Iraqi women embrace American mothers of war dead

30 September 2010 in Family Marriage Partnership, Middle East, North America, War Conflict, Women's Group

Nine American mothers whose children died fighting in Iraq were embraced last week by dozens of Iraqi women who lost their own children during decades of war and violence in a meeting participants said brought them a measure of peace. The gathering in Iraq’s mostly peaceful northern Kurdish region was far from the sites of [...]

Nicaraguan Women Seek to Restore Legal Abortion

30 September 2010 in Abortion Contraception, Campaign, Government, South America, Women's Group

A group of women on delivered to the Nicaraguan government thousands of signatures collected in Europe by Amnesty International to demand the restoration of therapeutic abortion in this Central American country. The signatures were turned over at the offices of the governing Sandinista party by leaders of the Strategic Group for the Decriminalization of Therapeutic [...]

UN promotes health campaign for women and children

30 September 2010 in Children Parenting, Family Marriage Partnership, Funding, Global, Government, Health

A global campaign that aims to save the lives of 16 million mothers and children over the next five years was being launched by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday with as much as $40 billion in commitments from world governments and private aid groups. The so-called Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health was [...]

US Senate Should Act to Tackle Violence Against Women – Comprehensive Global Strategy Needed to Engage and End Abuses

30 September 2010 in Global, Government, North America, Opinion Comment, Violence Against Women

The US Senate should quickly approve a bipartisan bill that sets out a new strategy for US engagement in the struggle to end violence against women worldwide, Human Rights Watch said today. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to take up the bill on Wednesday, September 29, 2010. The draft International Violence Against Women [...]

US Senate Hearing Probes Botched Sex Crime Investigations

30 September 2010 in Uncategorized

A disturbing number of police departments across the country are routinely downgrading or dismissing rape cases, according to testimony at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing. Chaired by Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, the subcommittee session focused on what it said was “The chronic failure (of police departments) to report and investigate rape cases.” In his testimony, [...]

UN launches anti-rape campaign in Haiti

30 September 2010 in Climate Environment, Rape and Sexual Assault, South America, Violence Against Women

The United Nations is launching a campaign to combat the rape of Haitian earthquake victims living in camps for the homeless, the U.N.’s top official in the country has said. Edmund Mulet, who heads the U.N. stabilization mission in the country, told the 15-member Security Council that police and soldiers in the U.N.’s peacekeeping force [...]