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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
Bosnia: Radovan Karadzic’s cowardly war crime denials & State inertia rub salt in the wounds of civil war’s rape victims
 International Women's Day 2010    A message to Planet Earth's Patriarchs from poet Laura Manuelidis, playwright Lynn Nottage, & journalist Kishwar Desai: "Enough is more than enough of the psychological, physical, verbal, and financial humiliation heaped upon women and girls via male paradigms of [to name just a few] gender superiority, militarism and economics"
In solidarity with  Gita Sahgal: Global Petition to Amnesty International: Restoring the Integrity of Human Rights
Afghanistan: US-led NATO occupation as catastrophic for women as previous Taliban domination Australia: Proud of Germaine Greer, a brave and passionate advocate for liberty, notably for women’s emancipation
 Arrogant, misnformed Sydney playwright Louis Nowra’s character assassination of Germaine Greer serves only to remind of her ageless value to women
Burma:  Women’s participation a must for any kind of peace & reconciliation And from New York   Watch the Live Webcast, March 2 9.00am-6.00pm of the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women of Burma and read the Tribunal's Verdict and Recommendations and from  Cora Weiss: Burma’s tortured women abandoned, yet World Bank & Foreign Investment abounds for Burma's tiger, gas, and oil
India:  Lack of political will to stop child marriage sees 25 times higher maternal death rate in girls under 15 years Ireland: A Papal and State apology and compensation overdue to the girls & women tortured in Ireland's Magdalene Laundries UK:  Million Women Rise to demand an end to the worldwide institutionalised male violence against women
2009 Inspirations  Feminists Malalai Joya and Amy Goodman prominent as dark decade closes
Afghanistan:  Operation Moshtarak more about uranium deposits & opium dollars than ending Taliban fundamentalism in Helmand Province
India:  Welcomed by Farmers, Greens, and Human Rights and Development activists, indefinite moratorium placed on Monsanto’s Bt Brinjal averts nation’s Third War of Independence Norway: True to prime goal of securing rural livelihoods, gives thumbs down to genetically-modified agriculture Vatican: In the face of the latest horrendous sexual abuse of children in both Ireland & Germany by the Catholic Church's ordained men, Benedict XVI's "Infallibility" falls to an all time low with his echoing of centuries-old judgements within law statutes worldwide " that the sexual abuse of children is a heinous crime" Read also:  Benedict XVI's hollow platitudes at Vatican Summit with Irish Bishops fail both the Catholic Church’s victims & its faithful and of  Benedict XVI and the State's overdue apology to the 30,000 girls & women tortured by the Catholic Church's Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, Sisters of Charity and Good Shepherd Sisters in Ireland's "State-approved Magdalene Laundries" and: Buck for paedophile priest abuse stops with the Vatican, even as two Irish Bishops call for a 'Rape Tax' from the faithful
UK:  As Blair continues to rake in obscene mega-bucks for his "More Tory than the Tories money-hungry Gospel", a bounty on his head for war crimes
 Blair at the Chilcot Inquiry
Arrogant, deluded, unrepentant, fiddling with the truth, dancing around the questions, stark ignorance of the war's realities, outdated and/or inaccurate statistics, and ratcheting-up a war on Iran Take your pick: A mass murderer, a liar, a war-mongering monster, a neo-imperialist-conservative, a fool, or "all of the above" Read  Responses from British analysts, literally pouring SHAME on Blair’s 'Chilcot Theatre' while: Based on zero evidence, Blair’s poisonously misguided war-mongering sows seeds for an Iraq replay against Iran
Haiti:  2010 killer quake alerts the world to past imperialism, crippling past and newly-imposed debt, labour and agricultural exploitation, and now the country's orphans the prey of child traffickers
 Mourning leading feminist deaths, but women in all walks of life, demonstrating in spades, their poise to lead
 Real hope rises as ‘No Shock Doctrine For Haiti Petition’ avoids the quaked nation being IMF-ed
WOMEN'S HEALTH  Dubious research statistics leads to BigPharma claims of 'Viagra for Women'  Lingering fears about HIV transmission risk due to long-acting contraceptives call for new policies
 BigPharma and Government maintain HPV vaccine safety even as casualties continue to mount
