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What do postfeminism and postracialism have to do with liberation and freedom? The answer is clear: nothing — not a single thing. Postfeminism or postracialism contribute nothing to dismantling the patriarchal systems that spread across cultures and races. Or to inhibit gender violence, deliver healthcare, provide economic relief or increase abortion accessibility. The [...]
Survivors of human trafficking spoke at the U.N. recently as part of a new institutional effort to have their input on policymaking. Panelists said a major problem was not being seen as trafficking victims when they suffered their ordeals.
The U.N. has held hearings and sessions on human trafficking many times before, where professional advocates and [...]
END FGM European Campaign works with partner organisations across the European Union to ensure that the EU protects the rights of women and girls who are subjected to, or are at risk of, female genital mutilation.
Three million girls and women are subjected to female genital mutilation worldwide each year. That’s 8000 girls per day.
Female genital [...]
The moral imperative to end this brutal practice exists – now we need the leadership and political will to consign it to history
In countries all over the world today, women live with the threat, or consequences, of female genital mutilation.
In Africa alone an estimated 3 million girls and women are subjected to the practice each [...]
More than half of Ugandan girls who enrol in grade one drop out before sitting for their primary school-leaving examinations.
The fact that girls are dropping out between age 11 and 13 is being linked to the beginning of the menstruation cycle and its associated challenges.
Research conducted by a non-government organisation, the Forum of African Women [...]
The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives has passed a health care bill backed by President Barack Obama that includes a far-reaching attack on abortion rights.
The Affordable Health Care for America Act includes a measure, the Stupak-Pitts amendment, that would ban insurance companies participating in health care “exchanges” from covering abortion procedures in plans subsidized by [...]
The World Health Organisation said on Monday women tend to receive poorer medical care than men.
Following is a breakdown of the differences between male and female health in children, adolescents, adults and elderly people, according to the United Nations health agency’s report:
INFANTS AND CHILDREN
– Death rates and causes of death are similar among boys and [...]
Despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments of their lives, particularly in their adolescent years and in older age, a WHO report has found.
Launching the report, entitled Women and health: today’s evidence tomorrow’s agenda, WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan called [...]
The Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO), All Women’s Action Society (AWAM), Sisters in Islam (SIS) and Pusat Kesedaran Komuniti (EMPOWER) have joined hands in calling for the abolition of Section 498 of the Penal Code which they claimed was discriminatory against women.
WAO president Meera Samanther said women should be accorded rights as independent human beings an [...]
Taking an active part in politics in Bolivia can be a hazardous undertaking. Hundreds of reports of violence against women participating in politics attest to the risk. And while attacks go unpunished, a bill designed to protect the rights of women occupying public office has spent almost a decade in Congress waiting to be approved.
María [...]
Somalia’s hardline al Shabaab insurgents closed three grassroots women’s organisations in the rebel-held town of Balad Hawa on Monday to stop women from going to work, a rebel leader said.
The group wants to impose its own version of Islamic law on areas it controls, and Washington says it is al Qaeda’s proxy in the Horn [...]
IN THIS ISSUE
- UNIFEM Welcomes Strong Support by the General Assembly for the Establishment of a New Gender Entity
- New Security Council Resolutions Strengthen Women’s Protection in Conflict and Participation in Peacebuilding
- Launching in November: Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women
- UNIFEM around the World
- o Clinton Global Initiative Selects UN Trust [...]
Nearly 90,000 women reported they were raped in the United States last year.
It’s estimated another 75,000 rapes went unreported. But while rape convictions are up – a five month CBS News investigation raises questions about just how many rapists are actually being brought to justice.
Rape in this country is surprisingly easy to get [...]
A single clinic in the capital, Harare, says it has treated nearly 30,000 girls and boys who were abused in the past four years ‑ an average of 20 per day. Experts believe that the country’s economic collapse under Robert Mugabe has led to widespread family breakdown and left many children vulnerable.
Dr Robert-Grey Choto, a [...]
While medical and psychological care are being provided to survivors of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 7,000 women and girls have been raped this year alone, UN and aid workers on the ground say the funding response has been too narrow, leaving key issues inadequately addressed.
