Archive for September, 2009
Throughout the month of September, public transit users will receive an important education on the realities of child sex slavery in America. This week, Shared Hope International will unveil End Child Sex Trafficking: Kids are NOT for Sale in D.C., a campaign that aligns with D.C. Human Trafficking Awareness month. Bright yellow signs in Metro [...]
Nearly a year after, a government task force report has confirmed that Penan women and children in Sarawak were raped and sexually abused by timber workers. The report by the national task force set up in October last year also found troubling incidents of children as young as 10 years old being sexually abused by [...]
“Women are getting killed in the Western Cape,” says Ndumie Funda, who runs LulekiSizwe in her “cabin” in the township of Gugulethu near Cape Town. The project is named after her late fiancée, Nosizwe Nomsa Bizana, who was gang-raped by five men and subsequently succumbed to crypto meningitis, and Bizana’s friend Luleka Makiwane, who contracted [...]
In May Mr Katsav entered a plea of “not guilty” after being charged with two counts of rape and an indecent act against a female aide when he was tourism minister; the sexual harassment of two other aides while president; and obstruction of justice. The proceedings were adjourned during the summer recess and will be [...]
More than a year and a half after they fled their homes in the post-election violence, many women living in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kenya are taking to prostitution to eke out a living. Camp residents and non-governmental organisations working with IDPs report an increase in cases involving desperate women selling their [...]
The accused came from all walks of life: Retirees, dads and twentysomethings. An engineer, a business owner and an auto worker. A man in a wheelchair. Men in need of Spanish or Farsi translators. About 40 men somberly entered a classroom on a recent Saturday morning. About half of them wore shiny wedding bands. All [...]
If Kyrgyzstan does not tackle the social and economic causes of popular discontent, many more women will join radical Islamist groups. Women and Radicalisation in Kyrgyzstan, the latest report from the International Crisis Group, focuses on the increasingly important role that women are playing in the Islamist movement, as the government of Kyrgyzstan ignores their [...]
For wearing trousers, I face 40 lashes. This is the brutal reality of Sudan: we live in fear of those who should protect us Next week I will stand trial in a Sudanese court, charged along with 12 other women with committing an “indecent act” – wearing trousers in a public place. I will face [...]
Women’s rights activists say they aren’t fooled by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nomination of the first female Cabinet ministers since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, calling it a ploy to improve his popularity that will actually hurt the cause of women. With the nominations of three women for his new government, the hard-line president appears to [...]
An editor sent officials photos that her newspaper received of a woman giving birth to a stillborn child outside a hospital during a nurses strike. The editor could face jail, accused of distributing porn. The photograph is a testament to human suffering, so sad you can’t look at it twice. Or it’s shocking pornography. In [...]
Researchers for a leading international medical journal say South Africa’s health system is failing women and children in particular, but that new leadership could solve many of the problems. At a meeting in Johannesburg, South African Health Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi listened attentively as The Lancet experts detailed the findings of an issue released last [...]
The parents of young Penan women allegedly abused by logging company employees want to access and view the Penan task force report that the government refuses to make public. “[The parents] have asked for the task force’s report,” See Chee How, a lawyer assisting the Penan Support Group, told The Nut Graph in a phone [...]
Since the first counselling session that August in 1984, and operating from only two rooms at Butt Street Methodist Church in Suva, more then 17,000 women have walked through its doors seeking the centre’s services. And as it celebrates its anniversary this month, the fact that they are still around after 25 years is indeed [...]
BAHRAIN: Seeking Gender Equality in Quran http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48205 RIGHTS-UGANDA: Women Score Victory Against Gender-Based Violence http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48128 INDONESIA: ‘Safe’ Abortion Could Put a Brake on Women’s Mortality Rates http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48189 RIGHTS: Sweet 16 Marriages Cause Controversy in Malawi http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48177 VIETNAM: Sex Selection Skews Sex Ratio http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48166 NIGERIA: Divorce a Tool To Relegate Women http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48163 SPORTS: Women Carry a [...]
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Ghana) has called for a linkage in cultural practices to the country’s legal framework. Mrs Chris Dadzie, a FIDA member, said on Tuesday at a Policy Dialogue forum on HIV/AIDS in Tema that cultural practices must be factored into the country’s laws for its effective implementation. The dialogue, which [...]
Carmen Madriñán, Executive Director, ECPAT International, during an interview in Bangkok said that the saddest truth for all adults and parents is that child-trafficking has nudged it way up to become the third biggest global consumer market after such major crimes like drugs and arms sales. It is a sad and tragic phenomenon that the [...]
Dozens of people, mostly women, ride on ‘mehadrin’ buses in which men and women sit separately and sit at front of bus in protest. Protesters demand an end to discrimination that forces women to sit at back of bus for modesty reasons. Protesters make sure to respect religious ban on coming in physical contact with [...]
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
