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December 11, 2004 04:00 PM posted by lisa : track it (0)

Targeting Tehran
By beaming dissent into Iran, much of it aimed at improving the lot of women, expat broadcasters are weakening the clerics’ chokehold on news

The Fire This Time
A new report saying Latinos bear the brunt of environmental health threats in the U.S. prompts soul-searching among green groups and adds new fuel to the Latino environmental justice movement
The P.U.-litzer Prizes For 2004
There are media awards of all kinds, but none so foul and smelly as these.

Keep on Rocking Us: An Interview With Jehmu Green
The director and spokesperson for Rock the Vote talks about celebrity involvement, what she's learned from the election, and the issues that will keep the momentum going.
Star's breast x-ray 'illegal'
A Dutch actress who posted x-rays of her boobs on her website to prove they are natural has been accused of breaking the law.

Cambodian sex workers abducted
More than 80 women have been abducted from a shelter for rescued sex workers in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.

Marriages made in hell
At an Islamabad women's refuge, with an address cloaked in secrecy and a perimeter guarded by barbed wire, 21-year-old Sharzia - whose name has been changed to protect her identity - broke down in tears as she described the horror of her forced marriage.

How did rape become a weapon of war?
Women's bodies have become part of the terrain of conflict, according to a new report by Amnesty International.

Women cleverer than men, says MP
Women are brighter than men, according to the Labour chairman of the Commons education committee

All the World's a Stage for Anti-Violence Campaign
From cosmetics counters in luxury department stores to subways where performance art was carried out in secret, the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence made all the world its stage.
In TV Anchor Land, Time Stands Still for Women
As Tom Brokaw passes on his anchor duties to Brian Williams, commentator Caryl Rivers asks when a woman will sit in one of the most powerful chairs of TV news.
U.S. Gag Rule Included in Emergency Spending Bill
Language slipped into the Omnibus spending bill--expected to pass Congress today--permits medical personnel, hospitals and insurers to privately ban abortions and even to bar employees from making referrals.
Burlesque Comeback Tries to Dance With Feminism
Women have rediscovered burlesque and are working to make the performance genre their own. Have they stripped away the stereotypes or are they still just left with the old bump 'n' grind?

Ukraine's Top Dissident Raises a Rare Female Voice
Ukraine's Yulia Timoshenko is rich, powerful and leading the country's political opposition--a sharp contrast to the position of most women in her strife-torn nation.

Gender bias case due hearing
A landmark gender-equity law should protect people who report complaints of discrimination, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.
The court heard arguments in the case of an Alabama coach fired when he protested the unequal treatment of his girls' high school basketball team.

CBS, NBC ban church ad inviting gays
The CBS and NBC networks have refused to run an ad by a liberal church promoting the acceptance of people regardless of sexual orientation because the networks believe the ad is advocacy advertising.

FDA advisers vote against female sex drug
In a move that could chill excitement about experimental drugs to treat female sexual dysfunction, federal advisers refused to endorse a new testosterone patch for women.

Ottawa shuts loophole for exotic dancers
The federal government will no longer assess whether Canada has enough exotic dancers, in effect removing a loophole that put hundreds of foreign women on an immigration fast-track.

Michigan Woman Can See Court Records of Her Secret Teen Abortion
After almost five years of legal battles, a Michigan woman has been allowed to view court records of a judicial waiver granted to her at age 15 that allowed her to obtain an abortion without her mother's consent.
The woman, known as FG, was originally denied a request to view her court file in 2000.

Schools barred from telling parents of abortion
California schools cannot inform parents if their children leave campus to receive certain confidential medical services that include abortion, AIDS treatment and psychological analysis, according to an opinion issued by the office of state Attorney General Bill Lockyer

Broadcasters Refuse to Air 'Phil the Sore' Syphilis Ad
Los Angeles health officials are having trouble finding a TV station willing to air a public service announcement about syphilis that employs a lumpy, red cartoon character named “Phil the Sore”.

