Category Archives: Sisters In Other Nations

That is the title of this review essay by Nicholas Kristof, which primarily focuses on “The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good,” by William Easterly but … Continue reading →

Jennifer Fasulo has written an op-ed that begins as follows: Hugo Chavez, one of the key figures in the left populist movements spreading throughout Latin America, has publicly lauded and embraced Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Moments like this show just … Continue reading →

Watch this video! Then, learn more at The Blank Noise Project’s blog.

The all-female members of the Central Reserve Police Force are Indian, and they are being deployed to Liberia. BBC coverage is here. The BBC article notes several times that many of the women in the unit are married, and that … Continue reading →

According to the Daily Feminist News: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its 2006 State of the World Population report yesterday in a morning briefing in Washington, DC, emphasizing the importance of women’s issues and international migration. According to … Continue reading →

According to this article: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on parents in India to stop seeing girls as an economic liability and to end the practice of killing unborn female foetuses. Singh’s appeal on India’s 59th Independence Day came four … Continue reading →

The World Health Organization’s Department of Gender, Women and Health has announced a new publication, WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women: Report findings document the prevalence of intimate partner violence and its association with women’s … Continue reading →

From Riverbend at Baghdad Burning: … For me, June marked the first month I don’t dare leave the house without a hijab, or headscarf. I don’t wear a hijab usually, but it’s no longer possible to drive around Baghdad without … Continue reading →

From the NYT: Duygu Asena, a best-selling writer and crusader for women’s rights in Turkey, died Sunday in Istanbul. She was 60. She had battled for two years with a brain tumor and died in American Hospital, where she was … Continue reading →

Atefah Sahaaleh: executed at 16 for a “crime against chastity” Last year producer Monica Garnsey travelled undercover to Iran to investigate the execution of teenager Atefah Sahaaleh. An account of her journey is here, in The Guardian. Below is an … Continue reading →

Peru’s female traffic cops face backlash, by Carla Salazar When traffic cop Maria Luisa Calderon ordered a taxi driver to move on as he picked up a passenger in heavy traffic, his reaction bordered on homicidal: He turned on his … Continue reading →

Via Heart at Women’s Space/The Margins, I learned of an article recently published in The Guardian by Haifa Zangana, a writer and former prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime, entitled “All Iraq is Abu Ghraib.” Below is an excerpt: …It took … Continue reading →

Heart at Women’s Space/The Margins asked in the title to a recent post: Question: Are There Any Men Blogging About This Besides the Ones Who Are Sending Me Death Threats? Her earlier posts on the subject are here, and here, … Continue reading →

“The Real Toy Story” was an installation by Michael Wolf, shown at the John Batten Gallery, Hongkong from November 2-27, 2004.

Nathalie Bennett of Philobiblon posted a review of a book called “Female Suicide Bombers” by Rosemarie Skaine, at Blogcritics. Below is an excerpt: …An attack now has to have some special feature : like the bomb being in the attacker’s … Continue reading →

According to the Christian Science Monitor: In this country where women are forced to completely cover themselves in public, are barred from driving, and need permission to travel abroad, it’s small wonder many are embracing the freedom of anonymity on … Continue reading →

Global Voices features a meta-post about police in Iran beating and arresting a group of women activists who tried to hold a demonstration asking for greater legal rights in a public square in Tehran on June 12th, with photos and … Continue reading →

From the United Nations General Assembly website: The General Assembly this morning elected, by acclamation, Haya Rashed Al Khalifa of Bahrain as the President of its sixty-first session, which is scheduled to begin on 12 September.   Also elected in … Continue reading →

The New York Times has reported the results of a Gallup Organization survey entitled “What Women Want: Listening to the Voices of Muslim Women:”   Muslim women do not think they are conditioned to accept second-class status or view themselves … Continue reading →

Soccer and prostitution  aren’t words one typically sees in the same sentence, but yesterday the New York Times  reported that:   The United States, in its annual report on forced labor and trafficking in persons, called Germany, which has legalized … Continue reading →

In the June 19th issue of the Nation, Laila Lalami has published a review essay entitled “The Missionary Position” in which she considers Irshad Manji’s book, The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith, and … Continue reading →

“The Beauty Academy of Kabul” is a documentary about a group of Americans who go to Afghanistan to teach hairdressing techniques. It (somewhat unexpectedly) sounds really interesting. Here is a BBC interview with the director, Liz Mermin. The film isn’t … Continue reading →

Rachel Bell investigated the growing protest movement against the normalisation of porn in everyday life in the UK, and wrote an interesting post about it at “the f-word.”

One of the underlying assumptions of trademark law is that consumers develop strong emotional attachments to words, logos and phrases that have important economic consequences for retail venders. It’s not too difficult to understand why Playboy would use its Playboy … Continue reading →

A short film by Tenaz Dubash that you can watch by clicking this link. Via Culture Kitchen.

From this site: “International Women’s Day is the universal day that connects all women around the world and inspires them to achieve their full potential. IWD 2006 launches another year of working progressively for women’s equality worldwide. It is an … Continue reading →

These sites contain a lot of links to other interesting sites and documents: 1. PeaceWomen: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom 2. Challenging Fundmentalisms: A web resource for women’s human rights