{"id":328,"date":"2007-05-23T12:38:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T10:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2008-05-22T10:27:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T08:27:45","slug":"down-the-global-feminist-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"down the global feminist wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=10323\"><strong>Women&#8217;s Rights Activist Suspended from Afghan Parliament<\/strong><\/a> (5\/22\/2007)<br \/>\n<em>Women&#8217;s rights activist and lawmaker Malalai Joya, a 29-year-old from the Farah province, was suspended from the Afghan Parliament yesterday after she described the Parliament as a barn full of animals&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=10324\"><strong>Iranian-American Scholar Charged with Revolutionary Conspiracy<\/strong><\/a> (5\/22\/2007)<br \/>\n<em>Iranian-American academic Haleh Esfandiari was charged yesterday with conspiring to overthrow Iran&#8217;s government after being imprisoned two weeks ago when she tried to return to the US from Iran&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=10322\"><strong>Renewed Efforts to Implement One-Child Policy Spark Protests in Rural China<\/strong><\/a> (5\/21\/2007)<br \/>\n<em>Villagers in southwestern China have been protesting and rioting over the past four days in reaction to a recent crackdown on violators of China&#8217;s so-called one-child policy&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=10309\"><strong>New Report Ranks Best and Worst Countries for Mothers and Children<\/strong><\/a> (5\/11\/2007)<br \/>\n<em>In its annual &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Day Report Card,&#8221; Save the Children this week released a ranking of the best and worst countries for mothers and children&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n[<strong>Romania<\/strong> is <strong>38th out of 41<\/strong> countries in its group ahead of only Albania, Macedonia and Moldova]<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=10310\"><strong>Amnesty International Increases Support for Abortion Rights<\/strong><\/a> (5\/11\/2007)<br \/>\n<em>Amnesty International &#8212; a human rights group that had previously remained mostly neutral on abortion &#8212; has released a new policy on sexual and reproductive rights that increases the organization&#8217;s support for abortion rights&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=10306\"><strong>Women Primarily Contract HIV from Their Husbands, Study Finds<\/strong><\/a> (5\/10\/2007)<br \/>\n<em>Worldwide, marital sex is the leading cause of HIV infection in women, according to a new study by researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=10307\"><strong>Irish Teen Wins Right to Travel to England for Abortion<\/strong><\/a> (5\/10\/2007)<br \/>\n<em>Ireland&#8217;s High Court ruled yesterday that a pregnant teen carrying a fatally deformed fetus can travel outside the country to obtain an abortion, after the motion was previously defeated by the lower and middle courts&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s Rights Activist Suspended from Afghan Parliament (5\/22\/2007) Women&#8217;s rights activist and lawmaker Malalai Joya, a 29-year-old from the Farah province, was suspended from the Afghan Parliament yesterday after she described the Parliament as a barn full of animals&#8230; 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