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Middle East | Yemen | Activism

Yemeni women stage rare protest in rebel-held capital

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Hundreds of Yemeni women protested Friday in the country’s rebel-held capital over a shortage of gasoline, a rare sign of dissent against the Shiite Houthi rebels who overran Sanaa in September. The demonstration started at a women-only gas station when a station official told some 500 waiting customers there was no fuel, protester Onisya Mahfouz said. A fight broke out and a woman slapped the official, who detained her and four others, Mahfouz said. The women staged an impromptu sit-in, burning tires and demanding the detained women be released. They accused the Houthi station managem
North America | United States | Activism

Catholic Nun Explains Pro-Life In A Way That Will Stun Many (Especially Republican Lawmakers)

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In one simple quote, Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B. sums up the hypocrisy in the 'pro-life' movement: "I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."
South Asia | Pakistan | Activism

Political participation: ‘Women better at handling local governments than men’

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Local governments take care of four principal municipal issues: water management and sanitation; health and education; property supervision and solving local conflicts; overseeing expenditure of resources, Irfan Mufti of South Asia Partnership Pakistan said at a conference on Thursday. “And women are more competent to handle these matters than their male counterparts.” Mufti was addressing women home-based workers at a conference organised by HomeNet Pakistan and UN Women. An unprecedented number of women got public office as a result of the previous local elections, Mehnaz Rafi, a p
Europe | Kosovo | Activism

Kosovo exhibition of dresses and skirts in Pristina to remember women who suffered sexual violence in wartime

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Over 5,000 skirts and dresses have been hung out on washing lines in Kosovo in the heart of a male preserve, Pristina’s main football stadium. Many have messages written on them. All have been donated to the exhibition. They are there to draw attention to the stigma suffered by victims of wartime sexual violence, the idea of artist Alketa Xhafa-Mripa. “There is no help, there is no support, there is no status for them, then basically I thought how could I contribute in my artistic way for the survivors,” she said. Kosovo’s first female president Atifete Jahjaga donated one of her
Europe | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Activism

Bosnia – Women’s Court to Demand Justice for War Crimes

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On May 7, the Women's Court on war crimes against women during the war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s formally started in Sarajevo, Bosnia, according to a press release distributed by the WUNRN listserve. Women have come together from all the corners of the former nation to demand justice for the crimes committed against them during the wars and the enduring inequalities and suffering that followed. The composition of the organizational committee includes women across the national divides that came with the partition of the former Yugoslavia: from Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mothers o
North America | United States | Activism

Women Turn Tables on Online Harassers

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About 24 hours after joining Tinder, Ashley Brincefield, 31, a customs inspector in Port Tobacco, Md., began getting creepy messages. Married men propositioned her for sex. Guys lashed out if they didn’t get a reply in a timely fashion. Various men sent naked selfies. Ms. Brincefield tried blocking them and reporting them to Tinder, but the harassers would just surface under a new screen name, she said. So she decided to take matters into her own hands. She took screen shots of the offending messages, superimposed them with remarks like “Tinder is not the solution to your marital problem

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