Source: 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…
DetailsSource: New York Times Author: Michael Wines Pulsihed Time: January 18, 2012 Beijing –The Chinese authorities have charged another veteran human rights activist with attempting to subvert the state, the latest in a series of indictments or trials of well-known dissidents that have drawn unusually stiff prison sentences and widespread condemnation abroad. In the latest…
DetailsAuthor: Tania Branigan Pulsihed Time: January 18, 2012 Lin Zuluan BEIJING: A protest leader in Wukan, the southern Chinese village that drove out the authorities in a row over land grabs, has been appointed its new Communist Party secretary. Residents applauded Lin Zuluan’s new role as another positive step in their struggle with local officials.…
DetailsTranslator by WRIC Sandra Lam Even with a cleft lip, this little girl named Pan Hui is still beautiful—she has a round face and soft fair skin. Yet she feels scrutinized and insecure, that her beauty is scarred and besmirched by this cleft lip. When the sun rose on January 5, 2000, a…
DetailsSource: Women’s Rights in China Pulsihed Time: 2011-12-22 Women’s Rights in China Reports Journalists working for wrchina.org reports that Local authorities in Shanwei, China has ended the blockade of Wukan, the village which had been in open rebellion in the last few weeks. On December 22nd, WRChina reporters saw an eerie scene of silent confrontation. Red…
DetailsSource: ReutersAuthor: Pulsihed Time: Dec 20, 2011 By Marie-Louise Gumuchian TRIPOLI | Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:58pm IST (Reuters) – At a pre-wedding evening party in central Tripoli, a group of Libyan women sing traditional songs to the beat of a drum as they prepare to apply henna to the bride’s hands and feet. Clapping…
Detailsestannard@nhregister.com / Twitter: @edstannardnhr NEW HAVEN — A rising Chinese communist star who claimed to have served as an assistant to Mayor John DeStefano Jr. in 2000 was largely responsible for the torture and imprisonment of an outspoken human rights activist, according to China watchers in this country. Li Qun, who spent six months studying…
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