Ebadi Says Women’s Rights True Test of Democracy
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi said in a major speech yesterday that women’s rights is a fundamental precursor to ending the wars afflicting the globe.
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College Students Offer Teens Frank Talk on Trauma
In a promising mental-health approach, female students at two universities are visiting high schools and talking to female teens about their personal experiences with depression, eating disorders and sexual assault.
Girl Talk: Why We Cut and Burn Ourselves
As the problem of young women cutting and burning themselves gets mainstream attention, female teens are logging on to the Internet to talk about why they injure themselves. Women’s eNews corresponded with a few of them for this story.
Female Teens Discuss Their Self Injury
Teens who responded to a Women’s eNews’ posting on the Maryland-based Focus Adolescent Services Web site openly discussed their lives of enormous sadness, little-understood emotions and an inexplicable attraction to the thrill of self-inflicted pain.
Women in Southeastern Turkey Now Have Own Oasis
A center in southeastern Turkey offers counseling, consciousness-raising and small business loans to women in the conservative region. Its founder was a victim of state torture.
New NYSE Chief to Keep Augusta Membership
(WOMENSENEWS)–John Reed, the new chief of the New York Stock Exchange, recently indicated that he would not use his position to urge the Augusta National Golf Club to admit women.
Reed, once retired but now interim chief executive officer of the New York Stock Exchange, rejected a recent plea from the National Council of Women’s Organizations to cancel his membership at the club. The council has been in a battle for more than a year over whether the famous club–home to one of golf’s most prestigious tournaments–would continue its refusal to admit women as members.
Interest in Campus Reproductive Rights Conference Soars
The 17th annual conference on reproductive rights at Hampshire College affirms that campus-based activism is on the rise. Also: FCC backs down and Sarah Jones’ feminist hip-hop song is back on the air after 15 months of legal battles.
New Bay Area Hotline Offers Post-Abortion Counseling
Operating out of a San Francisco Bay area office, a group of volunteers is offering post-abortion peer counseling that takes no moral or political stance. Half the callers are men.
Take Our Daughters to Marriage Counseling
Rather than mentoring girls to join the workforce, we should be showing them how to negotiate fairer divisions of child care and housework in relationships.
Women at Higher Risk for Stress Reactions
Women are at higher risk for trauma-related reactions after last week’s attacks: Women often put others’ needs ahead of their own, delaying their healing processes, and women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
