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Learn of the plight of our Afghan sisters & brothers from the headlines of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
 towards Global Sisterhood Network operations and to support feminist struggles in South Asia and the Middle East
UK:  An important ePetition to Government on behalf of the country's Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse India:  Unethical hysterectomy of premenopausal rural women: Medical corruption, population control, or BOTH Australia:  Bill Gates funded insanity, already established in Uganda, all set to impose inefficient & hazardous GM-bananas on India's women Read also:  Australian women need to think twice before opting for the potent and unpalatable 'side effects' of the newly PBS-credited abortion pills
India:  UN Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo witnesses evidence of amended laws which still permit a continuum of Violence against Women
A Decade post- Bush Jnr & A. Blair's shamefully contrived Shock and Awe Assault on Iraq  Bush Jnr and A. Blair: Unrepentant 10 years later for their ‘feminist mission’ which drove liberated women into burqas to survive
 Following an invasion in the name of "Women's Rights", US sold women out to gain Islamist parties' support for a post-invasion constitution, thereby subjecting women to Sharia law
 The Iraq War and and Moral Injury by H. Patricia Hynes  Bathed in blood by Bush Jnr & Blair, & inheriting a sectarian war which threatens the region
Global :  Masculinized Sex Ratios and the Disappearing Girl Child by V. Rukmini Rao & Lynette J. Dumble Read also:  Supreme Court of India & Andhra Pradesh State Govt stir action to prevent female foeticide and  With Police & Courts as Patriarchy’s foot soldiers, India's 2013 legislation still leaves the girl child at highest risk of rape
Pakistan::  Amidst a world of feminized poverty, women reduced to economic nonentities whose destitution exacerbated by poor healthcare  Tripled female labour force in rural areas passes unacknowledged and unrewarded
India:  Men’s spate of acid attacks on women bear the ugly imprint of a violent, patriarchal culture US:  Despite CNN & Steubenville’s apologists, a 16 yr old girl the sole victim of High School Footballer's rape India:  Draft Bill on Women’s Security bogged down by male MPs preoccupied with creating loopholes for men Read also: Time to treat arrogant male defiance of gender-sensitive Rape & Abduction Laws on a par with acts of terrorism
 2013: ASSEMBLIES, AWARDS, CELEBRATIONS, ISSUES
Global:  Feminist barrister & Child and Women’s Rights Advocate, Patmalar Ambikapathy Thuraisingham, launches a new movement of 'Grand Matriachs Worldwide' Australia:  The Greens issue 10 priorities for maintaining the momentum on women's equity (and building an Abbott Proof fence)
India:  Unmarried, widowed, and divorced women fight back against traditional patriarchal repression Pakistan:  Call to review Qisas and Diyat laws which subject women to violence & deadly cultural practices
Somalia:  Zahra Ugaas Farah, inspiring women to achieve the nation’s sustainable peace UK:  Ten thousand women & girls join MWR March in London calling for an end to male violence against women
THE VATICAN 2013
Feminist Treasures departing Mother Earth 2013
2013 MUSTS for the Feminist Bookshelf Women and Work, Edited by Padmini Swaminathan
 The Political & Social Economies of Femicide in Andhra Pradesh by Drs. V. Rukmini Rao and Lynette J. Dumble
US:  Tragic testimonies of women recruits expose largest level of male sexual violence in Air Force history Read also:  Military sexual trauma a major cause of difficulties faced by women returning home after combat service
Ireland:  Crocodile tears for Magdalene laundry's women enslaved by State & Church patriarchs US: Male surplus in North Dakota oil town linked to increased domestic & sexual assault of women Bangladesh: Copy cats of “Delhi Bus Rapists” stir call for upholding dignity & security of women
INDIA: Move over CRICKET, RAPE & GANG RAPE now the nation's No. 1 Sports
 : "Braveheart was NOT India’s fucking daughter" by Dipanjali Rao
 Insights into India’s Penile Code by Meena Kandasamy
 The gang rape of Braveheart-Nirbhaya reflects the broken promises made to midnight's children by Rupa Sengupta
 The Connection Between Global Economic Policy and Violence Against Women by Vandana Shiva
India:   Supreme Court admits writ petition against licensing and trials with Cervical Cancer vaccines implicating the Drugs Controller of India, PATH, ICMR and others, ordering Government of India to immediately respond Read also:  Feminists file Serious Allegations against Gates Foundation & Cronies after HPV Vaccine trial deaths and ethical violations and: SC accepts Women Activists’ Historic Petition over Unethical Trialing of HPV Vaccines
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