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 critically reflects on the previous 15 years of international efforts aimed at improving health, alleviating…

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 killed by Israel’s military attacks. The majority of those killed are women and children. This…

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 You can listen to both of these for some days after they were live. The…

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

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 albeit still tiny) 41. Some talk about the sexism – and the solidarity SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/04/we-needed-a-massive-amount-of-resilience-the-female-labour-mps-from-the-class-of-87?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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 from the Afghan media landscape. Of the 550 journalists and media workers who are currently…

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 the UK and elsewhere, but this article is one of the first that expresses what…

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 of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK.[1] A great deal of good lobbying and organising…

https://wordpress.com/post/bererblog.wordpress.com/1755 I urge everyone to read this review and write a strong letter of protest to Priti Patel and George Biden against the extradition of Assange to the USA, where his illegal and prolonged mental and physical torture and ill-treatment will be continued, as it has been continued non-stop here in the UK, until it…

14 April 2022 Dear Members of Parliament and less and less honourable Members, I am writing this in a state of utter disgust and disbelief that as members of Parliament in a country that pretends to be civilised and democratic, to follow the rule of law and respect the right to life, that you and…