As your Leadership Alliance begins the semester, don’t forget to develop a concrete plan of action for recruitment and your general interest meeting! Contact the FMF Campus Team for recruitment strategies and materials for your membership drive! Leadership AlliancesÑlook in the mail for your back to school packet including your charter for the 2000-2001 school […]
Feminists for Life, an anti-abortion organization, will launch a misleading and deceptive college advertising campaign this fall asking college-aged women to “question choice” and challenge abortion as the “status quo.” Under the guise of promoting choice for women, these deceptively worded ads actually advocate an anti-abortion stance. Watch out for these ads on your campus. […]
The Campus Program is an official sponsor of V-Day 2000! Launched on Valentine’s Day in 1998 with a benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues, the Obie-award winning play by Eve Ensler, V-Day is a movement to stop violence against women. By taking part in the V-Day 2001 College initiative, your school will join over 150 […]
Leadership Alliances are also a co-sponsor of First Monday, a national day of action against gun violence on October 2, 2000. Campuses and communities across the nation will host speakers, vigils, and rallies to educate and mobilize around this important issue. To get involved on your campus, contact Joni Kletter at joni@afj.org and visit http://www.firstmonday2000.com. […]
I still dream about the boy from my village who I killed. I see him in my dreams, and he is talking to me and saying I killed him for nothing, and I am crying.” This is what a 16-year-old girl who was abducted into a Ugandan resistance army told researchers from Human Rights Watch. […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) withdrew its invitation to two Afghan representatives to observe the upcoming summer games in Sydney. After receiving the offer last week, Taliban officials claimed the invitation amounted to official recognition of its regime by the IOC. The IOC rescinded the offer on Aug. 24, saying the Taliban misinterpreted the offerthe […]
Toys sold with McDonald’s children’s meals in Hong-Kong are packaged at a Chinese plant that uses child labor, the Associated Press reported. Adolescents as young as 14 years old, illegally employed at City Toys Ltd., work 16-hour days for just three dollarsa sum that could not buy one meal at a Hong Kong McDonald’s restaurant. […]
On Aug. 24, Cathy L. Lanier became the only woman head of a police district in Washington DC. Commander Lanier now heads one of the capital city’s most diverse and populous police districtsand the only district that saw an increase in crime over the past year. Only hours after her appointment, Lanier posted her mission […]
Saudi Arabia announced earlier this week that it would sign the Convention On the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Officials in the Saudi government stated that they would abide by those statues of the treaty that do not contradict Islamic Sharia law. This conditioning makes the Saudi commitment to the treaty […]
Japanese culture and work environment where business meetings often begin after 6:00 p.m., where working unpaid overtime is routine and expected, and where employee transfers to different cities are frequent, force many Japanese working women to prioritize their jobs over bearing and raising children. The country’s birthrate fell to a record low of 1.34 babies […]
The recent appointment of former high court judge Dame Silvia Cartwright as governor general of New Zealand marks a significant victory for women, as all of the country’s top constitutional posts are now held by females. Dame Cartwright has previously broken barriers for women, serving as the first woman chief judge of New Zealand’s District […]
Anti-Abortion groups are opposing regulations announced on Wednesday by the Clinton administration regarding guidelines for stem cell research. They say the federally funded research goes against a 1996 law that prohibits federal funds from supporting research that involves the death or injury to human embryos. However, the Clinton Administration guidelines allow for federal research to […]
A federal appeals court granted asylum to a cross-dressing Mexican gay man who, because of his sexuality, was persecuted by his family, school officials and police. The man, Geovanni Hernandez-Montiel, applied for asylum in 1995, but was denied. During his appeal, a Latin American History expert testified that Mexican police and citizens do heavily persecute […]
Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, and Mavis Leno, chair of the Foundation’s Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan today unveiled a Back to School Campaign _ a new initiative to raise public awareness of the brutal treatment of women under the Taliban, which has banned women and girls from attending schools, […]
A lesbian couple was asked to leave Dodger Stadium because they were kissing during the baseball game. Spectators sitting near the couple, unresponsive to straight couples who were also kissing, complained to security guards, who told them to leave immediately. Their attorney, Bernie Bernheim, was preparing to file a civil rights lawsuit against the Dodgers, […]
A majority of both men and women in America think that Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush are not spending adequate time addressing their positions on women’s health care policy issues, according to a recent survey of over 1,000 voting-age individuals by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Self magazine. Voters want […]
HIV/AIDS, the leading cause of death in Africa, disproportionately affects African women. South African women in particular are among the highest risk groups in the world. Statistics indicate that between 23 and 33 percent of pregnant women in South Africa carry the virus. The high rate of infection among mother’s results 70,000 South African babies […]
The British government is planning to announce later this week that it will support the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The move by the British government leaves the United States, which opposes the ICC without full exemptions for its military personnel and officials, in stark contrast with the members of the European Union […]
A recent report reveals that chronic lung disease among women has almost doubled in seven years due to heavy smoking. Almost half of the 50,000 cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease diagnosed in England and Wales between 1990 and 1997 were among women. These numbers constitute a steep rise in the percentage of women with […]
Saudi Arabia has agreed to support some portions of the United Nations law on women’s rights known as CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women). CEDAW is the first convention to comprehensively address women’s rights within political, cultural, economic, social, and family life. The United Nations adopted CEDAW in 1979. […]
