Tag Archives: International
Pakistan passes bill to protect women’s rights
Originally posted in Feministing
TweetLast week, the National Assembly of Pakistan passed a bill which will punish those who force women into marriages or deny them inheritance. Folks who engage in these practices would face both steep fines, up to $12,00 in some cases, as well as potential jail time. Importantly, this bill criminalizes some of the anti-woman practices [...]
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‘I’ve reached the end of my tolerance for this as a human’
Originally posted in Feministing
TweetTrigger warning. Iman al-Obeidi is courage personified. She stormed a restaurant at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli where a lot of foreign journalists were gathered last week and testified that Q troops had detained her a checkpoint, tied her up, abused her, then led her away to be gang raped. Check out this interview with [...]
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International body image activism movement launches in London
Originally posted in Feministing
TweetAs mentioned before, I’ve been devoting a lot of my energy and time for the last year and a half to organizing a summit on body image activism in New York City, March 18/19 at The New School. The New York crew (basically myself and The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute) has been working in partnership [...]
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Chevron ordered to pay $17 billion in damages for pollution in Ecuadorian Amazon
Originally posted in Feministing
TweetAn Ecuadorian court has ordered Chevron to pay $17 billion in damages as restitution for heinous pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon over the last thirty years. Chevron, unsurprisingly, has already stated it will not pay. Amy Goodman and Democracy Now have the full story. You can see a transcript here. Tweet
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers historic LGBT rights speech in Geneva
Originally posted in Feministing