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  Michelle Obama Says "Yes We Can" End Injustice
  Michelle Obama motivates young African women to end injustice at the Young African Women Leaders Forum.
  by cenlagirly / on Jun 22, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “violence against women”

 

• Bangladeshi Women & Dowries

  
  Women of History — Authority: 109
  From IOL News : Farzana Yasmin sought a divorce just hours after her wedding when her new husbands family demanded dowry payments. Despite the stigma of divorce in Bangladesh, she is not worried about her future. She wants other women to be brave enough to maintain their dignity in the face of ...
  4 days ago

• AAUW’s Wish List for the State of the Union

  
  AAUW Dialog — Authority: 106
  On Tuesday, January 24, President Barack Obama will give the annual State of the Union address. Obama has heard from organizations all over the political spectrum about what they think his priorities should be for the next year. AAUW is no exception. Below, in no particular order, is our wish list for President ...
  4 days ago

• Human Rights Violations: Two Nobel Peace Prize winners participate in campaign against femicides in Mexico and Central America

  
  Americas MexicoBlog — Authority: 127
  La Jornada : "The Nobel Peace prize winners Rigoberta Menchú (1992) and Jody Williams (1997) are leading a campaign against femicides in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. Menchú, Guatemalan indigenous leader, reported that she and the U.S. citizen, Williams, will participate in research beyond that carried out by ...
  6 days ago

• Men Who Hate Women

  
  The Exponent — Authority: 458
  [Content Note: This post discusses all forms of violence against women including sexual and physical violence] Two summers ago mr. mraynes and I listened to the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson as we drove to the Northwest to visit our families. We generally liked the series, the characters were compelling and ...
  1 week ago

• 13-Year-Old Explains Why Slut-Shaming is Bad

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 104
  
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• Women’s rights activists denied access to (prisoner) Soni Sori

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 492
  Aman Sethi – The Hindu – Wednesday, 18 January2012 (originally published 14 Jan) A team of activists from 40 gender and human rights organisations around the country has accused the Chhattisgarh government, police and prison authorities of conspiring to cover up an instance of custodial torture. “We came to ...
  1 week ago

• Egyptian Court Ruling on “Virginity Tests” a Win For Women

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 107
  Women protestors in Cairo. Photo by Sarah Carr By now, almost everyone has heard the about the 18 women protestors in Egypt’s Tahrir Square who this past spring were detained, beaten, given electric shocks, strip searched and forced to submit to “virginity tests.” But courageous action by two Egyptian women ...
  1 week ago

• Latest podcasts from Yeah, What She Said

  
  Allison McNeely — Authority: 89
  Here are a few new episodes that I’ve recorded for Yeah, What She Said . We’re hunting for new guests for upcoming shows. Do you know anyone who would be a super guest on our program? We can do phone interviews, so they don’t have to live in Calgary. Let me know in the comments or by the emails! Mapuche ...
  1 week ago

• Sex Trafficking of Native Women in Portand

  
  Turtle Talk — Authority: 123
  Here’s a great article from Indian Country Today, mentioning Sarah Deer’s work.
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• Hearing the women who suffer in silience

  
  Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Person — Authority: 101
  This is a re-post from a Manila Bulletin newspaper article appeared last January 16 written by Genevieve Rivadelo.  The two women featured here are Rowena Rivera and Maffy Gaya, the two remarkable deaf ladies I was with during our  recent trip to Sydney, Australia . Members of AusAID and Philippine Commission ...
  1 week ago

• IRAQ: New research highlights link between FGM/C and mental disorders

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 492
  IRIN -  Tuesday, 17  January 2011 (originally published 13 Jan) DUBAI, 13 January 2012 (IRIN) – New data out of Iraq shows what many psychologists suspected though little research has confirmed: Girls who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) are more prone to mental disorders, including ...
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• On this MLK Day, Remember to Honor His Mother

  
  Me and My 1000 Girlfriends — Authority: 92
  Alberta Williams King (left) poses with her children, her husband and her mothers. source: Stanford The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects ...
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• YWCA Launches Safety Siren for Blackberry

  
  Gender Focus — Authority: 416
  Good news for those of us feminists who haven’t made the switch to iPhones – YWCA Canada has now launched its Safety Siren app for Blackberry (I understand plans for an Android app are also in the works). You can download the app for free here  at the Blackberry app store. When YWCA Canada launched its iPhone ...
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• U.S. university students work to improve campus policy on violence against women

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 492
  WNN Breaking (WNN) NEW YORK, U.S.: For the second year in a row college students are using transparency to prevent, reduce and respond to sexual violence on university campuses across the U.S. The Campus Accountability Project (CAP) database has met its goal of participation from over 70 schools across the country. ...
  2 weeks ago

• CONGO: Discussion groups help male youth work to prevent violence against women

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 492
  WNN Breaking (WNN) KINSHASA, DRC: As paramilitary violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues with the absence of much of the western world’s media coverage, United Nations Children’s Fund – UNICEF is helping to bring ‘child-friendly’ spaces to adolescents who have been displaced. Many ...
  2 weeks ago

• Women’s groups vow to improve bill on violence against women

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 492
  Yonca Poyraz  Dogan -  Today’s Zaman - Wednesday, 11 January 2012 (originally published 09 Jan) Women’s rights groups are preparing for a meeting this week with Family and Social Policy Minister Fatma Şahin, who drafted a new bill to address cases of violence against women in Turkey, where almost half of all ...
  2 weeks ago

• UN to investigate missing aboriginal women

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 492
  Tanya Talaga – The Star – Tuesday, 10 January 2012 (originally published 06 Jan) Laurie Odjick is at a loss to explain what happened to her daughter Maisy and the teen’s best friend, Shannon Alexander. They vanished on Sept. 6, 2008, from Alexander’s Maniwaki, Que., apartment outside of the Kitigan Zibi ...
  2 weeks ago

• Male Rape Added To FBI’s Uniform Crime Report Definitions

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 122
  Rape is a devastating crime and we can’t solve it unless we know the full extent of it,” said Vice President Biden, a leader in the effort to end violence against women for over 20 years and author of the landmark Violence Against Women Act. “This long-awaited change to the definition of rape is a [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Husband, 60, Wife, 8

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 492
  Rebecca Murray – IPS – Tuesday, 03 January 2012 (originally published 29 Dec) KABUL, Dec 29, 2011 (IPS) – Activists voice concern that Afghan women’s rights continue to be marginalised, and nowhere is gender inequality more starkly illustrated than in the country’s flawed justice system. Yasmin’s case is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Book: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  
  Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4 — Authority: 107
  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I understand the Swedish title translates into the The Men Who Hate Women . That is a more appropriate title. Though, I would imagine such a title would hurt sales in England and the USA. Each part has a statistic regarding violence ...
  4 weeks ago

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