Bradley Klapper reports for the Associated Press, via The Washington Post: “[Secretary of State Hillary] Clinton said Tuesday that the transitions from autocracy in Egypt and Tunisia would be incomplete as long as half of society remained blocked off fro…
Andre Lunt writes for IPS: “Women’s rights campaigners are hoping for a strong turnout to public rallies set to be staged across the Islamic Republic of Iran [March 8], despite a government crackdown on opposition demonstrators in recent weeks.”
Sudarsan Raghavan writes for The Washington Post: “In a nation where women are considered second-class citizens, [Tawakkol] Karman is determined to produce a nonviolent Egypt-style revolution. . . . As the nation’s most vocal and well-known activist, the…
Kanya D’Almeida writes for IPS: “Despite birthing 100 percent of the world’s children, growing 70 percent of the world’s food and performing 60 percent of the world’s labour, women only receive a fraction – a mere 10 percent – of the world’s income.”
NOW applauds Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) for chairing a first-ever Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday on ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Eight years have lagged since the last hearing for the human rights treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
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