Posted on October 3, 2009 by Kathy
For complete information: http://www.metanoia.uconn.edu/
Sunday, Oct. 4
Past (1979), Present (2009), and Future (?): Preventing VAW
This panel – featuring participants from the 1979 Metanoia as well as current students and professionals in the field – will kick off the week of the 2009 Metanoia. Audience questions and discussion by the panelists will conclude the session.
4:00pm – 5:15pm
Dodd [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2009 by Kathy
Cell phone statistics reported by Jason Griffey, July 12, 2009, and posted on The Shifted Librarian
numbers (because this arena is very important for us)
4,100,000,000 number of mobile phone subscriptions in the world
over 60% of the people on earth have a mobile phone subscription service
in 50 different countries around the world, the number of cellphones per [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2009 by Kathy
HAITI: Women “More Protected” to Report Sexual Violence – IPS ipsnews.net
Port-au-Prince, Jul 22 (IPS) – It has been five years since the U.N. sent peacekeepers to Haiti following the forced departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the country, while not in a state of war, remains one of the world’s most unstable.
Kidnappings, criminal violence, [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2009 by Kathy
Vital Voices Blog » Study Reveals 10,000 Women Sex-Trafficked Every Year in Mexico.
In a study presented on July 20 in Monterrey, Mexico, data revealed that approximately 10,000 women are trafficked for sexual exploitation annually from southern and central Mexico into northern Mexico. The Latin American Herald Tribune reports that the study found that women were [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2009 by Kathy
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/05/13/us-act-prevent-rape-war
Today there’s a hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee co-sponored by Barbara Boxer and Russ Feingold to agree to put pressure on the United Nations to ACT not simply report on rape in war
Sexual violence against women and girls has been a horrifying characteristic of all recent armed conflicts and many post-conflict situations. Human [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2009 by Kathy
Equality Now: Women’s Action 33.1, May 2009
A schoolgirl around 12 years old travels on a commuter train. A man who has been following her gropes and sexually molests her. Eventually the train stops and she runs frightened into a public toilet, followed by her assailant who handcuffs and rapes her. The assailant takes her prisoner [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2009 by Kathy
Let women be Enlightened
Helen Irving
April 24, 2009
The assassination of a leading Afghan women’s rights activist, Sitara Achakzai, this month was yet another tragic reminder that equality between the sexes is far from accepted in the world today. Achakzai, who spent the years of Taliban rule in exile in Europe, returned to her country five years [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2009 by Kathy
The University of Connecticut’s Women’s Center would like to cordially invite you to attend the upcoming event Take Back the Night!
Take Back the Night is an annual international event, dedicated to raising awareness about sexual assault against women. The goal of Take Back the Night is to foster a supportive and safe environment for survivors [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2008 by Kathy
Women’s Bioethics Blog: Are you a Bully?
Now it is time to end the silence: There is a hidden culture of girls’ aggression in which bullying is epidemic, distinctive and destructive. It is not marked by the direct physical and verbal behavior that is primarily the province of boys. Our culture refuses girls access to open [...]
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Posted on July 15, 2008 by Kathy
Sita, a Girl from Jambu
Sita, a Girl from Jambu
by Kathleen J Man
“SITA shows a complex and original narrative strategy rare in documentaries, and perfect for its subject matter.”
–Sarah Kozloff, Professor of Film, Vassar College
MORE ABOUT THE FILM
> Reviews & Awards
> Filmmaker Bio
> Film Web Site
“Sita” [...]
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