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May 10, 2012 (Huffington Post)
INTERNATIONAL: Worldwide, It's "More Dangerous to Be a Woman Than a Soldier in Modern Wars" "It is now more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier in modern wars." These words were spoken by Major General Patrick Cammaert, the Deputy Force Commander of the United Nations Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2008, as he described the the terrifying scorched earth rape strategy being employed in that country (and others like it).
May 3, 2012 (Sydney Morning Herald)
INTERNATIONAL: Hatred of Women Exists in the West as Well as in the Arab World Misogyny has reduced women to headscarves and hymens. 'WOMEN have very little idea of how much men hate them,'' wrote Germaine Greer in The Female Eunuch. So outraged were men that wives reportedly took to concealing their copies by wrapping them in plain brown paper.
April 26, 2012 (Foreign Policy )
INTERNATIONAL: Why Women Are a Foreign Policy Issue The most pressing global problems simply won't be solved without the participation of women. Seriously, guys. On a trip to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009, not long after my appointment as the U.S. State Department's ambassador at large for global women's issues, I stopped for dinner with a group of Afghan women activists in Kabul. One woman opened our conversation with a plea: "Please don't see us as victims, but look to us as the leaders we are."
April 23, 2012 (PublicService)
ARAB SPRING: Have Women's Rights Been Forgotten? Female figures have taken pivotal roles during Middle East uprisings. But with women failing to be taken seriously in coming elections, human rights are under threat. Zahid Mahmood reports from the Youth Professionals Summit at the Brussels Forum.
April 18, 2012 (OpenDemocracy)
INTERNATIONAL: A Brutal Manifestation of Patriarchy The involvement of women in anti-war actions and in support of peace activism worldwide is a critical part of modern history, yet the vulnerability of women in conflict situations to violence of all forms is perhaps the most brutal manifestation of patriarchy in modern times.