The whole thing is on youtube.com
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
women's rights are human rights
"It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.
It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution.
It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.
It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.
It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes.
It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.
It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.
If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights - and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard." - Hillary Clinton. Beijing, China. 1995.
It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution.
It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.
It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.
It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes.
It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.
It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.
If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights - and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard." - Hillary Clinton. Beijing, China. 1995.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Feminist Summer Camp
that's right. I'm going! And NO KELLIE we don't burn our bras in a campfire.
Although I laughed out loud at that joke.
I just filled out the contract and questionnaire for it and I'm getting very excited. Looking at Leslie Feinberg's blog today and finding out that Les is going through some serious medical treatment made me want to cry.
I don't have any questions but I want to know so much.
Although I laughed out loud at that joke.
I just filled out the contract and questionnaire for it and I'm getting very excited. Looking at Leslie Feinberg's blog today and finding out that Les is going through some serious medical treatment made me want to cry.
I don't have any questions but I want to know so much.
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