Archive for the ‘Human Rights’ Category
This weekend, in human rights outrage…
Way up there in Canada….
Half of the sexual assault staff at a Canadian hospital center is sick, or tired — literally — and that has meant women seeking rape kits and time-sensitive preventive medications are being sent home and told to “come back later.” Oh, and by the way, don’t shower until we’ve had [...]
An open application to join Kofi Annan’s speech writing team
Because I’d make a few tweaks to his op-ed on Holocaust education and genocide prevention. I’d clean up some sloppy language and some bad metaphors. And lest you think that’s just snotty writer talk, here’s the point up front: The metaphors we use about genocide tell us what we think causes it. [...]
After war, who’s not a ‘vulnerable population’?
I’m up to my ears in UN project reports about peacebuilding activities in various countries, and I continue to see language like this, a recommendation about what a small business should do were it to receive UN financial support: “Give more jobs to vulnerable persons affected by the conflict (ex-combatants, women,
youth, disabled, …)”
Ex-combatants. Women. [...]
Boozing it up in the ‘third world’?: The mix tape
Update, after I got out from under my rock
In one of the very active comments sections on the blogs that have taken this up, someone accused Nick Kristof of living under a rock. Accused is a strong word. ‘Asked if he did’ is better.
I have been the cyber equivalent of living under a [...]
Tastes like terrorism!
“As another day passed with Mr. [Faisal] Shahzad talking to investigators about the car bomb he had admitted driving into Times Square on Saturday, details emerged on Wednesday about [Mr. and Mrs. Shahzad] and their life together, along with speculation about his radicalization….
A Pakistani man said that an acquaintance of his who was a friend [...]
Why a “girl” can’t “change her mind” about rape
“can a girl change her mind about rape”?
Dear Internet surfer who put that into Google and ended up on my blog:
No. Rape is not a state of mind. It is not a “mood.” It is not a choice by the fickle feminine species to decide that sex was rape and not consensual sex.
We women change [...]
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