On June 29, The Global Fund for Women hosted an evening discussion featuring three of their grantee partners working to stop the spread of militarization and the related threats to human — women’s — values and safety. . . . Continue reading Women resisting militarization
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Nazia Quazi, the 24-year old Canadian-Indian citizen imprisoned in her father’s home in Saudi Arabia for three years, has been freed. . . . Continue reading House arrest in Saudi Arabia ends for Canadian woman, but is she free? The following chart, posted on The Blind Project’s blog, powerfully presents the scale of sex trafficking and prostitution. Aside from the other mind-boggling figures, this chart reveals the violence facing prostitutes, and the cloak of invisibility the media places over prostitutes and prostitute-related violence. . . . Continue reading The Blind Project: Poster highlights key blind side of prostitution stats March 24 is Ada Lovelace Day, honoring the woman often hailed as the first computer programmer. Ada worked in Britain in the mid-1800′s and wrote an algorithm and specifically for Charles Babbage’s mechanical general-purpose computer. Inspired by the group at FindingAda.com, bloggers around the world are writing about women in technology on this day. . . . Continue reading Ada Lovelace Day, Honoring the woman often called the first computer programmer Much is being said, written, and celebrated on International Women’s Day. I personally feel a tinge of sadness, for women still must travel a long road before being recognized and treated as equals to men. Traveling the road, and attaining the goal, is critical to the world — not just to women. I think of a speech given to the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders by Mata Amritanandamayi (commonly known as Amma, or Mother) in Geneva in 2002. In the speech, Amma addressed the pressing need for women to arise and bring their strength, compassion, patience, selflessness, and love into their individual lives and into the world, for their own benefit, and for the benefit of humanity. . . . Continue reading International Women’s Day: 364 more needed |
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