November 13th, 2008
Press release from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF):
“Teams from the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) are struggling to provide free, quality emergency care to pregnant women and their babies in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.
Over the last month, hundreds of women have desperately sought emergency obstetric care at Jude-Anne […]
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November 6th, 2008
For all the U.S. pseudo saving of women in Afghanistan, the reality is that it remains one of the most dangerous places on earth to be a woman and the second most dangerous country in the world for a woman to give birth. Read below for FemAid Director Carol Mann’s outstanding analysis of why […]
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October 30th, 2008
I fully believe that when John McCain nominated Sarah Palin to be his Veep, he thought he would be viewed as gawd’s gift to women’s empowerment, never mind that he gets a flunking grade on the issues that most impact women’s lives. We totally heart the Daily Show’s Sam Bee for calling out […]
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October 14th, 2008
The following, offers important documentation of the specific needs of vulnerable women and children in the aftermath of natural disasters:
On the occasion of the International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (8 October 2008), the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is launching the […]
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October 2nd, 2008
With a huge h/t to Our Bodies Our Blog for this catch–from an Amnesty report about the treatment of pregnant prisoners in the U.S. prison system:
“Louisiana and the Federal Bureau of prisons have no restrictions on the application of restraints other than specifying that pregnant women should not be restrained facedown in four-point restraints.”
They had […]
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October 1st, 2008
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. I’m not particularly a fan of the term “domestic violence”–there really isn’t anything domestic about this violence that goes on behind closed doors. In other countries and cultures this violence manifests itself in many different ways. But whether you call it bride burning, or honor killing, rape or murder, […]
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September 25th, 2008
According to a new report from UNICEF:
“Over 500,000 women die unnecessarily every year due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth, with 99 per cent of those deaths occurring in developing countries, according to a new report released today by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
“Progress for Children: a report card on maternal mortality” shows that […]
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September 24th, 2008
Isn’t the Pentagon supposed to be defending the safety of innocent babies, not poisoning them? With this kind of military defense, who needs enemies!
Press Release from the Environmental Working Group:
“Under pressure from the White House and the Pentagon, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided not to set cleanup or safety standards for a toxic rocket […]
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September 17th, 2008
Action alert from the Polish feminist website Feminoteka:
Dear Women,
Poland’s Minister of Health, Ewa Kopacz, has just announced the government’s plan to establish a database of all pregnancies in Poland in an effort to eliminate illegal abortions. If this idea becomes law, every pregnant woman will be registered by her physician. Her pregnancy will remain under […]
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September 16th, 2008
From Irin:
“Among the 7,000 families living in camps for the displaced since the Koshi River – the country’s largest – burst its banks on 18 August, women and girls are most vulnerable, say agencies, as facilities in Sunsari and Saptari districts lack adequate healthcare and protection.
A principal concern is lack of privacy for women […]
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