Malala Yousafzai: an astonishing recovery. Global Development Professionals Network. The Guide To Trading Halloween Candy by Ze Frank. No jail time for birth control. Doctor struggles to fill role of slain Kansas abortion provider - latimes.com. Reporting from Wichita, Kan. — Out near the city's edge, where fast-food joints and subdivisions seem to spring from farmland overnight, the casualties of an unfinished war sit untouched in a doctor's basement.
Dr. Mila Means, a 55-year-old solo family practitioner with neon red hair and neo-hippie style, doesn't remember how or when she heard that Dr. George Tiller had been gunned down in his church. She knew him only slightly as their paths crossed in medical circles. Mostly, she knew of him — as the lone abortion provider in a city of nearly 400,000, as a symbol of the country's abortion wars. After his killing on May 31, 2009, the decision to step into his place did not come as an epiphany but rather over time, with sad reluctance.
In the past, if her patients with unwanted pregnancies asked where to get an abortion, she sent them to Tiller. "I didn't have an answer," she said. Kansas is a land of great distances. If not her, Means thought, who? The pressure on Means was unrelenting. India: women's issues. How Egypt's Revolution Has Dialed Back Women's Rights. This past week was a pivotal moment for the struggle for women's rights in Egypt.
In response to more protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square, police and government security forces beat and stripped several female demonstrators. One moment captured by a photographer ricocheted around the country, and seemingly just as fast, around the world: A woman, her black abaya yanked over her head to expose her naked torso and blue bra, was dragged by helmeted security forces over the pavement. One of them stood over her, hurling his foot down at her bare stomach. Days later, an estimated 10,000 women struck back in a mass rally in central Cairo declaring, "the daughters of Egypt are a red line" that cannot be crossed. Women in Saudi Arabia 'to vote and run in elections' 25 September 2011Last updated at 11:12 ET Saudi women face severe restrictions in their working and personal lives Women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, King Abdullah has announced.
The #women2drive Daily. EROTICS: Sex, rights and the internet - an exploratory research study. Download the report under 'Attachment' below.
Below you will find also details about publisher and the year of publication. Descarga el informe de síntesis de EROTICS disponible en español This report presents an overview of the EROTICS (Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Interneti) research project. The project was initiated in 2008 as an exploratory step to bridge the gap between policyi and legislative measures that regulate content and practice on the internet, and the actual lived practices, experiences and concerns of internet users in the exercise of their sexual rightsi.
The project was coordinated by the Association for Progressive Communicationsi (APC) and conducted with local partners comprising feminist academics and activists in five countries, namely Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa and the United Stateis. Emerging threads and common gaps: A synthesis - page 6 Jac sm Kee. Abandon the knife - People & Power. The World Health Organisation estimates that between 100 to 140 million girls and women live with the consequences of circumcision or female genital mutilation, a right of passage and a prerequisite to marriage in many societies.
Physically and psychologically painful it is without health benefits and mostly carried out on young girls between infancy and 15 years of age. In Africa alone it is estimated that 92 million girls from the age of 10 have undergone the practice. But in the Pokot community of highland Kenya, young girls are now fighting back against the process which they call "cutting". They are aided in their struggle by a grassroots movement know as "Abandon the Knife" which fights to change perceptions in a community where the practice of female circumcision has been entrenched for generations. The Pokot Community have been circumcising or cutting their girls for centuries. India's Independent Weekly News Magazine. Daughters of the brothel - Witness. Filmmaker Gautam Singh explains how he came to make Daughters of the brothel.
India's handwritten magazines have long fascinated me. But while researching the subject for a blog, I came across one in particular that stood out. Jugnu is a 32-page monthly magazine that has been written and published by the sex workers of the Chaturbhuj-sthan brothel in Bihar, near the border with Nepal, for the past 10 years. Home to about 10,000 women and children, the whole area - named after the Chaturbhuj-sthan temple, which is located inside - is essentially one large brothel. Historians believe it was first established during the Moghul era. Intrigued, I contacted the magazine and as more details emerged about this extraordinary publication and the women behind it, I realised that this story was much bigger than a blog. The magazine had been set up by a group of sex workers led by one girl - Naseema.
When she returned to Chaturbhuj-sthan it was not to sell her body.