Amy Lieberman, Author at Women's eNews

Transgenders in Mexico Dream of Escape

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● July 17, 2013

Puebla is one of many Mexican states where discrimination based on gender orientation is not considered a crime. Many transgenders who live here describe their efforts to leave. And how they wound up giving up.

Home Still Far Away for Immigrants With HIV

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● May 23, 2013

Few female immigrants have enjoyed the benefit of the travel ban on people with HIV lifted three years ago Financial hardships, fear of stigma in their homelands and uncertainties about their U.S. legal status all block the way.

Beauty Pageant Keeps Stealing the U.N.’s Style

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● May 13, 2013

Contestants are called ambassadors and expected to understand the workings of the U.N. and have a good roster of civic involvements. The problem is, the U.N. wants nothing to do with it.

Political Cauldron Boils on U.N. Women’s Rights

By Amy Lieberman ● Arts & Culture ● March 21, 2013

As the U.N. superagency loses its founding leader, participants at the Commission on the Status of Women expect the fight between conservative and progressive factions to intensify over sexual orientation, reproductive rights and even domestic violence.

Rural Women Poised to Get More from Tribal Justice

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● March 7, 2013

Traditional leaders adjudicate household violence and land inheritance for the majority of rural women in the developing world. Increasingly, human rights activists want them to give women a better shake.

Few Female Day Laborers Try Jobs in NYC Cleanup

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● February 23, 2013

The women who gather on these two street corners of New York are looking for day work as housekeepers. The territory comes with harassment and haywire scheduling. Hurricane Sandy blew a different type of cleanup work their way, but only a few dare to give it a try.