International Women’s Day is heading toward 100, a woman is vying for the White House and Gloria Feldt says we’re at a pivot point in women’s history. But the venerable event remains relevant as long as women are muffled, mocked and ignored.
How are women coping in the aftermath of Kenya’s election violence? Displaced-person camps, neighborhoods newly divided by ethnic barricades and hospital rape statistics measure the dimensions of widespread and deep distress.
A U.N. agency shunned by the Bush administration is one beneficiary of a major fundraising push behind maternal health initiatives. New online tools give citizens a personal handle on the progress and invite them to join the effort.
Colombian and Mexican activists last week told an international safe-abortion conference about strategies that helped them succeed in liberalizing abortion laws. They spoke in London, where abortion limits are under discussion.
Millions of women are still dying in childbirth and Ann Starrs calls it a global scandal of political indifference. A major conference opening in London tomorrow will seek to energize change-makers.
Women are pushing the envelope on peace activism in the Middle East, with a nearly 30-country annual bike ride for peace that was followed within a few days by the shooting of a Nobel Prize-winning Irish peace activist at a West Bank demonstration.
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