Category Archives: Sisters In Other Nations

“Abortion rights gain ground in Latin America”

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Christian Science Mionitor article here. Via the Reproductive Rights Prof blog.

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Iranian Feminists Freed!

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Heart at Women’s Space/The Margins writes: Iranian women activists who were part of the One Million Signatures Campaign Demanding an End to Discriminatory Laws Against Women were released April 15 after posting bail. They were arrested April 2, along with … Continue reading →

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s “Infidel”

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Kameron Hurley reviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel at her terrific blog, Brutal Women. There is a post about the NYT’s review of this book here.

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Women and Inheritance Rights in Uganda

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

Earlier this month, Uganda’s Constitutional Court advanced women’s rights when it modified provisions of that country’s intestacy laws.   As reported at allafrica.com  in this story: The court … nullified several sections of the Succession Act, which dealt with property … Continue reading →

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Sex Trafficking in Pakistan and in South Carolina

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Ann Bartow

NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof writes today (behind the Times Select firewall) about sex slavery in Pakistan, observing that “…neo-slavery is the plight of millions of girls and young women (and smaller numbers of boys) around the world, particularly in Asia. … Continue reading →

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ASWAT – An Organization of Palestinian Gay Women

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Ann Bartow

ASWAT’s website is here. ASWAT recently held a conference, discussed here. Via Women’s Space/The Margins, where there is more information.

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Abortion Rights in Mexico

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Ann Bartow

This International Herald Tribune article reports: Dominated by liberals, Mexico City’s legislature is expected to legalize abortion in a few weeks. The bill would make this city one of the largest entities in Latin America to break with a long … Continue reading →

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Susan Franck, “Empirically Evaluating Claims About Investment Treaty Arbitration”

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Here is the abstract: With the blossoming of empirical legal scholarship, there is an increased appreciation for the insights it offers issues of international importance. One area that can benefit from such enquiry is the resolution of disputes from investment … Continue reading →

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“Germany Cites Koran in Rejecting Divorce”

Posted on March 24, 2007 by Ann Bartow

From the NYT: A German judge has stirred a storm of protest here by citing the Koran in turning down a German Muslim woman’s request for a fast-track divorce on the ground that her husband beat her. In a remarkable … Continue reading →

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“The Private War of Women Soldiers”

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Read this article at Salon, by Helen Benedict, and consider how men who rape fellow soldiers are likely to be treating Iraqis. Here is an excerpt: As thousands of burned-out soldiers prepare to return to Iraq to fill President Bush’s … Continue reading →

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This Is Very Difficult To Read And Absorb

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Yahoo News reports: Sudanese women to be stoned for adultery: Amnesty Two Sudanese women have been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery after a trial in which they had no lawyer and which used Arabic, not their first language, … Continue reading →

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The Lolas of LILA Pilipina

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Ann Bartow

From M. Evelina Galang’s blog, “Laban! Fight For Comfort Women: Lola is the Tagalog word for grandmother. And on Matimtiman Street in Quezon City, Philippines, Lolas’ House is a community center for a special kind of grandmother. The women of … Continue reading →

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Penelope Andrews, “Women’s Human Rights and the Conversation Across Cultures”

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Penelope Andrews The abstract reports: “This comment examines the vision of women’s rights and equality as outlined in CEDAW. It raises some of the possibilities and limitations associated with universalizing legal norms in a context of enormous global disparities, particularly … Continue reading →

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1000 Books For Peace Project

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Adapted from an e-mail by Prof. Jeremy Levitt: The purpose of this post is to inform you about a special project that the Program for Human Rights and Global Justice at Florida International University is undertaking to support the reconstruction … Continue reading →

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“Hymen Fatwa”

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Ann Bartow

There is a lot to ponder in this article about the approval of reconstructive hyman surgery by a high ranking Egyptian religious figure that appeared in the Daily Star Egypt. On the one hand, it’s hard not to cheer a … Continue reading →

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The U.N.’s CSW: “Women, violence and empowerment: the world we live in”

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Ann Bartow

That’s the title of this terrific post by Patricia Daniel at openDemocracy. Below is a short excerpt: … The [Commission on the Status of Women, a.k.a. CSW] is a United Nations body, consisting of forty-five members appointed on a four-year … Continue reading →

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“A Pakistani minister and woman’s activist has been shot dead by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil.”

