There have been strange events as the action continues for the September 27 German parliamentary elections. Feministing had a post about a racist campaign poster for the Green party that, thankfully, was removed after the protests started coming in. There was the campaign of Vera Lengsfeld, the Christian Democratic Union candidate, that had a poster [...]
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In May of 2006, Colombia’s Constitutional Court legalized abortion in cases when the pregnancy endangers the life or health of the mother, or results from rape or incest, or if the fetus is unlikely to survive. Until that time, Colombia had been one of three Latin American countries (with El Salvador and Chile) that completely [...]
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Mifumi is a Ugandan NGO, whose web page has the description: “Protecting Women and Children Against Violence.” Evelyn Schiller, its director for information and communications, has written an article about the practice in Uganda and other African countries known as “bride price.” The story has also been reported in The Guardian. For centuries in Uganda [...]
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Yesterday, I wrote about Saudi writer and activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider’s account of the restrictions experienced by her and other Saudi women. Now, we learn from Human Rights Watch that Afghan President Karzai has made official an “unthinkable deal to sell Afghan women out in return for the support of fundamentalists in the August 20 election.” [...]
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Today’s Washington Post has two articles showing some welcome news about the Obama administration. In one article, the Post writes that Secretary of State Clinton’s recent trip to Africa “has sent the clearest signal yet that she intends to make women’s rights one of her signature issues and a higher priority than ever before in [...]
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Now here’s an intriguing camp! The Carlisle, UK, News & Star has an article about a five-day “Eco-Warrior Camp” that is being run by the Earth First! group that “plan[s] direct ecological action and campaigns.” There will be workshops on “squatting,” how to blockade using kayaks, understanding police tactics, climbing skills, raft building, finding wild [...]
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Saudi writer and activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider had an op-ed in this Sunday’s Washington Post. Much of it is about the laws that prohibit Saudi women from traveling across borders and driving a car. First, women must have a document signed by their male “guardian” in order to travel across borders. Al-Huwaider has such a document [...]
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Al Jazeeera reports that “Germany and France have unexpectedly emerged from recession” and that “other countries that use the euro also appear to be pulling out of the economic crisis.” The examiner.com reports that, at least in France, the end of the recession was accomplished “without [a] massive and costly U.S.-style stimulus package.” The examiner.com [...]
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Details are still coming in about this horrible tragedy. But the first thing that came to mind when I was reading the headlines was why was it only women and children who were killed. The reason is that in Kuwait wedding celebrations are held separately for men and women, and children attend the women’s party. [...]
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The news from Sudan is always grim for women. The most egregious current situation is the “tight pants” trial of Lubna al-Hussein (see also) who faces 40 lashes for wearing clothes that the “morality police” deemed to be indecent (too-tight pants, too-shear blouse, but also wearing a head scarf). Protests are continuing and the trial [...]
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