News for Today

Contributed by Norhana Kamid

Women in Maritime Philippines (WIMAPHIL) launched the ''She to Sea'' campaign

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/wimaphil-launches-she-sea-campaign-165510260.html

Feminism Saudi-style: Hundreds turn out do discuss women in society... but not a single member of the audience is  female online

http://manzil.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/30/19219752-feminism-saudi-style-hundreds-turn-out-do-discuss-women-in-society-but-not-a-single-member-of-the-audience-is-female-mail-online

Contributed by Karthik Jayakumar

Weymouth Woman's Death an Apparent Domestic Violence Act

http://www.patriotledger.com/news/x997476165/Weymouth-womans-death-an-apparent-domestic-violence-act

WHO: Violence Against Women a Global Crisis

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=13200006Y830

City, county get grants to fight violence against women

http://helenair.com/news/local/city-county-get-grants-to-fight-violence-against-women/article_d935e7fe-e0e5-11e2-9233-0019bb2963f4.html

Contributed by William Kin

Rwanda: President Kagame, First Lady Tell Youth That Building Rwanda Is Their Responsibility
http://allafrica.com/stories/201307011301.html
Congo-Kinshasa: International Discourse On Sexual Violence As Security Threat in Congo
http://allafrica.com/stories/201307011984.html
Ethiopia: Sister's Death Spurs Local Activist to Fight Female Cutting
http://allafrica.com/stories/201307012056.html
Egypt: Shaming the Shameless - the Politics of Sexual Assault in Post-Mubarak's Egypt Exposed
http://allafrica.com/stories/201307012157.html

Contributed by Maria Evangelidou
Egypt’s women pushback against threats to human rights one year after Morsi
http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/06/29/egypts-women-pushback/
Wife-beating -- the Musical?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-buchwald/candy-hearts-musical_b_3520162.html
Moving Forward To End Violence Against Women
http://www.neurope.eu/article/moving-forward-end-violence-against-women
Nigerian commission: Credible reports troops kill, torture, rape civilians in Islamic uprising
http://www.neurope.eu/news/wire/nigerian-commission-credible-reports-troops-kill-torture-rape-civilians-islamic-uprising
Irish Parliamentary Committee on Justice recommends the criminalisation of the purchase of sex
http://www.womenlobby.org/spip.php?article5178&lang=en

Contributed by Megan Bird
Ohio Republicans Deny Women Rights
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/01/ohio-republicans-deny-women-their-constitutional-rights/
Women's Rights Are Human Rights

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/07/01/2242971/texas-men-womens-rights/?mobile=wt