“Kill the Gays” Bill is Back in Uganda
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, popularly dubbed the Kill-the-Gays bill, is back before the Ugandan Parliament. It could be brought for a vote in the Lower House at any moment.
...read moreDr. Erik Fleischman and Involuntary Sterilization
Via Femonomics, we find a really disturbing post from Dr. Erik Fleischman, an American doctor practicing in Tanzania who brags about participating in an involuntary sterilization, calling the doctor who performed the procedure a “hero.” After a pregnant patient’s heart stops beating on the operating table during a C-section (because they screwed up the epidural [...]
...read morePeace for women is world peace
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize today was awarded to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkul Karman “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” These women are three of now 15 women to have won the award in its 110-year history and the [...]
...read moreHIV/AIDS and UNITAID
Writing in the Guardian: Daniel is six months old, and one of the more than a million children in Africa born of HIV-positive mothers every year. Without prenatal treatment, up to 30% of these children will contract the virus. Daniel is one of the luckier ones, so far. His mother, Elise, found out she was [...]
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Dining for Women
Another great event in NYC: Dining For Women, a movie screening and reception to benefit the Fistula Foundation. From their press release: NEW YORK CITY – The two New York City chapters of Dining for Women are partnering with Mount Sinai’s student chapter of Physicians for Human Rights to host a movie screening and reception [...]
...read moreUNITAID in Cameroon
Last week, I was in Cameroon with Cheryl Contee, Baratunde Thurston and Mark Goldberg, as part of a press group following UNITAID Chairman Dr. Philippe Douste-Blazy as he visited hospitals and clinics that served patients via UNITAID-funded programs. It was an incredible trip, and I have a much more detailed post in the works, but [...]
...read moreIn Cameroon with UNITAID
I’ve been MIA from the blog for the past few days because I’m in Cameroon with a crack team of bloggers — Cheryl Contee, Baratunde Thurston and Mark Goldberg — to cover the work being done here to prevent and treat tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and mother-to-baby HIV transmission, funded by UNITAID. We’re on a tight schedule [...]
...read moreRecommended reading
E.J. Graff’s series on Slate about children who were “adopted” (quotes wholly deliberate for reasons which will be immediately clear from the article) from Sierra Leone is gut wrenching. Definitely worth reading.
...read more…and after you’ve stopped with the bathing suit pictures, maybe stop having breasts.
The following may be triggering for some, as it concerns the physical abuse of young girls. I can’t even. What the fuck. I’m working on the afore-mentioned “white Jewish lady” post (more accurately: I appeared on Russian TV yesterday to discuss Israel/Palestine but am having a hard time embedding the video) but in the meantime, [...]
...read moreSimply Everything: An Interview with Imane Khachani
Last month, Women Deliver – a fantastic organisation dedicated to improving women’s and girls’ health and wellbeing globally – released the Women Deliver 100. It’s a list of inspiring people, well, delivering for girls and women in all kinds of areas: health, politics, the media, and so on. Out of all those people, there was [...]
...read moreWho has the power to fix the system here?
There’s a piece in the Zambia Daily Mail by Zangose Chambwa called Work hard, First Lady tells women. The second sentence is as follows: Mrs Banda said women should not wait to be appointed because of men feeling pity for them, but should showcase their hardwork. And then: “Zambia has women who have excelled in [...]
...read moreStepping backwards even as we step forwards
I read this piece in The New York Times, Women Fight to Maintain Their Role in the Building of a New Egypt by Sharon Otterman – “The same men they were afraid to talk to in the streets were saying, ‘Bravo, the girls’ revolution,’” Ms. Hassan said. – and was struck by the feeling of [...]
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