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‘India’s Daughter’: The Documentary India Tried To Ban
India is already in midst of a raging controversy over a government order to ban the broadcast of a documentary about the December 2012 gang-rape of a young student.
The incident, which sparked outrage both in India and around the world, highlighted the frightening level of violence against women in the country.
The Indian government has also asked YouTube to block access to the documentary, claiming that its broadcast violated certain key agreements with the filmmaker.
But the Delhi gang-rape victim’s father has called on all countrymen to watch the documentary, which showed his daughter’s killer blaming the student for ‘being out at night’.
India’s Daughter was described as the ‘bitter truth’ by the young woman’s father after it quoted the views of her rapist Mukesh Singh, who is on death row over the 2012 attack.
The film by award-winning Briton Leslee Udwin, who produced 1999 indie hit East is East…
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International Women’s Day: There Is Much On Our Minds
International Women’s Day is an important date on the calendar. Perhaps never more important than this year, when the increased danger for our most vulnerable women and girls is on our minds right now. Here are some examples of why this issue is preoccupying Jamaicans in 2015:
- Yesterday, two women in their mid-forties were shot dead in Red Hills Road, Kingston, apparently caught up in gang feuds. So far this year, at least twenty women and girls have been murdered.
- On Tuesday, a fourteen-year-old girl, Kayalicia Simpson, was found chopped to death after she went to the outside shower in the dark early hours of the morning to get ready for school; this was not the first murder of a teenage girl since the year began.
- The problem of gender-based violence is a troubling concern for our university students after a violent attack on a female student by young men…
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“The Thrill Is Gone” BB King
The thrill will never be gone, as long as we have this recording.
There is job to be done
Zapatista News Summary for February 2015
Zapatista News Summary for February 2015
- Forced displacement of families, indigenous Tojolabales, from the community of Primero De Agostoin the municipality of Las Margaritas. Frayba denounce the forced displacement of 57 indigenous Tojolabales, including 12 minors, one newborn, 20 women and 25 men, residents of the community of Primero de Agosto, by members of the Historic Independent Central of Agricultural Workers and Peasants (CIOAC-H), who are protected in the region by the municipal government of Las Margaritas. The displaced people are now living in very unhealthy conditions in a camp on the side of the road, with very little food.
- A national and international brigade of observation in solidarity with San Sebastián Bachajón, convened by the Network against Repression and for Solidarity, visited the ejido in response to the serious risk of attack and displacement. They heard stories of the struggle in defence of their lands, documented problems, and shared the everyday work…
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From India and Turkey to Oxford, we live in a perpetual state of war against women | Suzanne Moore | Comment is free | The Guardian
The war against women is waged routinely and globally. Equality of the most basic kind cannot exist when a woman’s life and her words are always worth less than a man’s. But in the darkness of the night, what haunts us are not broken systems but the faces of the broken girls. So, so many. All the time.
India Bans Film About Infamous 2012 Gang Rape : The Two-Way : NPR
Udwin said she was “deeply saddened” by the controversy, and she urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi “to deal with this unceremonious silencing of the film.” She added:
“India should be embracing this film — not blocking it with a knee jerk hysteria without even seeing it. This was an opportunity for India to continue to show the world how much has changed since this heinous crime; sadly, the FIR and the banning of the film will see India isolated in the eyes of the world. It’s a counter productive move. Whoever is behind this — please see the film and then come to a conclusion.”
via India Bans Film About Infamous 2012 Gang Rape : The Two-Way : NPR.
IRIN Middle East | What refugees really think of aid agencies | Israel | Jordan | Lebanon | Syria | Aid Policy | Human Rights | Refugees/IDPs
Aid agencies are partial, unaccountable and potentially corrupt, and they fail to meet refugees’ most pressing needs.
These are just some of the criticisms emerging from a series of new focus groups with refugees and others who receive aid across the Middle East.
Concerns included a lack of consultation about people’s needs, a failure to protect the most vulnerable, confusion over which agency was responsible for what, duplicated aid, as well as instances where help was perceived to be withheld or prioritised due to political or religious affiliation.
“When you decide to help someone you have to remove all their affiliations and simply treat them as humans,” noted one female youth leader from Palestine.



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