WRIC 3-20-2012 During China’s bid for the Olympics in 2001, Beijing Olympic official Liu Jingmin stated that the 2008 Olympic games would be “an opportunity to foster democracy, improve human rights, and integrate China with the rest of the world.” China’s leaders want the world…
DetailsNTD reporters Li Ting and Zhou Ping 05-10-2011 The phenomenon of child brides resurges in China. New York-based NGO Women’s Rights in China’ director Zhang Jing investigated child brides. In…
DetailsConfucian Ideas about Women Confucian thoughts have greatly influenced the minds of China. During the Han dynasty, Confucianism became a part of the official education, which helped spread it across China. In later dynasties, male authority was enforced which brought a woman’s status down. In the Confucian society, women were to hold a lower position…
DetailsIn the weeks since the North China Child Rescue Operations concluded on Dec. 22nd 2011, WRIC’s Huijiawang had received nearly a hundred tips. 12 cases of missing children had been confirmed through files. Liu Ying, a girl aged three, had been reunited with her parents. Our volunteers are actively trying to communicate with the parents…
DetailsSource: http://bikyamasr.comAuthor: Joseph MaytonPulsihed Time: 24 January 2012 CAIRO: Egypt’s political groups have professed a claim to uphold human rights in the country, but are failing on ensuring women’s rights and ending the use of the death penalty in the country, said Amnesty International on Monday. The London-based rights group said that although most of…
DetailsSource: http://www.ibiblio.orgAuthor: Pulsihed Time: 2012-1-24 A Timeline of the Women’s Rights Movement 1848 – 1998 1848 The world’s first women’s rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, NY, July 19-20. A Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is debated and signed by 68 women and 32 men, setting the agenda for the women’s rights movement that…
DetailsSource: The Wichita Eagle Author: Beccy Tanner Pulsihed Time: Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, The sculpture of Mary Elizabeth Lease stands between Century II and the Wichita Public Library. It was paid for by the Hypatia Club, which wanted to honor the Wichita woman who started it with a classified ad in the Wichita Eagle. Lease…
DetailsSource: http://www.burlingtonfreepress. Author: Pulsihed Time: Jan. 21, 2012 Kristin Nelson (right) leads a chant as Fed Up Vermont marches from Bailey Howe Library at the University of Vermont to City Hall in Burlington on Saturday. / SHANE BUFANO, for the Free Press Hayley Mason of Fed Up Vermont, a…
DetailsSource: http://www.capradio.orgAuthor: Pulsihed Time: 2012-1-20 Governor Brown says the California Commission on the Status of Women should be eliminated. State Senator Noreen Evans is chair of the Legislative Woman’s Caucus, and she disagrees. Recently, the Governor proposed eliminating the Commission on the Status of Women-the only state agency overseeing issues impacting women. Women have made…
DetailsSource: China DailAuthor: Cheng GuangjinPulsihed Time: 2012-01-18 BEIJING – China objects to other countries’ interference in its internal affairs and the violation of China’s judicial sovereignty by making an issue of human rights, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. In response to US Ambassador Gary Locke’s latest criticism of China’s human rights record, spokesman…
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