Friday 9 August 2013

news for today

Contributed by Farah Najar    
Live Q&A: finding strategies to end harmful behaviours and beliefs:http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/aug/02/how-to-change-social-norms-adolescent-girls?CMP=twt_gu

Child marriages still prevalent in HP, admits govt: http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/HimachalPradesh/Child-marriages-still-prevalent-in-HP-admits-govt/Article1-1104573.aspx

Texas' Wendy Davis mulls 2014 gubernatorial bid: http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/2160071_texas-wendy-davis-mulls-2014-gubernatorial-bid.html

La mort d'une fillette violée et brûlée choque l'Inde :  http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2013/08/06/la-mort-d-une-jeune-fille-violee-et-brulee-choque-l-inde_3458095_3216.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#xtor=RSS-3208

UN must prioritise equality, urge world's most marginalised people:http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/aug/06/world-poorest-people-un-equality

Contributed by Hannah Clarke
Two British women attacked with acid in Zanzibar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23611840

Man accused of deliberately infecting women with HIV dies in prison aged 34
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-accused-of-infecting-women-with-hiv-virus-dies-in-hospital-aged-34-8752842.html

Italy passes new law to help prevent violence against women
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/08/italy-laws-violence-women

Women and children included in the deaths from picnic at graveside in Afghanistan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386804/Women-children-14-people-killed-picnic-grave-relative-Eid-celebrations.html

Contributed by Megan Bird
Men Urged to Get on Board Against Domestic Violence

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130808/NEWS01/308080066/-Good-men-urged-get-board-against-domestic-violence?nclick_check=1

Senators Tackle Domestic Violence with New Bill

http://www.thetundradrums.com/story/2013/08/08/alaska/senators-tackle-domestic-violence-with-new-bill/804.html

Contributed by Stephany Armas
New asylum policy puts women at greater risk of violence

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2013/08/01/new-asylum-policy-puts-women-at-greater-risk-of-violence/

Contributed by Agata Blanco Compostela
Two British Women Attacked with Acid While in Zanzibar

http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=14528
*Contributed by Suyog Shelar*
Twitter U.K. cracks down after threats against women
http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/04/technology/twitter-abuse-report/index.html?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29
GOP Places Big Wager on Anti-Abortion Vote in 2014
http://womensenews.org/story/campaign-trail/130803/gop-places-big-wager-anti-abortion-vote-in-2014#.UgFW26yabvk
Risk rates for certain cancers may increase as a woman’s height increases,
says new study
http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/07/30/risk-for-cancers-womans-height/

Contributed by Ana Maria Guerra
Delhi school refuses to admit gang-raped girl - report (India)
http://www.trust.org/item/20130807100915-kh45l/?source=hptop

What happened when I started a feminist society at school (UK)
http://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2013/jun/20/why-i-started-a-feminist-society

Bei Bei Shuai Case Exposes Pregnancy-Suicide Risk (US)
http://womensenews.org/story/in-the-courts/130803/bei-bei-shuai-case-exposes-pregnancy-suicide-risk

Taliban wound Afghan female senator in ambush
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/07/official-taliban-attack-wounds-afghan-female-senator-her-daughter-bodyguard/#ixzz2bIrsCyIG

Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: "Pregnant Women Often Have No Idea Where to Go"
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=6965&cat=field-news

Can tracking rape in conflict prevent genocide?
http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/can-tracking-rape-in-conflict-prevent-genocide

When did you first have to think about rape?
http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2013-08-when-did-you-first-have-to-think-about-rape

ITALY: Failing economy pushes young women into global webcam sex industry
http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/08/07/italy-young-women-webcam/?utm_content=buffered2df&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

Misogyny runs so deep in this society, it is even used against abused children (UK)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/07/misogyny-society-abused-children-predatory?CMP=twt_gu

Some Child Sex Trafficking Victims 'Rescued' by Recent FBI Sting Could End up in Jail (US)
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/08/07/some-child-sex-trafficking-victims-rescued-by-recent-fbi-sting-could-end-up-in-jail

RCMP make arrests in Rehtaeh Parsons case; Halifax girl committed suicide after alleged sex assault (Canada)
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/08/rcmp-make-arrests-in-rehtaeh-parsons-case-halifax-girl-committed-suicide-after-bullying-alleged-sex-assault/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


Adoptive Parents Fight 2nd-Class Caregiver Status

http://womensenews.org/story/momagenda/130807/adoptive-parents-fight-2nd-class-caregiver-status#.UgXib3-abvk

ACWF, Tibet Women’s Federation Hold Training for Nyingchi Women

http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/08/07/acwf-tibet-womens-federation-hold-training-nyingchi-women/
Post election Iran should remove all past ‘obstacles’ against women, say Iranian women advocates

http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/08/08/post-election-iran-women/

Woman President Shows Malawi the Way

http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/08/08/woman-president-shows-malawi-way/

Contributed by Karol Arambula
British women attacked with acid in Zanzibar' (BBC):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23611840

'Zanzibar: Acid attack on two British women volunteer teachers' (CNN):
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/world/africa/tanzania-uk-acid-attack/?hpt=wo_c2

'Science fiction's invisible women' (The Guardian):
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/aug/08/science-fiction-invisible-women-recognition-status

'State-funded crisis pregnancy centers talk women out of birth control, condoms: repor' (The Huffington Post):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/crisis-pregnancy-centers_n_3721377.html

'Many killed in Afghan graveyard bombing' (Al-Jazeera):
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/08/2013889103825790.html

'Cautionary tales of what happens when women don't lean in' (The Atlantic Wire):
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/cautionary-tales-what-happens-when-women-dont-lean/68077/

'Italy passes new laws to tackle violence against women' (The Guardian):
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/08/italy-laws-violence-women

'The Zombie Ward: The chilling story of how 'depressed' women were put to sleep for months in an NHS hospital room - leaving mental scars that remain 40 years on' (The Daily Mail):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2386477/NHS-Zombie-Ward-How-depressed-women-sleep-months-Londons-Royal-Waterloo-Hospital.html

'India's 60 million women that never were' (Al-Jazeera):
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/07/201372814110570679.html

'Jessie J: Why women still need to 'do it like a dude' (The Telegraph):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10227980/Jessie-J-Why-women-still-need-to-do-it-like-a-dude.html

'Call for your picks for the 100 best websites for women 2013' (Forbes):
http://www.forbes.com/sites/katetaylor/2013/08/07/nominate-your-picks-for-the-100-best-websites-for-women-2013/

'We must treat women as equals: Response to Jessie Duarte on Vavi' (Thought Leader):
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/lazolandamase/2013/08/08/we-must-treat-women-as-equals-response-to-jessie-duarte-on-vavi/

'Amartya Sen: India must focus on its women' (Al-Jazeera):
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/08/201385111816359698.html

'Afghanistan/explosion: 14 femmes tuées' (Le Figaro):
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2013/08/08/97001-20130808FILWWW00235-afghanistanexplosion-10-femmes-tuees.php

'Les femmes qui se disent heureuses sans enfant sont des menteuses' (7Sur7):
http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/1523/Famille/article/detail/1683468/2013/08/08/Les-femmes-qui-se-disent-heureuses-sans-enfant-sont-des-menteuses.dhtml

'L'Italie durcit sa législation contre les violences contre les femmes' (20 Minutes):
http://www.20minutes.fr/ledirect/1208387/20130808-italie-durcit-legislation-contre-violences-contre-femmes

Contributed by Cheryl Daytec

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