February 2012
59 posts
5 tags
8 tags
5 tags
7 tags
6 tags
11 tags
6 tags
5 tags
4 tags
5 tags
5 tags
6 tags
Global feminist link love: February 18-24, 2012 →
Check this week’s global gender justice links from this past week.
5 tags
5 tags
“The identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather...”
– Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
7 tags
Russia’s Riot Grrrl Revolution →
8 tags
6 tags
Preventative Diplomacy: Protecting Women's Rights...
“Governments bear the primary responsibility in protecting women, and combating sexual violence,” says Wang Min, China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN. China recently urged the UN Security Council to engage in preventative diplomacy, in an effort to protect women’s rights in the event of conflict.
To read more, click here.
7 tags
6 tags
5 tags
Corporate Buzz: Empowering Women with Rural Health... →
5 tags
3 tags
6 tags
How to Reverse the "Feminisation of Poverty"
Next week marks the beginning of the 56th session of the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women. A topic on the table this year is how governments have or have not made good on promises made at the 2008 conference “to boost financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
Stephanie Seguino, an economics professor at the University of Vermont, plans to...
5 tags
“Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at...”
– Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
6 tags
9 tags
The Color Complex in Cairo →
peopleofcolor:
We have a few guests staying with us this week, one being an Arab girl. Late one night, we- my white American roommate, my Somalian roommate, and I- got in a conversation about boys with her. Typical late night girl talk. When asked about our preferences in men, we all…
8 tags
“Nationalism’s in love with patriarchy because patriarchy offers it women...”
– Shereen Essof, South Africa: patriarchy, paper, and reclaiming feminism
10 tags
UN: Time To Quash Gender Inequality in Morocco
“‘Gender equality must remain central in the complex process of political and social transformation in Morocco,’ said Kamala Chandrakirana and Emna Aouij, of the UN Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, at the end of an official mission* to the country. ‘Despite many competing priorities faced by the Government, the drafting of...
HIV warning to women using injectable... →
Women who rely on injectable contraception are being strongly advised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to also use condoms to protect them against the increased risk of HIV infection.
A study in the Lancet last October found that women living in Aids-hit countries using progestogen-only injections, such as Depo-Provera, were twice as likely to become HIV positive as other sexually active...
8 tags
3 tags
8 tags
Hold Your Head Scarf High, You're Egyptian
Dr. Hoda Ghaneya, the new, female, Muslim Brotherhood MP in the Egyptian Delta, is confident that the revolution has paved the way for a new Egypt. “People now have equal rights regardless of their colour, sex, race or religion,” says Ghaneya. “There will be complete rights for all citizens and we will all feel the existence of these rights in the coming period. This is why...
4 tags
On Cultural Relativism
“What is East and what is West? What is the tradition of a person who is fighting for freedom and empowerment? Why should one’s group be assumed to be the ethnic or religious group of one’s birth? Might it not, if one so chooses, be, or become, the international group of women—or of people who respect the equality and dignity of women?”
-Martha Nussbaum, Sex and...
7 tags
Global Feminist Link Love: February 11-17 →
A list of links to blog posts and news stories about what other global feminists have been up to this past week.
17 tags
Film Review: The Rescuers →
4 tags
7 tags
Irish Women’s Political Representation: Are Quotas... →
Centuries of assumptions and flawed reasoning regarding gender, race, sexual orientation and other ways of marginalizing people, as well as, patterns of behavior don’t get automatically erased when modern laws and conventions are implemented. The presence of equal access laws may give the impression that the playing field is level but in practice that is often not the case. When women who strive...
10 tags
Boxing For Equality: Sadaf Rahimi Heads to the... →
7 tags
5 tags
V-Day: Recovering Hope in Haiti →
Today is V-Day, not just the Valentine’s holiday but also a day when the Global Movement to End Violence Against Women and Girls is celebrated. Their focus in 2012 is on the women and girls of Haiti, a place that has seen rising numbers in violence specifically targeted at females, young and old.
-Nadia Smiecinska
8 tags
12 tags
How we connect girls and inspire their futures?... →
7 tags
5 tags
15 tags
U.N. Meeting Looks at Legal and Social Barriers to... →
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) wraps up a three day meeting in Bangkok today on HIV/AIDS in the region. Though the overall infection rate in the Asia-Pacific region is dropping and more people living with HIV/AIDS have access to treatment, infection rates in some low-prevalence countries like Bangladesh and the Philippines are increasing and there are...
8 tags
9 tags
Women’s Media Center Launches “Women Under Siege” →
6 tags
Efforts to Eradicate African Homophobia and... →