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February 20, 2012

Trial Sheds Light on Trafficking of Women in Argentina

by Marcela Valente, IPS, Italy - A high profile trial for trafficking of women is giving the public a clearer picture of how sex trafficking rings operate in Argentina, with victims who are even forced, eventually, to become victimisers.

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Standing Up to the ‘Landgrabbing’ Foresters

by Hazel Healy, New Internationalist, UK - Mixed in between the sunflowers, you can see the tips of pine trees, peering over the rim of...

Horrifying new trend: Posting rapes to Facebook

By Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com, USA - It’s yet another story of how social media can apparently become a tool for abuse — and evidence...

Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued

by Rebecca Solnit, Middle East Online, UK - Ten years ago, my part of the world was full of valiant opposition to the new wars...

Invisibility of Mothers

by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - As a new government enters the corridors of power in Sindh it will find itself empowered with an innovative...

Legacy of a Feminist Revolutionary

by Kathleen B. Jones, Open Democracy, UK- It is time to give Firestone her due. Rereading her today, more than forty years after her work...