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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. United States: What if Black insurrectionists said: ‘We’re taking over the Capitol to end racism’?

   Anti-racism Democracy Elections Far right North America Malik Miah 2021 attack on US Capitol Black ... been met by armed police and National Guard units. Blood would have flowed on the streets even without ... white skin. It is the only way to understand what happened on January 6 and how the state has responded ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Tigrean community campaigns against genocide

   through the city streets on April 23 to protest the war on the north-eastern Ethiopian province by the ... Anti-racism Imperialism & war Alex Salmon Tigray militias United Tegaru- Australia NZ ... Ethiopian army, Eritrean and United Arab Emirates and Amahara militias. The war started in November and has ...

7. 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 — "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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. HISTORICAL FEATURE: The Korean War — a war of counter-revolution

    The Korean War: a war of counter-revolution SEOUL — 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 — The Fourth Women in Asia Conference ...

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

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

14. 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 ...

15. 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 “Guiding Vision” of the Women’s March on Washington (which can be ... identified themselves as “nasty women” — a reference to Trump’s misogynistic attack on his Democratic ...

16. 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 ...

17. Sanitising imperialism — The problem with 'The Daughters of Kobani'

    the active participation of women fighters on the frontlines of the war against ISIS was ... Units (YPG) and YPJ’s war (and by extension Washington’s war) on the Islamic State (ISIS)? What is the ... building drone technology. Lemmon has been something of an indispensable pen wielder for the US War on ...

18. 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 ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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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