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January 11, 2004 09:43 PM posted by lisa : track it (0)

Royal Call To Combat Abuse Against Women
Her Majesty Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hjh Saleha expressed concern over many forms of violence and abuse practiced against women worldwide and called on women's organisations to educate women by raising their awareness on their rights.
Her Majesty said this in her titah yesterday while officiating the 7th Area Conference for South East Asia and Far East of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW).

Women-only hostels
Most backpacker hostels are determinedly unisex, but a new chain in Australia and New Zealand offers something special for girls.
It's an exclusive females-only zone called The Sanctuary - where no males are allowed to tread - in hostels operated by base Backpackers

Tech firms aware of women, but dimly
Here's a revelation straight from the floor of the world's largest gadget festival: Women buy technology. About half of all consumer electronics sold, in fact.
But despite efforts to understand the female customer, manufacturers and retailers still just don't seem to get it. Women not only don't seem to enjoy shopping for technology, they also don't think manufacturers make products designed for their specific needs.

Single Women May Decide 2004 Election
Unmarried women are emerging as a new voting bloc in the upcoming presidential election later this year. The trick will be getting this group, which has a relatively low turnout rate, to the voting booth in November

Women Go Blind Twice as Often as Men
Of the 40 million people affected by blindness worldwide, two-thirds are women. If the gender-related causes of the disease aren't better addressed, the number of blind around the world could double in 25 years.

This Year's Welfare Bill Trashes 'Family Values'
When the 1996 welfare law is renewed this year, let's hope Olympia Snowe can persuade the Senate to show enough 'family values' to fund adequate child care support for single mothers being asked to spend longer hours working away from their children

Weight Probed as Factor in Birth-Control Failures
A woman's weight can affect her birth-control options. Weight is being studied as a factor in the reliability of birth-control pills, while women over 198 pounds face higher failure rates with the contraceptive patch

Lung Cancer in Women Neglected Epidemic
Lung cancer is the top cancer killer among women, yet doctors and researchers find few treatments and smoking-cessation programs designed specifically for women

Food Marketers Pitch 'Strong Women' Products
The "origami" women on the wrappers of a nutrition bar and "strong women" summits co-hosted by a yogurt company show how two food companies are marketing to women seen as more nutrition-conscious and confident than ever.

Afghan Women Now Citizens; Too-Male Book Review?
The head of the United Nations women's rights committee said this week the recent adoption of a constitution for Afghanistan marks the beginning of a new era of gender equality in the country.
The Afghan Constitution, adopted on Sunday, explicitly guarantees that men and women have equal rights and duties before the law.
A new study from Brown University says The New York Times Book Review overwhelmingly favors books and book reviews written by men.
The study looked at 53 issues of the Sunday book review published consecutively between 2002 and 2003 and found that 72 percent of all books reviewed were written by men and 66 percent of all reviews also carried a male byline.

State Appeals Court Says Gay Dad Must Hide Lifestyle
A state appeals court says a gay father must keep his homosexuality in the closet when his son is around.
But the state Court of Appeals says it was wrong for a lower court to send Joseph Randolph Hogue to jail for simply telling the boy he was gay

Tennessee Case Focuses on Violence Against Pregnant Women
A Tennessee case is raising new questions about the manner in which the law treats unborn victims of crime.
Police say two men who have been charged with shooting a pregnant woman in Nashville could face an additional murder charge for killing the woman's unborn baby.

Cheney Would Support Gay Marriage Ban
Vice President Dick Cheney, who has said states should handle the issue of gay marriage, now says he would support President Bush if he proposes a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Cheney, whose daughter is a lesbian, told The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News in interviews published Saturday that he still believes states should handle the issue, but that he would support Bush's decision.

LA Couple Arrested for Seeking to Circumcise Girls
A Los Angeles man who allegedly offered to circumcise young girls for undercover FBI agents posing as their parents was arrested along with his girlfriend on Friday in what prosecutors said was the first U.S. case of its kind.
Todd Cameron Bertrang and Robyn Faulkinbury -- who prosecutors say met with undercover FBI agents to arrange circumcisions for two fictitious girls -- were taken into custody at their home outside Los Angeles.

Court Allows Kenyan Pupils With H.I.V. Into Schools
An American priest who runs East Africa's largest orphanage for AIDS-affected children won a court battle yesterday that will force the Kenyan government to admit 72 children from the home into public schools

Smoking linked to breast cancer
Scientists have produced data which suggests smoking increases the risk of breast cancer.

More mothers returning to work
The majority of mothers of under-fives now have full-time or part-time jobs, according to research published by the Office for National Statistics on Thursday.

Schoolgirls 'expelled' for lesbian kissing shows
Two 12-year-old girls have been "encouraged" to leave their school by the headteacher after they were caught charging boys money for a public kissing session in the school cafeteria.
The schoolgirls, who have not been identified, apparently got the idea for the kiss after watching Britney Spears and Madonna kiss during last year's MTV awards.

Who's Co-opting Feminism?
"Are you an ifeminist? Take this quiz to find out."
I click on the link. 'Interesting,' I think to myself. 'This will be an entertaining yet informative way to kill an idle ten minutes before my class.'
But what is "ifeminism," anyway? More than likely, we are all at least somewhat familiar with liberal feminism, radial feminism, ecofeminism, and a whole host of others. But I for one had never even heard of ifeminism. Curious to learn about it, I happened upon a website called www.ifeminists.com and read the introduction

On Sex Positiveness
Sex Positive! What a great new buzz word to start off the millenium!
The first time I heard the words were in regards to Radical feminism. A "Sex Positive Radical Feminist." Well by Goddess, I'm a Radical feminist!
And because I am, I started to get a tickle in my head. I don't know, maybe it was just the feather in my hat....
I looked at the words again: Sex Positive Radical Feminist. Is this some kind of new and improved Radical feminism, I wondered? And are there other kinds of Radical feminists, I puzzled? Are there Sex Neutral Radical Feminists, for example? How 'bout Sex Negative Radical Feminists? And who in the world would identify themselves by the latter two?

Lest We Forget
On November 11 the silence of Remembrance Day was broken by the screams of a woman named Reta Kaur, wailing 'War is murder, war is murder of women, children and men'. The message quickly silenced by the mainstream media, and Ruxton's bigoted comment 'go back to where you came from you old hag.' Who is Reta Kaur, was their some sanity in her screams? Why did a grossly sexist comment by a veteran, receive more attention that her desperate plea to end the murder of women, children and civilians through war? Anti-Iraq war campaigners face the challenge of dismembering patriarchal notions of the 'warrior hero,' that have prevailed for thousands of years. The romanticism of war is far from dead, nor is the bloody reality.

Jails for Jesus
President Bush wants faith-based programs to take over social services. But what happens when evangelical Christians try their hand at running prisons?

Fighting for Justice in Honduras
When Maria Luisa Borjas became internal affairs director of the Honduran police force, she thought she had finally gotten a chance to root out the corruption and abuse that had long tainted the institution she loves. She didn’t realize the assignment might mark the beginning of the end of her highly acclaimed career in law enforcement.
Policing the police, Borjas investigated officers allegedly responsible for extra-judicial killings, and she got close to what she believes was a cover-up reaching high levels of government. But the minister of security removed her from her post early this year, six months after she had assumed it.

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