16 May 2013

by Samantha Ritchie  Objectifying women is now prime time entertainment in Denmark. A new TV show objectifies women by allowing two men to critique their bodies while the woman remains silent. The ‘chat show’ entitled ‘Blachman’ is possibly the most sexist show in television history. Who is the brains behind this TV show you may [...]

18 April 2013

My name is Amarpreet Deol , or more commonly known as Amar and I am a 3rd year Social Sciences student at Glasgow Caledonian University. I have a placement with Union Solidarity International (USI) for my Community Links project with the University,and I have been assigned a topic of my own choice to observe, research [...]

5 April 2013

In December last year, we heard about the gang rape of a young woman on a bus in Delhi. From this attack, it sparked widespread protests across India to tackle the way in which women are treated in Indian society. Rape is a regular occurrence in many countries around the world. For example, there were [...]

14 March 2013

by Samantha Ritchie Watch this short documentary: South Africa: Inside the Cycle of Rape   Twenty-eight percent of girls have HIV in South Africa. The Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has stated that South Africa must take a “stance against ‘sugar daddies’ because they are destroying children.” Mr Motsoaledi stated that some pregnant girls between the [...]

12 March 2013

- By Zoe Mavroudi The HIV-positive women who were imprisoned and exposed publicly in Greece in an unprecedented HIV criminalization case are now all free. The last five women who had remained in prison awaiting trial for more than ten months were acquitted yesterday in an Athens court. A total of 8 women have been [...]

8 March 2013

- By Zoe Mavroudi Today is international women’s day, a day when we reflect on the position of women in the world.  As a Greek, I look back on the past year with anger and dismay. Although it’s hard to make distinctions on the basis of gender in the context of a generalized financial and [...]

7 March 2013

To all those women, risking imprisonment, torture, and even death just because they defend women’s rights, to all those women taking a stand for a living wage or a workplace free of violence, to all those women making painful sacrifices for the sake of a society with fair relationships between women and men, to all [...]

8 February 2013

A seventeen year old girl has been found raped and murdered on a construction site 80 miles east of Cape Town in Bredasdorp, South Africa. The young woman named Anene Booysen and was out with friends last Friday evening before she was attacked. Anene was allegedly lured away by her ex boyfriend and taken to [...]