LINKS TO IMPORTANT FEMALE BYLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Annie Slemrod, IRIN, Switzerland – The small Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has been drawn into the international spotlight this week, as the US, the UK and the EU condemned plans by the Israeli army …
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Mandy De Waal, Mail & Guardian, South Africa – Kaffirhater, ProudSA-whiteboy, 1994 Sucks, General de la Rey and Houtkop. These are just some of the monikers used by South Africans on the white supremacist website Stormfront that has been linked …
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Foreign Policy, USA – A woman’s solitary voice, earthy and low, rises above the seated worshipers. More than 100 women stand, bow, and touch their foreheads to the floor as a female imam leads evening prayers at a …
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by Helen Lewis, New Statesman, UK – Look around the top of politics and it seems like a wonderful time to be a woman. Two of the four candidates for the Labour leadership are female – Yvette Cooper and Liz …
Philippa Garson, IRIN, Switzerland- Fleeing gang violence in his hometown near San Pedro Sulas in Honduras, 14-year-old Gredys Alexander Hernández tried to reach safety in the United States, only to be intercepted in Mexico and sent back. Two days later, …
by Samia Altaf, Dawn, Pakistan – In Pakistan, the death of ordinary citizens has become a spectator sport. Man-made and natural disasters are a constant of daily life. Children are killed in schools, people are pulled out of buses and …
Jessica Purkiss, DW, Germany – In an abandoned building in the Palestinian refugee camp of Shuafat in East Jerusalem discarded needles litter the floor. Men grouped into generationally divided rooms heat spoons of heroin over gas fires or inject it …
Mairead Maguire, IPS, Italy- The year 2015 marked the 62nd anniversary of the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War. The temporary ceasefire has never been replaced with a peace treaty and the demilitarised zone (DMZ) continues to divide the …
Mary Kaldor, OpenDemocracy, UK – The shocking behaviour of the Eurozone leaders in punishing Greece for voting against austerity has alarming implications for the future. Is it too late to put democracy and Europe together again? Read More »
Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, USA – Saroj is a cook at a public school in her village, Dujana, in the northern Indian state of Haryana. Like most people in this state, she doesn’t have a last name. She walks to work down …
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