Girls who leave their families are being promised a paying job as a domestic worker or as a babysitter, but they end up being used as cybersex chat girls in the Philippines. The Philippines is an established sex trade country, because of high levels of poverty and because the population can generally speak basic English. … Read more
The following link goes to the e-Museum for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery. http://www.hermuseum.go.kr/eng/en_index.asp It provides some precious testimonies including late Hak-soon Kim’s historic confession in the year of 1991. It was the first confession for ‘coming out of the closet’ that she was a comfort women in Korea. And it definitely exploded … Read more
http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=31431 The Central African Republic is one of the most severely HIV/AIDS affected countries in the world. Recently, doctors have been training traditional CAR healers to combat opportunistic diseases such as HIV/AIDS. The UN Development Programme has given funds to CAR in order to help them train more healers throughout the country.
Girls who desire to finish their schooling usually have to live far away from their villages and families in cheap huts called ghettos. The ghettos are buildings without electricity, water, and security for the girls living in them. This has made the girls a prime target for men who want to rape them. It is … Read more
I know its Spring Break next week, but lets be honest who has time right now for a pleasure read? These are some suggestions from NPR: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/133476730/three-gutsy-heroines-to-celebrate-womens-history?sc=fb&cc=fp Any more suggestions of strong Heroine Books that you should not live without? Two of my all time favorites that I can read over and over again are … Read more
This link is a group interview from three professors with one from Egypt, London, and North Carolina. They talk about the issues facing women in the Middle East. They describe that the western media have portrayed Middle East women as passive and oppressed, but during the revolutions in the Middle East women have been at … Read more
It is interesting to read the previous post about women feeling empowered in Egypt now in their everyday lives. And really interesting link between sexual harrassment and political frustraction. But what about at the larger “public” levels of society? See this article: women’s organizations are already protesting getting left out of scripting the new constitution–and not … Read more
Women in Egypt are feeling great after the part they played in the protests. They say that they feel less likely to be sexually harassed and are more comfortable sticking up for themselves. This new found empowerment has also led to women become more involved in politics again. Hopefully, this new liberation will continue and … Read more
From: Humanitarians in the Arts: Michael Angelo, “The Lipstick Portraitsâ€. If you ventured over to the Highline last May, you would have been impressed by the beautiful photography of entrepreneur and hair and make-up artist Michael Angelo. The Lipstick Portraits at 401 Projects featured 60 photographs of a men and women wearing bold red lipstick as … Read more
According to today’s digital version of The Telegraph newspaper in Great Britain, British doctors and gynecologists are being urged to by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to warn pregnant women of the potential complications and risks of pregnancy, and frankly discussing the relative safety of abortion. This is an interesting development in women’s … Read more