Woman Abuser gets "National Security" Tools to Play with

A woman got stranded in Pakistan for three years after a man decided to rid himself of her by simply placing her, his wife, on a terrorist watch list.

As an agent at an UK Border Agency’s headquarter, he had top security clearance and access to the terrorist watch list.

His act was only detected, looks like, because he could not secure the complicity necessary to keep it protected from scrutiny and his personal vendetta came to light accidentaly after he applied for a promotion and a background check revealed that his wife was on the terrorist watch list.

More at:

WIRED - Threat Level - by Kim Zetter - Feb 3, 2011
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/uk-border-fired/


Mail Online - by Steve Doughty - January 30, 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351937/Immigration-officer-fired-putting-wife-list-terrorists-stop-flying-home.html#ixzz1CuSYu8eM

UK Immigration Matters - by Charles Kelly - February 1, 2011
http://www.immigrationmatters.co.uk/immigration-officer-sacked-after-abusing-his-position-by-putting-wife-on-terrorist-list-to-stop-her-entering-uk.html

Yale University students: The "rape" pledge

On Wednesday, March 13, 2010, Yale's fraternity men marched through Yale's Old Campus, where most first-year female students are housed, chanting:
"No means yes, yes means anal!"

The video is on Youtube:


More at:
Salon.com - "Yale fraternity pledges chant about rape" - October 15, 2010 - By Tracy Clark-Flory
http://www.salon.com/life/violence_against_women/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/10/15/yale_fraternity_pledges_chant_about_rape

March 8th, 2010 - Centennial of International Women's Day

Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women is an international convention adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.
It is described as an international bill of rights for women and it came into force on 3 September 1981.

"Article I

For the purposes of the present Convention, the term "discrimination against women" shall mean any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field."
The UN headquarters-New York,USA

Seven countries have not ratified the international treaty:
- United States of America
- Iran
- Sudan
- Somalia
- Nauru
- Palau and
- Tonga


UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS : (HERE)
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cedaw.htm

March 8th, 2010 - Centennial of International Women's Day / 1 July 2009 - Marwa Ali El-Sherbini murdered inside a courtroom in Dresden, Germany

Marwa Ali El-Sherbini (7 October 1977 – 1 July 2009) was an Egyptin German resident, who was killed during a hearing at a court of law in Dresden, Germany , on July 1, 2009.

She was stabbed by the man against whom she had testified in a criminal case about wearing a headscarf. The murder was committed inside the Courtroom in front of her three-year-old son and husband. She was three months pregnant.

As El-Sherbini and her family were about to leave, Alex Wiens, the man against whom she had testified, attacked her with an 18 cm (7 in) long blade. She received multiple stab wounds to the upper body and arm (at least 16). While trying to protect his wife, El-Sherbini's husband Elwi Ali-Okaz was stabbed at least 16 times to the head, neck, upper body and arm. The attack happened at 10:23 (time-stamped by the judge having raised a security alarm). A police officer, called to the scene to intervene, mistook Elwi Ali-Okaz for the attacker and shot him in the lower leg. Her three-year-old son was also injured while being ushered to safety. Marwa El-Sherbini died at the scene, at 11:07, succumbing to her injuries. Alex Wiens was arrested on the scene.

Finding Dawn

March 8th, 2010 - Centennial of International Women's Day

Finding Dawn is a 2006 documentary film by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh. The film begins with the story of Dawn Crey: one of 60 women, a third of them Aboriginal, who have disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside over a 20 year period. Crey's remains were among those found on property of British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton.




See also: Highway of Tears - Project of Doors for Hope - http://www.highwayoftears.ca

Me Llaman Calle - Manu Chao (They Call Me "Street" in English)

March 8th, 2010 - Centennial of International Women's Day

Manu Chao is a French folk singer. He sings in French, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, Arabic, English and Wolof, often mixing several languages in the same song.(http://www.manuchao.net/)

HATE GROUPS AT RECORD LEVELS IN USA - March 2010 Report

A new report says the United States is seeing a right-wing extremist groups growth of 244% in 2009. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (HERE), based in Alabama, USA, extremist racist groups grew to 512 in 2009. Right-wing militias tripled over the same period to 127.

(More HERE) - http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-report-number-of-patriot-groups-militias-surges-by-244-in-past-year






A "SMALL THING" ? As BIG THINGS COME FROM LITTLE THINGS ...- "Foolish Frog" - Peggy Seeger - Feb 6, 2010 post), a look at a very public "small thing"(in 2006).

Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous Los Angeles comedy club on November 2006, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping.

Along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus (as Elaine Benes), Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld), and Jason Alexander (as George Constanza), Michael Richards plays Cosmo Kramer, one of the main characters in the American TV sitcom "Seinfeld".

More at: http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/kramers-racist-tirade-caught-on-tape/#ixzz0hE43dli3

"SHUT UP! 50 YEARS AGO WE'D HAVE YOU UPSIDE DOWN WITH A F* FORK UP YOUR ASS" : by actor MICHAEL RICHARDS , aka "Kramer" in sitcom "Seinfeld") - December 2006

"You should go to Africa"...

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , is Liberia's head of state.
She is the first modern, and currently the only elected female head of state in Africa.
A peace movement called Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace led to her election.
The story is told in a 2008 documentary film called Pray the Devil Back to Hell.

PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL - Documentary:
http://www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/v3/

Synopsis
Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women, Christian and Muslin, who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.

TRAILER:

Sex Humiliation, Rape, Forced nudity, death threats ...Violence against women

International Women's Day is March 8, 2010

Violence Against Women includes, but is not limited to:
Sex humiliation, rape, forced nudity, death threats and more - these are not the CIA "enhanced interrogation techniques" but they , of course, RESSEMBLE them.

These "techniques" are being used by perpetrators of violence against weaker and helpless women anywhere, anytime; perpetrators come in all shapes and colors, they may look like ordinary people or non ordinary people. And RAPE is still RAPE , and violence, be it stealthy or not, is still violence and not "an ordinary" event.

(one of the videos is from June 2006 but still worthy watching)



'Stop Rape Now': UN agencies against sexual violence as a tactic of war (Part 1 of 4)
Uploaded by UNICEF_Television. - News videos from around the world.

Missing Aboriginal Women - Sisters in Spirit

As The Manitoba government, RCMP and Winnipeg Police Service formally established a task force Wednesday to review cases involving missing and murdered women in the province as announced on August 26, 2009, a retrospective of the struggle that has been going on for so many years.
More at:
Amnesty International Canada Campaign -Stolen Sisters HERE
Sisters in Spirit HERE
Updates at http://www.missingjustice.ca/