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The Great Divide: Japan Is a Model, Not a Cautionary Tale

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ - Jun. 10 (Opinion) - Opinionator | The Great Divide: Japan Is a Model, Not a Cautionary Tale

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Eight ways to solve world hunger

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Alex Renton - Jun. 09 (Opinion) - Millions of people are starving, despite the world producing more than enough to feed everyone. What can we do about it? PREVENT LAND GRABBING An ugly side of current scares over future food supply is wealthy, land-poor states, like those in the Gulf and South Korea, acquiring tracts of undeveloped countries to use as allotments. It is a campaigning cause of the multi-charity IF campaign against hunger. Ethiopia, Sudan, Madagascar and Cambodia have been targeted and a total area the size of Spain may already have been acquired. Problem: Hard to police. Difficult to distinguish between genuine investment in Africa and the expropriation of land from the poor who need it to grow their food. Chances: 3/10 BLOCK THE SPECULATORS Huge sums of investment fund money have flooded into the commodities markets since the financial crisis, looking for returns no longer available in equities. Automated trading systems that exploit tiny flaws in the market and encourage volatility make it ...

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Pay People to Cook at Home

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By KRISTIN WARTMAN - May. 11 (Opinion) - But how do we get there? For many of us, whether we are full-time workers or full-time parents, this home-cooked meal is a fantasy removed from the reality of everyday life. And so Americans continue to rely on highly processed and refined foods that are

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Best of the Web Today: 'Stop Being a Baby'

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - May. 09 (Opinion) - Infanticide and the infantilization of women.

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Prude or prudent? The debate over access to Plan B

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Kathleen Parker - May. 04 (Opinion) - They lost me at the word “women.” As so often happens in contemporary debate, arguments being proffered in support of allowing teenagers as young as 15 (and possibly younger) to buy the “morning-after pill” without adult supervision are false on their premise. ...

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Unemployment among UK women rising to 25-year high, survey finds

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Amelia Hill - Apr. 24 (Opinion) - Almost three times as many women as men have become long-term unemployed since 2010, says Fawcett Society Almost 1.5 million women could be unemployed by 2018 if the government's current plans for job growth continue as planned, according to a new survey. Women's unemployment is rising to a 25-year-high, while men's is decreasing, with 60% of new private-sector jobs since the first quarter of 2010 going to men. The report by the Fawcett Society , which campaigns for gender equality on pay, pensions, poverty, justice and politics, found that almost three times as many women as men have become long-term unemployed in the last two and a half years: 103,000 women compared with 37,000 men. The report found that women have not only already borne the brunt of cuts to the public-sector workforce but that, with 75% of the cuts yet to be felt, the future is even bleaker. Ceri Goddard, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, said: "The labour market is in the midst of enormous change. Almost a ...

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India Considers Banning Pornography as Reported Sexual Assault Rises

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Neha Thirani Bagri, Heather Timmons - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - India Ink: India Considers Banning Pornography as Reported Sexual Assault Rises

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Women hit back at India's rape culture

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Gethin Chamberlain - Apr. 06 (Comment) - A self-defence group in Lucknow have a simple message to the men who make their lives a misery – stop it, or else The male tormentor of the young women of the Madiyav slum did not spot the danger until it was too late. One moment he was taunting them with sexual suggestions and provocations; the next they had hold of his arms and legs and had hoisted him into the air. Then the beating began. Some of the young women lightly used their fists, others took off their shoes and hit him with those. When it was over, they let him limp away to nurse his wounds, certain that he had learned an important lesson: don't push your luck with the Red Brigade. Named for their bright red outfits, the Red Brigade was formed in November 2011 as a self-defence group for young women suffering sexual abuse in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, 300 miles south-east of Delhi. Galvanised by the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi last December and the nationwide protests that followed ...

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In India, Women's Issues Are Finally Out Front

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Vikas Bajaj - Mar. 23 (Opinion) - The rape and murder of a young woman in New Delhi last year may have been a tipping point in a long struggle.

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Inadequate Treatment of Ovarian Cancer

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Mar. 14 (Editorial) - A study that shows widespread failure in ovarian-cancer treatment suggests a need for new ways to help patients and doctors find specialists who can help them.

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Why girls in India are still missing out on the education they need

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Rachel Williams - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - India is no longer considered a poor country and yet many children do not receive a good education. Rachel Williams reports Meena (not her real name) didn't tell her parents when the older boys started harassing her on the hour-long walk to school from her home in Madanpur Khadar, south Delhi – grabbing her hand and shouting "kiss me" – because she knew she would get the blame, as if she had somehow encouraged them. She was right: when her family found out, they banned her from going back to school, worried about the effect on their "honour" if she was sexually assaulted. The plan now is to get her married. She is 16. Gulafsha is luckier: her mother is determined she will become a doctor. But there are 70 pupils in a class at her school, and the teachers often simply don't turn up. The drinking water tanks are so filthy the pupils bring their own water. "I have never gone to a toilet at school in all these years, they are so bad," the 14-year-old says. She doesn't know how, but somehow her ...

