Archive for February, 2009
Three-quarters of those exploited as modern-day slaves work in the sex industry. In a new report, the United Nations says human trafficking for the sex trade or forced labor market appears to be getting worse, not better, because many countries aren’t paying attention to it. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) surveyed [...]
According to estimates by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, over 100,000 children and young women are sex trafficked every day in the United States. Most Americans think that this type of human traffic occurs elsewhere in the world in places like Thailand, Cambodia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Throughout the U.S., children, especially girls are [...]
3.4 million say they were victims; legal changes urged The largest snapshot of stalking ever done in the U.S. revealed an estimated 3.4 million victims – most of them women – who often lived with the terror of not knowing what would happen next. The federal report underscored what experts and advocates have long argued [...]
A coalition of Muslim organizations, journalists, community leaders, imams, and other concerned citizens called for immediate action by American Muslim leaders and religious figures to address domestic abuse and violence in America, including that found in the American Muslim community, last Friday, February 20, 2009. In response to the collective concern of the American Muslim [...]
The religious order banning women from dressing like tomboys was bad enough. But the fatwa by Malaysia’s leading clerics against yoga was the last straw. “They have never even done yoga!” said Zainah Anwar, head of a Malaysian women’s rights group called Sisters in Islam. Anwar argues that the edict, issued late last year by [...]
Anger at the regime’s extreme birth control regime is growing Abuses of women’s reproductive rights, some of which break China’s own laws, are provoking outrage as Chinese public opinion wakes up to the persistence of forced abortion, compulsory sterilisation and even infanticide. China has run birth control campaigns since the 1970s. In 1979 it passed [...]
Spain is preparing to fully legalise abortion for the first time to allow women to have terminations on demand in the early stages of pregnancy. The move has put the Socialist government on a collision course with the Catholic Church which has argued the need “to restrict and not expand abortion” in Spain. A parliamentary [...]
President Ernest Bai Koroma last month appended his signature to, thereby formally giving his assent and making into law, the Customary Marriage and Diviorce Act 2007, which commentators have described as a “women’s liberation” Act. Before appending his signature, President Koroma said he had found himself in a very unique situation because he participated in [...]
A husband or a wife can no longer go unpunished for coercing his or her spouse into sexual relations. In fact, Korean society has so far tolerated forced sex in married life. But a local court made a landmark ruling Friday, recognizing marital rape as a crime for the first time here. The ruling is [...]
Each year, more than half a million women die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, and nearly 4 million newborns die within twenty-eight days of birth. Millions more suffer from disability, disease, infections and injury. Cost-effective solutions are available that could bring rapid improvements, but urgency and commitment are required to implement them and [...]
The first meeting of the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) will take place on 24-27 February 2009 at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. At this first meeting GRETA will prepare and adopt its internal rules of procedure and elect its President and Vice-President. GRETA will also hold an [...]
What is the Pink Chaddi Campaign? The Pink Chaddi Campaign kicked off on 5 February 2009 to oppose the Sri Ram Sena. The campaign is growing exponentially (31,888 members at this point in the life of our Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women) and that is not surprising. Most women in this country have [...]
India is in the throes of a violent spasm of moral angst about the rights of women and ‘decadent’ western culture. What began with a group of youths attacking young women drinking in a bar in Mangalore in the south has escalated into a full blown national convulsion with Ashok Gehlot, chief minister of Rajasthan, [...]
For over 25 years I have worked in Australia and overseas to prevent the sexual abuse and exploitation of children. One of the most horrendous developments that we have experienced in the last 15 years is the dramatic explosion in the global trade of child sexual abuse images on the internet. Critics have argued that [...]
‘…what is most appalling is the PNG government’s lax attitude to the repeated abuse of women in its society. Despite women activists staging protests, demonstrations and walkouts in the country’s parliament, all the country’s leaders have done is pay lip service to the problems’ At a time when a nation is emerging at the top [...]
The Philippine National Police (PNP) Women and Children Protection Center reported an “alarming” increase in the incidence of domestic violence in 2008, its director, Chief Superintendent Yolanda Tanigue, said on Friday. The Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse (CPTCSA) said domestic violence is one of the major factors in the development [...]
Although Rwanda is striving to become a gender-equal nation, gender-based domestic violence is still widespread. A theater group has embarked on a crusade against the scourge. Charlotte Nyiraneza, the president of Umurinzi-a group that is fighting to stop gender-based violence (GBV) through theatre-was doing research on women in 2005, when she started to realize that [...]
Western countries called on Saudi Arabia last week to halt floggings and amputations, allow religious freedom and abolish a system of male guardianship sharply limiting women’s rights. Britain, Canada, Switzerland and Israel challenged Riyadh on issues including its high number of executions. Saudi Arabia executes murderers, rapists and drug traffickers, usually by public beheading, and [...]
Iraq’s minister of women’s affairs resigned last week in protest at a lack of resources to cope with “an army of widows, unemployed, oppressed and detained women” after years of sectarian warfare. Nawal al-Samarai said her status as a secretary of state and not a full minister reflected the low emphasis given by the government [...]
Hundreds of Chinese women have left their children behind in the hope of finding work in Paris, only to end up turning to street prostitution, a humanitarian group has said . A report by Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) said the women, mostly in their forties and sharing small rooms, are often victims [...]
Recent postings- Towards a Future without Fundamentalisms: New Report Analyzes Religious Fundamentalist Strategies and Feminist Responses
- Statement on the Murder of Marisela Escobedo Ortiz, women’s human rights defender of Ciudad Juarez
- Sudan police arrest women protesting at flogging video
- UN Chief Leaves Women out of Year-End Summing Up
- Sex education is expelled from Egyptian schools
- Kurdish Parliament Turns Blind Eye to Prostitution
- Sexual harassment cases in Israel’s civil service rose 40% in 2010
- Women in south Sudan have been targeted in a string of abusive attacks by police cracking down on Western clothes
- Women and girls living in Haiti’s makeshift camps face an increasing risk of rape and sexual violence says Amnesty International new report
- Stand up against hatred and threats against LGBT in Malaysia
- new on womensgrid
- Where are the Women? Free cross university student led Women’s conference ~ 18th February 2012
- Louder Now! Launch Event – Feminism on Film season – Newcastle ~ 29th February 2012
- 6 February: An evening with Sister Fa – A celebration of progress made to end Female Genital Cutting
- Stalking consultation – closes 5th February 2012
- Woman who suffered years of domestic violence jailed because too terrified to testify
- I feel like as a woman I’m not welcome – Asylum Aid’s new research report combines legal and qualitative research in a gender analysis of the UK asylum system
- New report challenges social sector to smash the glass ceiling once and for all
- Leveson must back ban on sexualised images in media say women’s groups
- Ministers press on with controversial abortion changes
- Abolishing social fund will hit women and children hardest
- new on women in london
- Advocacy & Support Advisor – Complex Needs (Female*) – Solace – 9th February 2012
- 4 vacancies – Refuge – 3rd and 6th February 2012
- OBJECT present evidence at the Leveson Inquiry to end Page 3
- Support for women who have experienced sexual violence – Amina Scheme – Eaves
- Women Involved with the Criminal Justice System: One Day Training – Women in Prison – 29 March 2012
- Quiz Night – Womans Trust – 27th January 2012
- Development Manager – Clean Break ~ 6th February 2012
- Volunteer Bookkeeper – RASASC ~ 16th February 2012
- New Report – Silenced Voices Speak: Strategies for protecting migrant women from violence and abuse – ROW
- Hidden Value: Demonstrating the extraordinary impact of women’s voluntary and community organisations – WRC
