Caster Semenya returns to the track in triumph after year in limbo
She was allegedly made to undergo a two-hour examination of her sex organs, hitched in stirrups as doctors took photographs. Afterwards she sent distraught messages to friends and family. Her coach Michael Seme later said that it had been a wonder she did not "drink poison" and end it all.
Malaysia - İslamic courts appoint first female judges
Malaysia's Islamic Shariah courts have appointed their first female judges — a move praised by women's rights activists Thursday as a boost for a judicial system often accused of favoring men.
UN Creates New Structure for Empowerment of Women
In an historic move, the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously today to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide.
Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt's radical feminist
El Saadawi is "a novelist first, a novelist second, a novelist third", she says, but it is feminism that unites her work. "For me feminism includes everything," she says. "It is social justice, political justice, sexual justice . . . It is the link between medicine, literature, politics, economics, psychology and history. Feminism is all that. You cannot understand the oppression of women without this."
Female Reporters Need to Mobilize for Their Rights
Journalist Berat Günçıkan and the editor of the Life magazine, Efnan Atmaca have discussed the functioning of mainstream media and problems encountered by women with students from the Bianet project "From School to the News Room (OHO).
Iran woman escapes stoning death for adultery
In May 2006, a criminal court in East Azerbaijan province found Ms Ashtiani guilty of having had an "illicit relationship" with two men following the death of her husband. She was given 99 lashes.
Response of the Women's Platform of Trabzon to the Mayor of Rize
Women's Platform of Trabzon has responded to Halil Bakırcı, the mayor of Rize, who recently made the statement that “the Kurdish problem will be solved if Turkish men take one Kurdish bride as a second wife”. The Platform also condemned the Chamber of Commerce of Diyarbakır and the president of the Bar of Diyarbakır in a press release.
European Feminist Gathering Meets in Istanbul
European Feminist Gathering of the World March of Women took place in the Maçka Campus of
Female Governors, now!
A total of 166 governors serving in the provinces and in the center are all male. Having finished its 8 year in the office AKP has hit the button for female governors. Any appointment to take place shall not be merely symbolic. We want women to be appointed as governors in one third of the 81 provinces to at least reach the "critical threshold".
