Al Jazeera- Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing: Lies, investigations and videotape May 22, 2022
- George W Bush is not funny May 22, 2022
- Iran denies ‘compromise’ in nuclear deal negotiations May 22, 2022
- Court orders probe into former Pakistan minister’s arrest May 22, 2022
- Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 88 May 22, 2022
- ‘Urgency’: WHO expects more monkeypox cases globally May 22, 2022
- ‘Renewable energy superpower’: Australia votes for climate action May 22, 2022
- #AfricaWeWant: Who needs the African Union anyway? May 22, 2022
- Erdogan speaks to Stoltenberg over Finland, Sweden NATO bid May 21, 2022
- US envoy meets Taliban foreign minister, raises women’s rights May 21, 2022
- Latest
- Biden’s ‘Disinfo Board’ RIP? Don’t Hold Your Breath!
- The Politics of the Iran Nuclear Deal
- Conflicts of Interest: Biden’s War on Truth guest Misty Winston
- Putin: If Finns, Swedes Get NATO ‘Military Infrastructure,’ We’ll Respond
- ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ – Turkey Sets Demands for Finland/Sweden NATO Membership
- US Cranking War Back Up in Somalia
- Conflicts of Interest: America’s Long War Against Russia
- War Comes Closer: Senate OK’s $40 Billion to Ukraine; NATO Pledges ‘Open Ended’ Support
- The Future of Press Freedom Depends on Assange Case
- Biden Escalates in Somalia
Iraq
Cluster Map
Category Archives: Women
Sex, honour, shame and blackmail in an online world – BBC – 26 Oct.16
A BBC investigation has found that thousands of young women in conservative societies across North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia are being shamed or blackmailed with private and sometimes sexually explicit images. Daniel Silas Adamson looks at how … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East, South Asia, Women
Tagged blackmail, revenge porn, shaming, video, women
Leave a comment
Burqa ban a political excuse for persecution – Waleed Aly
Even before the embarrassing back-down there were problems. For starters, it’s not a burqa. A burqa is that particularly Afghan garment, usually blue, with the mesh covering the eyes. The one you’ve seen on the news (or perhaps on Jacqui … Continue reading
The price of oppressing your women – Naomi Wolf
The top and the bottom of the list of countries in Newsweek’s recent cover story, “The 2011 Global Women’s Progress Report”, evoke images of two different worlds.
At the top of the list – the “Best Places to be a Woman” – we see the usual suspects: Iceland and the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Canada. On that planet, we see rankings in the upper 90s for the survey’s five categories: Justice, health, education, economics, and politics.
Women are out-earning men in college degrees (United States), domestic abusers are being banned from their homes and tracked with electronic monitors (Turkey), and female prime ministers are being elected (Denmark and Australia).
Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Women
Leave a comment