The details of as many as 277 possible domestic violence related crimes involving Los Angeles police officers were posted on the internet on Friday. Bob Mullally, a lawyer from South Dakota, performed a review of personnel files of officers accused of domestic abuse and produced a report detailing 61 assaults, 28 assaults with a deadly […]
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Vice President Al Gore described his change in position on abortion rights in the last 10 years. He used to oppose the idea of federal funds being used for abortion services but he is now a staunch supporter saying, “I’ve come to the very deep conviction that a […]
The United Nations has begun formal talks with the Taliban to convince them to reverse their ban on Afghan women working for international relief agencies. According to U.N. officials, women workers in Afghanistan are crucial to safeguarding the health and education of Afghan women because male workers are forbidden to meet with women in the […]
Cyberspace is crucial to uniting Afghan women against the Taliban oppression and heightening public awareness of the regime’s atrocities. Mavis Leno, a spokesperson for the Feminist Majority’s Campaign To Stop Gender Apartheid remarked, “It creates a brilliant way to have a very active participation in world politics, particularly with regard to human rights, a way […]
On July 10th hundreds of women demonstrated in front of the police headquarters in Accra, Ghana, demanding resolution to the serial murders of 25 women. The women threatened not to vote in the upcoming December elections until the police take firmer action on the murders and establish hotlines for reporting rape and violence. Chanting and […]
The day after Dr. Garson Romalis, an abortion provider in Vancouver, British Columbia, was stabbed outside of his medical office, another prominent Canadian doctor received a death threat on her answering service. Dr. Ellen Wiebe, an abortion provider who also recently initiated the first Canadian clinical trials of mifepristone, immediately called police and received an […]
After examining the records and views of the ten most frequently mentioned potential Republican and Democratic vice presidential candidates, NARAL released a Report Card on Choice, with 7 out of the 10 Republican candidates receiving an “F” with comments such as “appalling job,” “dreadful work,” and “disappointing.” The majority of the Democratic candidates received an […]
At the 91st annual NAACP national convention this past week, both presidential candidates addressed the crowd in part to enlist support for the upcoming election. Vice President Al Gore highlighted his past relationship with the NAACP, pointing out that he has worked with the group, “Not just in an election year, but year after year.” […]
International relief agencies have been working in an renewed climate of danger to their well-being since last week’s Taliban edict ordering all aid agencies and the United Nations to dismiss all Afghan women staff. The Taliban now says this edict as motivated by consensus that Afghan women international aid workers could serve as spies. Taliban […]
If Britain’s Labor Party succeeds in passing new laws that mandate quotas, every political party will be legally required to select women and black members of Parliament (MPs) in parliamentary seats. In the upcoming elections, only one woman has been selected to run in the 29 available seats. Advocates of the new laws argue that […]
An Egyptian oil ministry official flung his wife from a third-floor window after she refused to give him a larger helping of chicken than his sons. Doctors are treating the woman for a fractured spine in the hospital, while the police has arrested the husband.
The 13th International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa has helped to raise international attention to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. A report by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) states that the AIDS virus would orphan 30.2 million children in sub-Sahara Africa. The USAID report indicates a 10 million increase in orphans from […]
The United Nations’ commemoration of World Population Day on July 11th emphasized the crucial link between reproductive rights and women’s empowerment. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan remarked, “Too many women still cannot choose when or whether to become pregnant. Too many women resort to abortions that are not safe.” Every minute a woman dies because […]
The Washington DC City Council voted on July 11 to pass a bill that requires health insurance providers to pay for contraceptives including birth control pills, diaphragms, Depo-Provers shots and Norplant implants. The bill passed without a conscience clause that would exempt employers and their insurance companies from paying for contraceptives because of religious or […]
International relief agencies have been working in an renewed climate of danger to their well-being since last week’s Taliban edict ordering all aid agencies and the United Nations to dismiss all Afghan women staff. The Taliban now says this edict as motivated by consensus that Afghan women international aid workers could serve as spies. Taliban […]
The United States and other nations and institutions should pay a “significant level of reparations” for their failure to stop genocide in Rwanda in 1994, reported an independent international panel. The seven-member group targeted the U.S., France, Belgium, and the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches for their apathy and inaction during the massacres that claimed […]
The Okinawa Women Against Military Violence says that more than 4,700 crimes have been committed by U.S. troops in Okinawa, Japan since 1972, many of which have been offenses against women and girls. On July 3rd a drunk U.S. soldier entered the home of a 14-year-old girl and is facing charges of molestation. Since the […]
Unless information and communications technologies (ICTs) are equally shared between women and men, the economic and social gap between sexes will worsen, warns Noeleen Heyzer, the head of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). In Guyana, for instance, a group of rural women generated new wealth when they used their website to sell 17 […]
The recently elected right-wing National Action Party (PAN), led by president-elect Vicente Fox, has a disturbing history of hostility towards women’s human rights. In the PAN-controlled state Chihuahua, PAN legislators repealed clauses that allowed abortion in circumstances where the women were raped or where their lives were in danger. Elsewhere, in Ciudad Juarez, a city […]
Women’s groups in Bangladesh are criticizing the government’s move to renew a constitutional law that gives women only a tenth of the seats in the 330-member national parliament. The 30 seats reserved for women are not elected by the public; rather, they are nominated and installed by the other 300 directly elected lawmakers. Women’s groups […]
