BLACKS, MEN: RACIAL & GENDER DISCRIMINATION DON'T SEEM DEAD YET !

Houston, TX -- A Federal Civil suit has been filed in Texas alleging problems of gross, illegal discrimination and unethical conduct by one of the largest YMCAs in the nation. The conflict seems to involve a former...

cogito ergo sum

The challenges of being a woman surfaced in my life when I was eight years old, when I first felt that horror of an old man touching me in places I did not want him to, when my family left me all alone with a cab...

It is a New Light

A ray of hope An abode of smile A domus of creativity A journey of growth New Light Kalighat Creche cum shelter What began as a crèche for 8 children in two rooms in a dark alley of Kalighat eight years ago has...

Pak police raid Amnesty scholar's home

Professor Naela Qadri, a distinguished social and political activist, opposed to Pakistan's nuclear tests in Baluchistan faces more harassment."Pakistan authorities raided the home of a well-known Baluchistan...

Simon and Schuster Viewing Truth About Kos (DailyKos) Project?

Site Meter Records Simon and Schuster Interestin Truth About Kos (DailyKos) Blog ProjectThis post is an acknowledgement of the interest that one anonymous user at Simon and Schuster has expressed in learning about the "Truth About Kos (DailyKos)" Project, which I...

Police still dismiss rape victims

This article indicates that, not only is the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales unlikely to achieve a criminal conviction in rape cases, the very 'rape champions' it has introduced are openly hostile to rape victims. This perspective is summed up in the following...

Woman power (in Iran)

"Women in sunglasses and head scarves speaking through megaphones, brandishing cameras, carrying signs. When they first appeared, the photographs of the 2005 Tehran University women's rights protests were a...

An apathetic, greedy west has abandoned war-torn Congo

"In 1996, I was sitting with 20,000 grieving women in a stadium in Tuzla, Bosnia. The women were holding photographs of husbands, fathers, brothers, sons and boyfriends who had been ­disappeared a year earlier in a place called Srebrenica, a UN enclave where Bosnian...

Women arrested for asking a policeman for his badge number

UK cops manhandled a couple of unarmed women during a climate-related protest, looks like they may be choking them as well. Apparently, the cops didn't like being asked their badge numbers. "The Guardian obtained...

Same-sex partners to get fed benefits

" President Barack Obama, under growing criticism for not seeking to end the ban on openly gay men and women in the military, is extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. Obama plans to announce his decision on Wednesday in the Oval Office, a White House...

Khmer Rouge torturer tells how babies were killed UPDATES

UPDATE 2:66 year-old Kaing Guek Eav said some of the people who were tortured and killed had blood completely drained from their bodies or were used for medical experiments."PHNOM PENH (AFP) — The former Khmer Rouge prison chief told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court...

eelam tamil women living in fear - published today

I feel frozen. My neck is starting to tighten and my heart is beating like a drum. I dont know why. I thought the memories are erased but it is not. It is buried in me and in many other women. Our eyes are...

Sri Lanka camps a 'national disgrace'

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Sri Lanka's treatment in the detention camps a national disgrace. " "For more than a year, the Sri Lankan government has detained virtually everyone, including entire families,...

Tamil 'Stop Genocide' candidate secures record results

Jan Jananayagam gets record results despite entering the contest in the last minute, however she was not able to win the london seat. "A Tamil rights campaigner won more than 50,000 votes in the European elections...

Exploitation of women in the fashion industry

"A beautiful woman sits in front of a video camera. Her name is Sena Cech and she is a fashion model. ...Halfway through the meeting Cech is asked to strip. She does as instructed and takes off her clothes. Then the photographer starts undressing as well. "Baby - can you do...

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