Commentary
Handmaids and Jezebels: New York Must Not Legalize Harm
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New York must recognize that commercial reproductive surrogacy and the sex trade are stitched with the same noxious thread.
Prostitution and Trafficking
Oregon’s Teen Trap Houses Offer Drugs, but No Exit
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A concerned adult worries sex trafficking could be going on amid the pot smoking and video and card games. But she can’t get past a “code of silence and secrecy.” One teen calls the BDSM at the heart of the partying “modern day spin the bottle.”
Crime & Law
Japan’s Feminism Stumbles Over ‘Comfort Women’
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Journalists, historians and publishers who try to tell the story of the Korean “comfort women” are being fiercely attacked while Japanese leaders deny the forcible recruitment of women to serve its army as sex slaves during World War II.
Japan
‘Comfort Women’ Ranks Extend Beyond Korea
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Other victims from Taiwan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia and East Timor were also forced into sexual slavery. Sometimes women were required to provide sexual service, which could be defined as rape, for up to 50 soldiers per day.
Africa
Nigeria’s Lost Girls Part of Long-Term Conflict
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Nigeria’s gender-based abductions began in early 2013, a report finds, after the government imprisoned wives of Boko Haram members. Since then, the rate and scale of abductions has increased, with Christian women and girls the main target.
Politics
Nigeria Kidnapping, Malala Shooting Rouses Teens
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The kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria and the shooting of Malala Yousafzai have spurred some U.S. teens to activism and generosity. Others find the news too terrible and hard to solve.
Arts & Culture
Obama OKs LGBT Protections; Women Scarce on Boards
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President Obama signed an executive order banning workplace discrimination against LGBT federal employees. Also this week, a report finds there’s a lack of women at the top of companies that make and market products to women.
Politics
Video: Refugees Flee Myanmar, Seek Peace
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Refugee women of the Karen community in Myanmar describe their struggle to bring about a peaceful return to their homeland and peace in their own domestic households. Produced by American Jewish World Service.
Boko Haram
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Rescue Effort Intensifies for Nigerian Schoolgirls
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The U.S., U.K., Israel and China are reportedly moving in to help a rescue effort being demanded by street demonstrators and hashtag activists around the world. BBC reports Nigeria is ready to negotiate with the extremist Boko Haram.
Angelina Jolie
Cambodian Wonders ‘What If’ About Angelina Jolie
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Lida moved from a subsistence existence in rural Cambodia to a senior staff job at a women’s advocacy organization in the city. But she still wonders what would have happened if she had said “yes” to a beautiful foreigner at a pagoda three years ago.