women's rights
What Not to Wear: Women's Clothing and Women's Rights
This summer Lubna Hossein made world headlines by wearing pants in Sudan. She got into lots of trouble—Hussein was arrested and jailed--along with 12 other women who were given the punishment of 10 lashes and a fine.
A few weeks earlier, French President Nicholas Sarkozy said women should not wear burqas.
Statement from Members of the Women's Movement in Iran
A Teacher in Kabul Speaks Out Against the Shia Family Law and a Flaccid government
Women don't Need to Vote: A Tigua Tribe Member Explains How they Get their Say
Photo cc: Chad Horwedel
There's been lots of controversy in El Paso recently about the re-opening of a casino owned by the Tiguas.
We've heard about Human rights problems in China, how about women's rights?
The Olympics spotlight has been shone on human right's violations, lack of press and internet freedom, mistreatment of minority populations and Tibet, but what is the status of women like in China these days? How has the tsunami of globalization and some prosperity affected the lives of the other half?
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 20:46
My son was kidnapped by his father, what do I do now?
Long story, you've heard some version of it before, Betty Mahmoody most likely. I surfed the cultural divide for many years, living both abroad and in the US with my Moroccan husband, never imagining the children I would one day have could be bargaining chips.
