The colonel of the DR Congo Kibibi Mutware is being jailed for crimes against humanity for being responsible for a mass rape. Kibibi sent his soldiers to steal and rape the Fizi on New Year’s Day. More than 60 Fizi women were rape on New Year’s Day. Kibibi is the first commanding officer to be … Read more
This article discusses in more detail what actually happened to Lara Logan while she was in Egypt. Link: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/21/lara-logan-was-stripped-punched-slapped-report-says/
This link has pictures that highlights the roles of women in the Egyptian revolution. The link also describes the experiences of three women who took part in the revolution. http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/02/2011217134411934738.html Ronnie Miller
Hey everyone, I was just listening to HLN news when this story came on about a boy who refused to wrestle a girl at state championships. This is the video to the story link that gives an overview of the story, I apologize that I can’t find the link to the story I saw and what the reporters on HLN … Read more
Hello, Recently I become interested in women’s activism for the comfort women in Korea. Especially, I think some issues regarding the comfort women (such as comfort women organizing, protest repertoires, funding, and confession) provide us very interesting examples of social movements in a marginal position, not of a middle class women’s movements. Although I don’t … Read more
Hey everyone, I finally tracked down this article from the east carolinian which discusses the hate crime that left two girls injured.One of the girls had to have reconstructive surgery on her jaw because of the extent of the injuries she received. The interesting fact is that this event occurred around the 18th of October … Read more
The European Parliament is pushing for Uganda to decriminalized homosexuality after the murder of David Kato a month ago. David was a homosexual who fight against the passage of a bill in 2009 that criminalized homosexual acts. The European Parliament views this as being a human rights violation, and they want the Uganda government to … Read more
Hey guys, As anyone who’s ever been in class with me knows, I’m pretty interested in the LGBT-Fundamentalist Christian clash. Consistent with that, I thought I’d share a page from an organization I found: “Christian Healing Ministries.” This site is dedicated to prayer-healing, which in my experience, is typical of the more fundamental branches of … Read more
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090505/news/news5.html Last night in class we discussed initiatives that focus on educating and involving men in issues of STI prevention and reproduction. One case study of particular interest was a UNFPA campaign that is focused on endowing barbers with safe sex-related knowledge and contraceptives (condoms) to distribute to their cleints in a particularly creative and … Read more
The conservatives in Canada are proposing a bill to ban veils in polling stations, because they think it will increases security and that it will allow the elections to be more transparent. Critics of the bill state that it discriminates against veiled Muslims, and that it is a reaction to Islamaphobia. http://english.aljazeera.net/video/americas/2011/02/20112154529887190.html Ronnie Miller