'Shelter' for Divorced Dads
Italy's first "shelter" for divorced dads will open in the northern city of Bolzano on Saturday as fathers step up the fight for their rights in a country long dominated by the Italian "mamma."

Pay closer attention: Boys are struggling academically
Boys are doing miserably, and nobody knows quite why. On measures ranging from writing ability to the likelihood of needing special education, boys are flat-lining - or worse.
The phenomenon is most serious in inner cities, but it's evident in even the wealthiest school districts. And it's not confined to the United States. The same trend is turning up throughout the industrialized world.

Gays challenge military policy
The Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is being challenged by 12 gays who have been separated from the military because of their homosexuality.

Senator offers bill
to outlaw spanking
A Liberal Party senator in Canada has introduced a bill to outlaw spanking.
The bill, offered by Sen. Celine Hervieux-Payette, would remove the defense contained in the nation's criminal code for parents and educators who use corporal punishment, the Montreal Gazette reported. Without the defense, parents and teachers would be subject to assault charges for spanking children.

Rulings against gay couples in state court
Thirteen same-sex couples who sued New York state for denying them marriage licenses lost a round in court Tuesday.

State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi ruled that the couples do not have a fundamental right to wed and that their constitutional rights were not violated

Amnesty: Rapes in War Zones Not Punished
Women and girls in war zones suffer rape and violent abuse while offenders escape punishment, Amnesty International said a report released Wednesday. Because national authorities have failed to act to halt such abuses, the human rights group says such cases should be a priority for the new international criminal court.

Great Ideas of Homeschooling
If you have the desire to homeschool, do it! Parents, you have the responsibility for educating your children, not the State. If you even suspect that the public education system is short-changing your child (which in all probability, it is), act to change that! Every day of your child's life is of vital importance, and you will never be able to call back lost hours; lost days; lost years. Act now to provide an excellent education for your children. The odds are extremely high that loving, nurturing parents will be wise enough to homeschool: intelligent enough to discover which subjects they can teach; astute enough to realize for which subjects they may need help; and motivated enough to find such help.

A Moral Minimum Wage
Engaging in a vigorous fight to raise our meager minimum wage is clearly the morally right thing to do. But it may also be the politically astute thing for Democrats to do.

No warlords in Afghan cabinet, say Afghan women
Several women of Afghan origin took the streets in Islamabad on Friday to demand that notorious warlords and fundamentalists in their country be kept out of the new cabinet in Kabul.

Joined by men and children, the women said that Afgahnistan's popularly elected President Hamid Karzai should not include the warlords or fundamentalists in the cabinet that is to be sworn in early next week.

Test helps women decide on chemo
A genetic profiling test accurately predicts which breast-cancer patients will benefit from chemotherapy and which won't, a powerful tool to help decide whether to undergo the ordeal, scientists report.

Abnormal Pap Smears Common in Women with Lupus
Women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are more likely to have an abnormal Pap test result than other women, according to a new report. This is important because abnormal smears can be associated with cervical cancer.
"From the results of our...study, I would recommend cervical screening at least once a year for all women with lupus," preferably with testing for HPV, a type of virus that can be associated with cervical cancer, Dr. Lai-Shan Tam from Chinese University of Hong Kong, told Reuters Health.

Women more at risk from climate change: Canadian at UN conference
Severe weather caused by global warming can pose greater physical danger to women than men, a Canadian attending a UN conference on climate change said Friday.

Women Missing From Heart Drug Ads
Canadian researchers said gender bias in pharmaceutical advertisements for cardiovascular disease may affect treatment of women.
University of Toronto researchers examined 919 cardiovascular drug ads displayed in American medical and cardiovascular journals published between January 1996 and June 1998. They found that 80 percent depicted male patients and the remaining 20 percent featured women

Battlefield Earth
The environment is in trouble and the religious right doesn't care. It's time to act as if the future depends on us – because it does

Sex And Race Play
On the edge of edgy sex, racial S&M excites some and reviles others

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