During my blogging sabbatical I have missed reporting on several stories. Here are a couple of them. The second part of this post focuses on Middle Eastern women and various links to related content and resources.
Here in America, Geraldine Ferraro passed away on March 26th 2011. As the first female vice presidential candidate in a major political party, Ferraro made history for being the only Italian-American vice presidential nominee also. Stating in her acceptance speech, "the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love." Ferraro and Walter Mondale lost in a landslide to Reagen and Bush Sr. Controversy during election included Ferraro and her husbands finances, her inexperience on foreign policy and of course the Catholic Church disagreeing that you could remain faithful to the church's teaching and still disagree with it (ahem, abortion).
Naral. Pro-choice lobby day is April 7th. If you can get down to Washington DC to support your right to choose check out this site for all the answers to your questions and any other info you might need.
One story coming out of Libya involves Iman al-Obeidi, a Libyan women who stormed into a Tripoli hotel Saturday to tell foreign reporters that government troops raped her, setting off a brawl when hotel staff and government minders tried to detain her. Detain her they did though al-Obeidi managed to tell journalists that she was detained by a number of troops at a Tripoli checkpoint on Wednesday before she was dragged out of the hotel. She said they were drinking whiskey and handcuffed her. She said 15 men later raped her. Government officials have painted al-Obeidi as promiscuous and though they state that she is safe and has been offered a lawyer her family does not believe it. More on this story here .
A former Libyan/American co-worker of mine is featured on Women's e-news reports from the ground
This is an interesting blog about women in Yemen and the revolution going on there.
It seems that women in Egypt have an uphill battle to become participants in the "New Egypt" they were so vital in bringing forth progress?
Rock on Women.
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