Next Meeting: May 30
posted by Admin (Meetings)Spring training will continue today from 5pm! Learn about campaigns, events, and what SSR does, as well as more about the interns and their work for the organization.
Spring training will continue today from 5pm! Learn about campaigns, events, and what SSR does, as well as more about the interns and their work for the organization.
Pakistan rape victim quits in row
Pakistani gang rape victim Mukhtar Mai has resigned as head of a women’s crisis centre in her village.
A Quiet Revolution in Algeria: Gains by Women
In this tradition-bound nation scarred by a brutal Islamist-led civil war that killed more than 100,000, a quiet revolution is under way: women are emerging as an economic and political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world.
Iraqi women survive in Damascus by prostituting themselves
For anyone living in Damascus these days, the fact that some Iraqi refugees are selling sex or working in sex clubs is difficult to ignore.
Brazil subsidizes birth-control pills
For years, Brazil’s government has gotten into the Carnival spirit by handing out tens of millions of free condoms on the streets. Now the world’s largest Roman Catholic country is helping to make birth-control pills more affordable, subsidizing a program that will allow people to buy a year’s supply for just $2.40.
Women’s Voices
Women writers get together to discuss how the web of censorship affects women’s voices.