Have you ever witnessed a “human zoo”, a place where humans, more specifically women are exhibited in lieu of just £4? I know it sounds absurd but it ain’t. Women of the Kayan tribal community in Northern Thailand come under the paraphernalia..
Archive - September 2008
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Darfur women have suffered agony and humiliation for being from the land of the Janjaweed. They have been raped and physically assaulted several times to threaten them and their clan. What a pity the government is siding away from such...
Women, young girls and children are high risk targets in any conflicts and war. Their vulnerability makes them easy targets. They are scarred for life. Their suffering doesn’t end with the end of war, their lives stands totally devastated and...
What is the place of women in the military world especially when it is of the US? A country that boasts of providing equal status to women and men but its sheer shame on the part of the administration that instead of treating women as human beings, they..
With centuries the women has been rated as less important than men in almost all parts of the world. In fact, in some ways women's responsibilities are to look after household and children. Women are discouraged from pursuing higher education or...
She hijacked a plane to escape her tumultuous life of kidnappings, abductions, killings and massacres. The guerrilla woman belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said 'no' to her life as a rebel. Is it the beginning of the end.
As more women, both young and old, were victimized in recent violence worldwide, UN experts are alarmed by the growing number of incidents of battered children and brutally inflicted women that seem to be unresolved.
Recent U.S. report highlighted...
In the so called developed world, the position of women in public sphere remains static and insipid with any issue relating to them considered innocuous. Time and again women are looked upon as mandated individuals ordained only with duties pertaining..
On 8 March 1908 female garments workers in USA took to the Manhattan streets protesting against gender discrimination demanding equal pay, better working conditions, childcare centers and right to vote. Since then, this day has been looked upon as one..
Women have always been given the status of being the secondary gender or referred to as being the weaker or the fairer sex, subjecting them to exploitations in almost all aspects of life. The woman who has been the progenitor of life on earth since its.
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Suzanne Swift, the then twenty one year old Army Specialist, was arrested for showing her reluctance in going back to fight in Iraq. She served in Iraq for a year but decided she wont return and went AWOL. Not only did she feel the war lacked purpose, Swift said her superiors repeatedly sexually harassed her while serving in Iraq.
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