Russia Grapples With Women’s Wartime Role. Family Values or Fighting Valor? Russian military efforts to recruit women from prisons and civilian life have clashed with President Vladimir V. Putin’s conservative agenda. By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Ekaterina Bodyagina May 4, 2024 - The Russian Army is gradually expanding the . Learn More
China – Ruled by Men, But Women Quietly Find a Powerful Voice
China, Ruled by Men, But Women Quietly Find a Powerful Voice Women in Shanghai gather in bars, salons and bookstores to reclaim their identities as the country’s leader calls for China to adopt a “childbearing culture.” By Alexandra Stevenson - Reporting from Shanghai May 6, 2024 - 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 In bars tucked away in alleys and at . Learn More
Afghanistan – Disabled Women’s Disproportionate Challenges
AFGHANISTAN – DISABLED WOMEN HAVE DISPROPORTIONATE CHALLENGES Disabled Afghans — particularly women — have been among the hardest hit by the Taliban’s rollback of human rights. BY: Belquis Ahmadi February 29 2024 - In Afghanistan, obtaining accurate data on the number of persons with disabilities — including gender-disaggregated . Learn More
UN Declares 2026 International Year of Women Farmers
UN Declares 2026 'International Year of Women Farmers' By Nazrin Abdul, AZERNEWS 3 May 2024 - The UN General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution designating 2026 as the "International Year of Women Farmers," highlighting the challenges encountered by women in agricultural systems worldwide, Azernews reports. The resolution underscores . Learn More
International Day of Midwives – May 5, 2024
More than 24 million women will give birth without medical assistance this year: research Conflict, climate disasters, and regressive reproductive rights deny pregnant women access to a doctor or midwife, Save the Children reports. Verity Bowman1 - May 5, 2024 More than 24 million women will give birth without medical assistance in 2024, . Learn More
Iran Intensifies Violent Crackdown on Women
Iran Intensifies Violent Crackdown on Women By Omid Barin 04/29/2024 - After a recent order from Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, "morality police" are increasing patrols, and women who refuse to wear headscarves are reporting more violent harassment and arrests. Iranian authorities are stepping up street patrols in a renewed push . Learn More
Japan & South Korea – Struggles with Old-Age Poverty
Japan & South Korea - Struggles with Old-Age Poverty MAY 2, 2024 - At a soup kitchen in Dongdaemun, a district of Seoul synonymous with the capital’s fashionistas, Kim Mi-kyung is busy preparing for the lunch rush. Ms Kim explains that the kitchen serves around 500 people a day, most of them elderly. “They can’t work, they can’t ask for . Learn More
Afghanistan – Taliban Is Enforcing Restrictions on Women
Taliban Is Enforcing Restrictions on Afghan Women April 30, 2024 – Associated Press - ISLAMABAD — The Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to work, travel and health care if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, according to a U.N report published Monday. In one incident, officials from the Vice and Virtue Ministry . Learn More
Amnesty Urges Universities to Respect Students’ Rights to Protest
Amnesty International Urges University Administrations to Respect & Protect Students’ Rights to Protest April 24, 2024 - Amnesty International USA urges university administrations across the United States of America to safeguard and facilitate all students’ right to peacefully and safely protest or counter protest on their . Learn More
UNESCO Report on Harmful Effects of Social Media on Young Girls
UNESCO Report Spotlights Harmful Effects of Social Media on Young Girls 25 April 2024 - Digital technologies and algorithm-driven software - especially social media - present high risks of privacy invasion, cyberbullying and distraction from learning to young girls, according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) . Learn More
Peasant Woman Who Feeds the World: Poem +
Peasant Woman Who Feeds the World: Poem La mujer sin rostro (The faceless woman) There is a peasant woman faceless, nameless who feeds the world. Who is reborn every dawn in Uganda, Myanmar Colombia or Palestine. Her name tattooed on the callouses of her hands, she is nude veiled in seeds of red black, yellow and white. She does . Learn More
Poem – Flowers – Fatal Domestic Violence
I GOT FLOWERS TODAY Dedicated to all battered women By Paulette Kelly I got flowers today! It wasn’t my birthday or any other special day. We had our first argument last night. And he said a lot of cruel things that really hurt. I know that he is sorry and didn’t mean to say the things he said Because he . Learn More
USA – Pro-Palestinian Protests Sweep College Campuses
USA - Pro-Palestinian Protests Sweep College Campuses Mass arrests of protesters at NYU, Yale, + April 22, 2024 - NEW YORK — Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. . Learn More
Women’s Reproductive Rights Become USA Election Battlegrounds
WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS BECOME USA ELECTION BATTLEGROUNDS By Lina AbiRafeh And here we are once again. The rights to our own bodies are on the line. I’ve written about abortion access in the United States before here, here, and here. And just about everywhere. And maybe one day I’ll write something positive. Unfortunately, today is not . Learn More
Greece – The Challenge of Greece’s Tumbling Birth Rate
GREECE – THE CHALLENGE OF GREECE’S TUMBLING BIRTH RATE First grade teacher Nektaria Mouropoulou says she would like to have a family but she earns 1,000 euros ($1,083) a month, a third of which goes to renting a tiny flat. She crosses into Turkey to buy cheaper gasoline, and her mother helps with bills. “When . Learn More
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