163 million women are ‘missing’, the result of sex selective abortions and other techniques that favor male offspring. The problem is the worst in China where the sex ratio at birth (SRB) is 100 girls:120 boys and in India where the ration is 100 girls:108 boys. Other countries such as Nepal and […]
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Who knows how many glossy photos the Bush brigade has sent out showing smiling girls in Afghanistan and Iraq going to school, all thanks to our heroic efforts to bring ‘democracy’ to their countries. Too bad reality says that oops no, it is actually getting harder for girls to go to school.
In the Shindand district […]
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Last week I was interviewed by Steve Rendall on FAIR.org’s Counterspin radio program about how the media covers breast cancer and domestic violence awareness. You can listen to the show here.
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With the huge caveat that this is an unconfirmed report, Muhammad Adham al-Hamd, the General Secretary of the Union of Political Prisoners and Detainees in Iraq has issued a statement saying that,
“the US occupation administration in Iraq relies on systematic rape, torture, and sadistic treatment of Iraqi women prisoners in its prison camps in the […]
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I’m going AWOL for the rest of the week, so no new posts for a few days. Also please note that any comments will not post until I get back. Sorry for the delay.
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Please check out this wonderful blog by Rezwan, a Bangladeshi blogger living in Germany, who points out that while we observe Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the U.S., the reality is that intimate violence is a worldwide problem. His blog aggregates a number of different posts by Bangladeshi bloggers that show how horrendous the problem […]
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What do L’Oreal Colour Riche “Classic Wine�, Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor “Maximum Red� and Christian Dior Addict “Positive Red� lipsticks all have in common? Unfortunately, they contain lead. Yes you read that right, every time you use these products, you are spreading highly toxic lead all over your lips.
According to the Campaign for […]
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Many thanks to Sarah Deer for letting us know that Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence is now out. Deer, who is one of the editors of the book, is the “staff attorney and Victim Advocacy Legal Specialist for the Tribal Law & Policy Institute in Saint Paul, Minnesota; she is a […]
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I have an article out on Alternet today about how women’s mass media magazines cover breast cancer and (don’t) cover domestic violence. You can read it here.
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According to a report from Mexidata:
“Legal charges in the murder cases of several women and young girls in Ciudad Juarez began falling apart in recent days. Even as Mexican authorities stepped up a campaign to convince international public opinion that the justice tide was turning in favor of female victims of gender violence, multiple defendants […]
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