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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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October 03, 2006 | Ruth Konigsberg |
3 to 1—Male Writers Dominate “Thought Leader” Magazines
Last fall, I’d been noticing a lack of female voices in what are supposed to be general-interest—and presumably gender-neutral—magazines. I wanted to find out if men were consistently getting publis...
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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 28, 2006 | Robin Morgan |
Fighting Words—A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right
Do you gnash your teeth, shout at your TV set, feel yourself wearying from the dogged assaults of our homegrown American Taliban?
After all, news items like the following have now become commonpla...
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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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September 20, 2006 | Kate Nelson |
Politics
N.M. Politics—Path of Fierce Resistance
In the race for New Mexico's 1st Congressional District, both candidates have gleaming records to brandish at a bounty of swing voters. But so far, those voters don't have much more than mud to go o...
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September 18, 2006 | Melissa Silverstein |
Arts and culture
Fall TV—Women Creators Take Their Shot
This week marks an annual fall ritual, the parade of new TV shows each hoping to become the next big hit. Perhaps because women haven’t had the opportunities men have to create shows, TV, like the ...
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The Future of Feminism is Online. Are You?
If you want to connect with the 15 to 30 year old crowd, you’d better start inhabiting their world—the virtual one of MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, YouTube, and too many blogs to name. Each is ...
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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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September 06, 2006 | Carol Jenkins |
Media
Katie Couric’s First Day
Be cynical if you like, but this was one newscast that I would not miss—because it was the one I thought I’d never see in my lifetime.
When Katie Couric debuted on the CBS network news, I was ther...
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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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Regan Hofmann on the Hidden Faces of HIV
“Is there any way that we can stop this?” Regan Hofmann asked the Creative Director of POZ magazine the night before its April edition went to press. With the April issue, Hofmann officially came ou...
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August 28, 2006 | Lori Luechtefeld |
Environment
“An Inconvenient Truth”—Seizing the Moment
Global warming is—pardon the expression—hotter than ever.
Recent developments, from rising oil prices to extreme weather patterns and rampant natural disaster, have raised reluctant awareness in t...
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Court Documents Reveal FDA Politicized Plan B Approval-Update
On August 24th, in an almost complete reversal of its 2004 decision, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Plan B emergency contraception to be sold over the counter, but only to women 18 ...
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Court Documents Reveal FDA Politicized Plan B Approval
Recently released court documents in a suit filed against the Food and Drug Administration charge that the FDA faced undue political pressure by the Bush Administration to stymie over-the-counter sa...
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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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August 14, 2006 | Milon Nagi |
Arts and culture
June Cross on Secrets and Displacements
Writing her memoir Secret Daughter “has been a journey in learning how fallible memory is and how changeable a story can get,” said June Cross at a recent journalists’ lunch at the Women’s Media Cen...
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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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August 02, 2006 | Lynn Paltrow |
A Modest Proposal or Why I Support the Full Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act
Lurking in the anti-choice arsenal is a fascinating piece of legislation called the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act. Like its predecessors—the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and the Partial Birth Ab...