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Last night, I heard this report on the BBC World Service about the rape of women and girls in the conflict in Darfur , based on this study by Human Rights Watch . The BBC says that although rape has been a tool of warfare throughout this conflict, the patterns have changed–it’s not just the Janjaweed, anymore. “Women and girls (photo, right) are now as likely to be assaulted in periods of calm as during attacks on their villages and towns. Government soldiers, militiamen, and rebel fighters [are] also targeting women on the fringes of camps for displaced people spread around the region.”  We saw this in the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s–although prominent feminist legal theorist Catherine Mackinnon was important in drawing attention to the use of rape and forced pregnancy by Serb soldiers in the wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, this 1996 book by Beverly Allen looks like the comprehensive study of...
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Romania must tell the truth in the case of the clandestine CIA prisons, is the imperative demand of the Human Rights Watch director, Tom Malinowski.... more
America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don’t Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation’s destiny and character. Davis’s dramatic ... Americas Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Fou... more
Country’s longest-running case is set to resume
(New York, November 22, 2008) – The Malaysian government should exonerate Irene
Fernandez, a leading labour activist convicted in 2003 on politically motivated
charges of “publishing false news,” Human Rights Watch said today. The Kuala
Lumpur High Court has scheduled hearings next week in the criminal case against
Fernandez, which has continued for more than 12 years.
In July 1995, Fernandez, the director of TENAGANITA, a nongovernme... more
Urgent Action Needed – No New EU-Israel Action Plan!!
The European Parliament (EP) has recently announced that a vote will be held on December 4 to enter into force the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which will enable far greater Israeli participation in European Community programs. Originally, the EU had stated that the vote on this issue would not take place until 2009, but it seems clear that the EU and Israel are attempting to minimize the voice of international civil society by ... more
Black Agenda Report special feature
The former congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate charges that “Israel’s lockdown of Gaza is keeping food, fuel, and medicine from civilians.” But that’s just the most recent atrocity in a human rights catastrophe that began 60 years ago, in Palestine, the same year that birthed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration is prime evidence that a civilized world is possible, but “Palestine is th... more
While we wait to see the results of today’s primary that will surely force the end of Hillary Clinton’s campaign even if she wins, let’s tour the non-peer reviewed internets, shall we?
Bob Somerby has a really interesting ethnographic analysis today at The Daily Howler , arguing that the press corps’ dominant Hillary hatred can be traced to middle-aged ”East Coast Irish Catholics” prominent at NBC and the New York Times, and the particular... more
Duh .  Historiann attended the exact same undergraduate (and graduate) institutions as the second-most prominent women’s college graduate in the United States since Katherine Hepburn died.  (You know who the most famous American women’s college graduate is!) It would be nice if women’s colleges graduated proportionately more people who got graduate degrees in something other than the humanities–not that there’s anything wrong with t... more
Well, we found out a few things tonight:
One, Ted Strickland looks like a great candidate for Vice President if Hillary Clinton is indeed the Democratic nominee. Two, Obama should drop out immediately because continuing his campaign is divisive and hurting party unity . My math (see above) proves conclusively that he can’t win the nomination without the Superdelegates . (Kidding! Well, except for the Ted Strickland as V.P. part. Ohio’s a must-wi... more
Clinton, Obama, and McCain campaign teams take note: here is some truly excellent propaganda by Paul Revere–238 years later, it still works. (Please note the blanching or erasure of Crispus Attucks , the first American to die in a confrontation with British soldiers in the American Revolution, who was in fact of African and Algonquian ancestry.)
Thirteen years ago when I was living in Massachusetts, Historiann attended the historical reenactment of the Boston M... more
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