Saturday, January 14, 2012

Women's Views on News

Women's Views on News

Chancellor confirms cut to UK’s child benefit

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Summary of story from BBCNews, January 13, 2012 UK Chancellor George Osborne has said child benefit for higher rate taxpayers will be removed, after hints the policy could be made “fairer”. But he said he would set out in the next months how the policy would be “implemented”. British Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged there [...]

Queen of the Netherlands defends wearing headscarf

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Summary of story from The Guardian, January 12, 2012 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands took on Geert Wilders, the fiery leader of her country’s anti-Muslim party, yesterday, by dismissing as “nonsense” his criticism of her decision to wear a headscarf during a recent visit to a mosque. The queen made her unusually forthright comment to Dutch [...]

Campaign against ‘Eve teasing’ in Mumbai

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Summary of story from BBCNews, January 13, 2012 It’s an unfortunate truth that women are sexually harassed, and sometimes assaulted, the world over. But, Nidhi Dutt reports, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, there is an increasing determination to stamp out ‘Eve teasing’, as it is called in India, for good. “It was afternoon and [...]

Mothers of Iran’s democracy campaigners face jail

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Summary of story from Radio Free Europe, January 13, 2012 The Mothers of Laleh Park, a group of women whose children were killed or detained during Iran's 2009 post-election crackdown, have issued the names of seven members or supporters who have been sentenced or imprisoned in recent months. Two of them are currently serving jail [...]

Russian mother loses hope of seeing detained son again

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Summary of story from Radio Free Europe, January  13, 2012 Ravil Mingazov was supposed to be a free man by now. Instead, he remains at Guantanamo Bay, the last Russian citizen in US custody in the detention centre. In May 2010, a US federal court ordered him released within six weeks, ruling that the government no [...]

Number of women in top advertising jobs falls by over a quarter

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Summary of story from The Guardian, January 12, 2012 The number of women at managing director level or above in UK advertising agencies has fallen to the lowest proportions since 2003. A report by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) shows that of the industry’s executives designated as a chair, chief executive or managing [...]

Study recommends no more than two embryos during IVF

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Summary of story from CNN, January 12, 2012 The British medical journal The Lancet has published a study recommending that women undergoing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) should have only one or two embryos transferred during the process. Transferring three or more  during any IVF cycle should be avoided, researchers said. The study analysed more than 124,000 cycles of [...]

Women and girls living in fear in Pakistan’s tribal areas

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Summary of story from IRINAsia, January 11, 2012 In Bajaur Agency, one of the tribal areas in northwestern Pakistan, very few girls go to school because they are frightened of the Taliban. “Not a single girl got admission to ninth class in Bajaur, FR (Frontier Region) Kohat and FR Lakki Marwat during 2009-10 due to Taliban threats, [...]