On AlterNet: violence against women
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "violence against women"
Jaclyn Friedman, AlterNet. August 6, 2009.
Did the court let Brown off too easy for beating girlfriend Rihanna? The author says that's the wrong question.
David Smith, The Guardian. June 20, 2009.
The country is notorious for having one of the highest levels of rape. Only a fraction are reported, and few lead to a conviction.
Marianne Schnall, Women's Media Center. February 7, 2009.
Six-month-old babies are being raped; men with AIDs are intentionally infecting women. Eve Ensler has a campaign to help end the terror.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. September 29, 2008.
Women are most likely to be murdered by someone they know.
Lys Anzia, Women News Network. September 23, 2008.
Physical and psychological abuse are rampant in women's prisons from the U.S. to Canada to Pakistan.
Dominique Soguel, Women's eNews. September 16, 2008.
Syria just opened its first shelter for battered women. But authorities still tolerate families who consider it honorable to kill their kinswomen.
Riane Eisler, AlterNet. September 6, 2008.
Why is it that we get so outraged over war but look the other way when women and girls are beaten and murdered in the name of tradition?
Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com. May 14, 2008.
In West Africa, the war against women doesn't end just because grim wars between men finally do.
Stephen Lewis, The Nation. April 24, 2008.
Women in the Congo are suffering such horrific violence that "vaginal destruction" is now a local medical term. Where is the UN?
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. April 17, 2008.
The monologues mainstream important feminist concepts.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. February 21, 2008.
Do right-wingers not know where babies come from, or is there more to the story?
Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com. February 21, 2008.
Civil wars in West Africa are officially "over," but horrific violence against women continues unbated -- and is growing increasingly worse.
Michael Bader, Vivian Dent, AlterNet. November 7, 2007.
In response to Robert Jensen's controversial book, Getting Off, two clinical psychologists debate the intersection of violence and sexual fantasy.
Don Hazen, AlterNet: PEEK. September 18, 2007.
Don Hazen: Why is Parker standing by Chris Albrecht, the former CEO of HBO who's had a long history of assaulting women?
IraqSloggerJuly 24, 2007.
One of the bright spots of Saddam Hussein's brutal rule was the full recognition of women's rights. Those days are long gone.
Lucinda Marshall, AlterNet. March 8, 2007.
It has been said that the health of a society is measured by how it treats women. Judging from global statistics, it is safe to say that society is in crisis.
Robin Morgan, Women's Media Center. January 22, 2007.
Escalating the war in Iraq means the military will grant more "moral waivers" -- permitting recruits with criminal records and emotional problems who would otherwise be unfit to serve.
Kavita N. Ramdas, Global Fund for Women. December 19, 2006.
The United States' so-called "liberation" of Iraqi women has made them less free than they were under the Baathist regime, with abduction, rape, and "honor" killings now a daily reality.
