
Iraq Slogger
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Here is yet another story about the horrific, misogynist violence that is taking place in Iraq. This statement was posted by the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq:
Sara Jaffar Nimat is an 11-year-old girl from the town of Khanaqin in Iraqi Kurdistan. She was murdered on the 3rd August.
The painful, degrading […]
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It almost defies comprehension that such a thing is possible, but as several recent news reports attest, the horrendous circumstances faced by Iraqi women continue to deteriorate. The welfare of pregnant women has been particularly compromised as a result of the constant bombing, curfews, lack of electricity and safe water, bombed hospitals and […]
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Not surprisingly, the Catholic Church is unhappy about Amnesty International’s recently passes resolution that,
“seeks to ensure that women and men can exercise their sexual and reproductive rights free from coercion, discrimination and violence” and “aims to recognize the right of women to be free of fear, threat and coercion as they manage the consequences […]
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Here is an interesting piece about Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum’s bid to become president of Guatemala. Jacob Wheeler writes for In These Times,
“She’s a national hero who isn’t nearly as radical anymore,â€? says Iduvina Hernandez, executive director of the Association for the Study and Promotion of Security in a Democracy, […]
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From E-Zan Vol. 39 Aug. 15, 2007 from the Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism (WFAFI):
Asia News -July 16, 2007Â Since the introduction of the plan to increase public morality, police officers across the country have issued warnings to tens of thousands of women for their failure to wear appropriate Islamic covering in public, or even their […]
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