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Susan Pearce
Short Documentary on Pakistani Women Disfigured by Violence Wins Oscar
Pakistani director, Shameen Obaid Chinoy, won Pakistan’s first oscar for the short documentary, Saving Face, about Pakistani women disfigured by violence and their fight for justice. The film features women victims of acid attacks, burnings, and other violence and the efforts of many to make such acts crimes punishable by life in prison. It also … Read more
Mexican Woman Resorts to YouTube When Police Refuse to Help with Sexual Harassment
Nancy Rojas Pastelin is a 28-year old fashion designer living in Mexico City. She attempted to seek help from police when a man who had been harassing her verbally became more aggressive and began to stalk her. The police accused her of exaggerating about the man’s “flirtatious” behavior and said that they could do nothing … Read more
Health Crisis for Women in Myanmar
Myanmar (formerly Burma) is a southeast Asian country that has endured years of political repression. Most Americans know little about the conditions inside the country. A recent report from Ibis Reproductive Health points to an alarming crisis for the 150,000 women displaced by political repression concentrated in refugee groups along the border with Thailand. Lack … Read more
Women’s Commission in Pakistan Gains Autonomous Status
Women’s groups within Pakistan have lobbied for years for the government to strengthen the Women’s Commission and give it autonomous status. On 2 February 2012, the Pakistan Senate unanimously approved the “National Commission on the Status of Women Bill 2012″ to protect women’s rights against every kind of discrimination. The new bill replaces the National … Read more
Women and Tahrir Square: a piece of revolutionary history
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/4161/the-mother-of-tahrir-square
New Study Links Female Genital Mutilation to Higher Rates of Mental Disorders
Female genital mutilation is defined by the WHO as the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for nonmedical reasons. The practice causes severe pain and interferes with the normal functioning of girls’ and women’s bodies and has long-term consequences for women’s physical health. It is estimated that between 100-140 million girls are … Read more
Struggling to Understand the Motivations behind the Cambodian Sex Trade
Our class is discussing the book, The Road of Lost Innocence, by Somaly Mam. She was sold into sexual slavery as a child and for decades was shuttled through the brothels that make up the huge sex trade of Southeast Asia. At the heart of the book is a chronicle of the brutality faced by … Read more
NY Mets Pitcher Climbs Mountain to Help Female Victims of Sex Trafficking
NY Met’s pitcher,R. A. Dickey, is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for the Bombay Teen Challenge. Since 1990, Bombay Teen Challenge has worked to rescue and rehabilitate destitute and desperate people living on the streets and in the red light district of Mumbai. These include women trapped in prostitution through sex trafficking, their at-risk daughters … Read more
Women Making a Difference in Haiti’s Recovery
Two years ago, a monumental earthquake struck Haiti and killed 220,000 people, injured 300,000 and left a million people homeless. A recent CNN article documents how Haitian women at the local level are leading the way to recovery. Oxfam, for example, has trained 1600 women in literacy and budgeting skills so that they can obtain … Read more