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  1. Pakistan: The rise of a politics of resistance in Hunza

    the War on Terror has resulted in the use of anti-terrorism legislation and discourse against ... of women’s entrepreneurial success, of the benefits of donor funding and development led by ... women, in their thousands, occupying the Karakoram Highway (the main thoroughfare linking Pakistan to ...

  2. Sri Lanka: Protesters demand regime change, demilitarisation of the state

    and thugs to attack peaceful protesters on May 9 in Colombo. The protesters were demanding the ... cricketing stars Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene, who condemned the attacks on the peaceful ... who came to your office first before going on to assault the peaceful protestors". Former Sri ...

  3. International Women’s Strike shows what feminism really looks like

    International Women's Strike On March 8, women around the world gave themselves a day off β€” from the ... their productive energies to fighting for gender and economic justice. Women downed their tools on ... wars, when we stop violence against black women and black people, [and] come together to learn how to ...

  4. Prison economics: Crime War replaces Cold War in the US

    declaring war on our own people. With 1.6 million people behind bars and over 5 million under the control of ... By Danny Mack Cold War defence contracts have been replaced by Crime War prison contracts. The US ... the justice machine (on parole, probation or bail), the US is by far the world leader in locking up ...

  5. Women and peace

    Christabel Pankhurst, these women refused to "sell out" to the war machine at the outbreak of World ... War I, but continued to urge women to campaign for both the vote and peace. The book begins with ... "hidden agenda" at the forthcoming UN Fourth World Conference on Women. Author Kaye Murray describes ...

  6. Rallies confront political violence against women

    regimes of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and on the violence against women during that war. February 10, 1993 87 ... predominantly against Muslim women by Serbian forces. Systematic rape and forced pregnancy are occurring on ... a massive scale. The Bosnian government commission on war crimes in Sarajevo puts the figure at 30,000. The ...

  7. Raqqa largely liberated, Rojava revolution holds commune elections

    fighting force. It is also based on the prominent role of women’s liberation in the radical social ... in northern Syria. The YJS sent troops to the SDF offensive on Raqqa to liberate the Yazidi women and ... Tony Iltis Rojava Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Women ...

  8. Behind the popular protests in Sri Lanka

    women β€” have engaged in an enduring protest demanding wage rises. The current government received the ... Although numerous investigations were carried out, some still on-going, what has emerged is the complicity ... vandalised under the cover of darkness on April 27. State capture In 1978, the newly-elected Sri Lankan ...

  9. Women’s cooperatives: A glimpse into Rojava’s economic model

    regime’s control, the Rojava Revolution aims to build a new system on the principles of women’s liberation, ... workers to gain skills and access to the market. Also, the ongoing war is badly impacting on the economy, ... encouraging women’s participating, promoting an alternative radical economic and social model based on ...

  10. 10 new albums that hit back at racists

    for May 2022. mavis_jpeg.jpg 1. MAVIS STAPLES- CARRY ME HOME On May 15, a racist live-streamed himself ... Mavis Staples. On album opener "This Is My Country", she sings: "Some people think we ... than say it's my country. I've paid 300 years or more of slave robbing sweat and welts on my ...

  11. And ain't I a woman: Women peace campaigners intimidated

    And ain't I a woman: Women peace campaigners intimidated On September 24, Kate Raphael, ... against ethnic nationalism. Women in Black groups have spread to all parts of the globe. On June 8, there ... and Palestinians. Women in Black, along with many anti-war and peace organisations blossoming across ...

  12. Victory for Brisbane women's services

    of women and men supporters outside the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission on February ... By Lisa Young BRISBANE β€” "Today marks a historic victory for women and women ... over its support of the Hillcrest murderer, Peter May. On January 25, May killed seven members of his ...

  13. and ain't i a woman: How the West saved Afghani women

    Afghanistan under Taliban control. On September 28, women were forbidden to work, or leave their homes without ... and ain't i a woman?: How the West saved Afghan women The Taliban militia has been ... progressively gaining control of Afghanistan since mid-1994. On September 27 they swept into the bombed out ...

