Archive for August, 2009
She sat throughout with a straight back, calmly and intently following the interminable legal arguments. She spoke politely and gravely to the prosecutors and judges. The British Ambassador described her as “composed, upright, crackling with energy”; even the prison police rose to their feet in respect as she entered the courtroom. The Chargé d’Affaires of [...]
Amnesty International adopted 46-year-old Jacinta Marcial as a prisoner of conscience for being unfairly sentenced to 21 years in prison and demanded that the Mexican authorities release her immediately and unconditionally. The human rights body said she has been denied a fair trial and that she is in prison solely due to her marginal status [...]
Poor security, rampant fraud and not enough female election staff will keep many women away from the ballot box in next week’s presidential election in deeply conservative Afghanistan, diplomats and campaign workers fear. While the female vote has emerged as a potentially powerful bloc in some areas, it is unlikely the majority of women will [...]
August 2009 – In This Issue: Colloquium on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Peace Negotiations: Implementing SCR 1820 Financial and Economic Crisis Impacts Women and Men Differently Say NO to Violence against Women * Speakers of 16 Parliaments and Chair of Bosnian Council of Ministers Say NO * Thailand: Youth Say NO to Violence against Women [...]
Go Away With Your Spray http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48032 US: Sotomayor Sworn In Following Senate PR http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48021 SOUTH AFRICA: Women Want Land to Call Their Own http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48015 BRAZIL: Bringing Community Mental Health to the Poo http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48011 AFRICA: Raising the Profile of Gender-Based Violence http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48010 DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Women in Pursuit of Knowledge http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48009 MIDEAST: Prison Toughens Palestinian Women http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews47998 HEALTH-AFRICA: [...]
In an order that will provide relief to hundreds of domestic violence victims, the Bombay high court ruled that a court hearing such a case need not wait for a report filed by the protection officer before awarding interim compensation. Justice R Y Ganoo said courts that dealt with domestic violence cases could take a [...]
More than 1.5 million women living with HIV in Asia were infected by their partners and 50 million more are at risk of infection, according to a report released on Tuesday. The “HIV Transmission in Intimate Partner Relationships in Asia” report by UNAIDS said the women at risk are either married or in long-term relationships [...]
Up to a quarter of a million women and girls in Southeast Asia, mostly adolescents, are forced into prostitution each year and face violence and the prospect of contracting HIV/AIDS, researchers said on Wednesday. The researchers, in a report documenting criminal activity in Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, predicted circumstances would worsen as the financial crisis [...]
Campaigners say practice of detaining people for unpaid medical bills is widespread Cash-strapped state and private hospitals in Kenya are routinely locking up patients to press family members and friends to pay up – and to send a message to poor people to stay away. In May, the scandal received national prominence when a local [...]
India’s capital, Delhi, recorded more female than male births during 2008, for the first time in many decades. Latest government data shows for every 1,000 males, 1,004 girls were born in Delhi in 2008. One of the main reasons for the earlier skewed male-female ratios was seen to be the greater number of abortions of [...]
When the first and only midwifery school was opened in 2004 in Bamyan city, central Afghanistan, not a single application was received for the 18-month course. Today, the school has to turn down dozens of applications from women all over the province because it cannot accommodate more than 25 students at a time. “We have [...]
Tired of calling for the decriminalisation of abortion – the leading cause of maternal death in Argentina – a network of women’s rights activists launched a telephone hotline to inform women on a safe abortion method that requires no medical intervention: the use of a pill to terminate pregnancy. “We make information approved by the [...]
Australia’s drug regulator has accepted that it is safer for women to terminate pregnancy than to give birth, clearing the way for dramatically wider use of the abortion pill, RU486. Abortion provider Marie Stopes International last month began offering women the choice of medical and standard surgical abortions at its nine clinics in NSW, Queensland, [...]
Around 229,000 Nepali women have received abortion services till 2009 since the operation is legalized, said Nepali official. Nepali government have said that legalization of abortion helped Nepal reduce the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) immensely and that a six-month pilot project, which ran this year to implement Medical Abortion (MA) has shown signs that it [...]
Lawmakers and rights groups in Senegal are calling for tougher legislation to tackle what they say is a massive rise in the number of rapes — many involving children. Adama Sow, president of the Research and Action Group on Violence against Children, said that between September 2006 and December 2007, his organisation had reported nearly [...]
Lawmakers are debating a bill that would make marital rape a crime in the Bahamas, overturning the current system in which consent to sexual intercourse is presumed in a legal marriage. Legislator Loretta Butler-Turner, who drafted the bill, said the attitude that wives are subordinate to husbands has put some women at risk of violence [...]
Rehashed legislation allows husbands to deny wives food if they fail to obey sexual demands Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands’ sexual demands, despite international outrage over an earlier version of the legislation which President Hamid Karzai had [...]
US secretary of state visits Goma to draw attention to ‘one of mankind’s greatest atrocities’ Hillary Clinton called for the arrest and punishment of those responsible for the widespread sexual violence that has blighted eastern Congo for more than a decade. The US secretary of state, who is in Goma to draw world attention to [...]
A UN special envoy has called countries in the Great Lakes Region (GRL) to make rape a punishable offense, ensuring that appropriate laws are enforced in national courts to prevent the vice, the Times of Zambia reported on Monday. UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on HIV and AIDS in Africa Elizabeth Mataka said in a [...]
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
- Tower Hamlets Residents Solidarity Campaign – Solidarity with women involved in prostitution in east London
- East London Fawcett: Free Gallery Tour ~ 12 May & Pay Gap Talk ~ 23rd May 2012
- The Light Bulb Moment and future of feminism Book launch and panel – Bristol ~ 15th May 2012
- Hollaback! Portsmouth launch event – Tuesday 22nd May 2012
- Run for Congo Women – Deadline extended to 25th May 2012!
- Fast fall in number of male-only FTSE 100 boards
- Why has the UK got so few women scientists?
- The Haven Wolverhampton E Bulletin May 2012
- 2 vacancies – Shakti Women’s Aid (Edinburgh) ~ 28th May 2012
- Volunteering for Dorset Rape Crisis Centre
- new on women in london
- Information added in March 2012
- Information added in February 2012
- Information added in January 2012
- Pro-Choice Public Meeting – Abortion Rights ~16th May 2012
- Fawcett on Queen’s speech: flexible parental leave / red tape challenge
- Policy and Campaigns Internship – Power and Agency campaign – Fawcett ~ 22nd May 2012
- Administration and Finance Worker – Women in Prison ~ 18th May 2012
- A Women’s Agenda for the Local Elections May 2012 – Survey Results
- Friends of the Women’s Library update on the future of the Library
- Women in Black, vigils and Facebook page
National Women’s Day South Africa – 9th August
18 August 2009 in Africa, Equality, Feminism, Human Rights, Opinion Comment
The root causes of women’s oppression – Helen Zille, the DA leader on the real obstacles to female advancement in SA Failing our women: A tragic loss of human potential On Women’s Day it is important to look beyond the symbolism of this public holiday, and address the root causes of women’s oppression. The risk [...]