Women in Action articles from August 2001

Women in Action archives from August 2001

Into our feminist thinking ... (Editorial).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Women in Action (WIA) has been coming out as a thematic magazine (focusing on a single topic each issue) for a decade now. For the last 10 years, we have covered a vast range of issues confronted by the Asia-Pacific women's movement. Some...

Letter to the editor.
August 1, 2001... Dear Friends at Isis, Your Women in Action (WIA) does a fine job of telling stories from across a wide range of lifeways, and each issue gives me both joy and challenge. However, your issue on Older Women, No. 3, 2000 needs to be...

Anxiety over growing trade of women in Eastern Europe. (Clips).
August 1, 2001... BRATISLAVA -- Trade in women through Slovakia has become a growing problem, according to the European Parliament, Slovak police and concerned groups. The national police force estimates that between 1,500 to 2,000 Slovak women and young...

Philippines: the house that GAD built. (Clips).
August 1, 2001... ALORAN, MISAMIS OCCIDENTAL -- Washington D.C. is thousands of kilometres away from here but the White House, as the people here know it, is but a tricycle ride away from the nearest bus stop. No need to scramble for maps or seek directions. ...

US-EU dispute over GMO worries consumers in Africa. (Clips).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... HARARE -- Fearing for their food security, African consumer associations are watching with deep concern the impending trade dispute between the United States and European Union over the mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms...

WHO turns spotlight on mentally disabled. (Clips).(World Health Organization investigates mistreatment of the mentally disabled)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... MEXICO CITY -- If you are diagnosed with a mental disability in Hungary, your identity card is often taken away, making it difficult for you to indulge in such everyday activities as borrowing a book from a library. And if you are a...

Women with disabilities in South Asia. (Women With Disabilities).
August 1, 2001... Although disability leads to inequality and marginalisation of both men and women, people with disabilities are not a homogenous group. Women with disabilities from developing countries face certain unique disadvantages compared with disabled...

Disabled? Sorry we can't afford it: Australia's position on refugees and migrants with disabilities. (Women With Disabilities).
August 1, 2001... The recent case of Sharaz Kayani and his family has highlighted the discriminatory nature of Australia's migration policy. A former Pakistani asylum seeker, now Australian citizen, Sharaz Kayani set himself alight outside Parliament House...

Developing the gender dimension in India's disability rights movement. (Women With Disabilities).
August 1, 2001... Disabled women's rights! What rights are we talking about? Has the women's movement in the world had any impact on this marginalised group of disabled women? Has the disability rights movement in the world made any difference in their lives?...

Breakdown of tribal culture further marginalises women with disabilities. (Women With Disabilities).
August 1, 2001... The Chief Magistrate sitting at the Nairobi High Court did not hesitate to point out that the act of sexually assaulting a physically challenged woman was beastly, despite the victim having attained the statutory age of consent. In the...

Girls and women with disabilities speak out. (Women With Disabilities).
August 1, 2001... Disabled women are the most marginalised group in the whole world. There are more than 250 million of them today, with approximately 75 percent living in the so-called developing countries. Although they constitute a very large population,...

Women with disabilities are empowering themselves. (Women With Disabilities).
August 1, 2001... I would like to speak about EMPOWERMENT. I like to use this word because it helps to understand the release of the power inside all people. It describes how the power and capabilities within a person start to be used. It relates to a learning...

Body as bane: women and disabilities in Indian patriarchy. (Women With Disabilities).
August 1, 2001... Millions of women are living with disabilities, varying conditions that make their already burdened roles even more challenging because of physical or mental limitations. Various diseases and conditions produce some form of disability, and a...

Disability and diversity: challenges to normalisation and sameness. (Women With Disabilities).
August 1, 2001... What is the velocity of a falling body? a body moving through space, sensing neither the relative time, nor the relative motion of its fall. How long does a body falling into a seizure take to fall? (Hawthorne 1999:...

The Internet empowers women with disabilities. (Women With Disabilities).
August 1, 2001... In a developing country such as Indonesia, where the social, economic, and political situations are unstable and where the major problem is poverty, people with disabilities and their needs are not a priority. Traditional societies are...

Disablement and feminisation of poverty. (Women With Disabilities).
August 1, 2001... From the economic viewpoint, one can infer that poverty and disablement are synonymous with each other. What happens when poverty and disability are experienced at the same time? This article will look into the economic and social experiences...

Disabled women's lives. (Women With Disabilities).
August 1, 2001... Researching disability as an ally, and not a stranger, involves a personal involvement on my part, a questioning of my own asthmatic, fibromyalgic, but by my own definition, non-disabled self. It also involves an exchange of stories. ...

Breastfeeding, Women and Work: the Maternity Protection Campaign (A Report on the NGO Advocacy Efforts at the 88th ILO Conference).(World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... This is a report on the advocacy efforts of the Maternity Protection Coalition (MPC) to ensure stronger global standards on maternity protection. The first international instrument on maternity protection was adopted in 1919 by the...

The Essential Handbook: Radio and HIV/AIDS: Making a Difference (a Guide for Radio Practitioners, Health Workers and Donors).(published by the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and Media Action International. 1999)
August 1, 2001... Radio and HIV/AIDS: Making a Difference is a practical guide to producing the kind of radio programmes which will make listeners stop and think about HIV/AIDS and how they can help reduce the risk of infection. In 1998 AIDS killed 1.4...

