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Jasmin Darznik,”Veiled Bestsellers”
In this review essay, Darznik reviews: Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit, By Gillian Whitlock, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, 216 pp., $20.00, paperback, and Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been: New Writing By Women of the … Continue reading
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Abuse of Jailed Teen in Brazil
From the AP, this story: Arrested on a charge of theft, a teenage girl was locked up in an Amazon jail for weeks with 21 men who would only let her eat in return for sex. The 15-year-old performed sex … Continue reading
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“Sisters In Law,” on PBS November 27th
FROM THE FLP MAILBOX: I am writing from Women Make Movies, a non-profit distributor of independent educational media, to let you know about the upcoming of SISTERS IN LAW, a powerful documentary about two extraordinary African women who are determined … Continue reading
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Merton’s Letter to Musharraf: The Whole World Is Watching Pakistan
Feminist Law Professor Vanessa Merton (Pace University) wrote this letter to Pakistan President Musharraf. I post it here with her permisson. Dear President Musharraf: As an attorney and professor of law at a New York law school, I write … Continue reading
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Law Profs and Others Invited to Sign on to Yale Statement on Pakistan
From the FLP mailbox: The following statement was released Wednesday, November 7, 2007, by Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh, Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law Peter Schuck, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow in Law Jeff Redding, and other members … Continue reading
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“It is dangerous to stand up to a military dictatorship, but more dangerous not to.”
That’s a quote from Benazir Bhutto’s op-ed in today’s NYT. She also writes: … Opposition party members, lawyers, judges, human rights advocates and journalists have been rounded up by the police without charge. The press has been seriously constrained. The … Continue reading
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ABA’s Statement on Pakistan
From the FLP Mailbox: Since Saturday, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has suspended the national constitution, detained eight members of the Supreme Court and arrested more than 1,500 Pakistani lawyers. This is a profound breach of the rule … Continue reading
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IRANIAN WOMEN’S RIGHTS DEFENDER SENTENCED TO LASHINGS, PRISON
Read more here, and here.
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Would Immigration Laws Be Different If Women Ruled The World?
This study suggests the answer is yes. And in today’s NYT, this article illustrates why that might be important. Entitled “Drawing a Line Between Enduring Harm and Legitimate Fear,” it explains that a culture of forced marriage and genital circumcision … Continue reading
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International Violence Against Women Act Introduced into U.S. Senate
The Daily Feminist News reports: Senators Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Richard Lugar (R-IN), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced yesterday the International Violence Against Women Act. The bill was written with the input and … Continue reading
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Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to be President of Argentina
Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became Argentina’s President-elect on Sunday, sailing past 14 other candidates with 40% of the popular vote – nearly twice as much as her closest rival. The Senator is, well, a Senator. But she’s been … Continue reading
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From the Department of Bad Law Student Judgment, UK Division
Via Blog of Feminist Activism.
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“Persepolis” Will Be The Basis Of A Movie
Graphic novel “Persepolis,” which I blogged about here, is being turned into a movie. –Ann Bartow
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“Consent and Coercion: Examining Unwanted Sex Among Married Young Women in India”
This study, by K.G. Santhya, Nicole Haberland, F. Ram, R.K. Sinha and S.K. Mohanty, reports: A growing body of research explores the nonconsensual sexual experiences of young people in developing countries. A recent review of evidence suggests that significant minorities … Continue reading
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“World Conference on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery”
Info and overview at IntLawGrrls.
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Bulgaria Decides Not To Legalize Prostitution
NYT story here. Below is an excerpt: … Bulgaria is only the latest European country to shift its approach to prostitution. Finland last year made it illegal to buy sex from women brought in by traffickers, and Norway is on … Continue reading
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“Not your Erotic Not your Exotic”
“Not your Erotic Not your Exotic” discusses the sexual exploitation of women of color fairly graphically. The post title comes from this video.
