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Images of Femicide Displayed to Prompt International Action
A UN exhibit and seminar in Vienna marks a day devoted to ending violence against women. Alice Driver, whose photographs are included among the images, explains.
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WMC Award Winners Assess Media Progress
Last week's awards ceremony in New York City celebrated women making a difference in the media. Marianne Schnall asked award winners how they achieved personal success and what it would take to improve women's overall status.
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October 29, 2012 | Marianne Schnall |
Arts and culture,
International,
Politics,
Violence against women
"I Am Neda"—Beyond the Icon
The author, founder of Feminist.com, interviews the first-time filmmaker who is winning awards for her documentary on the woman whose death on the streets of Tehran helped kindle Iran's democracy movement.
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Mongolian Women’s Hard-Won Victory
A small group of committed legislators in the Mongolian parliament are taking on the challenge of meeting the basic needs of women and children.
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Australia's Leader Meets Sexist Attacks Head On
Misogynist political talk has become a national issue in Australia after Prime Minister Julia Gillard confronted the Opposition leader for participating in sexist dialogue that this commentary's author had recently helped document.
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The Reality of the GOP Platform on Abortion
The author, who has conducted research in Mexico, offers a reality check on what could happen to U.S. women if the GOP succeeds in criminalizing abortion.
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Filmmaker Explores India's Complex Identity
In "The World Before Her," Nisha Pahuja looks at the extremes of India's evolving notions of gender.
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Abolishing Prostitution: A Feminist Human Rights Treaty
The author, long active in global human rights, argues that the time is ripe for a UN treaty to bolster ongoing efforts to end prostitution.
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A Champion for Congolese Women
Justine Bihama is making a difference at the world's epicenter of rape—in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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In Awe of Teen Olympians
The author, herself a young athlete, wonders how the young Olympians can accomplish so much with everybody in the world looking on—and commenting on their every move.
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Treaty to Control Arms Trade Derailed For Now
The author, secretary-general of Parliamentarians for Global Action, explains how pre-election timidity has caused the United States to stymie an international effort to regulate the dangerous arms trade industry.
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Egyptians Mobilize Against Sexual Harassment
In Cairo, performers and artists take to the streets to make them safe for women.
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Feeling American in Paris
As an African American, multi-media journalist Mary C. Curtis enjoyed a welcoming interest among the French—a respect for black culture too often missing back home.
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Filmmakers Find Surprises at an Islamic School for Girls in Syria
Airing this week on PBS, "The Light in Her Eyes" portrays a religious teacher pursuing a complicated set of goals to enrich her students' lives.
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Stopping Traffic
The worldwide child sex industry has set up shop in the United States. Mary Ann Swissler asked advocates what it would take to stop it.
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Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Hypocrisy
This week, Seventeen magazine promised to publish un-photoshopped images of real girls, finally responding to 14-year-old SPARK activist Julia Bluhm's campaign. Such pressure must continue argues author Laura Bates.
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UK Moves to Criminalize Forced Marriage
Forced marriage, an oppression particularly targeting girls in South Asian cultures, must be addressed by Western governments as well, argues author Shiuan Butler.
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Burmese Nobel Laureate after 21 Years
The author recalls her time in Burma just before the military coup that kept Aung San Suu Kyi from accepting her Nobel Peace Prize for two decades.
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Women of the Roundtable
A discussion in Washington, D.C., last week brought together women representing the necessary elements to drive forward the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.
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Childbirth Hollywood Style
Okay, it's a comedy. But does the most recent pregnancy-themed film have to trivialize women by ignoring any and all real issues about giving birth?
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Beware the Cannes Festival-Gates Foundation Connection
Women Make Movies cofounder Ariel Dougherty, now initiator of Media Equity Collaborative, calls on viewers to join a growing feminist protest against the absence of women directors at Cannes. She warns about gender bias in jury and funding selections that exists beyond film festivals.
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Young Women's Caucus—A Promising Sign at UN Commission Meeting
While the recent UN Status of Women Commission sessions failed to reach consensus on recommendations for rural women, young women moved forward, impressing the author with their leadership potential.
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The Feminicide Debate
The author, who has been researching feminicide for the past three years, explores how language—the use of a term—can affect resources and state policies in fighting violence in Juárez, Mexico.
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Tunisia's Women—Defying the Odds
The author, secretary-general of Parliamentarians for Global Action, writes that Tunisia is finding its own way while Islamist movements gain power in the region.
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Male Bonding—Military Massacres By The Book
The author of "Unmaking War, Remaking Men" writes that the behavior in Afghanistan of alleged killer Robert Bales was anything but unexpected.