Women news and updates. Feb 24, 2009

Guatemala: For Women, the Most Dangerous Place is at Home Doctors Without Borders – New York,NY,USA … cases occurring in the districts of Guatemala City, where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a program to assist such victims. …

Middle East Leaders offer an Open Door to Peace — Will US and … Media Monitors Network – CA,USA At least 10 times since 2006, Hamas has offered peace with Israel in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal to its 1967 borders. Hamas had even earlier endorsed …

Indianapolis police, fire promotions policy faces upgrade Indianapolis Star – United States And, unlike in the past, the process would be carried out without a decades-old requirement to meet federal benchmarks for the percentages of women and …

Conflict and peace: Students talk about violence in the Middle East The Current – St. Louis,MO,USA We won’t attack civilians either; it’s just that terrorists use women and children as a shield.” She believes that a main problem is that many Middle …

UCI Students Protest Reality TV New University Online – CA,USA Without secure borders, we would have no idea what is coming in here. It’s not racist to want to have a secure nation.” However, with Shull, Lin and the …

US Tamils’ open Letter to Former President Clinton PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA Others who seem to agree with us include Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders, and the UN’s Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the … See all stories on this topic

Red face for SNP minister who painted grim picture of Scotland Scotsman – United Kingdom By Hamish Macdonell THE tiny Borders town of Wanlockhead looks like a Scottish version of the American Deep South terror film Deliverance, it is difficult …

Scrudato: To avoid discrimination Yale Daily News – New Haven,CT,USA The fact that Yale still has groups of students to whom they refuse additional administrative and academic recognition is so negligent, it borders on …

Asia Without Borders Photography Competition 2009 [30 Sep 09] | i … By Lucky B@st@rd  The top photographs will be exhibited as part of an Asia Without Borders Photography Exhibition. URL - http://asiangeo.com/contest_doublebill.html. Duration – 01 Jan to 30 Sep 2009. Grand Prize – 1 x CanonEOS 5D MK II … i ♥ Contests – http://iheartcontests.at.shoutz.com/

Women for Women featured in The Give Back Solution: Create a … By Patty Pina  She’s a manager at Engineers Without Borders-USA, a leading organization working in the developing world. Trained as a journalist, Skog’s written five other nonfiction books and for Family Circle, AARP, The NY Times, and others. … My Weblog – http://womenforwomeninternationalcommunity.wordpress.com/

George Burger: Anti-Semitism and its enablers – Full Comment By Marni Soupcoff  In the immediate context, without going beyond Canada’s borders, there are literal correlatives to the words “anit-semitism or anti-semite” and “enablers”. Here are some examples. 1. Syd Ryan is an anti-Semite. … In most cases the enablers are good men and women, or organizations peopled by good men and women. As such they should unrelentingly be reminded that a lack of will to confront, a failure to apply critical thinking, a willingness to flow with the zeit-geist, … National Post – Full Comment – http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/default.aspx