Politics and sports and women. Again we have the intermingling of the powerful men in a world sports organization with women athletes and politics. Last week, in an Olympic qualifying round in Amman, Jordan, FIFA (the world soccer governing body) officials refused to allow the Iranian national women’s team to compete in a match with [...]
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It’s been a long, long time since Bob Dylan has had any credibility as a singer of protest songs. His one-time reputation as the figurehead of protest is long gone. (To be fair to Dylan, he may never have wanted the reputation of being considered as the voice of the 1960’s civil rights and anti-war [...]
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Two days ago, I wrote about how Hillary Clinton, after promising last year that the United States would never “abandon” the women of Afghanistan, has said nothing about moves by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) that, in fact, are precisely abandoning the rights of Afghan women. Well, now, Clinton has said something, but, [...]
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In May 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that the United States would never “abandon” the women of Afghanistan by allowing President Hamid Karzai to make any deals with the Taliban. Specifically, Clinton told three senior female Afghan officials that “we will not abandon you. . . . [I]t is essential that women’s rights [...]
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In perhaps the most telling example yet of the consequences of the Taliban’s increasing return to power, a 19-year old woman and a 25-year old man were stoned to death pursuant to Taliban orders. The two were in love. They eloped when the man was unable to persuade family members to allow him to marry [...]
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This is a photo of a class at a girls’ school in Qaysar in the northern region of Afghanistan. For those of you who think that wearing a burqa is a woman’s choice rather than cultural and religious oppression, just ask yourself if you would like to be like these Afghan girls. But, actually, these [...]
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In May, I wrote about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement that the United States would not abandon the women of Afghanistan by allowing President Hamid Karzai to make any deals with the Taliban. Clinton told three senior female Afghan officials that “we will not abandon you. . . . [I]t is essential that women’s [...]
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This is such a ridiculous story that it must be true. A strawberry farmer in Austria has banned women in skirts from picking strawberries at his pick-your-own fields. (He first instituted the ban in 2008, but the ban recently became news again.) This article from the Croatian Times gives the farmer’s reasons for the ban [...]
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