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- Just don’t call me “babe”, okay?
- UN Women celebrate first year of operations
- Food=beauty, according to former soccer player
- Newspaper launches safety campaign after female journalist hit by truck
- Story links, 3 February 2012
- Italy must combat violence against women, says UN expert
- Men jailed for murder of lesbian woman in South Africa
- A woman’s place is in Europe
| Just don’t call me “babe”, okay? Posted: Susan Newcombe WVoN co-editor I often have a laugh to myself at some of the terms that bus drivers use to address me, such as darling, love or – more recently – chick. I don’t usually get annoyed (more amused really), so I was interested to read that it has become something of a hot topic [...] |
| UN Women celebrate first year of operations Posted: Alison Clarke WVoN co-editor At a press conference in New York yesterday to report on the first year of operations, the executive director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet, called for greater commitment and action from member states on women and gender equality. With austerity measures, budget cuts and political changes impacting women's lives worldwide, Ms [...] |
| Food=beauty, according to former soccer player Posted: Rachel Salmon WVoN co-editor Beauty x is a short ebook, from the Eat Campaign, a Facebook-based network of 'beauty ambassadors' and 'right to eat activists', which uses pictures and experiences of celebrities to warn and educate young women about the dangers of under-eating. The book starts with a letter by the author, Ranko Tutulugdzija, to a [...] |
| Newspaper launches safety campaign after female journalist hit by truck Posted: Samantha Reeves WVoN co-editor The Times newspaper has launched a national ‘Cities fit for cycling’ campaign in the UK, months after one of their own journalists, Mary Bowers, was hit by a cement truck on her way to work. She has been in a coma ever since. In November last year, Central St Martins student [...] |
| Posted: Every day we'll post up a number of story links that we think are interesting. They won't necessarily be from that day, but usually will not be more than a few days old. The following are the ones we’ve found today. Story links: UN Women to focus on economic empowerment and political roles, UN new [...] |
| Italy must combat violence against women, says UN expert Posted: Susan Newcombe WVoN co-editor Recession and political crises in Italy must not detract from efforts to combat violence against women says a UN independent expert. With current figures indicating the country is likely to stay in recession until 2013 UN special rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, said there remains an urgent need to [...] |
| Men jailed for murder of lesbian woman in South Africa Posted: Sarah MacShane WVoN co-editor Four men have been given an 18-year jail sentence for stabbing and stoning Zoliswa Nkonyana, a 19 year old openly gay woman from Khayelitsha, a small village near Cape Town. She was murdered in what was clearly a homophobic attack. Even though South Africa has a liberal constitution and is the [...] |
| Posted: Una Purdie WVoN co-editor What has Europe ever done for women? If you listened to some parts of the UK media, European institutions do nothing but create messy bureaucracy and meddle in sovereign affairs. Others would argue that it has been a beacon of progress for gender equality, and we need to work together more, [...] |
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