TAG: US
In Unprecedented Assault, Koch Brothers Aim for Anti-Choice Senate in 2014
Read Reality Check‘s article about the movement by the Koch Brother to support anti-choice organizations in the context of the mid-term congressional elections this year. Click here to read it.
Read moreIn-Depth Report Details Economics of Sex Trade
Read NY Times article about some of the findings of a landmark government-sponsored report on the size and structure of the sex economy in USA, including massage parlors, brothels and expensive escort services. The study also found that four in five pimps elect not to deal drugs and that little money trades hands in the […]
Read moreCHANGE Takes Time
CHANGE Presidente Serra Sippel, in article, says that “the long, hard struggle to alter US policy on HIV/AIDS assistance shows that advocacy can deliver a real payoff”. Click here to read it.
Read moreTwo Women, Different Outcomes: How U.S. Foreign Assistance Policy Harms Women
Read article “Two Women, Different Outcomes: How U.S. Foreign Assistance Policy Harms Women”, by Elizabeth Maguire in “RH Reality Check”, in which the author tells the impacts of United States policy on women sexual and reprodutive rights. Click here.
Read moreNew York Times brings an article about the increasing of American gay men who reported having unprotected sex to federal health investigators
New York Times brings an article about the increasing of American gay men who reported having unprotected sex to federal health investigators . The article remarks that it makes harder to fight the AIDS epidemic. Click here to read it.
Read moreI was a victim of revenge porn. I don’t want anyone else to face this
In article on The Guardian, Annmarie Chiarini tells how her ex-boyfriend put nude photos of her on the web and how she reacted. The case brings a good discussion after a Brazilian teenager committed suicide (In Portuguese) after a video where she appeared having sex was leaked. Click here to read tha article.
Read moreAnatomy of the War on Women
Read RH Reality Check’s article “Anatomy of the War on Women: How the Koch Brothers Are Funding the Anti-Choice Agenda”, where the author criticizes that “while one sector of the American conservative establishment funds LGBT rights and marriage equality worldwide, the other sector propels a war against the right of women to decide”. Here.
Read moreRights of Fetus Versus Mother
Article on NY Times describes the case of a american young woman, taked in handcuffs to a cell because of the allegation that she, once an addiction, could endanger her unborn child affer her refusion to star on anti-addiction treatment. Click here.
Read moreWill ‘Safe From the Start’ Bring Needed Change for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Conflict and Crisis?
Read Huffington Post’s article about USA iniciative “Safe from the Start”, designed to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in conflict and crisis and build on the U.S. Will the programm bring the needed changes? Read more.
Read moreEdward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, the New Dissidents?
Read the article “Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, the New Dissidents?” about United States machinery that satisfies certain tendencies that are in the genetic code of totalitarianism. Read it.
Read more“Manning has initiated a rare moment of opportunity that makes mainstream silence a bit more difficult”, by Zillah Eisenstein
Read feminist Zillah Eisenstein’s article about the Manning case. “Manning has initiated a rare moment of opportunity that makes mainstream silence a bit more difficult”. Read it.
Read more“Abortion education under pressure in U.S. medical schools”
Read the article “Abortion education under pressure in U.S. medical schools”, in which it highlights the battle at the state level in the United States to curtail abortion services. Click here.
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