Womb for hire

Pabitra Mukhopadhyay for Aid Netherlands blog: “Though surrogacy as an assisted procedure to get a human baby is a debated issue worldwide with enough loose moral, ethical, social and geo-political strings, in India surrogacy arrangements continue to be…

‘Whistleblower” Screening Disturbs Peace at U.N.

Amy Lieberman for Women’s eNews: “U.N. peacekeepers’ violations of women they are supposed to protect was brought uncomfortably close to home by the recent screening of “The Whistleblower” at U.N. headquarters earlier this month.”

Saudi Women Can Vote In National Election, King Says

Abdullah al-Shihri and Hamza Hendawi writing for the Huffington Post: “Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, considered a reformer by the standards of his own ultraconservative kingdom, decreed on Sunday that women will for the first time have the right to vote…