WORLD
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India's economy and women's influence
What a great time to be in India! I am having the good fortune of visiting this great country for the next couple of weeks and it is such an exciting time. On March 8, which is International Women's Day, The Women's Reservation Bill was the topic of di...more
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Lifting the Veil: A Look at the Burqa
Two weeks ago, French President Nicolas Sarkozy officially announced his party’s plans to implement a ban on the burqa in France. The burqa, a head-to-toe garment that covers the face and is worn by some Muslim women around the world, is a perennial top...more
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How chicks can help Haiti
On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, a catastrophic 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti about 10 miles southwest of its capital, Port-au-Prince. It has left hundreds of thousands people dead, missing or injured. Buildings, including hospitals, schools and people’s hom...more
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Emma Thompson on The View talking about sexual slavery
Emma went on The View yesterday to talk about Journey which is opening in NY today. Kudos to the View for discussing the topic and really letting her talk about it in lots of details. I was kind of surprised at how little Barbara Walters seemed to kno...more
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Giving Victims a Voice: The Miss Landmine Pageant
Morten Traavik wasn’t expecting much from his trip to Angola in 2003, but what he found there would change the future for women across the world.
During his time in Angola with his then girlfriend, Traavik immediately recognized two very important th...more
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Does being an “Artist” trump being a Rapist
So much has been written about the Roman Polanski saga of late. The lingering questions of why after 30 years did the prosecutors decide now was the time to arrest him. The fact that the victim wants to move on. The amount of resources being spent o...more
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Traveling on a budget? Try a hotel alternative
As a newly minted college grad, I had one thing on my mind: buy a plane ticket to Europe and spend six week backpacking across the countries I had only ever dreamed of visiting. But after I started calculating the price tag of my European adventure - from...more
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Spotlight on Tammy Tibbetts: Empowering Liberian Youth
Whether it’s finding the perfect prom dress for a girl that can’t afford one, providing positive advice for girls celebrating their prom or their quinceañeras, fundraising and working towards a tuition-free school in Liberia, or finding ways to conti...more
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Iraqi girls live the dream at in Lady Vols’ basketball camp
An Iraqi girls’ basketball team took part in a Tennessee Lady Vols basketball camp last week as part of a program promoting peace and cultural understanding through sports.
Under Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi National Women’s Basketball Team was dismantl...more
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Human Rights Film Festival opens tomorrow
Pamela Yates
The 20th annual Human Rights Film Festival opens in NY tomorrow with director Pamela Yates’ The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court. The festival last from June 12-June 25.
There are some great women directed an...more
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Kim Longinotto Retrospective at MOMA May 7-23
There are many awesome female documentarians but Kim Longinotto is at the top of the field. A retrospective of her 30 year body of work will featured at the Museum of Modern Art this month in NYC. Longinotto is known for documenting untold stories of ...more
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Equality Watch: First Female British Poet Laureate
It only took 341 years but Britain has finally appointed a woman and lesbian as its poet laureate. Carol Ann Duffy was named to the post taking over for Andrew Motion who resigned.
Some of her accomplishments:
Her 1999 collection The World’s Wife, wh...more
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Lynn Nottage Wins Pulitzer for Drama
Playwright Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize yesterday for her play Ruined which tells the story of the women of the Congo whose lives have been “ruined” by systemic rape and torture.
Nottage was inspired by Berthold Brecht’s Mother Courage to tell...more
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