May 5th, 2008
Heart over at Women’s Space has an excellent, comprehensive report on Tracy Barker another Halliburton/KBR employee who experienced hrorendous sexual harassment and assault while working in Iraq. The blog takes a hard look not only at the facts of the case but also why it has received relatively little attention compared to the […]
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May 3rd, 2008
In its annual exercise of misogynist myopia, Time Magazine has decreed that only 25% of the world’s most influential people happen to be women, and at that 8 of those women are in the arts and entertainment field (although 3 of them were listed in the Heroes and Pioneers category).
So, much like the list of […]
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May 3rd, 2008
Note: It bears noting that the BBC devoted 13 paragraphs to this story, the New York Times only felt it merited one paragraph World Briefing. This then from the far more informative BBC report:
“A US serviceman on the Japanese island of Okinawa has been arrested for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old girl.
Armando Valdez, a […]
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May 2nd, 2008
From LatinaAmerica Press”
“On April 5, 16-year-old Carmen del Rosario Aguirre and her friend Yesenia Adaly Pérez Arévalo, 17, went to the local market of La Parroquia. Both girls came from the village of Rincón de la Peña, in the municipality of Palencia, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Guatemala City.
Six hours later the two girls […]
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May 1st, 2008
(Note–While this might at first seem a meandering away from the usual subject matter on this blog, read on for the connection between racism and sexism and the voices of some very wise feminists.)
I confess that it wasn’t until I opened my morning newspaper morning and found almost an entire Op Ed page dedicated to […]
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May 1st, 2008
Press Release from IRIN:
A study published in March by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on the mental state of Iraqis in Jordan and Lebanon has pointed to mounting social and economic problems as the cause of increased domestic violence.
[Read this report in Arabic]
“Most families prefer to sweep their problems under the carpet […]
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