India: Booming economy fails to save a third of all deaths in young children from undernutrition - neglected nutritional requirements of adolescent girls and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers feature in the national disgrace
 The Road from Copenhagen: Feminist Perspectives on the 'Roll Overs'  Muzzled and/or Evicted: Crucial Warnings on gifting Global Warming solution to the Nuclear Industry
Afghanistan: Women's suffering destined to prevail until ancient patriarchal rights criminalised Italy: Berlusconi’s genocidal policies condemn the Roma to a life worse than dogs and pigs, denying food, health, education & even basic amenities
India: Supreme Court recommendation to legalise prostitution won't halt trafficking of women. Instead destined to increase demand & sex industry profits Ireland: Catholic priest, Fr. Seán Sheehy who joined throng supporting violent sexual assailant, resigns widely and deservedly shamed Read also: Dan Foley fan club, legitimised by Fr. Seán Sheehy, vilification of sexual assault victim enough to make the Taliban envious
Scotland: Fears of reporting domestic violence, translates to 200,000 suffering in silence (Extrapolating from Government of Scotland estimates this amounts to 140,000-plus Scottish women and girls living in fear of domestic violence)
Afghanistan: Women in Kabaul lead demands for an end to Karzai’s alliance with the corrupt, war criminals & the Taliban
India: A Nuclear Liability Bill to grant US nuclear corporates mere token responsibility for reactor "accidents". In other words, should there be a "Nuclear Bhopal" in India, there won't be another "Union Carbide" to haunt the US US:  Troop surge of War-is-Peace-President Obama pours fuel on flames of Bush Jnr’s war crimes in Afghanistan
Canada:  Bravest woman in Afghanistan spearheads anti-war movement Australia: Morally outrageous poverty & human rights violations borne by country’s Indigenous
India: One in 70 females set to die from a 65 per cent preventable pregnancy-related issue US:  Goldman Sachs gets religion - an instant look alike for the wealth-besotted mob evicted from the New Testament's temple US:   Fearless Malalai Joya, supported by US War Vets, calls on Washington to end Afghanistan's occupation Read also: Malalai Joya asks President Obama to apologize to her people & to pull the military from Afghanistan
Sweden: Elinor Ostrom wins the 2009 Nobel for her “community-based environmental economics” also from Sweden:   2009 Alternative Nobels shared by Australian-born physician Catherine Hamlin, Canada’s David Suzuki, Democratic Republic of Congo’s René Ngongo and New Zealand’s Alyn Ware
Germany:    2009 Bremen Peace Awards to Australia’s Sue Gilbey, Bulgaria’s Animus & PULSE Foundation, and South African Bishop Rubin Phillip
Australia: Courageous author & film-maker John Pilger awarded the 2009 Sydney Peace Prize
Canada: Launch of vital new resource - Feminist Analysis and Information on Interlocking Global Financial, Economic & Climate Change Crises US: Lesson #1 at Boston’s School for Johns - When you solicit sex, that’s someone’s daughter
Vatican: Benedict XV's belated self-serving pastoral letter set to rub salt into wounds of his Church’s Irish victims  Benedict XVI, desperate for recruits, and eager to distract from impending sexual abuse scandals, lays out tainted welcome mat for misogynic &/or homophobic Anglicans
Read also of  Benedict XVI's two inquisitions hoping to herd US nuns back into drab ancient habits & convents, thereby robbing the Catholic Church's most worthwhile asset of any speck of modernity or independence
Man-made Missile, Mining and Industrial Atrocities [most nuclear] in the Third Millennium India: 25 yrs post-Bhopal, with justice still eduding victims, Union Carbide‘s claim of no long-term effects proven conclusively wrong Read also: Bhopal survivors mark 25th anniversary of Union Carbide’s Hiroshima & Legacy of Corporate Greed with "Food for Thought'
Iraq: US phosphorous & other missiles, including Depleted-uranium, a suspected cause of genocide in Falluja [includes additional report "Depleted Uranium Weapons: The Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke"]
India: The price of Indigenous Development: Death by uranium waste Read also: Planned expansion of uranium mining in Jadugoda increases tribal pregnancy & cancer terrors
 Government in denial in face of a generation of uranium poisoned Punjabi children, with contamination possibly exacerbated by wind-carried depleted uranium from US missiles dropped in Iraq & Afghanistan Australia:  Aboriginal Traditional Owner says Garrett’s Four Mile uranium mission set for total disaster. In other words, Aboriginal Development translates to the proverbial slow death by uranium waste!
