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Let's Cut Our Carbon!

01.14.2013

by Sue Supriano, WINGS, Canada - Environmental Law Professor Mary Wood from University of Oregon talks about the urgency of cutting climate emissions so that by mid-century, when today's children are in their 40s, earth will still be habitable. She proposes ways to change our politicians' minds, and our lives.

Creating True Gender Equality in Sport

08.20.2012

by Ellie Gordon-Moershel, The F-Word, Canada - Kathleen Lahey recently led a team of researchers, students and colleagues in developing the legal material for a claim against the London Games organizing committee for its refusal to carry out an equalities audit of the Olympic sports program.

Modern Slavery

07.17.2012

by Shannon Young, WINGS, Canada - Trafficked persons, foreign & domestic, are enslaved in enterprises from nail salons to farms, homes, & prostitution. Some are traded along with drugs & guns.

Sex Testing in Sport and the Face of 'New' Sexism

06.28.2012

by Ellie Gordon-Moershel, rabble, Canada - Sandy Wells talks to The F Word about how treating 'hypoandrogenism' in female athletes is representative of the current state of systematic sexism in sport. She argues that combating these practices needs to go beyond understanding sex and gender as a biological myth and right to the core of supremacist thinking.

Slutwalk: One Year Later, What's Next for This Movement?

05.29.2012

by Meghan Murphy, The F Word, Canada - Slutwalk is one year old; what is the future of this movement? Are organizers addressing the many critiques made over the past year and, if so, how?

Does Feminism Discriminate against Men?

01.20.2012

by Meghan Murphy, The F Word, Canada - While the concept of male privilege does not mean that women do not ever hold power, it is an acknowledgement that men's power, as a class is institutionalized in comparison with women, as a class.

Yet, not everyone agrees with this assessment.

Women Will Be Hardest Hit by the Climate Change.

01.10.2012

by Zuki Zimel, Ear to the Ground, South Africa - No climate justice without gender justice.

Militarization of Canada Expanding Exponentially

11.07.2011

by Lorraine Chisholm, rabble, Canada - Canada will spend $22 billion on its military forces in the current fiscal year. That represents a very rapid growth in expenditures over the past 20 years.

The Trouble with Female Genitalia: The Medicalization of Sex

10.12.2011

by Meghan Murphy, rabble, Canada - Why is the alteration of women's pubic hair, vaginas, and vulva such a common practice in our culture? Is there something inherently problematic about women's genitalia?

Livelihoods under Threat: Malindi's Fishermen

01.21.2011

by Zahra Moloo, Pambazuka, Kenya - Along Mombasa's coastline, fisherman are increasingly having to compete with the expanding hotel industry for access to scarce land along the sea. As more and more hotels take over these areas, the fishermen fear that they will lose their only means of survival.

Iraqi Women Refugees: Surviving in Syria

12.10.2008

by Jane Gabriel, openDemocracy, UK - There are believed to be more than three million Iraqi refugees living in Syria: initially allowed in without restriction and treated as guests, they are finding it harder to survive as months turn into years. For the women refugees, often alone or widowed with children, poverty is driving increasing numbers to earn a living through prostitution and ‘muta’ marriages – ‘temporary marriages of pleasure’.

Femicide and Patriarchy in Lebanon

12.05.2008

by Jane Gabriel, openDemocracy, UK - Dr Azza Baydoun has analysed every ‘honour killing' in Lebanon that has gone before the courts since 1999 and found that behind the plea of offended honour lies the crime of femicide. The women were shot, stabbed, beaten, strangled, burnt or poisoned, by men, because they were women: if they had been men they would not have been killed.

Women in Sudan: Beyond the War

08.14.2008

by Jane Gabriel, Open Democracy, UK - Behind the news of suffering and conflict in Darfur, some women are finding ways to move forward and claim the rights granted to them in the 2005 Sudan Interim Constitution.