Remember Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty which got so many kudos for talking about self-esteem and positive body image at any age? Turns out that Unilever, the company that makes Dove, actually has no qualms about objectifying women to make a sale. Many thanks to Ben Atherton-Zeman for pointing us to […]
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Mideast Youth reports that their very excellent Sexual Terrorism website has been blocked in the United Arab Emirates. As they point out, it does not seem to be because of the words “sexual” or “terrorism” in the name since many other sites using those words seem to be functional.
The website provides […]
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If the mistreatment of women was actually why the U.S. goes to war instead of the misogynist excuse that it is, we would surely be nuking the crap out of Saudi Arabia by now. According to the International Herald Tribune, the 19 year old victim of a gang rape was recently sentenced to 6 […]
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Abused Domestic Workers of Diplomats Seek Justice From International Commission ACLU and Human Rights Organizations File Petition Following Unprecedented Expulsion of Kuwaiti Diplomat by State DepartmentNEW YORK - November 15 - Domestic workers who were exploited and abused in the U.S. by foreign diplomats petitioned an international commission today because U.S. domestic law […]
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The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid recently reported that,
“one woman out of 20 in Africa risks dying of maternal causes, compared to one out of eleven in Portugal.
She said somewhere in the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, every minute the 380 women who become pregnant, half are those […]
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While reports of Monks being persecuted and arrested in Burma abound, reports about what is happening to female dissidents is much less common. It is critically important that we be aware that women are also involved in fighting tyranny in Burma. Kudos to the Washington Post for covering the detention of Su Su […]
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The number of children staying with their mothers in Afghan prisons is extremely high, almost equal to the number of their mothers, according to UNODC.
(photo from IRIN)
From RAWA:
Afghan parliamentarians: “Women prisoners are raped in a Kabul prison”
Members of Afghanistan parliament accuse some officials of Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul for raping women prisoners.
A delegation of […]
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As if with the lack of hospitals, medical personnel and medicine weren’t bad enough when it comes to obtaining medical care in Iraq, we learn that it has become dangerous for male gynecologists to provide care to women. according to IRIN,
“Extremists say that [male] doctors are not allowed to see the private […]
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Little known fact (although we’ve talked about it before on this blog)–regulations and acceptable levels of exposure to radiation are all based on a mythical man. His name is Reference Man and he was created in 1974. He is 5′ - 7″ tall and weighs 170 lbs. He comes from either […]
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Move over Code Pink, read on for a fine example of Pakistani women’s activism, call them the Wedding Crashers (copied in it’s entirety because it would be impossible to paraphrase this wonderful report):
“Five women activists of Pakistan People’s Party from Lahore nearly broke the police cordon before they were arrested at the Committee Chowk […]
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