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  • Female, Agnostic and the Next Presidente? Heavy Favorite in Chilean Vote Cuts Against Grain
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Monte Reel
    SANTIAGO, Chile — Everyone in the audience was dressed in dark blue or black. Some wore clerical collars, and most had heavy silver crosses dangling around their necks. But Michelle Bachelet wore an electric pink jacket that sent a clear message: She was a candidate for president, not sainthood.
    "I’m agnostic. . . . I believe in the state," Bachelet told several groups of evangelical ministers last week. "I believe the state has an important role in guaranteeing the (…)

  • Let’s cut trough this deafening silence!
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BellaCiao Collective UK
    A violent attack is underway in Italy against the law n. 194 which regards the ‘norms protecting maternity and voluntary pregnancy termination’. The attempt is to curb the rights of women to self-determination and to diminish the responsibility women have long exercised and demonstrated in procreation.
    We believe the 194 is a good law which enables women to use their freedom responsibly.
    We believe this law has not boosted abortion but has granted the support (…)

  • Alito Sketched Strategy to Overturn Roe in ’85
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Maura Reynolds and Richard B. Schmitt
    WASHINGTON - As a Reagan administration lawyer, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. argued forcefully against the high court’s landmark decision legalizing abortion and laid out a strategy to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
    In a lengthy 1985 memo, Alito - then an assistant solicitor general - urged the Justice Department to defend states seeking to put restrictions on the procedure, saying that the Supreme Court’s rulings did not mean that abortion (…)

  • Female Africans Take Lead in Prize-Winning Fiction
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jane Ciabattari
    African women are taking over artistic territory once controlled by men and are now telling the continent’s new stories in books and movies. The final article in our eight-part series on emerging female leaders in Africa.
    PRINCETON, N.J. (WOMENSENEWS)—Who will tell the stories of contemporary Africa?
    A new generation has emerged since Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe in 1958 wrote the first "African" novel, "Things Fall Apart," detailing the destruction of the Igbo culture by (…)

  • Women find no shelter from violence at home: WHO
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Urgent action is needed to tackle domestic violence against women, which is widespread, deep-rooted and largely hidden in a wide range of societies, a study by the UN health agency said.
    The study conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 10 countries found that between 15 percent (Japan) and 71 percent (Ethiopia) of the women interviewed had been subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate male partner during their lifetime.
    From about one-fifth of women in (…)

  • Woman poet ’slain for her verse’
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Christina Lamb
    SHE risked torture, imprisonment, perhaps even death to study literature and write poetry in secret under the Taliban. Last week, when she should have been celebrating the success of her first book, Nadia Anjuman, was beaten to death in Herat, apparently murdered by her husband.
    The 25-year-old Afghan had garnered wide praise in literary circles for the book Gule Dudi - Dark Flower - and was at work on a second volume.
    Friends say her family was furious, believing (…)

  • Chile’s Michelle Bachelet Poised for Presidency
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jonathan Franklin
    SANTIAGO, Chile (WOMENSENEWS)—To many Chileans the idea of quotas for female cabinet members is just the latest in a stunning turn of political events in this usually staid, conservative nation of 15 million.
    "Fifty percent of my cabinet will be women," Chilean presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet promised a crowd of supporters last week. "We are going to set a standard for Latin America."
    Chileans lived, and too many died, under a dictatorship from 1973 to (…)

  • Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler on Race, Global Warming and Religion
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We speak with Octavia Butler, one of the few well-known African-American women science fiction writers. For the past thirty years, her work has tackled subjects not normally seen in that genre such as race, the environment and religion. [includes rush transcript] The Washington Post has called Octavia Butler “one of the finest voices in fiction period. A master storyteller who casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of (…)

  • Ignore the Man Behind That Memo
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Judge Samuel Alito Jr.’s insistence that the Constitution does not protect abortion rights is not the only alarming aspect of a newly released memo he wrote in 1985. That statement strongly suggests that Judge Alito is far outside the legal mainstream and that senators should question him closely about it. They should be prepared to reject his nomination to the Supreme Court if he cannot put to rest the serious concerns that the memo, part of a job application, raises about his worthiness to (…)

  • Report Details F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By GARDINER HARRIS
    WASHINGTON - Top federal drug officials decided to reject an application to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill months before a government scientific review of the application was completed, according to accounts given to Congressional investigators.
    The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, concluded in a report released Monday that the Food and Drug Administration’s May 2004 rejection of the morning-after (…)