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Pornography, Prostitution and “Liberals”
In August of 2000 the New York Observer published an interview with Larry Flynt that also included some quotes by Dennis Hof, owner of the “Moonlite Bunny Ranch” brothel in Nevada (I’m not going to link to this establishment’s web … Continue reading
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This War
In case General Petraeus runs out of time before testifying to Congress about the experiences of Iraqi women, here’s what human rights organizations think you should know: According to the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq [OWFI], “lack of personal … Continue reading
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Human Trafficking and Slavery
Database that provides country-by-country ionformation here, via Black Looks, where Sokari writes: I read a report yesterday that there are thousands of African and South Asian migrants amongst the displaced in Lebanon. Unlike other foreign nationals from the Middle East … Continue reading
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Opportunities to Educate about International Human Rights Norms on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” – Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights If your university or organization is preparing an event to mark Human Rights Day this December 10th, the anniversary of … Continue reading
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Riverbend Blogs That She Is Now In Syria
Read her post here. Her previous posts have been compiled into two books: this one and this one.
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Female Genital Mutilation in Sierra Leone
This is far afield from any area of expertise that I may have, but I was moved by this story from Women’s eNews this morning about the continuing practice of female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone. Roughly 90 percent … Continue reading
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“Enemies of Happiness”
From the FLP mailbox: I am writing to you from Women Make Movies—a non-profit media arts organization and the world’s leading distributor of independent films by and about women—to let you know about the highly anticipated national broadcast of A … Continue reading
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“Eve Teasing” and The Blank Noise Project
Via Feminist Law Prof Lesley Wexler, an article about street harassment in India, excerpted below: … The efforts of academics, women’s groups, and artists like Patheja are raising major questions about gender issues and the need for safe public space … Continue reading
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“Free Derry Corner” Pink With Pride
IntlawGrrrls has the story of “this month’s Pride celebration in Northern Ireland’s 2d largest city” here.
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Mayan Woman Almost Thrown Out Of Hotel, Until It Is Discovered That She Is A Nobel Laureate.
From The Guardian: She was wearing a Mayan dress, the traditional attire of indigenous people in central America, and the hotel’s response was also traditional: throw her out. Staff at Cancun’s five-star Hotel Coral Beach appear to have assumed this … Continue reading
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India at Menopause (60)
On Wednesday, India celebrated 60 years of independence from Britain. Much has been said about how much India has developed, including in the area of women’s rights and women’s political power (consider former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, and … Continue reading
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Krishna Ravi Srinivas, “Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge: The Case of Yoga”
Here is the abstract: Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) related to traditional knowledge (TK) have been controversial and there has been accusations of bio-piracy and unauthorized appropriation of TK in the form of patents etc. There were reports that patents on … Continue reading
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There Is Nothing Rebellious Or Countercultural About Being “Pro-Porn”
From a NYT article entitled “Federal Effort on Web Obscenity Shows Few Results” we learn about a Justice Department grant to a conservative religious group called “Morality in Media” that pays people to review “sexual Web sites and other Internet … Continue reading
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Christine Lagarde: First Female Finance and Economy Minister of a G7 Country
The Financial Times reports: Christine Lagarde has become the first female finance and economy minister of a G7 country following a ministerial reshuffle on Tuesday by Nicolas Sarkozy, French president. Ms Lagarde, 51, a former agriculture and trade minister who … Continue reading
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Canada Grants Asylum To Woman Trying To Protect Her Daughter From FGM
Women’s Enews account here. The article notes in pertinent part: A growing number of women are requesting asylum in Western countries to escape gender-based persecution. As a signatory of the 1951 United Nations’ Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of … Continue reading
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“Much ado about Pratibha Patil”
Ammu Joseph discusses media coverage of the election of India’s first female President here.
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“African Writing Online”
“Many literatures, one voice.” Check it out here!