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Strong Calls for Change on Eve of China's National Congress

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Didi Kirsten Tatlow - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - As China’s Parliament, the National People’s Congress, opens Tuesday, some are calling for changes to the re-education-through-labor system, which one delegate said causes citizens to “live in fear.”

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India Ink: India’s Budget Targets Women

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By NIHARIKA MANDHANA, HEATHER TIMMONS - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - Women’s only bank and new safety fund.

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Cry, the Misogynistic Country

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By EUSEBIUS McKAISER - Feb. 21 (Opinion) - The Pistorius case shows that violent crime is not limited to the poor or committed only by impoverished blacks against wealthy whites.

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Can Iceland lead the way towards a ban on violent online pornography?

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Tracy McVeigh - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - The country prides itself on its progressive attitudes, but anti-censorship campaigners say move is a backward step Small, volcanic, with a proud Viking heritage and run by an openly gay prime minister, Iceland is now considering becoming the first democracy in the western world to try to ban online pornography. A nationwide consultation has found wide support for the move from police and lawyers working in the field of sexual violence, along with health and education professionals, according to Halla Gunnarsdóttir, adviser to the interior minister Ögmundur Jónasson. Ministers are now looking at the results. "We are a progressive, liberal society when it comes to nudity, to sexual relations, so our approach is not anti-sex but anti-violence. This is about children and gender equality, not about limiting free speech," she said. "Research shows that the average age of children who see online porn is 11 in Iceland and we are concerned about that and about the increasingly violent nature of ...

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India vs. China vs. Egypt

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Thomas L. Friedman - Feb. 06 (Opinion) - Which one will thrive the most in the 21st century? The race is on.

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Forced contraception of Jewish Ethopian women is tip of global iceberg | Lisa Hallgarten

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Lisa Hallgarten - Jan. 30 - A report claims Israel pressured women to reduce its poor black population. Reproductive rights need defending across the world Should gynaecologists need to be told not to give women contraceptive injections without establishing fully informed consent? Of course not. But that is what has happened in Israel after it was revealed in a report by a women's rights organisation that Ethiopian women have been given injections of Depo-Provera without sufficient understanding of the purpose or side effects of the drug. Some Ethiopian women in transit camps were refused entry to the country if they refused the injection , and others wrongly believed they were being inoculated against disease. While Israeli demographers discuss the need to " preserve a clear and undisputed Jewish majority among Israel's total population ", it may seem anomalous that women in the Jewish Ethiopian population are forced or coerced into using this highly effective contraceptive method. However, the conclusions of the ...

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Opinion: Combat experiment dangerous

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Jerry Boykin - Jan. 26 (Opinion) - On Thursday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the Obama administration would allow women to be placed in positions that will expose them more directly to fighting with enemy ground forces. It is said that this will allow women to fill hundreds of thousands of combat roles from which they are currently excluded. Substantively, this is a poor idea. Furthermore, the decision-making process used to bring this change about is deeply flawed.

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Editorial: America’s Health Disadvantage

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - The United States shockingly ranks at or near the bottom compared with other advanced nations.

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The War on Pakistan's Aid Workers

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 05 (Opinion) - Recent attacks, possibly by militants, are jeopardizing critical efforts to wipe out polio in Pakistan.

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The Unspeakable Truth About Rape in India

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Sonia Faleiro - Jan. 02 (Opinion) - The volume of protests in the case of a gang-rape victim in Delhi show that change is possible.

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At Year's End, News of a Global Health Success

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Tina Rosenberg - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - The stunning drop in global child mortality is proof that poor countries are not doomed to eternal misery. Here's how it happened.

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Campaign Stops: The Culture War and the Jobs Crisis

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Thomas B. Edsall - Nov. 12 (Opinion) - Does the Obama coalition have the capacity to re-engineer capitalism to produce sustained economic growth while working toward social justice?

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Campaign Stops: Blunders and Binders

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:22:00 -0700

New York Times - By By CHARLES M. BLOW - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - Now that’s what I’m talking about. Tuesday’s debate went the way folks thought the first one would: with President Obama outmaneuvering Mitt Romney, defending his own record forcefully and not letting Romney slip away from his. Obama called Romney out on

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Can Marissa Mayer Really Have It All?

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Lisa Miller - Oct. 07 (Opinion) - Marissa Mayer, as CEO of Yahoo! is living evidence, since her move from Google earlier this year, that fertility, intellect, and ambition can co-exist and be a strong point.

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