Media Blackout for Female Candidates
6/24/08
IPS: For activists campaigning to put more women into Africa’s parliaments, the media has become a key battleground. Often, female candidates are sidelined in election coverage, rather than analysing the strength of their political and economic policies.
6/25/08
Washington Post: Clinton returned in defeat to her old home in the Senate yesterday, YET she was received as if in triumph. She left as a legislator but returned as the leader of an 18 million-strong movement of women and working-class voters — a group whose support Clinton’s Democratic colleagues fervently desire.
6/24/08
WomenNewsNetwork: While the global community marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a year-long celebration of “Dignity and Justice for All,” there is neither dignity nor justice for women in Iran. And there are certainly no rights, either.
Belarus Cracks Down on Internet News
6/25/08
NY Times: Belarussian lawmakers gave final approval on Tuesday to a crackdown on Internet journalism. The new measures require that all Internet sites originating in the country be registered with the government.
Global Gag Rule Must Not Be Domesticated
6/25/08
Women’s eNews: If Democrats take back the White House, a U.S. restriction on overseas family planning aid should be lifted. Meantime, Carol Roye says, watch out for a domestic version of the “global gag rule” in the Bush administration’s final days.
Women Dropping Out of Science Careers
6/24/08
ABC News: Even as nearly equal amounts of men and women pursue graduate degrees in science, recent studies point to a troubling trend: A significant number of women are dropping out of the field — both in the private sector and academia — in their 30s and 40s.
For Pelosi, A Few Regrets, But Some Achievements, Too
6/24/08
CS Monitor: Nancy Pelosi didn’t achieve all she wanted in her first term as speaker of the House – most notably, the end to a five-year war in Iraq. But she is already looking forward to the prospect of bigger Democratic majorities on Capitol Hill and a Democrat in the White House.
Pastors Target Planned Parenthood Money
6/24/08
UPI: A group of black pastors say they will be in Washington Thursday to demand candidates reject money from Planned Parenthood, the largest U.S. abortion provider.
States Turn Down US Abstinence Education Grants
6/24/08
AP via Google: Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the states are still in, and two more say they are leaving.
Christian Conservatives Seek to “Restore” Women
6/24/08
Religion Dispatches: Linda Smith is a leading figure in the Christian right anti-trafficking establishment and embodies a lot of the tensions in the alliance between feminists and religious right activists working on the issue.
Albania Custom Fades: Woman as the Family Man
6/25/08
NY Times: Pashe Keqi recalled the day when she decided to become a man. She chopped off her hair, put on her father’s trousers, armed herself with a rifle and vowed to forsake marriage, children and sex. For centuries, in rural northern Albania, swapping genders was considered a practical solution for a family with a shortage of men.
Strangers In Their Homes: The Stateless Ask, “How Can I Not Be A Bahraini? I Was Born Here!”
6/25/08
Women’s International Perspective: Stateless individuals are basically invisible and forced to live in the shadows, as most Gulf governments refuse to acknowledge their existence to avoid international criticism. They are worse than even foreigners as they don’t have the documents that enable them to lead ordinary lives.
DEVELOPMENT: ‘Aid From New EU Members Disregards Women’
6/25/08
IPS: Foreign aid budgets administered by the European Union’s most recent entrants do not pay sufficient heed to the needs of women in poor countries, a series of new studies has found.
Tropical Diseases Afflicting U.S. Poor
6/25/08
NY Newsday: Preventable diseases commonly seen among impoverished people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are infecting millions of U.S. residents, mostly poor women and children, researchers found.
One Love Provides One Stop HIV Info for African-Americans
6/25/08
RH Reality Check: California state officials and AIDS prevention and testing advocacy groups have teamed up to establish a Web site that focuses exclusively on the impact of HIV/AIDS and other health disparities on African Americans.
Gates-Backed Vaccine Investor Eyes HPV And Rubella
6/25/08
Reuters via Yahoo: An international partnership that funds vaccines for children in poor countries will decide on Wednesday whether to also start investing in vaccinations to protect adult women.
‘Colored’ Revival Set for Sept. 8
6/24/08
The Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” starring India.Arie and produced by Whoopi Goldberg, will begin previews Aug. 19 for a Sept. 8 opening at the Circle in the Square Theater.
Lorena Ochoa: Part Tiger Woods, part Mother Teresa
6/25/08
Star-Tribune: She is Lorena Ochoa, a lovable 26-year-old with a 271-yard driving average, 20 victories in the past 27 months, a spot reserved in the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame, and the kind of compassion and generosity worthy of a place on Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people.
At 32, Davenport Still Has Enough to Survive on the Graveyard court
6/25/08
NY Times: Lindsay Davenport’s welcome-back present at Wimbledon was a first-round match on the Graveyard, otherwise known as Court 2.
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