June 3rd, 2008
According to an article published by Turkey’s directorate for religious affairs, Diyanet,
“Women have to be more careful, since they have stimulants,”
Stimulants??–perhaps this has been translated wrong? Unfortunately, not so much:
“The women communicating with strange men should speak in a manner that will not arouse suspicion in one’s heart and in such seriousness and dignity that […]
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June 2nd, 2008
The situation for women in Zimbabwe is getting even worse, if such a thing is possible. Read here and here for updates on the situation. And also there is this report on the arrest of 14 members of WOZA:
“We received reports that 14 members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) who were arrested […]
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June 2nd, 2008
From the never-ending misogynist violence in Mexico file:
“Prominent women’s rights activists in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua have reported receiving a new round of threats. Members of Ciudad Juarez’s Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa (May our Daughters Return Home), a group of relatives of murdered women, canceled their participation in a screening of […]
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May 22nd, 2008
Why does this not surprise me:
“Reports that there was an expectation of sexual favors at Agriprocessors Inc. are beginning to emerge from workers at the Postville meat processing plant, and advocates for immigrants are trying to document the stories.Sister Mary McCauley, a Roman Catholic nun at St. Bridget’s Catholic […]
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May 20th, 2008
Talk about urban legends. Here I’d been under the impression that the root cause of honor killings had to do with patriarchal misogynist violence. Imagine my surprise that we can just blame it on cell phones, no need for any in-depth analysis of socio-political structures…nice try, no dice–read on:
In the aftermath of […]
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May 18th, 2008
I could easily spew on for hours, no– make that days, about Pres. Bush’s comments regarding women’s rights during his Middle East tour, but I’ll spare you. Is he fricking kidding? Does he understand the concept of irony?? To say that this is insulting after the unendurable damage his administration has done […]
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May 16th, 2008
From the Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran:
NCRI Website - April 17 2008 Hossein Tayeb, deputy commander of the paramilitary Bassij Force, a domestic subordinate of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the formation of new “Security Patrols,” reported the official news agency IRNA on Wednesday.”The major goal for running the new Bassij patrols […]
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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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