May 8th, 2008
Hey guess what–Playboy and Penthouse aren’t pornographic, at least according to the military:
“U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., has introduced legislation that would close a loophole in the current law that allows the sale of some sexually explicit material on military bases by lowering the threshold required to deem material “sexually explicit.”
A Department of Defense committee […]
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May 7th, 2008
Murder Attempt Against Puntland’s Last Woman TV Presenter
Reporters sans Frontières
PRESS RELEASE
7 May 2008
Reporters Without Borders said today it was disgusted by a murder attempt against Bisharo Mohammed Waeys, celebrated presenter on the privately-owned Eastern Television Network (ETN), on 4 May, the last woman working openly as a journalist in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, north-eastern […]
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May 7th, 2008
Anna Greer has a very thought-provoking piece in Wo! Magazine about the use of the passive voice in describing gender-based violence. She writes:
“One of the first things journalism students learn is to avoid the passive voice. So, you have to wonder why journalists are drawn to using passive voice when the subject of their […]
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May 6th, 2008
From Amnesty International:
Stop the Impunity and Demand Justice for Barbara Italia Mendez and the Women
of Atenco!
Dear Supporter,
Just over a month ago we told you about Barbara Italia Mendez who was one of 26 women arrested without explanation at a protest in May 2006, beaten, and raped by members of the Mexican police. May […]
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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
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
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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April 29th, 2008
Yesterday on the Feminist Peace Network blog, I posted three stories about military misogyny, one about the murders of a a mother and her children in Gaza, one about the court-martial of a Marine for the rape of a 14 year old Okinawan girl, and one making the connection between the suspicious deaths of female […]
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April 28th, 2008
In a piece published today, Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright documents the suspicious numbers of deaths of women in the U.S. military after they have been sexually assaulted.
“94 US military women in the military have died in Iraq or during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). 12 US Civilian women have been killed in OIF. 13 […]
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