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  1. Zimbabwe court ends women's rights

    Kwaramba worries that the Magaya ruling will have a profound impact on women's reproductive rights, ... equal rights campaigners worldwide by relegating African women to the status of "junior males" ... within the family, many Zimbabweans are worried about the ruling's long-term impact, particularly on ...

  2. Greens MP: Lift the ban on PKK

    for the whole region. Our government says it is fighting a war on terror but it is fighting the only ... Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Jamie Parker Terrorist listing humanitarian corridor Greens MP Jamie Parker ... gave this speech at the Sydney rally for World Kobane Day on November 1. * * * I'm here in ...

  3. EAST TIMOR: Women face uphill struggle

    's Network's first efforts was an attempt to ensure representation of women on the country's National ... Many women are widows, whose husbands died in the war or were killed in the mountains and who now have ... BY ROBYN MARSHALL DILI β€” Aurora Ximenes, the coordinator of the East Timor Women's Network, ...

  4. Women, APEC and human wrongs

    Fernandez's "blasphemy", which described the horrific conditions imposed on 300 HIV-infected women ... underclass. The lessons of World War II which prompted the Universal Declaration on Human Rights are long ... By Lynette Dumble KUALA LUMPUR β€” On the eve of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum ...

  5. Write on: letters to the editor

    on any major political party or other ruling-class body. We support the right of women to organise ... anything about. We are also concerned that the ban on men does not address the concerns of women from ... the Anglo-American war drive. The Iraqi Australian Friendship Bureau of Victoria calls on all ...

  6. A woman's place is in the struggle: Iraqi women worse off under US-led occupation

    "Trafficking of women is on the rise in Afghanistan, as is rape, forced marriage, drug use, and senseless acts ... rest any idea that the US war and occupation have improved the lives of Iraqi women. The report, Iraq ... β€” Decades of Suffering, released on February 22, says that women are not better off now than they were under ...

  7. ... and ain't i a woman? Women in Ireland's struggle

    take part in this war. Very few of us put much time into the struggle for women's rights... we ... economic exploitation. We have opened up contacts with women outside of prison and developed a dialogue on ... "As Republican women who have been imprisoned for our beliefs, we feel that the struggle for ...

  8. A woman's place is in the struggle: Women of the new Iraq

    to the racist "war on terror" set up against the world of Islam. Iraqi women also know that ... rhetoric about training women for leadership and democracy. Documents released on March 7, 2005 by the ... discourse chewing on meaningless words. No wonder that US-financed women's NGOs, which publicly preach ...

  9. Putting women in the big picture

    shift to the right by mainstream politicians, the attacks on women of colour and on all women ... mobilised counterforce on the streets demanding justice and equality for all women, the screws of reaction ... By Lisa Macdonald Next time you see an opinion piece about how women are finally breaking into ...

  10. and ain't i a woman?: Socialism and International Women's Day

    has fallen. But women still have less spare time than men, spending an average of four hours a day on ... a century ago, on February 28, 1907 when women throughout the US marched to demand political rights for ... later in the "great uprising", 30,000 garment workers (most of them women) went on strike to ...

  11. Write On: Letters to ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly

    and highlight women's struggles. And in a period of global imperialist wars and domestic attacks ... only be one speaker (any more would simply drag on and bore women) and she will be Stephanie Key, the ... theme of "Women fighting poverty" decided on for the rally should be able to encompass the ...

  12. Half a century of women's struggles in Australia

    notes that in this country there was little opportunity for women to take on prominent roles in ... and tensions between lesbian struggles and the gay movement on the one hand, and the women ... movement of struggling on behalf of migrant women, rather than with them, a lot of these women were not ...

  13. What does What Women Want want?

    issues that make or break families and communities and impact so greatly on women, who have to juggle ... Lisa Macdonald What Women Want (Australia) is a new political party formed in April that obtained ... federal electoral registration in August. It currently has almost 780 members, women and men, and is ...

  14. Women and revolution

    women, who went on to make up 40.5% of the work force within a few years. The "law of nurture" ... Resistance! Women and revolution By Lisa Frankland and Emma Murphy In Australia today women are ... told (and many believe) that we have achieved full equality. Oh yeah? Why, then, are women still paid ...

  15. Corporate globalisation destroys women's rights

    in capitalist society means that women tend to be economically dependent on male partners or parents, ... The dominant sexist view is that women are the ones who should take on the extra burden. Women ... effect on women. Nursing home fees are an average of $4380 up front for an elderly person who has not ...

  16. Violence against women is everybody’s business & it has to stop

    to women’s rights and in fact put these women more at risk of violence. Shame on you! Feminism is ... exploited and used. That’s were boys learn that women are the lesser sex. And this is reinforced on a daily ... of women politicians. Clearly, the onus is on us to make change. Well, we could start with a big ...

  17. AFGHANISTAN: Has the US liberated women?

    December. During the US war, the Bush administration claimed that its victory would liberate women from the ... BY NICOLE COLSON "Many people outside the country believe that Afghan women and girls have ... situation for Afghanistan's women since their "liberation" at the hands of the US military. ...

  18. Write On: Letters to ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly

    War coalition to which it is affiliated, to condemn the student protest on March 26, rather than give ... mindless masses who devour the war porn presented relentlessly every evening on a platter along with their ... intense war and attacks on our freedom of speech? This appears to be nothing but a crass attempt to win ...

  19. Anti-feminist appointed to 'protect' women

    strongly that the state would continue to administer women's rights on behalf of the movement. How ... It's reaching a point where it's almost a war between men and women and that has not been ... BY SARAH STEPHEN Taking office on July 30, Pru Goward will be Australia's fifth Sex ...

  20. International Women's Day

    Women marched in their thousands across Australia on Saturday, March 11, for International ... they heard speakers on the theme "Women Around the World Campaigning for Justice". Milena ... enterprise bargaining on women in the workplace, and Julie Spies of the Public Hospitals Coalition condemned ...

  21. UNITED STATES: Religious right's 'condom wars' take deadly toll

    is ruinous. The US administration and the Vatican have declared war on contraception. Women will be ... churches get involved in the war on condoms, tragedy is often the result. The well respected New Scientist ... Caryl Rivers, Boston Women's eNews (<http://www.womensenews.org/> β€” The Vatican's ...

  22. Colombia: The most dangerous country for environmental defenders

    support the Duque government, praising its efforts in fighting the β€œwar on drugs”. This β€œwar” β€” like so ... has received nearly US$10 billion in US aid to fight its war on drugs under Plan Colombia. Most of ... Agriculture Environment Far right Imperialism & war Indigenous Ian Ellis-Jones Human rights ...

  23. Women must still struggle for real equality

    * * * This International Women’s Day, on March 8, falls at a time when the environmental and economic crises ... Horrendous working conditions faced by women entering the workforce before and during World War I gave rise ... in Australia. Whether they are among the 70% of women working part-time or on short-term contracts, ...

  24. Socialists announce WA candidates

    union rights, women’s suffrage and the anti-Vietnam War movement, Salmon said only collective struggles ... continues to use public funds to subsidise massive new coal and gas projects.” Harley locked-on to ... many campaigns including the refugee rights and anti-war movements. A legal archivist who lives in ...

  25. Women and the struggle for education

    did not admit women on equal terms until 1947. As more women entered higher education, they were ... effects of sexism in the wider society, so even those women who went on to tertiary education remained ... proportion of women going on to postgraduate study slowly improved, it still remains lower than for men. In ...

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