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The Price of Health Reform: Abortion Rights?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Rachel Morris - Nov. 10 (News Report) - Will health care reform come at the cost of abortion rights? The Democrats? historic health care bill squeaked through the House on Saturday only after pro-life forces scored a major victory. Despite months of wrangling over the public option and the price tag, in the end the legislation's fate turned on an eleventh-hour push by conservative Democrats to broaden the bill's existing limits on government funding of abortion, in the form of an amendment authored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.). Here?s what happened and what it means:

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Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By John Nichols - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Many sincere progressives in the House, and outside of it, chose to back the bill as the best that could be gotten. Others supported it on the theory that flaws could be fixed in the Senate and in the reconciliation of the House and Senate bills. But those repairs will only be made if activists are conscious of what ails this bill.

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Republicans Giving Women 'Back Of The Hand Treatment'

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Tim Taliaferro - Nov. 09 (News Report) - The Republicans who shouted down and continuously interrupted female members of the House testifying in favor of the health care bill on Saturday were giving women what amounted to the "back of the hand treatment," Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) said Monday. The abortion-rights champion and senior Democrat criticized House Republicans in a conference call with reporters and called the behavior the most disrespectful she has seen during her 17 years in elected office.

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Coulter says husbands rarely beat up their wives

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - Oct. 22 (News Analysis) - On his Fox News show, commentator Sean Hannity defended Rush Limbaugh, who was dumped by business partners bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams due to controversy about racial comments Limbaugh has made. Hannity brought on conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who argued the NFL has long been "easily very spooked by crazy left-wing hoaxes."

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U.N. Puts Female Peacekeepers on Display

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Women's eNews - By Theresa Braine - Jun. 28 (News Report) - The U.N. visitors' lobby is showcasing some of its female peacekeepers through Aug. 4. India has deployed a 125-member female police contingent to Liberia, but women are otherwise scarce in peacekeeping operations.

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Cambodia's Fearless Heroine

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Gail Sheehy - Jun. 28 (Special Report) - The Prime Minister calls her a “hustler” and a “gangster,” but Mo Sochua is a savior of women sold into sex slavery—and willing to go to prison if that’s what it takes to help them. The smile of Mo Sochua is gentle. It’s the sweet Cambodian smile, as deceptive as her birth country. The Cambodia of the headlines is a great success story: “Democracy Sprung from Bones of the Killing Fields,” or “Five Top Khmer Rouge Leaders on Trial.” But scratch the surface, says Sochua, the most outspoken human rights activist in the Parliament, and you will see Cambodia “fast regressing to a soft dictatorship.”

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No sporting chance for Saudi women

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Caryle Murphy - May. 14 (News Report) - Government officials have begun notifying female-only sports clubs that they must shut down because they don’t have licenses, according to Saudi press reports. And they don’t have licenses because ... ? That’s right! No government department is authorized to issue licenses for female-only sports clubs. The catch-22 situation is another illustration of the barriers placed in the way of Saudi women who want to exercise and participate in sports.

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Pakistan: Women vs. Taliban

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - By Evelyn Messinger - May. 11 (News Analysis) - Women across Pakistan are galvanized to act by the threat of harsh Taliban-stye Islamic law, recently instituted in parts of northwest Pakistan. Yet even among women in the region, the Taliban have defenders: for some it's just political expediency; for others, it's a path to justice in a corrupt court system.

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Hard Times for Women Living on the Edge: Economic Anxieties Send Domestic-Abuse Rates Soaring | Reproductive Justice and Gender

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Nick Turse - May. 11 (News Analysis) - Even in good times, life for poor working women can be an obstacle-filled struggle to get by. In an economic crisis, it can be hell.

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India: Embracing Girls

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - May. 01 (Special Report) - It should be a happy event having a daughter in the family, but for some women in India and a few other Asian countries it is seen as a burden. Many pregnant women experience intense pressure from family members to find out the sex of their fetuses and to abort the females. The UN Population Fund is working hard in India to educate people about gender equality and eradicate the problems cause by gender prejudices.

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Karzai Ruling Faces World Criticism

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Quqnoos - Apr. 06 (News Report) - The law which has not yet come into force, critics say the women can only seek work, education or doctor's appointments with their husband's permission. "The wife does not have the right to the provision of maintenance by the husband unless she agrees to have intercourse with him and he gets an opportunity for doing so," an article of the law says.

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Does Policy Endanger Female Soldiers?

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Katie Couric - Mar. 18 (News Report) - "For the female soldiers, it was far harder to adjust," Robert told CBS News anchor Katie Couric. "Because not only did they have to deal with combat - mortar rounds, rockets, bullets - they also had to put up with male soldiers who were away from their families for a year." A decorated soldier in his unit, Robert says he went to his Command on many occasions after female soldiers complained of sexual assaults. Nothing was done.

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Obama Sets New Course at the U.N.

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Haider Rizvi - Mar. 12 (News Report) - During the administration of George W. Bush, the UNFPA lost its U.S. funding on charges that it was trying to promote abortion, an allegation that Obaid and other officials strongly denied. In a recent statement, Obama said the resumption of U.S. funding would help not only to reduce poverty, but also improve the health of women and children and prevent HIV/AIDS. UNFPA says due to the U.S. restrictions on funding its programmes, millions of women in poor countries were unable to access health care during pregnancy and that many of them died as a result.

