The Saudis are continuing to piously justify the recent sentencing of a 19 year old victim of a gang rape to 6 months in jail and 200 lashes for iding in a car with men who were not her relatives, issuing the following statement, according to the Toronto Star.
“”We reiterate that judicial rulings in […]
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“The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) strongly condemns police brutality on a peaceful demonstration of Awami Tehreek protesting against the Emergency at the civil courts building premises in Hyderabad on Friday, the 23 of November.
It was shocking to note that, violating all norms of decency, male policemen lifted women and threw them into the […]
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Can’t wait to hear the diplomatic explanation…
“Brazilian authorities are investigating reports that a fifteen-year-old girl kept in a police cell with at least 20 men for a month was repeatedly subjected to sexual abuse.
Human rights groups claimed that the girl was repeatedly raped and forced to exchange sex acts for food.
“She was raped from day […]
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From the Asia-Japan Women’s Resource Center (see below if you wish to support this statement):
Impunity is Not Acceptable! We Protest against HDPPO’s Decision not to
Prosecute the US Marines who Perpetrated Gang Rape in Hiroshima
Hiroshima District Public Persecutors’ Office (H.D.P.P.O) has decided to drop charges against four marines from US Marine Corps Iwakuni Air Station on […]
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From the World Organisation Against Torture
25th of November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against
Women: Making this goal a reality
Geneva, 22 November 2007: On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, OMCT joins women’s groups and individuals campaigning worldwide and calls for full implementation of the 1993 UN Declaration on the […]
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The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre kicked off its annual 16 Days of Activism
Against Gender-based violence campaign earlier than normal this year
with a workshop targeted at police officers working on the ground and
who are often the first point of contact for victims of crimes of
domestic violence and sexual assault. “The global theme for this year’s
campaign is […]
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An Open Letter from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom to the negotiating parties, the Middle East Quartet and the host government concerning the talks in Annapolis on peace in the Middle East
Finally a date is set for the US-sponsored talks on peace in the Middle
East, 27 November 2007. The venue will apparently […]
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As journalist Mary Kay Blakely pointed out many years ago, sometimes there simply aren’t two sides to a story. That is most certainly true in the case of the 19 year old victim of a gang rape who was recently sentenced by a Saudi court to 6 months in jail and 200 lashes. […]
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The Feminist Peace Network will be participating in the Take Back the Tech Blogathon for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence which takes place Nov. 25 (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) through Dec. 10 (International Human Rights Day). Observed since 1991, The 16 Days theme this year […]
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As we have noted before on this blog, maternal mortality in Afghanistan is truly an atrocity. How heartwarming then to read over on Our Bodies Our Blog that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spent one quarter of the funds that Congress gave them to tackle maternal and child health […]
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