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  1. Population control or empowerment of women?

    implied that a highly visible development phase, focusing on girls' education and women ... control on women's lives. While the official Australian delegation deserves credit for its key role ... consensus from last month's International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo. ...

  2. A tribute to women often forgotten

    A tribute to women often forgotten Bread and Roses Directed by Gaylene Preston Written by Graeme ... mother?" asks Sonja Davies' daughter as she reluctantly accompanies her mother on a quest to get ... anniversary of New Zealand women winning the right to vote, is an unapologetic celebration of the life of ...

  3. IWD actions to oppose war and racism

    a rally for Saturday March 9 with the tentative theme of "Stop the war on women". The collective ... demonstration, also on March 9, will raise the demand, "Stop the war on women at home and abroad". ... BY SUSAN PRICE The United States and other First World governments are using the "war on ...

  4. A film to celebrate International Women's Day

    Dottermans Dutch, with English subtitles At Dendy Cinema, Sydney, on March 9, 5pm Opens across Australia from ... begins with a long flashback through the eyes of an old Antonia to the end of the second world war, when ... of the women in Antonia's line, down to her great-granddaughter, Sarah. As the story rarely ...

  5. Lively discussion at women's history conference

    round of debate on equality for women in church organisations. The archbishop of Melbourne at this time ... equal rights agenda, they promote a solidarity among women and speak out on women's issues as they ... the early 1970s. Nevertheless, the gathering of 400, organised by the Sydney University Women ...

  6. Women's liberation: not an impossible dream

    BY SUSAN PRICE Women today face a concerted ideological backlash and escalating attacks on our ... wave of the women's liberation movement in the 1960s and '70s. New restrictions on abortion ... impacting negatively on most women's lives. As well, the governments of the First World are engaged in ...

  7. Philippine elections: β€˜For a new politics, a new economy’

    1972 and closed down the congress. Duterte’s infamous β€œwar on drugs” β€” basically a war on the poor, on ... their dynasty's hold on power. The former dictator’s son, Bongbong Marcos jnr is running for ... marginalised, supported by several left and green coalitions, decided to take on the challenge and run an ...

  8. After Stalinism: women in Europe

    BARBARA EINHORN is the author of Cinderella Goes to Market, a book on the experiences of women in ... opportunity to reconceptualise the conditions for women's empowerment or for a society based on social ... University, principally in the Women's Studies Centre, and is also associated with the School of European ...

  9. End violence against Aboriginal women

    level violence that is inflicted on women and girls around the world. The V Day campaign was started by ... According to the United Nations one in three women on the planet will be physically or sexually assaulted in ... as a weapon of war, sexual slavery is on the increase and more than 100 premeditated acid attacks ...

  10. Conference for people's power and women's liberation

    of extreme inequality, intensified conflict and ecological crisis on a global scale. Even in ... classes. Opening the conference on June 7 will be a public one-day seminar called β€œPeople's Power in ... All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA), which is active among women workers and ...

  11. Bringing literacy to Third World women

    women. From this basic start, many teenage students have gone on to primary school to continue their ... annual budget directly on women's development projects. IWDA 's money comes from federal ... converse, but with other women you learn. When I first came here, I knew I would learn. I was very happy. My ...

  12. Poverty, domestic violence: Women bearing brunt of economic crisis

    women. Women bear the brunt of trauma and hardship, such as war and economic recession. The global ... β€” unemployment, insecurity, poverty, disadvantage and women's financial dependence on male partners β€” have to ... be addressed. Collective opposition to attacks on women's rights is the only force powerful ...

  13. Violence against women: Who's to blame?

    more tragically, wife-murder is on the rise. In 1991, 42% of all women murdered in Australia were ... fostered to make women more willing to accept lower wages, fewer social services, inequality on the job, ... ideological counter-attack on the advances that were made in women's status in the 1960s and '70s ...

