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  • IRAQ : Violence Draws Veil Over Women
    4 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Dahr Jamail and Ahmed Ali IPS News. Posted February 1, 2008.
    As in all conflict areas, women, along with children and the elderly, have suffered most in occupied Iraq
    Conditions are particularly difficult for women in Baquba, despite the relative lull in violence. The city, about 40 km northeast of Baghdad, is capital of Diyala province, amongst the most troubled regions of Iraq in recent months.
    As in all conflict areas, women, along with children and the elderly, have suffered (…)

  • Scheherazade painting, Arundhati Roy & ART for Peace & Womens’s Rights in the Bush War on Women
    2 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    PEACE is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity - we are obliged to at least INFORM OTHERS about gross human rights abuses, especially of Women and Children. What can decent people do about horrendous human rights abuse of Women and their Children around the World?
    I am an Artist as well as a scientist, writer and humanitarian advocate. I have an IDEA to empower decent folk - use ART to transmit a message of Peace and Respect for Women and for Mother and Child around the (…)

  • Work: A Health Hazard for One in Three Europeans
    29 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Thomas Lemahieu
    Working conditions: According to a study recently presented in Paris the problem is far from resolved, particularly where labourers and women are concerned.
    A study involving 30,000 people from 31 countries, conducted in Autumn 2005 by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, presented yesterday in Paris, revealed that one in three European wage-earners considers their job “affects their health”.
    Employees from the countries newly (…)

  • The United States use of Depleted Uranium, installment number one
    20 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States use of Depleted Uranium, installment number one By Mary MacElveen November 20, 2006
    With the newly elected Democratic controlled congress set to take power in January, one Congressman, Charles Rangel has called for the reimplementation of the draft. I really do not know how I feel at this at any given moment. I am just so sick and tired of these wars that we have been fighting and want us all just to sit down and breathe. Please remember that word breathe.
    But, my (…)

  • WHY CATS EAT UNCOVERED MEAT
    26 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Cats Eat Uncovered Meat
    By Peter Fredson
    October 26, 2006
    Recently Australia’s senior Muslim cleric Sheik Taj Din Al Hilaly gave a controversial sermon in Arabic to 500 worshippers in Sydney, independently translated by an SBS Arabic expert, part of which follows:
    “When it comes to adultery, it’s 90 percent the woman’s responsibility. Why? Because a woman owns the weapon of seduction. It’s she who takes off her clothes, shortens them, flirts, puts on make-up and powder and takes (…)

  • Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
    17 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Sarah Meyer
    It is the 25th anniversary of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. We lived outside the US base near Newbury, Berkshire, where US Cruise missiles were to be installed. Sometimes there were two or three dozen of us. Sometimes there many more women, especially on weekends and holidays. The first big demonstration, "Embrace the Base,’ brought thousands of women to Greenham. Then Greenham became international. All Greenham gates had women living nearby. Women were supported by (…)

  • Women And Rape In 21st Century Pakistan
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee
    The basic human and civil right of a woman not to be raped and if she is, not to be held responsiible for it is front and center right now in Pakistan. Pakistan, a nation of about 166 million people, is one of the world’s poorest countries. The issue in question is a law, established in 1979, by U.S. supported dictator Zia Ul Haq called the Hudood Ordinance Law.
    This law basically states that rape victims are liable for prosecution for adultery unless they can produce (…)

  • War turns southern women away from GOP
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By SHANNON McCAFFREY
    MACON, Ga. (AP) — President Bush’s once-solid relationship with Southern women is on the rocks.
    "I think history will show him to be the worst president since Ulysses S. Grant," said Barbara Knight, a self-described Republican since birth and the mother of three. "He’s been an embarrassment."
    In the heart of Dixie, comparisons to Grant, a symbol of the Union, are the worst sort of insult, especially from a Macon woman who voted for Bush in 2000 but turned away in (…)

  • Protest Tel Aviv : Women cannot be bought like shawarma
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Protest Tel Aviv : Women cannot be bought like shawarma
    During Tel Aviv demonstration, former MK Yael Dayan calls for end to women trafficking; ’it’s more than rape,’ she says. Haifa representative says prostitutes forced to look for customers in city’s streets during war, in spite of rockets Merav Crystal
    Women rights activists held a demonstration against women trafficking Wednesday, during which they chanted slogans such as "Police, women are not goods" and "Customers are rapists." (…)

  • Abortion under siege in Mississippi
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Preaching that abortion is as evil as Islam, Nazism and homosexuality, dozens of activists have descended on Jackson, determined to shut down the state’s last abortion clinic.
    By Michelle Goldberg
    Aug. 01, 2006 | Flip Benham was going to burn a Koran at Mississippi’s state Capitol on July 18 but he couldn’t get a fire permit. The blaze was to be the culmination of an antiabortion rally that Benham, director of Operation Save America, billed as an "ecclesiastical court." His attack on (…)