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Kent Monroe – WNN Religion & Belief (WNN) State of Virginia, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Follow the wood line at the back of the house, past the currants, past the birch-lined pond, and there comes a trail that leads through the woods to the secret garden. This is where I bury the children–dogs and cats, all […]...Leggi Tutto
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Vandana Shiva for YES! – WNN EarthWATCH (WNN/YM) New Delhi, INDIA, SOUTHERN ASIA: My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. It is from the Himalayan
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Ask the Labour Party to include women claiming asylum in their party’s policy on women’s safety. Over the summer, the London Refugee Women’s Forum took part in a film making workshop and made this powerful short film introducing themselves and the issues that they’re
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Researchers in Copenhagen have found that, for some men at least, watching porn makes them more sexist....Leggi Tutto
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Amina Zia Massoud – WNN Inside Perspectives on Afghanistan This important story is an updated version of a previous release by WNN – Women News Network (WNN) Kabul, AFGHANISTAN, SOUTHERN ASIA: As 2014 approaches there are worrying signs that Afghan women’s rights will diminish once
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Petition the UK government to improve the responses to adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Unity & Hope is running a petition is to call for action from everyone who cares about supporting adult survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA). Help us tell the government to take urgent action to
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Women are taking centre-stage to revitalise plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The Othello Syndrome, for example, said director Hannah Kaye, focusses on the gender politics of Shakespeare’s original. “Essentially the production provides a contemporary feminist lens with which
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Emine Bozkurt – Hurriyet Dailey News – Wednesday, 18 September 2013 (originally published 16 Sept) 2023 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. The symbolism of this date has led to 2023 being set as the “deadline” for many financial, political, and social targets
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Isabella Eisenberg – WNN Religion & Belief (WNN/CGN) Halba, LEBANON, WESTERN ASIA: Here, in the northern Lebanese district of Akkar, Catholic-Maronite, Sunni, Greek-Orthodox and Alawi villages are scattered all over the landscape. The Syrian border is a 15 minute drive to the north of the
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Online now: an oral history of the Women’s Liberation Movement. The British Library’s Sisterhood and After website is part of a wider project the aim of which is to create an original and extensive oral history archive of the lives of feminist change-makers of the 1970s and ‘80s. The archive
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Looking at media coverage of the Michael Le Vell case – Part One. From Everyday Victim Blaming. We took the decision not to discuss the Michael Le Vell rape trial until after the verdict came in due to our concerns about numerous media articles which involved perpetuating rape myths. We were also
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Welcome back to our weekly round-up of British women’s sports news. Triathlon: The grand final of the ITU World Triathlon Championships took place in London’s Hyde Park on 14 September, bringing huge success for Great Britain. Welshwoman Non Stanford finished 25 seconds clear of the rest of
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Jennifer Lazuta for VOA news – WNN Science & Health (WNN/VOA) Dakar, CHAD, MIDDLE AFRICA: A study published this month in the Lancet medical journal found a new meningitis vaccine being used in Chad reduced the incidence of the disease by 94 percent. According to the World Health
Chi Onwurah – Guardian – Friday, 20September 2013 (originally published 16 Sept) It may not have made the headlines, but roughly the same number of men and women spoke at last week’s British Science festival in Newcastle. With Maggie Aderin-Pocock appearing alongside Robert
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WNN Breaking (WNN/OMCT) Paris, France | Geneva, Switzerland, WESTERN EUROPE: The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), welcomes the release on
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I rattle on quite frequently about the barriers to women in cycling. And I will today, too. Writing in the Guardian this week, Grace Wong raised one of the issues which is frequently overlooked: the way in which women’s sportswear is marketed. As a runner and a cyclist, this is something that
Daniela Walker – PSFK – Thursday, 18 September 2013 (originally published 16 Sept) Living in a city, most women expect to be harassed at some point or another. ‘Hey, baby, what’s your number?’ ‘You’re so pretty when you smile’ – but artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh wants men to ‘Stop Telling
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WNN Breaking (WNN) United Nations, Geneva, SWITZERLAND, WESTERN EUROPE: Bringing a window of optimism and confidence to displaced women and girls who have suffered greatly under war and conflict in the rural northeast region of the DRC – Democratic Republic of the Congo, a 46-year-old Roman