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Obama Sets New Course at the UN

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Haider Rizvi - Mar. 12 (News Report) - United Nations - After nearly a decade of an often tense and estranged relationship with the United Nations, Washington appears to be taking a much more conciliatory and multilateral approach to the world body.

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Appointment of Saudi Arabia’s First Female Deputy Minister Makes Waves

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Eunice del Rosario - Feb. 16 (News Report) - Meet Noura Al Fayez, teacher extraordinaire, a product of the US education system, who last Saturday became the first ever woman deputy minister in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Bloggers around the globe were abuzz as soon as the news of Al Fayez broke, with thousands of ‘Twitterers’ microblogging about the new official literally minutes after networks, including Saudi state-run Channel One, reported it on Saturday.

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Shining in rural India

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Hindu Business Line - By Rasheeda Bhagat - Feb. 06 (Special Report) - [Note: BPO is an abbreviation for Business Process Outsourcing] The Atlas Documentary Facilitators Company is a rural BPO wholly owned by HDFC Bank. Set up in the temple town of Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, it takes care of the bank’s backroom operations such as opening of new accounts, foreclosure of loans and credit card-related activities. The 550-odd employees at this BPO, which was started in July 2008, are graduates and were selected and given preliminary training by the government-run EGMM (Employment Generation Marketing Mission), which works in tandem with the Department of Rural Development. A unique characteristic of all the workers at this BPO is their rural background; about 55 per cent are women, they are first-generation graduates, and some the sole graduate from their village.

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Author: Education Will Win Afghanistan, Pakistan

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

globalatlanta.com - By Trevor Williams - Feb. 02 (News Report) - “If you educate a boy, you educate an individual,” he said. “If you educate a girl, you educate a community.” This is especially true in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan, where Islam is the predominant religious tradition, he said. Giving girls access to education has a direct effect on the recruitment efforts of extremist organizations like the Taliban, which ruled Afghanistan before the U.S. invaded in 2001. In Islamic tradition, boys need a mother’s consent to join a jihadist movement, and educated mothers are less likely to give permission if the group has militant ties, Mr. Mortenson said. For this reason, the Taliban in Afghanistan often targets illiterate males for recruitment and often attacks schools that educate girls. In 2007, militants bombed or shot at more than 500 schools. Some 80-90 percent of those were girls schools.

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Philadelphia Shows the Way to Slow Foreclosures

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Women's eNews - By Sharon Johnson - Jan. 18 (News Report) - In the face of a mounting mortgage foreclosure crisis, financial advocacy groups are helping homeowners avoid further predatory lending practices and foreclosure auctions. One effort began in June in Philadelphia, where the Court of Common Pleas now requires that mortgages of all owner-occupied properties scheduled for sale by the sheriff's office be reviewed by borrowers, lenders and the courts before they can be sold.

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Requiem for Purity

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Citizen News Service - By Shobha Shukla - Jan. 08 (Special Report) - The shocking news of the alleged gruesome death of Dr Iffat Kamal has benumbed my senses. She, a doctor by profession, was allegedly assaulted by her husband in her house at Dundee, Scotland on 10 December 2008, and after battling for ten days, succumbed to her injuries. That she, a professionally qualified and financially independent person became a prey of the brutality of her husband, has once again put a question mark on all the so called shining progress made by Indian women in recent times.

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Average Woman Worker Loses Nearly Half a Million to Pay Discrimination

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - Dec. 31 (News Report) - ..........lifetime earnings of average female workers trailed those of their male counterparts by hundreds of thousands of dollars. In one profession, the law, the gap is $1.48 million. And the pay gap understates the lifetime earnings chasm, Arons noted. Quoting Ledbetter, Arons pointed out the lifetime gap not only affects a woman's pay but her pension levels and her Social Security earnings base. All are lower.

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Economic Downturn Hits Women the Hardest

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Brittany Schell - Nov. 30 (News Report) - The effects of the sub-prime mortgage crisis on women are exacerbated by other, pre-existing problems, according to the panelists. Sara Gould, president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation, said that out of the 37 million Americans living in poverty, 27 million are women and children. In fact, she added, single mothers and their families are more likely to live in poverty than any other demographic group in the United States.

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Kenya Farmers Reap Profits Sown by Joined Hands

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Women's eNews - By Zoe Alsop - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Efforts to improve agriculture in Kenya often miss the mark by targeting men instead of women. One woman spent 20 years organizing female farmers to share investments and training. Now men are joining too, and the women's work is paying off.

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Development: Watch That Gender Space

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Sanjay Suri - Nov. 17 (News Report) - It is rather obvious that women are about half the population; it's just as obvious that in underdeveloped places they carry more than half their share of the burden. So how much of development aid gets to women? The unfortunate answer to that question is another question: who knows.

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Child Care Providers Fear Economic Undertow

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Women's eNews - By Kris Berggren - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Child care providers in Minnesota and Illinois have been changing far more than diapers over the past five years. They've also been forming diverse coalitions to make their services more affordable to lower-income clients, many of whom have been getting squeezed by state budget cutbacks. They have had many successes, such as free preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds and raising the income levels for subsidies.

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Androgynous Leaders Mean Increased Innovation

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Androgynous leaders, that is, leaders with both masculine and feminine traits, are the ones who best succeed at creating a good climate for innovation, concludes Anne Grethe Solberg, researcher at BI Norwegian Scool of Management in a new study. With the law in their hands, women have marched into the boardrooms of Norwegian companies, particularly in the public limited companies (ASA), where women now hold four out of ten directorships (40 per cent).

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