Brazil clinches berth in Women’s World Cup quarterfinals
Marta scores her first two goals of the tournament as Brazil defeats Norway, 3-0. The Matildas survive a refereeing error and edge Equatorial Guinea, 3-2, to remain in the hunt for a place in the next round. Marta, voted the world’s top female soccer player for the last five years in a row, scored her first two goals of the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany on Sunday to help Brazil overpower … Read more on Los Angeles Times
Christopher J. Flynn: A Flag to Remember
As you gaze upon your star-spangled banner, don’t forget to proudly hail the men and women of our armed services who ensure that it flies over the land of the free and the home of the brave. Read more on The Huffington Post
Previewing the Big Ten women’s basketball season
In women’s basketball, the Big Ten is Ohio State’s territory until someone knocks the six-time defending regular season champion Buckeyes off their mountaintop. The top contenders to pull off that feat this season seem obvious. Michigan State (12-1) and Iowa…… Read more on The Saginaw News
North Dakota gets past struggling Islanders
Mallory Youngblut has struggled to find her shooting stroke allseason. Read more on Missoulian
This program is a discussion of human rights with a focus on women’s rights in Iran. Covered are a brief timeline of Iran’s political history and women’s contributions to human rights, past and present. A comparison of the current political atmosphere with Iran’s past and future is highlighted, and what efforts are being made toward a future change in policy. The current regime in Iran is not supported by a majority of its citizenry; it is currently unstable and volatile. But there is an alternative to a war with Iran that is also an alternative to appeasement. There is a third choice that could effectively end the funding and exportation of terror and the flagrant violation of human rights being perpetrated on Iranian citizens by its government; an alternative that could prevent the promotion of further human rights violations. There is an alternative that is peaceful, intelligent and democratically organized, and legitimized by international law. The third alternative needs neither financial nor military support from the US Video Rating: 4 / 5
For more information on THE SARI SOLDIERS click here www.wmm.com Email orders@wmm.com for ordering information. Tell us you found it on YouTube! A film by Julie Bridgham Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepals modern history, The Sari Soldiers is an extraordinary story of six womens courageous efforts to shape Nepals future in the midst of an escalating civil war against Maoist insurgents, and the Kings crackdown on civil liberties. When Devi, mother of a 15-year-old girl, witnesses her niece being tortured and murdered by the Royal Nepal Army, she speaks publicly about the atrocity. The army abducts her daughter in retaliation, and Devi embarks on a three-year struggle to uncover her daughters fate and see justice done. -Human Rights Watch FF, NY, Nestor Almendros Prize -Human Rights Watch Film Festival, London
www.unwatch.org UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer slams Iran and Saudi Arabia after they expound on women’s rights. Arab group says women should not be miners. Video Rating: 5 / 5
This clip is a profile of Lechmi, a defender of Women’s Human Rights who works to protect women from domestic violence. It is produced for Radiq Radio in conjunction with the international 16 Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women, and is dedicated to all defenders of Women’s Human Rights. Produced by Brendan McGeagh, an intern at the Centre for Independent Journalism. www.radiq.net www.cijmalaysia.org
www.unwatch.org Addressing uN Human Rights Council, UN Watch Chairman Alfred Moses exposes Iran’s policy of beating women who peacefully demonstrate for human rights. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Check out the website I got this historic speech from! www.americanrhetoric.com Hillary Rodham Clinton Remarks to the UN 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session delivered 5 September 1995, Beijing, China Excerpt: rought us to this point, distinguished delegates, and guests: I would like to thank the Secretary General for inviting me to be part of this important United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. This is truly a celebration, a celebration of the contributions women make in every aspect of life: in the home, on the job, in the community, as mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, learners, workers, citizens, and leaders. It is also a coming together, much the way women come together every day in every country. We come together in fields and factories, in village markets and supermarkets, in living rooms and board rooms. Whether it is while playing with our children in the park, or washing clothes in a river, or taking a break at the office water cooler, we come together and talk about our aspirations and concern. And time and again, our talk turns to our children and our families. However different we may appear, there is far more that unites us than divides us. We share a common future, and we are here to find common ground so that we may help bring new dignity and respect to women and girls all over the world, and in so doing bring new strength and stability to families as well. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States …
Featuring Susan Jacoby, Michelle Goldberg, and Marianne Mollman. Women’s rights have often been treated as a small sub-category of human rights — a mere appendage to larger questions of war, peace, poverty and economic development. In this forum, moderated by Susan Jacoby, program director for the Center for Inquiry | New York City, and including Michelle Goldberg, author of “The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of The World,” and Marianne Mollman, advocacy director for the Womens Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, womens rights take their proper place at the center of the struggle for human rights and economic justice around the world. This forum was co-sponsored by the Center for Inquiry | New York City and All Souls Unitarian Church. For more: www.centerforinquiry.net/nyc Video by Louis Chan.
The project „Economic rights of women are human rights!” Promotion of economic rights of women in the context of development in the countries of Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova is carried jointly with Minority rights Group Europe and co financed by European Union. The main objective of this project is to make citizens aware that economic rights of women from Central Asia and Eastern Europe have to be respected, and that through this improvement of their socio-economic position can be achieved. As a consequence the economic development of individual countries will be also achieved. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Aisha Shaheed speaks on preventing violence against women, including the work of women’s human rights defenders and other coalitions to end violence. www.CWGL.rutgers.edu www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org www.WLUML.org www.stop-killing.org www.stop-stoning.org Video Rating: 4 / 5
