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31 October 2024 This afternoon I listened to a 3 hour committee meeting at the United Nations on UNWebTV on the responsibility of all member states to protect human rights and to prevent and to stop genocide. The title is…
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A letter to Kamala Harris, 30-10-24
On 28 October 2024, South Africa filed its Memorial to the International Court of Justice, in its case on the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa…
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The Cairo “Compromise” on Abortion and its Consequences for Making Abortion Safe and Legal
by Marge Berer. Chapter 11, pp. 152-166, in: Reproductive Health & Human Rights: The Way Forward. Edited by Mindy Jane Roseman and Alice Miller. University of Pennsylvania Press. © 2009. ISBN 978-0-8122-4152-5. This book is a collection of papers that…
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SOLIDARITY REQUEST ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY FOR WOMEN IN GAZA!
From Aseel Baidoun, Medical Aid for Palestinians Today is International Women’s Day. This year, it falls almost exactly five months after Israel began its indiscriminate bombardment and total siege of Gaza. In that time, more than 30,000 Palestinians have been…
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International Court of Justice hearing, 11-12 January 2024, on the issue of Israeli genocide against Gaza, brought to the Court by South Africa, on UN Web TV
Day 1: Presentation by South African legal experts on behalf of the South African government, 3 hours, 11 January 2024, https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3 Day 2: Presentation by Israeli legal experts on behalf of the Israeli government, 3 hours, 12 January 2024, https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1c/k1c10lsjoq…
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A statement on Palestine and Gaza
by Rosalind Petchesky, one of the leaders of Jewish Voice for Peace at a demonstration at the White House, Washington DC, USA, on 27 December 2023, Al-Jazeera Video https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1739975664269471886
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Labour women MPs 1987
Photo in the Guardian article: Women in politics ‘We needed a massive amount of resilience’: the female Labour MPs from the class of ’87 At the general election that year, the number of women in the Commons jumped to (an…
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73 women journalists will spend 8 March behind bars
Reporters Without Borders Press Release 8 March 2023 On International Women’s Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of imprisoned women journalists throughout the world, and sounds the alarm about the disappearance of women journalists…
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If Labour is truly the party of equality, it wouldn’t shut down the trans debate
A short comment on this article in The Observer, by Sonia Sodha 2 October 2022 I think this is an important article on identity, gender and sex. I’ve been listening to this debate from many sides and individuals, both in…
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Parliament voted to make telemedicine for early medical abortion permanent: but consider the details
A commentary, revised 15 May 2022 This commentary is about the vote in Parliament on 30 March 2022 to retain telemedical abortion or end its use at the end of August 2022, treating that date as also representing the end…
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