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Much to Celebrate
Today is International Women's Day. Christine Ahn and the Global Fund for Women mark the occasion by recalling substantial wins for women in 2011.
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Bahrain Medics Still at Risk
On the one-year anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain, a lawyer continues her fight for medics arrested and tortured for treating protestors injured by police—in demonstrations where women have played a key role.
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Exclusive: U.S. Acts on Women, Peace and Security
A new action plan opens far-reaching possibilities to improve the security of women and the world. With some caution, women’s peace advocates plan to monitor its implementation.
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Letting Girls Be Girls—A Global Campaign
This week in Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum will highlight a drive by The Elders to end the practice of child marriage.
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January 20, 2012 | Hoda Elsadda |
International
Egypt—The Revolution Will Continue
January 25 marks the anniversary of the onset of protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Here, Hoda Elsadda, an Egyptian women’s rights activist and professor at Cairo University, assesses women’s gains, potential losses and determination to move forward—as evidenced by last month’s 10,000-woman strong protest march.
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January 03, 2012 | Robin Morgan |
Economy,
Feminism,
International,
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Violence against women
Occupying the Occupy Movement
An Occupy movement for 2012 could gain strength and staying-power with strategies suggested by an emerging feminist critique.
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At UN Climate Talks, Highly Trained Women Play Critical Role
Two decades after first joining together to make their voices heard at the Earth Summit in Rio, women environmental leaders continue to make progress at the recent UN conference, though it produced only limited gains on climate change.
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Was Gertrude Stein a Hitler Fan?
The focus of major exhibitions currently in Paris and Washington, D.C., and opening early next year in New York City, avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein continues to inspire controversy. Here, author Renate Stendhal weighs in to set the record straight.
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In Egypt, Women Reporters Still at Risk
Women reporting from Egypt as foreign correspondents continue to be targets of sexual assault. They also continue to insist on their right to report the news.
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Liberian President's Victory Is Marred by Low Turnout and Violence
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won by a landslide, according to early results. But will she be able to unite a badly divided nation?
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Runoff Election Faces Liberian Winner of Peace Prize
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has had an impossibly difficult job as president leading Liberia out of civil war. Now she's fighting for enough time to finish her mission.
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Our Bodies Ourselves at Forty
OBOS celebrates its 40th birthday this year, and members of what is now a worldwide community gathered in Boston to discuss the book's huge impact for women globally.
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October 10, 2011 | Abigail E. Disney |
International
Woman of Peace—Leymah Gbowee
The producer of "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" and of a PBS series premiering Tuesday this week, "Women, War and Peace," writes of her friend Leymah Gbowee, who along with sister Liberian, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and pro-democracy campaigner Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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"Femicide"—The Power of a Name
Sociologist Diana Russell has organized for decades to end violence against women. Here she argues that labeling the most extreme form of such violence is essential to combating it.
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Women at the Front—Two Reporters Join a Sisterhood
At danger spots in the Middle East and elsewhere, CNN reporters Sara Sidner and Arwa Damon lend their particular perspectives, in a tradition of war correspondents who happen to be women.
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June 28, 2011 | Marcia G. Yerman |
International
Yanar Mohammed—Iraqi Women's Vigilant Champion
The democratic spirit of the Arab Spring uprisings is alive and well in the determination of women protesters in Iraq, who are seeing their rights slip away under the current administration.
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Peace Laureates Take On the War on Women
Members of the Nobel Women's Initiative are marshaling their collective wisdom and experience to tackle the challenge of ending rape as a weapon of war.
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Many Roads to Their Truth—The Topp Twins
In what singer-songwriter Billy Bragg calls their "anarchist variety act," the Topp Twins expand their loyal following beyond New Zealand's borders.
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Now You See Them, Now You Don't
Israeli journalist Merav Michaeli explains why a Brooklyn newspaper recently removed Hillary Clinton from a famous photograph: another case of Photoshop in service to the patriarchy.
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May 11, 2011 | Noushin Darya Framke |
International
Osama Is Dead! Will the Healing Begin?
Iranian-American writer Noushin Darya Framke: it's time to move on from the "war on terror."
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Rape in High Places
Israeli journalist and women's rights activist Merav Michaeli analyzes an iniquitous sense of entitlement among the leaders of nations—and women's resistance.
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April 29, 2011 | Maria Yatskova-Ibrahimova |
International
Russia’s Image of Woman—In a Country of Extremes
The filmmaker of a documentary about three women in a Siberian prison and a yearly May Day beauty pageant writes about the changing roles and images of women in Russia.
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The Power of “Ruined”
Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize winning play enlightens audiences across the country. Ruined just finished a run in Berkeley, California, plays this month in Denver and opens April 22 in Washington, D.C.
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"Made in India": Outsourcing Surrogate Motherhood
Without judging the parties involved, two Brooklyn documentarians present an award winning story of those most vulnerable in what has become a global industry.
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Female Faces from the Liberation Square
As Egypt prepares for a referendum on Constitutional amendments—one that was scheduled for Saturday but may be delayed in the face of significant opposition from young organizers among others—the author, an expert on Egyptian women and development, reflects on the youthful leaders of the revolution.