By Megan Carpentier
President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have voiced concern for women’s safety and health around the world. Legislation introduced this month in the House calls for specific steps to meet that commitment in regard to mothers dying in childbirth.
Earlier this month, California Congresswoman Lois Capps, arguing that “safe motherhood should be a [...]
By Charlotte Bunch
When Rhonda Copelon died this month of ovarian cancer, she was 65 and the influence of her ground-breaking legal career could be appreciated around the world. Here, adapted from a tribute at an awards ceremony last year, friend and colleague Charlotte Bunch describes her extraordinary personal and professional contributions.
Feminist and human rights [...]
By Marianne Schnall
The author, whose interviews have been widely published, talks to playwright Mary Apick about the stories of women who spend their public lives shielded from our view.
Playwright Mary Apick
From a Western perspective, it can be hard to know what to make of the outrage that some Muslim women voiced as France and Belgium [...]
Bushra Jamil, co-founder of Radio Al Mahaba, the first and only independent women’s radio station in the Middle East, has questions. Lots of them.
“Why on earth would America come in and get rid of a brutal dictator and then bring in more dictators and extremists?” she asks, speaking by cell phone from downtown Bagdad. “Why [...]
By Regina Cornwell
As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the author describes how women have worked to break through the seemingly impervious bureaucracy at the UN to finally impress on world leaders that saving the earth depends on guaranteeing women equal rights and status.
Hillary Rodham Clinton tells of traveling in Africa as [...]
By Shazia Z. Rafi
The Pakhtuns of Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan haven’t always rejected influences from the West. The author suggests that Alexander the Great’s success in the 4th Century B.C. may hold a key to integrating Afghanistan into the international community—in a way that would help protect and empower women in the [...]
By Gail McGowan Mellor
In 2006, WMC began a media campaign to ensure that the girl who fell victim to a heinous U.S. war crime in Iraq would not be forgotten. Here, the writer of previous WMC Exclusives about the case describes new information from a recent book by Time magazine’s Jim Frederick.
Abeer at age [...]
Today’s conflict zones are deadly for more than those who signed up to fight. The threat of death, sexual violence, and the decline in basic rights for women in conflict areas led a UN official to observe recently, “It is more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in war.” But rather than back [...]
By Emily Wilson
The author interviews the maker of a documentary that captures a prolific period of feminist art, focusing on the collective as, according to the film web site, “a microcosm of the larger international women’s movement, in which thousands of small, private groups of women met together in forms unique to their own settings.”
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By Angela Bonavoglia
In his controversial sermon at St. Peter’s last week, Reverend Raniero Cantalamessa expressed no concern for Catholic Church policies that endanger women, writes Angela Bonavoglia, author of “Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church.”
It was indeed outrageous that Reverend Raniero Cantalamessa in his Good Friday homily [...]
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