 Environment minister Pater Garrett sells out Nation’s Indigenous for uranium bucks
Iraq: 2004 US missile strikes implicated in Fallujah's increasing number of birth deformities
Northern Ireland: Hillary Clinton, US Fibber-of-State, caught out "mis-speaking" in Belfast Vatican: In his year for "sanctifying priests", Benedict XVI still failing to depose Church's sex criminals Read also: Benedict XVI's past and present "gospel" leaves him unfit to preach morality during planned visit to Britain (as too when visiting elsewhere) and  Vatican deflects guilt for Black Collar sex crimes to 'other religions' and 'homosexuals'
Australia: New research shows that women can forget about merit and mentoring to make it on to 'boards'. Nothing beats being a man
Russia: Impunity granted "journalist slayers" makes complete farce of universal human rights, notably freedom of expression UK:  The personal becomes the base for New Age Suffragettes leading campaigns for truth, justice & social change Read also: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education by Jane Robinson
Afghanistan's Presidential Election of 2009: Karzai’s dance with brutal warlords, fundamentalists & the corrupt spits in the face of democracy and  Fraudulent counting in an election which failed to facilitate a significant womens’ vote
India: Girls & women from 378 of country's 612 districts trafficked into sex industries  Vandana Shiva on the relevance of Gandhi’s civil disobedience to fight present day injustices in a world besotted with combating violence with violence
Kenya:  Purposes of Truth Justice & Reconciliation Commission only to facilitate impunity, hoodwink and massage the victims and yet again, sweep the crimes under the carpet Africa:  Aided by IMF-World Bank collusion, multinationals paying close to nothing for their looting
Japan:  Imperative messages for a peaceful future on the 64th anniversary of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear atrocities US:  August, a month for anniversaries which recall military atrocities
UK:  A first hand glimpse of Afghanistan's bravest woman, Malalai Joya, coincides with British voters turning against war in Afghanistan  Malalai Joya exposes the misery, injustices, illusions of women’s liberation, and “war criminal dominated democracy” imposed by US-led NATO forces on Afghanistan  Afghan soldier Lance Corporal Joe Glenton's brave voice deserving a gold medal but instead heading for a court martial
 Acting Prime Minister Harriet Harman gives governmental and financial patriarchy a richly-deserved roast
Dublin: Tributes flow as Amnesty International names Aung San Suu Kyi 2009 Ambassador of Conscience Nicaragua:  Total abortion ban sees 65 per cent rise in maternal fatalities rise in first half of 2009 Read also:  Daniel Ortega’s new total abortion ban sold out women, a crucial element of his own Sandinista revolution, for sake of the extremist Catholic vote
India: Arundhati Roy: Democracy's Failing Light  An open letter setting the Union Minister for Health straight on the long-disproven 'Population Bomb'
 New spate of acid attacks on women in Andhra Pradesh foreshadows more stringent regulation & minimum 7 year prison sentence
 Raped tribal women betrayed & abandoned by National Human Rights Commission
Honduras:  Military coup leaves women at risk of arrest, disappearance, home raids, dis-employment
Australia: Uranium sales the epitome of immorality regarding public health risks & pathways to nuclear holocaust Afghanistan:  US military, N. Alliance warlords & Taliban extremists - the triple barrier to democracy Read also  Malalia Joya's biography and her courageous struggle for a secular democracy in Afghanistan and Malalai Joya addresses the life & death feminism under Afghanistan's rule of fear[due to the US-led occupation's legitimised Islamic theocracy which is in turn endorsed by the Australian Federal Government]
France:  Sarkozy’s "burqa bashing” exploits Muslim women’s bodies for his anti-Islam political agenda Iran:  A time for hate-obsessed neo-cons, staining an inspiringly brave uprising, to pull their heads in! Vietnam: 36 year-old US promised compensation for ongoing human & environmental Agent Orange war crimes still unmet
China:  One child policy-linked kidnapping of children swings from boys to girls UN:  Nobel Peace Laureates demand freedom for Aung San Suu Kyi & all fellow political prisoners held by Burma's military junta Read also  "Global Outrage" over Suu Kyi’s latest persecution from within corridors of political power destined to turn into "Global Hypocrisy"
Ireland: Long overdue begging of forgiveness on bended knee from Benedict XVI, sole course to save the Catholic Church after revelations of horrific child abuse Read also: A snowball's chance in hell of Benedict XVI's cheque to pay for Church’s abuse of Irish children?
US:  Gates, Clinton-led "Good Club" spouts population control misogyny to curb climate change US:  Drawing lines in the sand, and holding President Obama accountable, in the search for Reproductive Justice Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty:  Dr. Anarkali Honaryar, women's rights activist, named Afghanistan's Person Of The Year UK:  Obscene greed in political corridors turns Westminster into a trough which would make 4-legged pigs vomit
New York May 2, 2009: Death of Marilyn French, inspiring feminist author who corrected prevailing histories which had denied women their past, present and future
Fiji:  Women, sidelined & ignored by military coups, seek implementation of UNSC Resolution 1325 to restore their multi-racial democracy
Iceland: Voters reward Johanna Sigurdardottir’s feminist leadership on economics & paid sex Medical Research: Delaying menopause - another perilous ploy to justify the stem cell market Easter 2009:   From opposite sides of the globe Cardinal Pell and Archbishop Nichols, heir-apparents to the Throne of Peter, echo Benedict XVI's flawed condom gospel
North India: Radio-active US missiles dropped in Afghanistan a suspected source of high levels of uranium detected in 150 children with deformities
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