Toward a World that Works for Everyone
By Declan Walsh, NY Times April 30 2020 https://tinyurl.com/y9ov3d97 A new law criminalizes genital cutting, a harmful practice that nine in 10 Sudanese women are said to have endured. But some warned laws alone cannot eliminate the practice. CAIRO — Sudan’s new government has outlawed the practice of female genital mutilation, a move hailed […]
I offer Part 2 of my partial transcription of The Divine Feminine Video, recorded April 26, 2020. This video gathering of six powerful Spiritual and Healing women, in the USA and the UK, reminded me that “Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20 […]
Events are happening faster than we can write articles on, so we’re switching to a summary format, with the URL for you to go to and read at more length if you so choose. Some of the subjects may be hard to take and so a smaller bite of information may be more desirable. It […]
April 17, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/yd8cxr6r My blessed, beautiful child, it is easy to believe that you are at fault, that there is something you should have done better or differently. Yet you could be nowhere other than where you are now, and the person who has to help you first will always be you. You are […]
Lockdown is resulting in an increase in domestic abuse. This is one of the gender issues that the recently-formed Equality Fund in Canada is looking at and helping with. In this article they discuss their scope and aims, especially in light of the pandemic. In a Pandemic, Gender Equality More Important Than Ever Jessica Houssian, […]
Coronavirus: When home gets violent under lockdown in Europe Natalie Higgins BBC News, Brussels, April 12, 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52216966 Flags were lowered to half-mast and three days of mourning were declared in the Spanish town of Almassora to mark Carina’s death. In normal times, this community near Valencia would have gathered in silence to remember their […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca In February of this year the brutal killing and mutilation of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla, her body skinned and missing some of its organs, and the abduction and murder of 7-year-old Fátima Aldrighett, her tortured body discovered in a plastic bag, sparked enormous outrage in Mexico and around the world. According to my friend, who […]
Activists Appear Unveiled in Tehran on Women’s Day Michael Lipin, VOA Persian service, March 08, 2019 https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/voa-news-iran/activists-appear-unveiled-tehran-womens-day Small groups of Iranian women celebrated International Women’s Day by appearing publicly unveiled in Tehran and calling on Iranians to support their defiance of mandatory veiling in the Islamist nation. VOA Persian received and verified a video clip […]
Please join our Collective Meditation, with the Mother and Archangel Michael where we say “Enough” to gender violence. Collective Meditation: 8 Minutes @ 8 AM and/or PM – Holding Love and Sending Love Mexican Women to March Against Gender Violence By Associated Press, March 07, 2020 https://www.voanews.com/americas/mexican-women-march-against-gender-violence MEXICO CITY – Protests against gender violence in […]
By Jason Slotkin, NPR, March 8, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/08/813477367/international-womens-day-2020-clashes-coronavirus-and-women-prepare-to-strike Organizers and marchers have been out marking International Women’s Day. A holiday with its origins in the labor and socialist movements of the 20th century, the day now recognized by the United Nations occasions rallies and events from Caracas to Baghdad to spotlight issues facing women globally. […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca In quiet protest of gender violence, many women plan a one-day retreat from public life March 9. Their temporary absence might bring permanent change. By the Monitor’s Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, February 27, 2020 https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2020/0227/Mexican-women-try-the-power-of-silence On March 9, much of Mexico will become very quiet. The silence, in fact, is meant to be […]
www.voice of freedom.ca Women in Mexico have been protesting gender violence and inequality for years. March 9th, the day after International Women’s Day, they are planning something new — mass withdrawal — not going to work for the day. This latest idea was spurred on by the violent death, February 9, of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla. […]
Warning: This story contains graphic details By Chris Brown, CBC News, February 25, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-domestic-violence-1.5437241 Given the savagery of what Margarita Gracheva’s husband did to her, you’d think Russian lawmakers would want to stop it from happening to other women. Instead, attitudes toward legislating tougher laws on domestic violence remain stuck in another century. Two […]
Women being exploited is an age-old issue on Earth. What we’re seeing Now are innovative ways for this to stop. Also, please join 8 Minutes @ 8 AM/PM to send Love. ‘My name is Karly’: Sex trafficking victim joins police on front lines in battle against exploitation Jennifer Barr, CBC News, February 18, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/national-human-trafficking-1.5459509 […]
By Erica Sanchez, Leah Rodriguez, Global Citizen, January 13, 2020 https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/mexico-city-femicide-protest-red-shoes/ A series of performance demonstrations in Mexico City are bringing attention to the growing gender-based violence rates throughout the country. Activists placed hundreds of painted-red women’s shoes on the main square in Zocalo, Mexico City’s cultural and religious hub, on Saturday, according to the […]
