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Pushing the limits: Helen Skelton skis, kites and cycles to South Pole for Sport Relief Making a (breastfeeding) tit of ourselves? Doin Train editors to consider how careless words cost women their lives Twin a toilet and keep women safer One man, 12 sisters and a sink full of gender stereotyping Tagore Five million UK workers cannot afford essentials this Christmas
 

Pushing the limits: Helen Skelton skis, kites and cycles to South Pole for Sport Relief

Rosy Moorhead WVoN features editor  Permanent blisters, a hacking cough, a dodgy tummy and a bad bout of dehydration. This would wipe the best of us out, but of all that whilst travelling 500 miles in temperatures approaching -48 degrees Celsius and severe snow storms? You’d have to be mad, wouldn’t you? Or Blue Peter [...]

Making a (breastfeeding) tit of ourselves?

Sarah Cheverton WVoN co-editor Alright, quit your noise already, Interpipe. We’re owning it. We ran a story from a satire site alleging Newt Gingrich’s wife caused the arrest of a breastfeeding woman on the grounds of obscenity. The story was barely up a few hours before we first removed, then corrected it. Yet over 200 [...]

Doin’ it in public: remembering the Woman’s Building

Rosy Moorhead WVoN features editor  “The past is never totally past. “What we did in the 70s has turned out to be of interest continually… I am still trying, through the work I make, to model an open society where everyone can participate equally and can speak and be heard.” That is according to Sheila [...]

Train editors to consider how careless words cost women their lives

Jackie Gregory WVoN co-editor As WWoN reported on January 24, UK equality groups have been urging the Leveson Inquiry into the UK’s press standards to address inaccurate, prejudicial and demeaning portrayals of women. It is worth taking a closer look at witness statement made by the umbrella group End Violence Against Women coalition (EVAW Coalition) which is posted on [...]

Twin a toilet and keep women safer

Jem McCarron WVoN co-editor Going to the toilet is an inconvenience, especially for women. There are few things more frustrating than being in the middle of a great movie, stuck in a traffic jam or at a music festival and hearing the ‘call of nature’. Now imagine a young woman living in a refugee camp in [...]

One man, 12 sisters and a sink full of gender stereotyping

Jackie Gregory WVoN co-editor ‘Thank goodness I have got my own bathroom!’ Man, 24, tells of life with his 12 sisters (but admits they do run around after him)’ This was the headline of a story on MailOnline on January 24, 2012. You could be forgiven for thinking it was dated January 24, 1912, well [...]

Tagore’s Women: strong women who dominate on and off the stage

Asiya Islam WVoN features writer It’s not often – and certainly not often enough – that you come across theatre dominated by strong women characters. It’s even more rare for women on stage to express their sexual desires, talk of pleasure and take the lead in the ‘act’. ‘Tagore’s Women’, a double bill of the [...]

Five million UK workers cannot afford essentials this Christmas

Rachel Salmon WVoN co-editor  As you dash out to do the last of your Christmas shopping, spare a thought for the person behind the counter, as she is likely to be one of the five million British workers paid too little to cover basic costs like housing, food and clothing. In a recent report, Low [...]

Facebook game aims for stand against dowry payments

27 January 2012

Summary of story from Voice of America, January 24, 2012 A new Facebook game, developed by a matchmaking company, aims to inspire women to oppose the illegal practice of giving – or taking – a dowry in India. Angry Brides – a game reminiscent of the popular Angry Birds – allows players to take on the [...]

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Plaid Cymru leadership frontrunner Leanne Wood

27 January 2012

Summary of story from The Independent, January 26, 2012 Leanne Wood, the frontrunner in the race to be the next Plaid Cymru leader, traces her political beliefs to growing up in the ’80s in Wales, and witnessing first-hand the effect of Margaret Thatcher’s scorched earth economic policies. It had, she says, a profound influence on [...]

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Vigilance needed, sisters

27 January 2012

Summary of story from the Morning Star, January 24, 2012 The decision by the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) in the UK to allow ads for post-conception advice services has the usual suspects in a lather, writes Louise Raw. It’s no use in wearily pointing out to them that pregnancy advice agencies actually give [...]

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Sex trafficking victims tell of “witchcraft, torture and death threats” in Scotland

27 January 2012

Summary of story from the Daily Record, January 27, 2012 Ten women, victims of sex trafficking in Scotland, have told how they were enslaved by “witchcraft, torture and death threats”. The women – nine from Africa, and one from South America – told their stories to a Glasgow charity, Trafficking Awareness Raising Alliance (TARA), in [...]

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Women and children “slaughtered” in Syria violence

27 January 2012

Summary of story from Time, January 27, 2012 At least 30 people were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs yesterday, including a family of women and children. Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad pounded residential buildings in the Karm el-Zaytoun district with mortars and machine-gun fire. Some residents reported that a massacre took [...]

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Claire Short: Can Leveson get rid of topless pictures?

27 January 2012

Summary of story from The Independent, January 26, 2012 Former Labour Party Member of Parliament Claire Short writes about her attempt in 1986 to introduce legislation to ban pictures of topless women in Britain’s tabloid newspapers, and its relevance to the Leveson enquiry into media ethics. She says that MPs giggled and sneered at her suggestion that these pictures degraded women. There [...]

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Premiere of film about Burma’s political prisoners

27 January 2012

Summary of story from VoA, January 24, 2012 A documentary film about Burma’s political prisoners and the underground movement helping them premiered this week in Asia, drawing attention to the plight of the country’s activists as the government releases hundreds of prisoners in an amnesty program. Director Jeanne Hallacy said former political prisoner and activist [...]

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Forty years of Ms. magazine

27 January 2012

Summary of story from VoA, January 24, 2012 Forty years ago, Ms. magazine appeared on American newsstands alongside the periodicals exclusively devoted to housework, motherhood and catching a man. Ms. was founded by veteran journalist and feminist Gloria Steinem, backed by glossy New York Magazine, and promised to be ‘something more’: a place where women [...]

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Outrage as India honours police chief accused of ordering torture

27 January 2012

Summary of story from The Hindu, January 26, 2012 Women and human rights activists have been protesting against the Indian government’s decision to present a gallantry award to a police officer who allegedly supervised the torture of a school teacher accused of assisting the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). The officer, Ankit Garg, was awarded [...]

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Julia Gillard’s shoe held by Aborigine protesters

27 January 2012

Summary of story from The Daily Telegraph, January 27, 2012 Aborigine protesters have brandished a shoe lost by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard as she was rescued from a violent rally, claiming they want it to be the symbol of a move to “give us back our country”. The shoe – a dark blue, size 36 Midas [...]

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