  14. The military trafficking in women

    the chastity myth for women had inflicted utter shame on the "comfort women" is recognised, ... south-east Asia). But this double standard and burden of morality imposed on women is a cornerstone of ... "Militarism, Colonialism, and the Trafficking of Women: 'Comfort Women' Forced into ...

  15. Women, work and Howard's agenda

    Women, work and Howard's agenda Melanie Sjoberg Each time we turn on the TV we are confronted ... on a more industrialised character and unions sought a fair wage, women were not recognized as ... men's income. During the first and second world wars, women were actively encouraged to enter the ...

  16. 250 at Women in Asia conference

    organisations. A major strand of the conference concentrated on Asian women workers. Here the conference ... and screening of The Mirror Burns, a film about women in Vietnam after the war, with discussion by ... 250 at Women in Asia conference By Helen Jarvis MELBOURNE β€” The Fourth Women in Asia Conference ...

  17. Justice for 'comfort women'

    Gadigal Country/Sydney On March 7, 60 people joined with three "comfort women" survivors ... slavery during World War II. The women were continually raped, beaten and tortured by the Japanese ... ever sexually enslave women during a war, and an honest approach to educating students at school about ...

  18. HISTORICAL FEATURE: The Korean War β€” a war of counter-revolution

    The Korean War: a war of counter-revolution SEOUL β€” Fifty years after the outbreak of the Korean ... War, it is still seen as a war to defend peaceful South Korea against the aggressive ambitions of ... Seoul and Washington that the root of the Korean War was the North's "invasion" has not ...

  19. Women's illiteracy, not a neo-Malthusian time-bomb

    and women, through retrenchments and government cutbacks on health-care and education for females. In ... electricity. The impact on women of the population policy which underpinned the Cairo Consensus parallels the ... (UNFPA) on February 8 highlighted the devastating impact of the south-east Asian economic crisis on girls ...

  20. Vote Socialist Alliance for a real alternative

    your vote count this federal election by putting number 1 next to Socialist Alliance (SA) on the ballot ... implementing neoliberal attacks on ordinary working people and, this time, the party is not advancing a fresh ... cost-of-living crisis and the drive to war are all signs that capitalism has run its course. The case for radical ...

  21. 'All-out war' amid mass arrests as Dakota pipeline struggle escalates

    Μύon Friday that the raid was an act of "all-out war...waged on Indigenous protectors." ... Cannonball in North Dakota on October 27, moving in withΜύ pepper spray and armoured tanks Μύon Native American ... separate statement Μύreleased on October 28 by a coalition of indigenous: "Yesterday was a shameful ...

  22. Letter from the US: Huge women’s marches stare down Trump’s attacks

    attacks on women’s rights. Hundreds of thousands more took to the streets around the world, with protests ... election campaign, as spelt out in the β€œGuiding Vision” of the Women’s March on Washington (which can be ... identified themselves as β€œnasty women” β€” a reference to Trump’s misogynistic attack on his Democratic ...

  23. Women in Iraq struggle for their rights

    do it on top of their domestic chores, as men refuse to do women's work." Nadir said that ... being raped because this brings shame on the family. "Women have been stoned to death in public, ... CDIW has 2000 reported murders on its records but the actual number is much higher. "Many women ...

  24. Israeli women criticise Goldstone’s backflip

    into Israel’s 2008-09 war on Gaza that were critical of Israel. It is abridged from ... Middle East The Israeli feminist organisation Coalition of Women for Peace released an open letter ... to Justice Richard Goldstone on April 6. It is published below. It is in response to Goldstone’s ...

  25. Bush's myopia written in women's blood

    cancer and with miscarriages and birth deformities. Furthermore, there is not a single war on record ... power on a platter conjures well-founded fears amongst Afghanistan's women that Operation Enduring ... the Islamic world, or by the world's women. Echoed by Australia's John Howard and his ...

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