Michelle Obama Watch has put up a Media Attack page that tracks media attacks on the Presidential candidate’s wife. Truly it is sickening that there even needs to be such a site, but you might as well bookmark it now, you’re going to be referencing it a whole lot between now and November.
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From SW Radio Africa via All Africa:
“After being kept in detention for about 2 weeks while the government delayed a bail appeal hearing, 12 of the 14 WOZA activists who were being detained at Chikurubi Maximum Prison finally faced the prospect of being released on Friday.
A male MOZA activist that was at Harare Remand Prison […]
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I’m not particularly a Nicholas Kristof fan, but he has an excellent column out about rape as a weapon to war. Writing about why rape has always been a weapon of war, he writes,
“There are two reasons for this. First, mass rape is very effective militarily. From the viewpoint of a militia, getting into […]
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Due in large part to the hard work of many feminist media activists, gender issues are now assumed to be a regular part of the media justice discussion. But that is still a far cry from an actionable platform for making gender justice an integral part of the media reform agenda.
The implications of such a […]
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From Women Won’t Wait:
Government officials and AIDS activists from around the world will convene at the United Nations in New York from 10-12 June to review the global HIV/AIDS response. At the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) in 2001, governments committed to promote and protect women’s human rights and reduce women’s vulnerability […]
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From the People’s Daily Online:
“Sitting at her house in Bangkok, Pavena Hongsakul, at her fifties, still keeps the feminine grace and soft-spoken manner that distance herself from the image of a well-known women’s rights advocate in normal conception.For the last decade, Ms. Pavena has been witnessing and dealing with the darkest side of the Thai […]
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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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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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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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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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