Feminism and Documentary.
August 1, 2001... Documentary and feminist film studies have long been separate or parallel universes that need to converse or collide. The essays in this volume, written by prominent scholars and filmmakers, demonstrate the challenges that feminist perspectives...

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future.
August 1, 2001... Young women today live by feminism's goals, yet feminism itself is undeniably at a crossroads; "girl power" feminists appear to be obsessed with personal empowerment at the expense of politics, while political institutions such as Ms. And NOW...

Marketisation of Governance: Critical Feminist Perspectives from the South.
August 1, 2001... The DAWN project on Political Restructuring and Social Transformation seeks, among other things, to critique or challenge mainstream `governance,' or political reform ideas which have arisen in the context of economic globalisation, and expose...

With an End in Sight: Strategies from the UNIFEM Trust Fund to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
August 1, 2001... In countries world-wide, a growing network of women's organisations is taking on a challenge of enormous proportions: ending violence against women. Their passion and commitment, the challenges they face and the strategies they have devised to...

Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: Torture and Ill-treatment of Women.(Amnesty International Publications)
August 1, 2001... Torture of women is a fundamental violation of human rights, prohibited in all circumstances under international law. Yet despite the gains that women around the world have made in asserting their rights, the torture of women is a daily...

Issues in Intimate Violence.
August 1, 2001... Designed specifically for undergraduate students, Issues in Intimate Violence provides a comprehensive and accessible anthology that prepares the foundation for understanding a wide range of violence that commonly occurs in families and between...

Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition.
August 1, 2001... The prostitution industry is probably more intricately capitalised and more thoroughly globalised then ever before. Global Sex Workers illuminates the experiences of those who are too often spoken for and too rarely heard from--the sex workers...

Institutionalising Gender Equality: Commitment, Policy, and Practice (A Global Source Book).
August 1, 2001... Encouraged by the growing international women's movement and recent world conferences on women, many government, NGOs and other development organisations have made commitments to the goal of promoting equality between women and men. The...

Challenging Women: Gender, Culture and Organization.
August 1, 2001... Much has been written about women at work, the "glass ceiling" and discriminatory employment practices. However, while the influence of male gender cultures on men, women and institutions is tacitly accepted, its effect on women in senior...

Women Respond to the Men's Movement.
August 1, 2001... The men's movement has been discussed on talk shows, described in best-selling books, and lampooned on prime time television, but do we know what it is? Is it part of the backlash against the women's movement, an insidious, even fashionable new...

Gender Glossary.(World Food Programme)
August 1, 2001... By the World Food Programme Gender-related terminology and concepts that have come to the forefront in the past five years since Beijing have not always been easy to incorporate into the day-to-day programming and functioning of...

1999 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development: Globalization, Gender and Work.
August 1, 2001... Produced every five years, the current world survey explores the positive and negative economic effects of globalisation. Three trends that it describes are trade liberalisation and expansion; the spread of production capacity through direct...

The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics.
August 1, 2001... The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics presents new and updated statistics on population, the family, health, education and communication, work, and politics and human rights. It is a comprehensive and authoritative compilation of...

Progress of the World's Women.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... How far have we come in achieving a global commitment to gender equality? UNIFEM's latest biennial report (launched at the Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century in June...

Women in Sync: Toolkit for Electronic Networking.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Toolkit 1: Putting Beijing Online: Women Working in Information and Communication Technologies: Experiences from the APC Women's Networking Support Programme by Peregrine Wood. Toolkit 2: Networking for Change: The APCWNSP's First 8 Years...

How Like a Leaf: an Interview with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve.
August 1, 2001... Since the appearance of her monumental Primate Visions and the now classic essay "A Manifesto for Cyborgs", science historian Donna J. Haraway has revealed a way of thinking about culture, science, and the production of knowledge that has made...

Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China.
August 1, 2001... Set against the back ground of the Japanese occupation of China, the Communist-Nationalist struggle, the White Terror of Taiwan, and American engagement in the Vietnam War, this extraordinary novel recounts the story of two women--Mulberry and...

Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution.
August 1, 2001... Agnes Smedley's biographers, Steve and Jan MacKinnon, have collected eighteen of her stories of Chinese women to create this moving document of a people in the throes of revolution with rare photographs taken by Smedley. Portraits of...

e-resources on women with disabilities. (Isis Resource).
August 1, 2001... National Organization on Disability http://www.nod.org The National Organization on Disability promotes the full and equal participation of America's 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life. N.O.D. was...

Trade and Hunger. (Food Security Section).
August 1, 2001... The following material is extracted from a new survey examining the relation. ship between trade and food security, poverty and the environment. "Trade and Hunger" distills the findings from 27 impact assessments on the effects of trade...

Global markets, local divides in digital decade. (ICT Section).
August 1, 2001... DRAMATICALLY changing business and political climates across Asia to grammatically changing spelling and sentence structures via SMS (Short Message Service), the Internet and wireless telephony are transforming Asian countries and cultures in...

Leading in a different language: will women change the news media? Condensed from the report published by the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). (Media Section).
August 1, 2001... If there was ever any doubt about the power of the press, consider the experiences of Peruvian journalist Cecilia Valenzuela. In the last decade, Valenzuela has been arrested, fired from several jobs and has received countless death threats,...

What you need to know about RU486. (Health Section).
August 1, 2001... Mifepristone (a. k. a. RU-486, a. k. a. the "abortion pill") is like no other medication on the market today. Women who want it may never get to take it, because their doctors are unwilling or unable to provide it. Women who try it may...