In Sudan, a return to ethnic cleansing?
Terrifying news today via the indefatigable Rebecca Hamilton, author of Fighting for Darfur, who has a piece on Nick Kristof’s New York Times blog today that must be read: Sudan’s Khartoum government, which is about to lose southern Sudan, is fighting to keep the Nuba mountain region… by conducting ...
“Order of Ghastliness”: This week in Numbers Masquerading as Meaningful
When I and others wrote recently about a problematic study allegedly clarifying the number of women raped in Congo, there was a common refrain in the comments: All this talk about talking about rape, and nobody’s doing anything! What’s the point of arguing about the numbers?
I don’t subscribe to that ...
Nobel Women’s Initiative takes on sexual violence
The Nobel Women’s Initiative, which is exactly what you think it is, is taking up the cause of ending sexual violence in war. Tall order, I know, but if you want to eavesdrop on them — or better yet, participate in their conversation — you can ...
Can women write?
Well, they can pick up a pen, surely. But do they need gender-exclusive paths to the Cocktail Party of Greatness? It’s an old debate, and here’s Australia writer Benjamin Law’s quick summary, in this article, viz. a debate over the for-women-only Orange Prize:
The literary world’s £30,000 Orange Prize ...
Rape in the DRC: Now complete with statistics!
A few days ago, I got a press release about Congo, the first line of which is this:
“A new study shows that women in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been raped at a rate 26 times higher than previously thought. The shockingly high number is equivalent to 1,152 women ...
Jina Moore
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