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"If I Had Only Known" - Abuse Project Engages Newcomer Communities2011-03-04
Family Service Toronto
Family Service Toronto has chosen the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day (March 8, 2011) to launch a series of publications for its If I Had Only Known project - a groundbreaking initiativ...
IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence2009-11-25
IFEX
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
IFJ Condemns Strip Humiliation of Women Journalists in Sierra Leone2009-02-19
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists strongly condemns the humiliating and degrading treatment suffered by four women journalists who were stripped naked in public in Sierra Leone while coverin...
IFJ Marks on 25 November the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women2014-12-04
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has marked 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which this year is focused on workplace violence in the...
IPS Africa Launches Reporting Gender-Based Violence Handbook2010-01-03
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa has launched a new handbook for reporters to support sustained media coverage of gender-based violence beyond 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children.
Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza2009-06-30
Human Rights Watch
Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
Israeli army raids on Bil'in village 2009-07-09
Tadamon
Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
Sources welcomes Pearson Peacekeeping Centre2009-01-23
Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) is a Canadian-based institution dedicated to making international peace operations more effective through research, education and training, and capacity developme...
Threatening email orders Bangladeshi media to fire women2015-10-27
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the threats against news media and bloggers contained in a email that was sent to a score of Bangladeshi print and broadcast media outlets on 19 October, and calls o...
Sources Select Resources
Afghan Young Women Protest Killing WomenArticle
2012
Cryptome
Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, holding placards which read 'where is justice?', take part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14, 2012. Some...
Close to a Thousand Nigerian Girls Freed, Many Malnourished or PregnantVives,Lisa
Article
Inter Press Service
Thousands of Nigerian former hostages are liberated, a large number of them were malnourished or pregnant.
Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism FocusWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
Criminalizing First-GradersArrested and Handcuffed for Tantrums
Brauchli, Christopher
Article
2010
CounterPunch
All across the nation, schools have adopted draconian zero-tolerance policies that treat children like criminals and turn schools into prison-like environments.
Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at ViolenceDiemer, Ulli
Article
1991
Connexions Information Sharing Services / Ulli Diemer
Why are some men violent?
Daughters of India Violated and Abused A Woman's Lot
Peebles, Graham
Article
2013
CounterPunch
Widespread sexual abuse rapes the land and inflicts harm upon the women of India who are isolated from the emerging "New India".
Feminist Resistance in SerbiaHughes, Donna M.; Mladjenovic, Lepa; Mrsevic, Zorica
Article
1995
European Journal of Women’s Studies
Describes the conditions and factors influencing women’s lives in Serbia in 1995, and the ways women have organised to resist violence and assist one another.
Global report launched on violence and harassment against women in the news mediaArticle
2014
International News Safety Institute
The core findings of a joint report on violence and harassment against women in the news media by INSI and the International Women's Media Foundtaion (IWMF).
Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on ChildrenDeutsch, Judith
Article
2018
Socialist Project
A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers ...
Guatemala: Murders of Women Recall Counterinsurgency TechniquesArticle
2009
Inter Press Service
The worst waves of brutal, unsolved murders of women in Latin America have been seen in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico's northern border, where close to 400 killings have been reported since 1993, and Guate...
Guernica Written With the Hands and Hearts of ChildrenArticle
2009
Alternative Information Center
The keynote speaker at the launch of the exhibition Gaza's childrens' paintings, referred to the paintings as 'a toxic cargo of beautiful but unwelcome images which it is necessary that we see and ack...
Health care and children in crisis in GazaGarfinkle, Miriam; Abdul-Qadir, Reem
Article
2007
These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured ...
The 'Honor' Killing of Aqsa ParvezArticle
2008
Workers Vanguard
Feminists and reformist left have for the most part met the spate of 'honour' killings within Canada with disgraceful silence.
How To Make India Safer For Women Flower, Merlin
Article
2013
CounterCurrents
What’s to be done to make India, a country where women are veneered in the temple and beaten at home, safer for women?
Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns
Bowcott, Owen
Article
2017
The Guardian
The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orp...
IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violenceSources News Release
Article
2009
IFEX
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
IFJ Condemns Strip Humiliation of Women Journalists in Sierra LeoneSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists strongly condemns the humiliating and degrading treatment suffered by four women journalists who were stripped naked in public in Sierra Leone while coverin...
India is taking acid attacks more seriouslyLakshmi, Rama
Article
2013
Guardian Weekly
Women campaign for courts and public to take notice of impact of devastating assaults.
IPS Africa Launches Reporting Gender-Based Violence HandbookSources News Release
Article
2010
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa has launched a new handbook for reporters to support sustained media coverage of gender-based violence beyond 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children.
ISIS Slave Market Puts Women and Girls on Same List as CattleEnsler, Eve
Article
2015
La Repubblica
I am thinking of the price list leaked out from the ISIS Sex Slave Market that included women and girls on the same list as cattle. ISIS needed to impose price controls as they were worried about a do...
Israeli rabbi who advocated rape of 'comely gentile women' during war becomes chief army rabbiOfir, Jonathan
Article
2016
Mondoweiss
“New IDF Chief Rabbi: in times of war it is permissible for soldiers to "have sex with comely gentile women against their will".
Killing Children: From Ireland to PalestineMurphy, Pauline
Article
2018
CounterPunch
The most tragic casualty in a conflict is that of a child, the most disturbing casualty in a conflict is that of a child killed purposely. In Palestine there is a disturbingly tragic high rate of chil...
One Group Has a Higher Domestic Violence Rate Than Everyone Else - And It's Not the NFLBianco, Marcie
Article
2014
mic.com
In families of police officers, domestic violence is two-to-four times more likely than in the general population -- from stalking and harassment to sexual assault and even homicide.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016International Women's Day
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forwar...
Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was JustifiedArticle
2014
Counter Current News
The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child. The family lives in Pierre, South Dakota and belong to the Rosebud...
Reporting Gender Based ViolenceA Handbook for Journalists
Article
2009
Inter Press Service (IPS)
Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling medi...
Seeds of FireA People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
The silencing crime: Sexual violence and journalistsWolfe, Lauren
Article
2011
Committee to Protect Journalists
Few cases of sexual assault against journalists have ever been documented, a product of powerful cultural and professional stigmas. But now dozens of journalists are coming forward to say they have be...
Stones Aimed at UsAn Overview of the Discourse and Strategies of the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign
Article
2010
Violence Is Not Our Culture / Shadi Sadr / Stop Stoning Forever
This report provides an overview of the discourses around stoning in Iran, and the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign.
Stoning in Muslim Contexts: A Mapping ReportArticle
2012
Violence is Not our Culture / Justice for Iran
This report locates where the punishment of stoning still exists, either through judicial or extrajudicial methods.
Threatening email orders Bangladeshi media to fire womenSources News Release
Article
2015
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the threats against news media and bloggers contained in a email that was sent to a score of Bangladeshi print and broadcast media outlets on 19 October, and calls o...
Torturing and Jailing Palestinian ChildrenNightmare in the Occupied Territories
Abbas, Ziad
Article
2013
CounterPunch
About 500-700 children are arrested by the Israeli occupation every year, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine. These children face a policy designed to kill their spirit and shut...
The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist SocietiesNamazie, Maryam
Article
2007
International Humanist and Ethical Union
The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why 'improper' or 'bad' v...
Violence Against Women: Why The UN Secretary-General Got It WrongBurrowes, Robert J.
Article
2017
Countercurrents
Burrowes argues that efforts to resolve violence aganist women are futile unless the focus shifts to preventing emotional and physical violence against children, with particular emphasis on boys.
The War on Women--And Us AllAgainst The Current vol. 158
The Editors
Article
2012
Against The Current
The war on women’s reproductive rights is being fought in the U.S. Congress, in state legislatures and in the courts, and played out in the media. This war seeks to restrict women’s ability to control...
Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?Diemer, Ulli
Article
2008
Radical Digressions
History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'fem...
Sources Bookshelf
Manufacturing ConsentThe Political Economy of the Mass Media
Herman, Edward S.; Chomsky, Noam
Book
1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets...
Seeds of FireA People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
Canadian Woman StudiesA feminist quarterly that makes current writing and research on a variety of feminist topics accessible to the largest possible community of women.
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