  14. Write On: Letters to ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly

    their faith and their liberation from a system that judges women firstly on their physical appearance. ... fruit. On August 22, a pregnant woman was physically assaulted and had her scarf pulled off by another ... was front page news. The removal of the scarf is often seen by many people as liberating Muslim women ...

  15. Afghan women speak out

    Conference on Women in Beijing, a few of us attended the NGO Forum and were inspired to start the Afghan ... In early October, the AFGHAN WOMEN'S NETWORK β€” active in Peshawar and Islamabad in Pakistan ... imposition of repressive laws against women in areas of Afghanistan under Taliban army control. It also asked ...

  16. Norway turns left

    Toni Usman 2021 Norwegian election RΓΈdt (Norway's Red Party) It was evident by about midnight on ... Commenting on the election outcome, left-wing newspaper Klassekampen (Class Struggle) stated: β€œThe ... Solberg said that no party since World War II has ever won three consecutive elections. Is it incumbency ...

  17. Why women's wages are slipping

    New National Agenda for Women on February 10. Probably the biggest whopper was his assertion that ... particularly, though, the IRC's limits on enterprise bargaining do not protect women workers. At best they ... women in the full time work force will also be unaffected by the IRC's brakes on enterprise ...

  18. A woman's place is in the struggle: US-imposed 'regime change' and women's rights in Iran

    women, and men, from the medieval customs imposed on them by Iran's Muslim clerics, but to take ... their struggle for freedom β€” and against any US-led war on Iran. BY KATHY NEWNAM From ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly, ... the women of that country to be a motivating factor. In justifying their campaign to put in place ...

  19. Jobs for women: how BHP was made to change its tune

    were being put on at the rate of 30 to 40 a week, women like Mara were being told there were "no ... jobs for women". Between June 1977 and April 1980, the company put on more than 4000 ironworkers, ... of whom only 58, or a little over 1%, were women. In 1980 AI&S had more than 2000 women on its ...

  20. Cuban women: 'Lift the blockade!'

    NIEVES ALEMANY (a member of the national secretariat of the Cuban Women's Federation, the ... They were interviewed in Melbourne on October 30 by Pip Hinman, Peter Boyle and Dave Holmes. ... objective. We considered four main resolutions: one on party statutes, another on our program, one on ...

  21. A woman's place is in the struggle: Muslim women and racism

    and they mean the world to me.Β” Edelbi described the 500,000-strong anti-war march in Sydney on ... Β“new enemyΒ” of the West, those Australians who are most visibly Muslim Β— women who wear a headscarf ... a Muslim, I have been on the receiving end of racist attacks by people who not long ago were themselves ...

  22. EU-Mercosur β€˜vampire’ trade agreement will devastate industries and environment in Latin America

    of a stalled tug-of-war between government officials and businesspeople on both sides of the ... amplified impacts. Today, how can we sign a free trade treaty if we don’t know the impacts on women ... Economy Environment Europe Imperialism & war Latin America & the Caribbean Veronica Ocvirk ...

  23. Women in Afghanistan: rhetoric vs reality

    included severe restrictions on women's freedom of movement, expression and association. During this ... Female singers are not allowed on Kabul television and women's songs are not played. Karzai's ... unmarried girls from hearing explicit details about sex from married classmates. The "war on ...

  24. Russian women confront sexist violence

    frustrations on their wives." The issue of violence against women, almost never covered by the Soviet mass ... during June put the number of women who died in Russia last year as a result of domestic violence at some ... 15,000. In this war within Russia's apartment blocks, waged against half the country's ...

  25. Kabul Diaries Part 11: Afghans say no to trade in Pakistani currency

    Economy Imperialism & war Middle East Yasmeen Afghan Kabul Diaries Taliban currency Kabul ... Posted on September 13, 2021: One of the achievements of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was the ... Hayatullah SafiΒ stated on Facebook: β€œA Proud Afghan will never accept Pakistani rupees. We should stand ...

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