http://www.thevintagenews.com/2015/02/21/the-posters-that-warned-against-the-horrors-of-a-world-with-womens-rights/
Category: Global
Nurses unite to stop transpacific partnership
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/03/nurses-unite-to-stop-transpacific-partnership-fast-track.html
Trade agreements that enable tobacco and pharmaceutical companies to sue countries that prioritise public health should be stopped. These agreements have enabled Australia to be sued over its world leading plain packaging for cigarettes.
The real life and death of Gracia Hosokawa
https://theconversation.com/battered-wife-or-strong-woman-the-real-life-and-death-of-gracia-hosokawa-37793
Women are being terrorised in the gaming industry – but authorities fail to act.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/63466-im-brianna-wu-and-im-risking-my-life-standing-up-to-gamergate
The hazards of internetting when female and how to navigate them.
http://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a13403/online-harassment-terms-fight-back/
Violence dressed up as erotica – Fifty shades of grey and abuse
http://theconversation.com/violence-dressed-up-as-erotica-fifty-shades-of-grey-and-abuse-37589
"White Ribbon" ambassador outed as an apologist for male violence, claiming rising violence attributable to male loss of power.
http://theconversation.com/disempowered-men-still-lead-on-economic-power-37576
I”. . .he is, in some important respects, right. Men are losing power in a world where women have gained formal equality. Ahmed is certainly not the first to suggest that some are “evening the score”, in crude terms, in their private lives. An analogous argument has been made by “radical feminists” regarding the exponential rise of the global sex industry.
Where Ahmed falls drastically short is in naming that the power being lost was not a legitimate power in the first place – any more than whites having power over blacks or gay couples not being “allowed” to marry was legitimate. This unearned privilege was and is part of a system of social, political and economic control that feminism as a movement for women’s equality has sought to name, critique and dismantle.”
Bride burnings on the rise in India
http://www.smh.com.au/world/india-burning-brides-and-ancient-practice-is-on-the-rise-20150130-12r4j1.html
Teams with more women outperform those with more men
A study has found that women’s better ability to read emotions leads to teams with more women outperforming those dominated by men.
Editor of major German newspaper admits planting stories for CIA and claims this is routine in Western media
He claims the purpose of the stories is to drive countries to war.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/editor-of-major-german-newspaper-says-he-planted-stories-for-cia/article/424470