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Susan F. Feiner and Drucilla K. Barker, “The Dickensian World of Micro-Finance: Grameen May Not Be So Good for Women After All”
You can read this interesting essay on microcredit programs here. Below is an excerpt: … The evidence on whether microcredit can empower women is inconclusive. According to the World Bank, because microcredit gives women more control over household assets and … Continue reading
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It’s International Weblogger’s Day!
More here.
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“Writing for Their Rights”
From On the Media: In Gwalior, India, women with no journalistic training, and often no education, are writing about their grievances in the newspaper Mahila Paksh. New Delhi-based reporter Mridu Khullar says their reporting has led to extraordinary changes. Read … Continue reading
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Anita Bernstein, “Tort Theory, Microfinance, and Gender Equality Convergent in Pecuniary Reparations”
Here is the abstract: Governments around the world have undertaken reparations programs following historically recent experiences of serious human rights violations. This chapter uses tort theory to defend monetary payments as a constituent of national repair. It argues that paying … Continue reading
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Complicated International Child Custody Case
I don’t know anything at all about the specifics or merits of this case, but Heart at Women’s Space/The Margins has been blogging about it and doing other sorts of activism as well. Read her post and see if you … Continue reading
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“Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria”
The NYT reports: … Even in central Damascus, men freely talk of being approached by pimps trawling for customers outside juice shops and shawarma sandwich stalls, and of women walking up to passing men, an act unthinkable in Arab culture, … Continue reading
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“The 100th birthday of artist and feminist icon Frida Kahlo will be honored with the largest-ever exhibit of her paintings, the Museum of the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico said Tuesday.”
I’m going, somehow.
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What To Make Of This?
From Yahoo News: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered a pop singer to change his lyrics after a college girl complained that male students teased her by singing the song when she passed by, a court official said on Tuesday. The … Continue reading
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Women In Algeria
Interesting (if somewhat confusing in places) NYT article here. Below is an excerpt: … Women make up 70 percent of Algeria’s lawyers and 60 percent of its judges. Women dominate medicine. Increasingly, women contribute more to household income than men. … Continue reading
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Cool Graduation Present Idea
Women For Women International is a U.S. non-profit that “helps women in war-torn regions rebuild their lives by providing financial and emotional support, job skills training, rights awareness and leadership education and access to business skills, capital and markets.” … Continue reading
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MALALAI JOYA OUSTED BY AFGHAN PARLIAMENT
Heart has an account at Women’s Space/The Margins. More information from Sonali Kolhatkar at WIMN’s Voices. Here is an excerpt from Kolhatkar’s piece: … In February 2006, my non-profit organization, Afghan Women’s Mission, sponsored a US tour for her. Malalai … Continue reading
Katha Pollitt, “‘Democracy’ Is Hell”
Here is an excerpt from Katha Pollitt’s new essay at The Nation: … Women’s status was never as high under Saddam as opponents of the war sometimes asserted, and it was already declining throughout the 1990s, as Saddam embraced Islam … Continue reading
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“Alexandra Hai is the first woman with the right to operate a gondola in Venice, but only for one hotel’s guests.”
That’s the caption to a photo accompanying this article. Here are the first few sentences: For more than a thousand years, Venice has had gondolas but never a female gondolier. But now there is Alexandra Hai. After a decade of … Continue reading
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Yes, Vile.
Take a deep breath and read this post at IBTP. I watched the video, and it is going to haunt me for a long time.
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“There are moments when the injustice of having to leave your country, simply because an imbecile got it into his head to invade it, is overwhelming. It is unfair that in order to survive and live normally, we have to leave our home and what remains of family and friends…”
Riverbend, the author of Baghdad Burning and Baghdad Burning II, has decided to leave Iraq. Read her post about this here. Via Heart.
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Single Sex “Modesty Buses” In Israel?
Katya Adler reports in the BBC News: The other day I was waiting for a bus in downtown Jerusalem. I was in the bustling orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Sharim and the bus stop was extremely crowded. When the Number … Continue reading
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