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October 05, 2006 | Ninotchka Rosca |
International
Human Rights Lawyers Expose Misuse of U.S. Aid to the Philippines
“The presence of U.S. troops on Philippine soil has always been particularly devastating to women.” This is one of the baldly stated findings of the Women’s Human Rights Delegation to the Philippine...
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Military Justice System Fails One More Victim of Sexual Violence
The life stories of Jessica Brakey and Abeer Al-Janabi unfold a half a world apart. Yet the former Air Force Academy cadet and the dead Iraqi girl are both powerful symbols of women’s experience of sexual assault. The legal tales of both are curiously juxtaposed this fall in the military’s sprawling criminal justice system.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault on the “New News” from Africa
With a career spanning more than four decades, there is nothing Charlayne Hunter-Gault “hasn’t done, covered, said, influenced,” said Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins, introducing the ve...
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September 27, 2006 | Rhonda Copelon |
International
Under the Radar Screen—Rape and Sexualized Violence and the Geneva Conventions
The photos from Abu Ghraib—exposing such a range of sexualized violence and abuse—shocked most people in the United States and around the world. Under the radar screen, in this week’s Congressional ...
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September 22, 2006 | Angela Bonavoglia |
International
Those Incendiary Papal Remarks—What Could He Be Thinking?
Despite pools of ink spilled about Pope Benedict XVI’s recent remarks quoting a 14th Century Byzantine emperor who attributed to Muhammad “things evil and inhuman,” like spreading the faith “by the ...
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Hidden War on Women
Abu Ghraib. Haditha. Guantanamo. These are words that shame our country. Now, add to them Mahmudiya, a town 20 miles south of Baghdad. There, this March, a group of five American soldiers allegedly ...
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September 11, 2006 | Jessica Neuwirth |
International
UN Secretary General—Time for a Woman
When the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly opens this week, its new president, Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, will have her hands full. The Bahrain lawyer and first woman in decad...
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Two Bleed, One Leads
Two young girls lost. The name of one, Jon Benet Ramsey, is etched in the collective U.S. consciousness. The other, Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, barely registers—if it registers at all.
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August 22, 2006 | Milon Nagi |
International
“Not How a Second-Generation Should Bond”—Sex Selection in U.S. South Asian Communities
One young woman tells that her mother cried at her birth, disappointed that she was a girl. Another says her parents had initially planned to abort her, wanting a son.
“It’s just not the way that ...
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Letter from Jerusalem
In the midst of the war, world pride events for LGBT dignity were held in Jerusalem last week. The march was cancelled because of the war, but all the other events took place.
The march had faced ...
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Anger and Frustration Over Closing of Juárez Femicide Cases
Like the families of hundreds of murdered and missing women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Cipriana Jurado is infuriated as they face yet another setback in their mission for justice. More than 400 young...
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Manhood and Moral Waivers
Her birthday is August 19, her death day March 12. We cannot let this crime, too, pass into oblivion.
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Middle East “Voices of Resistance”
In the displacement of Lebanese civilians due to the current conflict, women are suffering the most, said Lina Abou-Habib, speaking from Beirut on a marathon broadcast by FIRE (Feminist Internationa...
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Colombia Women’s Small Step Forward
A recent ruling by Colombia’s Constitutional Court overturning an outright ban on abortion, even for victims of rape and incest, garnered headlines around the world. A story not so widely reported h...
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July 11, 2006 | Ninotchka Rosca |
International
Philippines Update—Murders and Impeachment Motions
On July 4, as the country celebrated Philippine-American Friendship Day, some 100 women, mostly members of the urban poor women’s association SAMAKANA, trooped to the Batasan (Congress) in Quezon Ci...
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“Best Case Scenario” on Female Genital Mutilation
This week, African women activists welcomed a newly published report from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the devastating effects of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), while warning that its im...
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Further Update on Philippines
A regional court in the Philippines threw out government charges of rebellion against Congresswoman Liza Maza of the Gabriela Women's Party and her co-accused. Judge Jenny Lind Delorino refused to i...
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May 05, 2006 | Ninotchka Rosca |
International
Philippines Update
Congresswoman Liza Maza and Tita Lubi, of the Gabriela Women's Party (GWP) have been formally charged with rebellion, along with 46 others. Among the acts for which the 48 are being held responsibl...
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The Invisibility of The Filipina
For forty-six days now, Congresswoman Liza Largoza Maza of the Gabriela Women's Party of the Philippines has lived in the tiny confines of her office at the Batasan (Congressional Building). She is ...