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Ann Bartow

According to this Times Online report: … Zilla Huma Usman, the minister for social welfare in Punjab province and an ally of President Pervez Musharraf, was killed as she was about to deliver a speech to dozens of party activists, … Continue reading →

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Sweatshops and Sex-“Tourism” in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. Territory

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

In the Spring 2006 issue of Ms. Magazine, author Rebecca Clarren writes  powerfully about  the relationship between sweatshops and  prostitution in the Northern Mariana Islands.   According to Ms., thousands of women from Asia pay “recruiters” up to $7,000 for … Continue reading →

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Two New Posts By Riverbend at “Baghdad Burning”

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The Rape of Sabrine… Here is an excerpt: … As I write this, Oprah is on Channel 4 (one of the MBC channels we get on Nilesat), showing Americans how to get out of debt. Her guest speaker is telling … Continue reading →

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“Comfort Women”Demand Justice

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Read Heart’s post about demands for justice by the surviving women who were enslaved on orders of the Japanese government during World War II, a number estimated at 200,000. Heart also links to this article, this article, and this website. … Continue reading →

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Angela King, leader at United Nations on women’s rights, dies

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Angela King, a Jamaican diplomat who became the first woman to be appointed to the post of Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, died on Monday of breast cancer. Appointed by Kofi Annan as his Special Adviser on Gender Issues, … Continue reading →

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A Little Dose of Anti-Essentialism!

Posted on February 5, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Women, not men, choose spouses on island by Rukmini Callimachi ORANGO ISLAND, Guinea-Bissau – He was 14 when the girl entered his grass-covered hut and placed a plate of steaming fish in front of him. Like all men on this … Continue reading →

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Nancy Wake

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Ann Bartow

According to this website: Nancy Wake was the Allies’ most decorated servicewoman of WWII, and the Gestapo’s most-wanted person. They code-named her ‘The White Mouse’ because of her ability to elude capture. When war broke out she was a young … Continue reading →

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Del Corazon

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Latino Voices in American Art. (Above rendering by Ester Hernandez.)

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UK Judges Try to Block Rape Trial Reforms

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The British newspaper The Guardian reports: Government plans for changes in the law to boost rape conviction rates are in disarray after the judges who would have to put them into practice told ministers they oppose them. The Council of … Continue reading →

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Hmmm…

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Welcome to BritishReparations.org, the official site of the International Coalition for British Reparations. We are a global network of citizens who have suffered injuries at the hands of the British Empire over the last five hundred years. We’ve banded together … Continue reading →

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Global Violence Against Women: The Secretary-General’s Study

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Forum Brooklyn Law School Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:00-6:00 p.m. Reception to Follow About the Program: In December 2003, the General Assembly of the United Nations requested the Secretary-General to prepare an in-depth study … Continue reading →

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“There is widespread poverty. We have to sell off our children to survive. We are not proud of it, but we have to do it.”

Posted on January 10, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Those are the final sentences of this article, entitled “Starving Afghans sell girls of eight as brides.” Below is an excerpt: Azizgul is 10 years old, from the village of Houscha in western Afghanistan. This year the wheat crop failed … Continue reading →

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Justice and Truth

Posted on December 23, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Today’s NYT has a story called: “For Young, Justice as Impoverished as Africa.” The premise of the piece is pretty much encapsulated in the fourth paragraph, which reads: Juvenile justice here [in sub-Saharan Africa] is, in almost every sense, an … Continue reading →

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This Week in The Women’s Media Center ‘s Iraq Series: The Military and the Death Penalty

Posted on December 23, 2006 by Ann Bartow

From an e-mail sent by WMC: It’s been 45 years since the U.S. military put one of its own to death. What’s the likely penalty for the defendants in the rape, torture and murder of 14-year-old Abeer Al-Janabi and her … Continue reading →

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Difference and Sameness

Posted on December 19, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Below are newspaper articles I have re-typed exactly from stories that appear in today’s issue of “The Hindu”: Woman drinks acid, dies HYDERABAD: A woman, T. Vidya, 45 years, committed suicide at Malkajgiri on Monday allegedly unable to cope with … Continue reading →

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“The Shape of Water”

Posted on December 10, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The Shape of Water is a movie described at this website as follows: In an intimate encounter with five very different women in Brazil, India, Jerusalem, and Senegal (narrated by Susan Sarandon with introductory narration co-written by Edwidge Danticat) THE … Continue reading →

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The World Economic Forum’s “Global Gender Gap Report 2006”

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The report measures the size of the gender gap in four critical areas of inequality between men and women: 1. Economic participation and opportunity – outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment 2. Educational attainment – outcomes … Continue reading →

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Women Sold Out For Political Gain in Nicaragua

Posted on November 20, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Nicaragua Eliminates Last Exception to Strict Anti-Abortion Law: … Abortion has been illegal in Nicaragua for more than a century, and most women who decide to end unwanted pregnancies seek procedures at underground clinics. But the new law strikes out … Continue reading →

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Thin Air

Posted on November 14, 2006 by Ann Bartow

When I was in college in the early 1980s, one of my work-study jobs was in the Labor-Management Documentation Center at Cornell University’s Martin P. Catherwood Library. I often summarized and filed union arbitration materials, and I remember reading a … Continue reading →