“Increased international attention to sexual violence [...]
A countrywide survey of the incidence of rape in Cameroon has returned disturbing statistics: 20 percent of the nearly 38,000 women surveyed reported having been raped; another 14 percent said they had escaped a rape attempt.
Echoing findings elsewhere in the world, the survey, carried out in all ten of Cameroon’s regions by the German Technical [...]
The therapeutic support will be offered to 12 to 16-year-olds as part of an expansion of services offered by the NSW Rape Crisis Centre.
Minister for Women Linda Burney said the online support group would complement face-to-face counselling and other clinical care.
“This is the first time an online group like this has been used in Australia,” [...]
Dear friends
Greetings from Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)! We are delighted to announce that Ms. Shadi Sadr is the recipient of the 2009 Tulip Award, the Dutch Human Rights Defenders Award.
‘Shadi Sadr is being awarded the Human Rights Defenders Tulip for her exceptional courage, perseverance and work in an environment of concern, [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Is It Time to Plan Another U.N. Population Meet?
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48918
RIGHTS-UGANDA: Female Circumcision Still a Vote Winner
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48915
DEVELOPMENT-SOUTH ASIA: Women’s Peace Offensive
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48905
ECONOMY: ‘It’s Smart to Invest in Girls’
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48885
Q&A: ‘Cambodia’s Penal Code Aims to Silence Gov’t Critics’
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48924
AFRICA: Uneven Progress on Development Goals
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48869
INDIA: Return of Traditional Birth Attendants Urged to Meet MDG 5
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48853
RIGHTS: Unsafe Abortions Killing 70,000 a Year
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48851
DEVELOPMENT: [...]
Recent postings- Trafficking Victims at UN Highlight Need for Recognition
- END FGM European Campaign launches web site
- Rid the world of female genital mutilation
- Lifting Silence on Menstruation to Keep Girls in School in Uganda
- Obama’s attack on abortion rights
- Differences between men’s and women’s health
- WHO calls for action beyond the health sector to improve the health of girls and women
- Malaysian Women’s Groups say Abolish Section 498
- Politics can be a Risky Business for Women in Bolivia
- Somali rebels close women’s organisations
- new on womensgrid
- Rape Crisis Centres Westminster Hall debate 10 November 2009 at 12:30 pm
- Grassroots Co-ordinator – Women for Refugee Women – 23rd November 2009
- Jenny Okojie is doing a 7.2km sponsored walk for CRASAC – Please sponsor her!
- 16 days of action event Greater Manchester
- Football teams needed for special tournament against domestic violence in Barnet
- Be a judge for a day in Truro as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Week
- The right of murder suspects to use their partner’s sexual infidelity as a partial defence in court is set to end
- 100 rapists are let off with a caution: The serious offences that never come to court
- Scotland Yard has instructed officers not to use the phrase ‘gang rape’ to describe such crimes because it is too ‘emotive’ a term
- Government Shelves Measures To Restrict Paedophiles On Facebook because of Human Rights concerns
- new on women in london
- Information added to website September 2009
- Information added to website August 2009
- Information added to website July 2009
- GLDVP January-April 2010 open training programme is now available
- Prostitution Clauses Policing And Crime Bill 2009 – ECP
- Head of Communications – Women’s Resource Centre – 23rd November 2009
- Mrs Goundo’s Daughter – Free Event – Forward – 7th December 2009
- New European Campaign on FGM – Forward
- FORWARD releases an Information Services and Support Guide for Young People in the UK
- FGM is always with us – experiences perceptions and beliefs of women affected by female genital mutilation in London – Forward
“Women Will Benefit From Secularism” – Nawal El-Saadawi
28 October 2009 in Equality, Faith, Feminism, Government, Middle East, Opinion Comment
Controversy stalks dissident writer Nawal El-Saadawi, whose views on women and religion have put her at odds with Egyptian conservatives.
Recently she returned to Cairo after nearly three years in exile, and has already created a stir with the launch of a local chapter of her global campaign for the separation of religion and state.
“God has [...]