Category Archives: Weekly update

UK: Women’s Aid release new guidance on digital stalking http://www.womensaid.org.uk/page.asp?section=0001000100280003&sectionTitle=Digital+stalking&dm_i=674,OIIS,S8KAA,1Z8L7,1 The guidelines, which are funded by the Nominet Trust and Avon, contain practical advice on how to reduce the risk of being stalked online. They can also be used for … Continue reading →

Saudi Arabia: Women to be allowed into sport stadium? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/28/saudi-arabia-women-sport-stadium_n_1239018.html?ref=world Al-Sharq newspaper on Saturday quoted unnamed officials as saying that women will be able to watch the matches in a new facility that will be completed in 2014 in the … Continue reading →

US: At last, some good news about birth control http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13422 http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9256 Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services announced today the Obama Administration will not broaden the religious exemption for contraceptive coverage under the Preventive Care package of the … Continue reading →

US: The abortion saga continues http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13409 http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13410 http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13411 http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13413 The Feminist Majority Foundation is doing excellent work in collating these stories from across the US, showing how anti-abortionists are continuing to weaken protections for women by chipping away at them … Continue reading →

US: Rape is Rape campaign wins victory http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9115 Brilliant work by the Feminist Majority Foundation to alter the FBI’s previous outdated definition of rape. The new definition is much more inclusive. India: Education and employment bring abuse http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106208 Educated and … Continue reading →

Saudi Arabia: Women get the vote! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15052030 The BBC’s world affairs correspondent Emily Buchanan says it is an extraordinary development for women in Saudi Arabia, who are not allowed to drive, or to leave the country unaccompanied. She says there … Continue reading →

Topman withdraws offensive T-shirts http://uk.news.yahoo.com/topman-withdraws-offensive-t-shirts-163839697.html The tops both carried messages which abuse charity Tender said “appeared to be making light of the excuses made for domestic abuse”. One T-shirt carried the words “I’m so sorry but…” followed by a series … Continue reading →

UK: Latest government VAWG booklet published http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/crime/vawg-newsletters/vawg-summer-2011?view=Binary This includes news on funding for rape crisis centres, legal advice, assistance for women offenders and campaigns. Useful for keeping up to date. UK: Women’s Aid ‘Real Man Campaign’ aims for 10,000 signatures … Continue reading →

Belief in witchcraft is a big problem in many parts of Africa, and Burkina Faso seems a particularly bad place for lone or disabled women and for widows. The promising news is that legal assistance for women suspected of witchcraft … Continue reading →