FBI officials will investigate the 8 separate acid attacks waged on Central and South Florida abortion clinics this past week. Three of the attacks occurred last weekend at Central Florida clinics, and five other Miami-area clinics were targeted yesterday. “We consider this a hate crime,” said Anne Figueiras, a spokesperson for the FBI. If investigators […]
The National Center for Women & Policing, a division of the Feminist Majority Foundation, has released a study on the Status of Women in 100 of the largest law enforcement agencies in the country. The report, Equality Denied: The Status of Women in Policing, examines the gains and gaps in the numbers of women in […]
In a survey conducted by the Tokyo government, one third of Japanese women said that they have been beaten by their male partners or husbands. City official Yuko Omura said “I think the survey revealed the serious reality that women are facing … We really have to change the public’s view that has long allowed […]
Five women’s healthcare clinics, at least four of which provide abortion services, were the victims of acid attacks today. Four clinics reported that they had been attacked this morning, and news of a fifth incident at a Miami Clinic was recently released. Today’s attacks were very similar to attacks waged on clinics in Central Florida […]
Cable-television pioneer Ted Turner will give the United Nations $100 million dollars each year for the next ten years, for a total gift of $1 billion. U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) programs will receive almost $8 million of the $22 million allocated yesterday. Three million will go to a program that produces and distributes reproductive health […]
Florida Governor Lawton Chiles vetoed a request for a new anti-abortion license plate yesterday. The proposed plate was bright yellow in color, featured the faces of two children and read ”choose life.” An anti-abortion, pro-adoption group called Choose Life Inc. collected 10,000 signatures and paid $30,000 in an attempt to gain legislative approval of the […]
Compared to last year’s numbers, 12% fewer black and Hispanic students intend to enroll at the University of California (UC) this fall. UC’s ban on affirmative action programs has prompted even sharper declines at its highly-competitive Berkeley campus, which suffered a 52% drop in the number of Black and Hispanic students who expect to enroll […]
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to require the Army, Navy, and Air Force to provide separate training for its male and female recruits. The Marine Corps already trains men and women separately. Defense Secretary William S. Cohen said that separate housing, but not separate training, is necessary. Army, Air Force, and Navy officials also […]
The House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on S.1645/H.R. 8682, the so-called “Child Custody Protection Act” today. The Senate Judiciary Committee heard this bill yesterday. S. 1645/H.R. 8682 would make it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion unless the minor first complies with her […]
In last month’s U.N.-sponsored peace talks, Afghanistan’s fundmentalist Taliban militia agreed with the northern opposition alliance to establish a panel of 40 religious scholars who would rule the country. The Taliban has now rescinded this agreement. The Taliban and the northern opposition had disagreed on qualifications necessary for members of the religious panel. Taliban officials […]
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will resume abortion services in its Milwaukee and Appleton clinics Friday, despite concern that a vaguely-defined law banning certain surgical abortion procedures could subject doctors to life-long prison sentences. All of Wisconsin’s abortion clinics stopped performing surgical abortions late last week, when the new law took effect. The Summit Women’s Health […]
A report published in Maclean’s, a popular Canadian news magazine, alleges that rape and sexual harassment are pervasive in the Canadian military. Maclean’s interviewed 13 military women who said they had been sexually harassed and uncovered at least 27 cases in which women were sexually assaulted by their peers or superiors. “The cases also reveal […]
Chilean Women’s Affairs Minister Josefina Bilboa called for greater awareness of how gender discrimination is linked to poverty, domestic violence, unhealthy socialization and stereotyping of women, and the lack of political voice that plagues women there in remarks made at the 27th Session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean […]
One of Wisconsin’s six clinics offering abortion services reopened after a state district attorney presented doctors and staff of the Summit Women’s Health Organization with a signed affidavit stating that the clinic’s employees would not be prosecuted for performing early-term abortions. Last week, all six of Wisconsin’s clinics were closed down after a law that […]
Three Central Florida abortion clinics opened their doors Monday after vandals poured acid inside the clinics this weekend. Directors of the clinics pledged to keep their doors open. Authorities believe that anti-abortion vandals used butyric acid in the attacks. Butyric acid has been linked to 79 incidents of vandalism leading to $863,000 in damages since […]
Taxol, a drug derived from the needles and twigs of the yew tree, has been used to treat advanced ovarian cancer and as a last-ditch alternative for women whose breast cancer has not responded to other drugs. Now researchers have found that women with early breast cancer (cancer that has not spread past the lymph […]
Delegates from Africa, Asia, South and Central America were called by Thenjiwe Lesabe, Zimbabwean minister for national affairs, employment creation and co-operatives to meet in the city of Harare for a conference on “gender and good government.” Lesabe proclaimed that women’s involvement in the political sphere is essential and advocated increasing women’s representation in governmental […]
Three abortion clinics in Central Florida were vandalized this weekend, and police suspect that the incidents may be linked. Vandals bored holes through window frames and poured or sprayed substances into each of the three clinics, which included Orlando’s National Women’s Health Organization and Daytona Beach’s Family Planning Center and Women’s Health Center Incorporated. In […]
Bombed dropped by Taliban jets Saturday killed at least 30 people and injured at least 50 others in Taloqan, a city located about 150 miles north of Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul. The deadliest of the four bombs was dropped into a crowded marketplace. The Taliban reportedly was attempting to bomb nearby military installations held by […]
U.N. officials departed from Afghanistan late last week after 10 days of negotiations with Taliban leaders brought no new concessions. Taliban Planning Minister Kari Din Mohammad said that any past security or accessibility problems experienced by aid organizations and U.N. officials was “unintentional and incidental.” Regarding women’s access to health care, Mohammad claimed that services […]
