Hello and Happy International Women´s Day! To celebrate, this blog will feature various articles and reports about Womens´s struggles for justice and equality, for respect and freedom. Enjoy and become aware!
Firstly, it is time for us as a society to not be friends with rapist.
Buzzfeed has a collection of animated depictions of society´s most beloved couples, where such characters as Marge Simpson and Wonderwoman are vitims of Domestic Abuse. Chilling and powerful. Serious Trigger Warning!
How US Politics contribute to the the epidemic portions of gendered violence in Mexico.
The Aftermatch of the Rwandan genocide, from the Rwandan´s womens perspective.
The horrific situation when millions of women worldwide are denied abortions.
The dangers women face when religious beliefs dominate hospitals.
One brave Afghan woman´s film about rape.
Two takes on Jared Leto´s role in “Dallas Buyers Club”.
What does the recent election in Honduras mean for the countires women?
A factsheet about the almost forgotten Comfort Women.
Amnesty Internationals campaign for Reproductive rights and justice.
Seeking justice for the thousands of murdered Indigenous Canadian women.
A factsheet of Chinese activist Cao Shunli.
Black women and the burden of HIV.
15 facts on sex, pregnancy and violence.
In Nepal, widespread gender discrimination has lead to a crisis in sexual and reproductive rights.
(In Swedish, use google translations). Poor women don´t get access to women´s clinics.
(In Swedish, use google tranlsation). Same situation in Burkina Faso.
(In Finnish, use google translation). Everyone must have the right to decide themselves what their genderidentification is.
Take Action! Help a Guatemalan mother find justice for her daughter, who was brutally raped and killed.
In China, single motherhood and having children outside of weddinglock are the final taboo.
A crisis for women´s sexual rights in Poland.
In China, a activist protesting child rape was made homeless by the authorities.
How landgrabs in Kenya hurt the Sengwer women (an Indeginous people in Kenya).
There is still hope for Arab feminism!
The scars of the Iraq war lead to depression and drug abuse in Iraqi women.
Breaking the silence of Domestic abuse in the palestian communities.
Israel admitted to forced birth controll and sterilazation of Ethiopian women refugees.
Breaking the silence on violence against Indeginous women, adolescents and children.
Peru will reopen the cause of forced sterilizations, subjected to thousands of Indeginous women.
Top five issues which is killing of Native Americans.
19 things women writers are sick of hearing.
Some articles on the Woody Allen controversy: An former lawyer who worked on many child molestian causes explains of how despite not being convicted, it doesn´t mean Allen isn´t guilty. Another piece shows the 1993 papers from the trial, showing he infact wasn´t found completely innocent. Vanity Fair spells out 10 facts about the cause. And finally, a piece on how bizarre it is that Mia Farrow is always accused of brainwashing and Woody Allen isn´t.
One-third of European women suffer from either sexual or physical abuse.
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