Hundreds of women were captured, raped, tortured and terribly traumatised by militias in D. R. Congo. Those who escaped are going through a healing process, but their predicament is still dismal.The Congo's only specialized rape clinic has dealt with over 10,000 cases in the last seven years. Terrorism is defined as the systematic use of terror, such as violent or destructive acts commited by groups in order to intimidate a population or government, as a means of coercion. That's from our dictionary; but I suppose in real time it's only considered terrorism if it happens to us. Women’s Prison Healthcare Called ‘Grossly Deficient’ Blackvoicenews.com
Some prisoners incarcerated at the California Institution for Women at Corona were routinely denied basic health and dental care...
Women's Day- Should It Be Celebrated Americanchronicle.com
Ideally when one thinks of a woman, one should not think about them different in any respect to men.Sure, ideally it wouldn't actually be surprising or noteworthy that a woman or woman of color for that matter reached the top of a giant corporation; there is a reason that it is and would the author have gone just a half step further they would have answered their own hypothetical question. My favorite argument that people like to bring up when this subject comes up (admittedly it does not happen often) is "...look at women like Oprah or Martha Stewart...what do you mean glass ceiling?". Well, yes...but, they started their own parties...at no point did they have to compete to get into the men's club which is almost invariably at the top of most corporations. Don't even get me started on the argument of Condoleeza Rice as a representation of how women or women of color are fairly represented in the government
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----- -------- AUTHOR: Kelly Bean TITLE: Hidden victims of a brutal conflict: Iraq's women DATE: 10/11/2006 01:27:00 PM ----- BODY: Wherein we are given even more proof that we are involved in a war which serves the interest of a few and says everyone else be damned.Labels: Fem, Governmentish, Violence
----- -------- AUTHOR: Kelly Bean TITLE: Bush Administration Withholds Funds for Global Women's Health DATE: 9/26/2006 09:17:00 AM ----- BODY: "New York, NY -- For the fifth year in a row, the Bush Administration announced September 13th its decision to withhold the $34 million appropriated by Congress to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. This makes $161 million denied to proven programs that reduce maternal mortality, provide millions of women with contraception and prevent the spread of HIV." Really? Respectively: "The cost of the war in Iraq will reach $320 billion after the expected passage next month of an emergency spending bill currently before the Senate, and that total is likely to more than double before the war ends, the Congressional Research Service estimated this week." Acknowledging that my brain, used to dealing with only hundreds of dollars at the most, really won't realistically grasp the impact of that much money, it still seems to me that comparitively $34 mil. is sort of paltry compared to $320 bil. Especially considering that amount was projected to double (and that's in April, 2006). In a reasonable america, the powers that be might recognize which of the following would perhaps end up to be more productive: Investing in a means to slow even further, the spread of HIV and preventing erroneous child births, or... Terrorizing america while working the pro-military population into a crazed frenzy in order to support a facade of a $640 bil. war? Doesn't seem like a difficult decision to me, but what do I know?Labels: Governmentish
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