(Pat)riarchy Dear Pat, I just don’t think I can do this anymore. I know we have been together a long time. That our families have worked together for thousands of years, but I am just not happy in this relationship. I don’t know if I ever was. Did it ever really work between us?…
Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace. ~ Kofi Annan who served as seventh Secretary-General of the…
The reality that 1 in 3 women worldwide has experienced physical or sexual violence is a staggering statistic. We aren’t talking about it and acting about it in the way that we could be. Why? Lois Herman of WUNRN asks us a series of questions about why. Today is the day the UNITED NATIONS declared…