This is a reposting of an article from La Via Campensina: International Peasant’s Movement. Please visit their website for more information. El Salvador has had the highest rate of femicide in the world, with 2, 250 femicides between 2010 and 2013. Guatemala … Continue reading
A reader brings this to my attention with a request I share it with the rest of our readership: Recently, eight Iranian women have had acid thrown in their faces under the pretext of “mal-veiling”. This kind of attack is … Continue reading
Malala Yousafzai first came to my attention when a friend posted a link to a video of an interview she gave on The Daily Show. He is someone for whose intellect and soundness of judgment I have great respect, and … Continue reading
Malala Yousafzai first came to my attention when a friend posted a link to a video of an interview she gave on The Daily Show. He is someone for whose intellect and soundness of judgment I have great respect, and … Continue reading
More than 30 million girls worldwide are unable to go to school either because of gender prejudice or poverty. Considerable research indicates that educating girls improves family and community health and reduces violence. Two years ago on October 9, 2012, … Continue reading
Studies show that infectious disease often affects one gender more than another — but that knowledge isn’t being put into practice…. On Aug. 14, the Washington Post reported that across Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone collectively, women have comprised 55 … Continue reading
From philosopher Catherine Womack: In health care, we’re always looking for a magic pill or new technology to save us. But in this case, the focus on experimental drugs — who gets them, how much there is of them, when … Continue reading
The current outbreak of Ebola in west Africa has prompted a fair amount of debate around the ethics of epidemic control, containment, and intervention. Some of this discussion looks at what kind of intervention (use of experimental treatment? compassionate use? … Continue reading
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It’s truly gratifying to see an international United Nations agency taking a strong interest in women’s health and rights. UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Programme on It afflicts individuals of viagra samples from doctor nearly every race, gender and age. … Continue reading
October 11 was the International Day of the Girl Child. I have to admit that I wasn’t very aware of it until one of the mailing lists to which I subscribe sent me a reminder, along with details of a … Continue reading
The UN and UNESCO spend enormous energy and resources in promulgating declarations of rights that are so abstract as to have little purchase on real social inequities. The declarations regularly fail to criticize the structures of discrimination that perpetuate the … Continue reading