Before a crowd of thousands in a packed stadium in the Afghanistan capital city of Kabul, Taliban regime soldiers delivered 100 lashes to a young man and woman who were accused of having sex without being married. The man collapsed as he was being whipped; the woman sat on the grass as a Taliban judged […]
Press Release “Religious Police” Terrorize Hospital, Close Bread Bakeries and UN Offices The same day U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell announced $43 million in aid to Afghanistan, Taliban “religious police”–The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice–raided a hospital in Kabul, claiming that male and female personnel were “mixing” illegally. […]
The Bush Administration is considering mandatory programs to promote marriage among the poor as a way to reduce single parent families and “improve” the welfare system in the United States – programs feminists have long opposed. Today, a House Ways and Means subcommittee with jurisdiction over the renewal of welfare funds will hold a hearing […]
The terrorist Taliban regime has requested a religious edict or “fatwa” to force non-Muslim religious minorities in Afghanistan to wear yellow garb so they may be singled out by all. “This latest edict is reminiscent of the Third Reich that required Jews to wear a yellow star of David on their clothing, and we all […]
More than three hundred activists from nearly every state in the U.S gathered in Washington D.C. this past weekend for the first National Conference on Gender and the sixth National Gender Lobby Day, hosted by GenderPAC. The participants differed in age, race, socioeconomic status, gender identity, and sexual orientation, but reached out to one another […]
Affirmative action in higher education could come before the U.S. Supreme Court this summer, as a case brought by the conservative Center for Individual Rights reaches the bench on Thursday. The case challenges the University of Michigan law school’s admission policy, and centers on the Court’s decision in Bakke, in which Justice Powell ruled that […]
Clayton Lee Waagner, an abortion clinic terrorist who claims to be on a mission from God to kill abortion providers, escaped from an Illinois jail three months ago, and was allegedly caught on tape robbing a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, bank last Friday. The suspect wielded a gun during the robbery of the Lower Paxton Township bank, […]
The Taliban terrorist regime has again shut down several of the World Food Program (WFP) bakeries over the weekend that are run by Afghan women and which supply approximately one-fifth of the bread supply for the Afghanistan capital city, Kabul. According to the U.S. State Department, the bakeries may have been reopened today. In August […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee split along party lines yesterday on the nomination of Right-Wing lawyer Theodore B. Olson for Solicitor General*. Democrats objected to Olson’s nomination on the grounds that Olson is suspected of giving false or misleading testimony in several cases, including one where he denied involvement in the American Spectator’s “Arkansas-Project” to investigate […]
One in six mothers of children under 19 in the United States lacks health insurance, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Although 90% of uninsured mothers are part of a working family, they do not have access to affordable health care through their or their spouses’ jobs. Most are […]
One thing that George W. Bush’s appointment to the presidency has done is infuriate a good portion of the populace. Since activism is more productive than anger, in the next few months Ms. will offer several installments of this activist guide. The guides will provide information on organizations that are working to make a difference. […]
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday announced $43 million in humanitarian aid to people in Afghanistan. The move comes after the barbaric rule of the Taliban military regime combined with severe drought and extreme temperatures caused hundreds of thousands of Afghan citizens to flee their homes. As many as 800,000 Afghans are thought to […]
Members of Taliban “religious police” yesterday raided the first independently run hospital in Taliban-held areas of Afghanistan, claiming that male and female personnel were “mixing” illegally. Twenty armed soldiers stormed the new Emergency Surgical Hospital in Kabul, surrounded doctors and staff at lunch in the cafeteria, and proceeded to beat and harass them. The charge […]
The rights of women are strongly supported by more than 90% of the Afghan women and men included in the recent survey conducted in Afghanistan by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Women’s Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan: A Population Based Assessment, is the first study to systematically assess human rights concerns of a large […]
In a narrow 218-210 vote, the House yesterday voted to uphold Bush’s “Global Gag Rule,” which prohibits overseas NGOs that provide abortion information, counseling, or referral from receiving much needed US funds. Civil rights, human rights, and women’s rights organizations have expressed outrage at the policy, which would be an unconstitutional violation of free speech […]
Right-Wing lawmakers are attempting to pack the Elementary and Secondary Education Act with anti-abortion and anti-gay amendments. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) has offered two anti-abortion amendments – one requiring parental consent for the distribution of emergency contraception in school-based health centers, the other eliminating funding to any school that offers emergency contraception (the “morning after […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), headed by virulently anti-choice Bush appointee Tommy Thompson, announced that it will send representatives from the International Right to Life Federation, and the conservative Family Research Council and National Law Center for Children and Families to this week’s World Health Assembly in Geneva. Professional medical associations like […]
Twelve-year-old Morgan Pressel is one of the youngest golfers to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open. With a score of 2 under par, she will compete in the tournament, which will be held at the end of this month. The seventh grader, who averages 230 yards off the tee said there was no pressure for […]
New Moon, a magazine written and edited for and by girls 8 – 14 years old, celebrates the second annual “Turn Beauty Inside Out” Day with recognition of international media images that promote healthy behavior for girls and boys. The celebration is inspired by New Moon’s May/June 2001 special issue featuring 25 beautiful girls who […]
Republicans in the House are working to preserve President Bush’s reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy, or “Global Gag Rule,” which prohibits family planning programs that receive USAID family planning funds from using their own, non-U.S. funds to provide information about abortion or use their free speech rights. The GOP, President, and the media are […]
