News for today

Contributed by Megan Bird

Social Media Has Given a Voice to Sex Workers

http://www.newstatesman.com/voices/2013/05/grace-bellavue-social-media-has-given-sex-workers-real-opportunity-be-heard

Japanese Politician Apologizes for sex Comment

http://world.time.com/2013/05/27/japanese-mayor-apologizes-for-comment-on-u-s-troops/

 Contributed by Gabrielle

11 fast-track courts for crime against women - The Times of India

http://m.timesofindia.com/city/gurgaon/11-fast-track-courts-for-crime-against-women/articleshow/20283067.cms

http://www.japantoday.com/smartphone/view/crime/man-arrested-on-train-in-aomori-after-knifing-girl-in-kanagawa

Contributed by Ana Maria Guerra

No holidays or parades for homeless women veterans (US)

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/27/meet_americas_fastest_growing_homeless_population_women_veterans/

Viewpoints: Rethinking what it means to be manly

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/26/5446839/rethinking-what-it-means-to-be.html#storylink=cpy

Libya: Seize Chance to Protect Women’s Rights

http://www.hrw.org/node/115863

Africa: 'It's the Turn of the African Woman'

http://allafrica.com/stories/201305272072.html

Public Rapes Outrage Brazil, Testing Ideas of Image and Class

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/25/world/americas/rapes-in-brazil-spur-class-and-gender-debate.html?_r=0

Prosecutor May Probe Facebook Over Girl Who Killed Herself After Online Bullying

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-and-carolina-picchio-2013-5

Tracking a rumor: Is there a sugar factory in Syria being used as a rape house?

http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/tracking-a-rumor-is-there-a-sugar-factory-in-syria-being-used-as-a-rape-hou

African Union Must Do More for Peace

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/05/africa-union-must-do-more-for-peace/