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Abortion in Poland

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Ann Bartow

According to this “Todayonline” article: … Abortion is only allowed in Poland in cases of rape, incest, danger to the mother’s life or irreversible malformation of the foetus. Breaking the law carries a two-year jail term. Recently the ultra-Catholic far … Continue reading →

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The Lancet Has Posted Its Series On Sexual And Reproductive Health Online

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The series homepage is here. Registration (free) enables online access to the six constituent articles. Here is the summary for the first article, entitled “Sexual and reproductive health: a matter of life and death“: Despite the call for universal access … Continue reading →

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Sex Trafficking in Iraq and Syria

Posted on November 4, 2006 by Ann Bartow

According to this Guardian Unlimited article: Um Ahmad, as she was known to the girls, had it all planned out. From Baghdad to the border and on to Damascus and a new life, Mona and her three Iraqi friends didn’t … Continue reading →

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Bob Herbert Gets It

Posted on November 4, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Read his recent NYT column, “War on Women,” here if you haven’t yet. [Ed: The title of the column is actually “Punished for Being Female.”] The United Nations report he references is available here and here. Related U.N. complied information … Continue reading →

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Betrayal By the Supposedly Liberal Dudes of Nicaragua

Posted on November 1, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Read Heart’s post: “War on Women in Nicaragua: Left and Right Unite in Total Ban on Abortion” I think we face the same possibility here in the United States. I hope I am wrong. Every time I see Harry Reid … Continue reading →

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Linda DeRiviere, “A human capital methodology for estimating the lifelong personal costs of young women leaving the sex trade”

Posted on October 30, 2006 by Ann Bartow

This article appeared in Feminist Economics (July 2006). Here is the abstract: This article combines case study interviews with the tools of economic cost-benefit analysis to estimate the lifelong effects for individuals in Manitoba, Canada, who began engaging in prostitution … Continue reading →

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“First woman wins Bahrain parliament seat”

Posted on October 18, 2006 by Ann Bartow

According to this Yahoo News article: A British-educated civil servant has become the first-ever female to serve as an elected member of Bahrain’s parliament, the Gulf kingdom said Tuesday. Eighteen women are among 221 candidates vying for seats in the … Continue reading →

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Feminists Can Too Be Funny

Posted on October 14, 2006 by Ann Bartow

U.K. feminist blogger Witchy-woo wrote about a woman in England who was unable to obtain the “morning after” pill because her pharmacist declined to provide it, asserting that”it was against his religious beliefs.”Witchy-woo’s post is at her blog: Well I’ll … Continue reading →

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“Violence against women is ‘severe and pervasive’ worldwide with one in three women subjected to intimate partner abuse during her lifetime, according to a UN report.”

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The U.N. recently completed an “In-depth study of all forms of violence against women.” This News24 article reports: Violence against women is “severe and pervasive” around the world, with at least one in three women subjected to intimate partner abuse … Continue reading →

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The San Francisco Chronicle’s Series on Sex Trafficking

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Part one Part two Part three Part four How the paper reported the series And…finding help: Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Global Fund for Women, The Protection Project, Human Rights Watch Campaign Against the Trafficking of Women and Girls, Global … Continue reading →

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“Hidden victims of a brutal conflict: Iraq’s women”

Posted on October 9, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The Observer (via the U.K. Guardian Unlimited) reported yesterday: …Iraqis do not like to talk about it much, but there is an understanding of what is going on these days. If a young woman is abducted and murdered without a … Continue reading →

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Anna Politkovskaya Has Been Murdered

Posted on October 8, 2006 by Ann Bartow

According to this NYT story: Anna Politkovskaya, the veteran Russian journalist and author who made her name as a searing critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya, was found dead on Saturday in her apartment building, shot in … Continue reading →

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Part Two in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Series on Sex Trafficking: “A Youthful Mistake”

Posted on October 8, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Read it here. Below is an excerpt: The man was athletic, muscular. After showering, he led her to the bed and stretched out on his stomach. You Mi began massaging his shoulders. Suddenly, he jumped off the bed, declared he … Continue reading →

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“Stand Against Women Stoned to Death You Apathetic Monsters”

Posted on October 5, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Did that post title get your attention? It got mine too. The original post it graces is here. Blogger Ali Eteraz writes: “This is a call for action to do our small part in coming to the assistance of the … Continue reading →

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U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL 1945-2006: 3 European men, 2 African men, 1 Latin American man, 1 Asian man, 0 Women

Posted on October 3, 2006 by Ann Bartow

U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL 1945-2006: 3 European men, 2 African men, 1 Latin American man, 1 Asian man, 0 Women as pointed out by Equality Now, which launched a campaign last year to support women candidates for the position of United … Continue reading →

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