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Teenagers now see sexualisation as “part and parcel” of living. According to academic Dionne Taylor, teenagers now see sexualisation as “part and parcel” of living, and the constant streaming of raunchy dances featuring scantily-clad women is affecting their life chances. Taylor’s study of
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Marthe van der Wolf for VOA – WNN Breaking (WNN/VOA) United Nations – New York, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: The United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, says Ethiopia has achieved one of the Millennium Development Goals of reducing child mortality by more than two-thirds. Ethiopia
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By Sara Salem There is nothing new in using women as a cultural battleground. Women have regularly been used symbolically to signify and reproduce nations, cultures and religions; and the norms and values that constitute these. When the French colonized Algeria, for example, they used the status of
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Daily Beast – Monday, 16, September 2013 (originally published 13 Sept) The Women in the World Foundation announced last night an expanded partnership with Vital Voices, the nonprofit organization born out of an initiative launched by former Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and Madeleine
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WNN Breaking (WNN) Kabul, Afghanistan, SOUTHERN ASIA: Following a concerted push to bring more women into positions as police officers in Afghanistan, another act of violence against top women security officers has occurred in Lashkar Gah, the capital city of the southern Helmand province today
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Protest against the Radisson hotel group supporting an industry that has a record of exploitation. The Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel in London’s Bloomsbury is set to host a major conference for the porn industry on September 22-25 and women’s groups are calling for a boycott of the hotel
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Amanda Rodriguez reviews the new prison TV series Wentworth. The second in a weekly series of cross-posts from Bitch Flicks. Wentworth is an Australian women’s prison drama that is much grittier, darker, more brutal and realistic than another recent prison drama - Orange is the New Black -
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WNN Breaking (WNN) United Nations, New York, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Working to bring stronger protection for child soldiers who have been abducted in Africa, UNICEF, also known as the UN Children’s Fund, is stepping up the commitment level to stop the use of child soldiers inside the AU
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‘Government and pro-government forces have continued to conduct widespread attacks on the civilian population’. A new report from the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Syria has illuminated the increasingly brutal tactics that the country’s government – and, to a
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#fuckhonour and #fuckshame, when it silences young people reaching out. By Huma Munshi In the film ‘Monsoon Wedding’ an adult survivor of sexual abuse comes face-to-face with the perpetrator at the wedding of her best friend. As a result of the close familial ties and the need to uphold community
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Karen Ingala Smith highlights the reality of cultural femicide. Many people know the statistic: ‘two women in England and Wales a week are killed through domestic violence’; but how many try to connect with that and to feel the impact of what it really means? In the first three days of
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A Coventry charity’s sponsored sleep out raised awareness of the needs of street-based sex workers. I recently took part in 12-hour sponsored sleep out. It was in aid of Kairos Women Working Together (WWT), a Coventry-based charity that supports women who are risk of or subject to sexual
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Nina Gologowski – New York Daily News – Tuesday, 17 September 2013 (originally published 15 Sept ) President Obama has declared the area of Colorado a disaster as floods continue to wash out homes and roads, stranding residents who will now be left to find food and shelter on their own
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In what some have called a 'landmark' vote, the Church in Wales has agreed to consecrate women bishops, but provision must be made for traditionalists who oppose the move....Leggi Tutto
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Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Brighton: 21 September: Roller Derby: Brighton Rockers vs. Leeds Roller Dolls at Dolphin Leisure Centre, Pasture Hill Road, Brighton, from 2.30pm The Brighton Rockers’ home bout sees them taking on
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Bristol City Council is being urged to adopt a nil policy for sexual entertainment venues. Bristol has an online petition scheme that enables individuals, community groups and organisations to start petitions to raise issues of “public concern”, so as to give councillors the opportunity to consider