5.07.04 ending men's violence

Crimes Against Humanity: A Review of The Language of Empire

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Authors: Kate Cloud

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Remember Abu Ghraib?

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Conscientious Objection to Female Genital Mutilation in Mali

Authors: Susan McLucas

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Dialogues about the girls' suffering have motivated 131 excisers to quit, and three villages to renounce the practice.

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Reform in Pakistan: Real Change, or a Band-Aid?

Authors: Abira Ashfaq

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While the new legislation reforms the infamous Hudood laws to a limited extent, its greater significance is that it shows that persistent work led by the Pakistani women's rights movement can make a difference.

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Outposts of Violence: Sixty Years of Women's Activism Against US Military Bases

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Authors: Suzuyo Takazato

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Violence committed by US soldiers is a product of institutionalized violence of the military and its training, US racism against Asians, and the patriarchal social structure of host countries.

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Ten Reasons to Withdraw all US Foreign Military Bases

Authors: Joseph Gerson

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The US maintains an unprecedented infrastructure of more than 700 US foreign military bases.

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Women's Rights are Human Rights: Ending Gender Violence Worldwide

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Amidst armed conflict, humanitarian disaster, and entrenched gender inequality, these organizations struggle to end violence against women and girls.

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From Canada, Some Thoughts on Organizing against Femicide

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Authors: Todd Minerson

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The concept of the White Ribbon was affirmed; it is a man’s pledge never to commit, condone, or remain silent about violence against women.

If there is anything hopeful to come out of the recent murderous attacks on girls in Pennsylvania and Colorado, it will rest in one of the inherent ironies of tragedy.

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From the Editor's Desk

Authors: Sara Burke

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