Archive for the ‘Human Rights’ Category
“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 view, for very many [...]
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 follow a live blog here (started at 10 am [...]
Events that are worth a New York minute — and more
Here are two upcoming events that promise to be interesting and inspiring. If you’re in the City, come on by. If you’re not, tell your metro-friends. (And come say hi to me at the Dart celebration!) A Celebration of the Dart Society, an collective of journalists whose work focuses on trauma, broadly defined. Gloria Steinem [...]
Silly women and their sexual assault. Don’t they know it’s complex?
At a small school in Pennsylvania, students staged a sit-in to protest the way their campus handles rape reports. This piece, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, says that on a campus of 2400 students, there were five sexual assaults reported last year. Any woman will tell you that’s got to be a case of underreporting. The [...]
Postscript: Women in Egypt
I’m slowly catching up on my podcasts. My piece on the Lara Logan media tizzy included a question, “What about Egyptian women in Tahrir?” The World’s Ursula Lindsay produced a program called — get this — “The Women of Tahrir Square,” which aired Feb 10. It doesn’t touch on sexual assault, but it make the [...]
On Reporters and Rape: Three ideas worth rising above the cacophony
There’s been a bevy of people with opinions on Lara Logan’s unfortunate trauma in Egypt. In case you’ve missed it, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS, was sexually assaulted in Cairo while reporting on the uprisings there. A lot of the response I’ve seen has been pretty mindless. There’s Nir Rosen, of course, and his [...]
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