Milon Nagi
Bio:
Milon Nagi is a founding member of the NYC Doula Collective and a writer and editor for the annual Guide to a Healthy Birth. Nagi is committed to helping families make more informed decisions about their birth options.
WMC News & Features
Jordanian Journalist Breaks Taboos Campaigning Against Violence
Dua Khalil is stoned to death in Iraq for being seen with a man of another religion. A woman is shot dead in Jordan after her photo appears on her brother’s friend’s cellphone. Muqadas Bibi’s throat...
WMC News & Features
Voices from the Front—Women Face a “Mutilated Beast”
When speaking to Americans, Yanar Mohammed is confronted repeatedly with the belief that Iraqi women’s rights are protected under occupation by the United States. In reality, says Mohammed, director...
WMC News & Features
What a War Crime Looks Like
The account below is compiled from testimony given at the courts martial of Paul Cortez and James Barker, from accounts of the Article 32 Hearing and other court proceedings in the cases, and from previous WMC and newspaper reports. Former Pfc. Steven Green, Pfc. Jesse Spielman and Pfc. Bryan Howard are still awaiting trial. References to them are to alleged actions on their part according to the above sources.
WMC News & Features
100-Year Sentence for Second Soldier Convicted of Rape and Murder
Sgt. Paul Cortez, the second soldier to plead guilty to the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, as well as the murder of her parents and sister, was sentenced on Thursday, February 22, to 100 years in prison and a dishonorable discharge. Under the terms of a plea agreement made before the court martial took place, Cortez avoided life imprisonment without possibility of parole in sentencing handed down by the judge, Colonel Stephen Henley.
WMC News & Features
January 29, 2007 | Milon Nagi |
Politics
MediaTrack 2008—Pelosi Ascent Marks Gender Gap Milestone
“If only men had voted—had there been no Susan B. Anthony and women’s suffrage—we would be looking at a Republican House and Senate,” Eleanor Smeal told a recent Women’s Media Center political brief...
WMC News & Features
China’s Women from the Inside
Wu Zhaoxia prefers life in the city to her home village. “There’s more going on,” says the young computer factory worker. “We can stay out till four in the morning enjoying ourselves.” One of a new ...
WMC News & Features
December 01, 2006 | Milon Nagi |
International
Mystelle Brabbée on India’s Modern Day Courtesans
When Mystelle Brabbée first heard about the Bachara community, of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, she was immediately intrigued. The community had a tradition of prostitution, associated...
WMC News & Features
October 13, 2006 | Milon Nagi |
Joan Blades on Real Family Values
With Joan Blades “there’s no down, you just keep going up and up,” said Carol Jenkins, Women’s Media Center president, introducing the pioneering social activist at a recent WMC journalists’ lunch. ...
WMC News & Features
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...
WMC News & Features
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...
WMC News & Features
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 ...
WMC News & Features
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...
WMC News & Features
Pay Gap Is Widest in Top-Paying Media Industry Segments
Women in the highest paid sections of the communications and media industry face an average pay gap of $13,000 a year when compared to men, according to a new report.
The Institute for Women’s Pol...
WMC News & Features
July 21, 2006 | Milon Nagi |
Health
Global Health Advocate Honored in New York
Geeta Rao Gupta, an international expert on gender issues of HIV/AIDS, was destined from an early age to work involving her passion for women’s human rights. Accepting the Working Mother Media Legac...
WMC News & Features
“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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