Violence Against Women

Murder In Jefferson’s Village: UVA Death Exposes Reality of Intimate Partner Violence

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I have always held the torch so high for my alma mater UVA (University of Virginia) that I was pretty much blind to any criticism about the University: Perfect UVA in perfect little Charlottesville where perfect students study. Needless to say that when I read about the murder of Lacrosse player Yeardley Love allegedly by […]

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6 Out of 10 Migrant Women Raped In Mexico

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If that headline doesn’t convince you why immigration is a feminist issue, I honestly don’t know what will. Amnesty International reports that six out of 10 women and girls experience sexual violence as they cross through Mexico hoping to come to the United States. Rape is so common, in fact, that some smugglers allegedly demand

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A Woman Like Benazir

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This month, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry investigating the death of Benazir Bhutto released a report which tells us nothing we did not already know: The 2007 assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Bhutto could have been prevented if the government of then President Pervez Musharraf had provided her with “adequate security”. Thank you,

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The End of The Affair: Karzai No Longer The Puppet US Needs Him To Be

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Just when you thought nothing could make the US war in Afghanistan get any worse, it has. American public support for the war is at an all time low, more and more people want to call it a day in Kabul and bring the troops home, Afghan civilian causalities continue to mount, and the question

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Watering Your Neighbor’s Garden: The Global War On Baby Girls

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According to Chinese State media, when local residents first discovered the bodies of 21 babies along the riverbank, they thought they were toys. The babies, who ranged in age from newborns to several months, had hospital tags linking them back to the Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, a city in eastern China. It is

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The Case of Japan’s Princess Masako: Sons Over Daughters

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The other day, I was reading this post about how Japan’s Princess Aiko has been missing school because of bullying by some boys at her elementary school. While this news is disturbing in itself, what caught my attention was the reference the article made to Aiko’s mother, Princess Masako. Anybody remember this woman? Her story

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The Real Questions We Should Be Asking “Lady Al-Qaeda”

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It is always a good recipe for the media to sexualize the mystique which surrounds the ever  elusive Muslim woman: Is she a burqa-clad victim of her own religion, or a strong woman of choices who is forever fighting off labels and stereotypes? Or is she a supportive partner to her terrorist male counterpart, plotting

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For France, Banning The Burqa Is Not The Answer

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The issue of banning the burqa in France has generated so much heat over the past few months that one would assume the ban had already come into effect. Not so. Since French President Nicolas Sarkozy famously stated that, “the burqa is not a religious sign, it is a sign of the subjugation, of the submission

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