Today the International Criminal Court indicted Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir for genocide. He is charged with killing hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan and its Darfur region, and corralling the surviving women and girls into terrifying camps where they are being quietly and systematically raped until their peoples are destroyed.
The ICC made history [...]
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ICC indicts Sudan’s President, Omar Al Bashir, for genocide
Posted in Advocacy, Development, Gender Issues, Globalization, International Politics, world news on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not allowed to buy any books, but if I was…
Posted in Books, Development, Globalization, International Politics on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I would get The Shape of the Beast by Arundhati Roy.
I read this little excerpt today:
We ought not to speak only about the economics of globalization, but also about the psychology of globalization. It’s like the psychology of a battered woman being faced with her husband again and being asked to trust him again. [...]
The Crisis in Zimbabwe, A Gender Perspective
Posted in Advocacy, Feminism, Gender Issues, International Politics on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just read this amazing interview by Rochelle Jones from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID). Read on…
AWID interviews Shereen Essof, a Zimbabwean feminist living in Cape Town, and Thoko Matshe, a feminist, women’s rights activist and poet – about how gender compounds the already appalling social and political spheres inside Zimbabwe.
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AWID: The Mugabe [...]
