Feminist Peace Network

“WASHINGTON - November 12 - Seven leading international human rights organizations today demanded that the Iranian authorities immediately set aside the prison sentence against a women’s rights defender, and drop charges against others facing trial because of their peaceful activities demanding equal rights for women in Iran.
Amnesty International (AI), Equality Now (EN), the International […]

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Stella Ramsaroop  has an excellent post on The Guyana Groove, responding to a Guyanan politician’s trivialization and misunderstanding of violence against women:
“In response to my column, one particular male politician said,“The sexual issue is because of economic situation where women sell themselves legally in order to get money to survive.â€?
Excuse me?
So the little girl who […]

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I first read this story early last week, the day before I participated in a panel discussion about violence against women at the University of Louisville (KY). One of the other panelists, Karina Barillas of the Louisville Center for Women and Families, spoke eloquently about how it is so easy to talk about the […]

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I’m sure there is a perfectly good reason that the Defense budget includes money for research into breast and ovarian cancer….oh bother, no, actually I can’t think of any:
NATIONAL POLITICS & POLICY | Defense Spending Bill To Include $138M for DOD Breast Cancer Research Programs
[Nov. 12, 2007]
The fiscal year 2008 Defense spending bill, which recently […]

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While numerous Pakistani leaders have been released, human rights activist Asma Jahangir remains under house arrest. As the Washington Post reports, Jahangir’s record of activism is quite inspiring,
“Jahangir, her sister and several other women founded the first
all-female law firm in Pakistan. At the outset, her most highly
publicized cases involved women accused of adultery, a crime […]

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In the aftermath of the Global Summit on Breast Cancer in Budapest that was organized by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, it is not surprising that there is more coverage of the issue in the African press. Good thing, right? Maybe not if these few articles are an indication since the information […]

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The other day, after posting about an effort by Rwandan women to help women in the DRC, I got a letter from Amina Gisele, who leads the Women Trauma Healing and Care Centre in Bukavu, a city in the eastern part of the DRC. The Centre’s purpose is to help […]

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I hate to even mention this, but since my Heed the Cock Post less than 3 hours ago, traffic on this blog has seriously shot up (sorry).  In that short time, we have had more hits than the last 4 days combined.  Geez…that is one theory I hate proving right.  Stay tuned, this is going […]

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See here for an account of the impact of the crackdown in Burma on women and children.

“An American tourist has told of seeing children and pregnant women among the families of pro-democracy supporters, chained together and under heavy guard on a river ferry deep inside Burma.”

Scott Herbstman, an American tourist encountered the prisoners when they […]

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In my efforts to become better connected with women’s blogs and websites around the world, one of the places that I check frequently is Global Voices, where Steve Sharra recently had a post pointing to several terrific women’s blogs from Malawi. Two of the blogs that he highlights bear special mention:
In her blog about […]

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