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Efua Dorkenoo fought against female genital cutting - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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  • Efua Dorkenoo fought against female genital cutting
  • successful 30-year campaign against the tradition of genital cutting of girls and women,
  • Efua Dorkeno
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  • ied Oct. 18 in London. She was 65.
  • Equality Now, a London-based women’s rights organizatio
  • Dorkenoo started organizations to battle genital cutting and co-ordinated the effort more broadly as acting director of women’s health at the World Health Organization in the late 1990s.
  • She wrote articles and an influential book – Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation (1996) –
  • “warrior in chief
  • “She inspired a generation of feminists across the world to take up the cause of banning the procedure,
  • Last year, the UN General Assembly voted unanimously to recognize female genital cutting as a human-rights violation.
  • British government prosecuted it as a crime for the first time,
  • African-led organization she helped found, The Girl Generation: Together to End FGM, began work this month.
  • practice is declining in many countries
  • teenage girls were less likely to have been cut than older women in half of the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where the practice is concentrated.
  • In Egypt, where more women have been cut than in any other country, surveys showed that 81 per cent of 15- to 19-year-olds had undergone the practice, compared with 96 per cent of women in their late 40s.
  • Female genital cutting involves pricking, piercing or amputating some or all of the external genitalia
  • vulva is closed, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
  • The practice is believed to have originated about 4,000 years ago in Egypt or the Horn of Africa.
  • 27 countries in Africa
  • Adherents come from a spectrum of faiths, including Christianity, Islam and African religion
  • often ages 4 to 8
  • pathway to womanhood
  • The World Health Organization says female genital cutting has no health benefits and can cause severe bleeding, problems urinating and, later in life, cysts, infections and infertility.
  • intended to reduce women’s sexual pleasure
  • preserve a woman’s virginity until marriage.
  • 125 million women living today in the countries where it is concentrated have experienced such cutting.
  • The mother was so badly scarred, she said, that she could not deliver her baby through natural childbirth.
  • Ms. Dorkenoo began campaigning against the practice in the early 1980s
  • Foundation for Women’s Health and Development to promote the health of African women and girls, with a focus on abolishing female genital cutting
  • co-ordinated national action plans against female genital cutting in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan.
  • In 1994, Queen Elizabeth II named Ms. Dorkenoo an honorary officer in the Order of the British Empire.
  • diamond03 on 03 Nov 14
     
    Efua Dorkenoo recently passed away. She was a women who fought for women's rights and the ban of FGM. She was an inspiration to feminists to take action. 
mportie

Israeli generals said among 1,600 global targets of Iran cyber-attack - 0 views

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  • mportie on 30 Mar 16
     
    Israel is one of Iran's prime targets of cyber attacks and espionage. State officials, generals, scientists, activists, those involved in large financial institutions are all victim to mass Iranian cyber tactics, such as phishing via e-mail, fake websites and links, and spyware sent through e-mail. Although Israel is second in the world in cyber-security, right after the US, the rate of cyber-attacks is accelerating higher than investment into cyber-security.
jreyesc

Captured by ISIS and sold into slavery: 15-year-old Yazidi girl tells of her ... - 0 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...jihadists-escaping-turkey.html

ISIL politics Yazidi slaves

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  • jreyesc on 12 Oct 14
     
    This article is about how a Yazidi girl escaped the ISIL territory. It also states how many women who are captured by the group are being treated and how they are forced into marriage and conversion.
micklethwait

The flower men of Saudi Arabia are so violent even the police are scared to cross them ... - 0 views

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flower men Habala KSA Saudi diversity culture

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  • micklethwait on 01 Feb 15
     
    "Meet the flower men of Saudi Arabia: They've lived in a remote mountain fortresses for 2,000 years (but don't be fooled by the head-dresses - they are so violent even the police are scared of them)"
micklethwait

Gaddafi was killed by French secret serviceman on orders of Nicolas Sarkozy, sources cl... - 0 views

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  • micklethwait on 18 Aug 14
     
    Anonymous sources say the darndest things.
jreyesc

ISIS plotting Trojan Horse campaign by smuggling militants into western Europ... - 0 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...Europe-disguised-refugees.html

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  • ISIS is plotting to smuggle militants into Western Europe disguised as refugees so that they can launch devastating terror attacks
  • Relaxed border controls would allow IS militants to blend in with the thousands of genuine refugees spilling over the border in search of safety
  • ISIS was moving away from plans to conduct aircraft hijackings for fear of tight security - and that they were looking to land a new strategy.
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  • Because hundreds of refugees cross the Syrian-Turkish border every day, the jihadists have a good chance of remaining unnoticed in the crowds.
  • Kobane is a town of key strategic importance to both ISIS and the Kurdish resistance due to its close proximity to the largely porous Turkish border. 
  • jreyesc on 16 Nov 14
     
    Members of the Islamic State are being smuggled into Western Europe to plan attacks there. This is a very being problem because of what could happen if they enters these countries. According to the US intelligence sources, this is going to be very hard to control since they mix in with the refugees as well as they carry fake European passaports.
jreyesc

Boy, 17, crucified for three days by ISIS militants | Daily Mail Online - 0 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...ographs-terror-group-s-hq.html

ISIL anti-ISIS children politics Raqqa

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  • jreyesc on 19 Oct 14
     
    ISIL killed a 17 year old boy because he was suspected of taking photos on the headquarters in Raqqa. It was said that the boy took the photo for 500 Turkish lira.
jreyesc

Vile image of baby girl being 'beheaded' found by Kurds on phone taken from dead ISIS f... - 0 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...dead-isis-fanatics-kobane.html

ISIL children images Syria

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  • jreyesc on 19 Oct 14
     
    Kurdish soldiers recovered images of ISIL picking a baby girl down with a knife near her throat. It is unclear what happen to the child. Many other images were found in the phone like the terrorist group playing football with heads.
yperez2

Egypt women: Rights on paper, not yet on ground | Daily Mail Online - 0 views

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  • yperez2 on 12 Apr 15
     
    Women activists say they won a major step forward with Egypt's new constitution, which enshrined greater rights for women.
aromo0

11 Egyptian football hooligans are sentenced to death over 2012's pitch invasion | Dail... - 1 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...n-left-70-fans-dead-Egypt.html

Egypt football death invasion

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  • aromo0 on 28 Jan 16
     
    Large group of men started a rampage after team loses 3-1, 70 people died. 11 received death sentence, 10 men got 15 years in prison, 14 got 10 years in prison, and 15 received 5 year sentence.
  • aromo0 on 28 Jan 16
     
    Large group of men started a rampage after team loses 3-1, 70 people died. 11 received death sentence, 10 men got 15 years in prison, 14 got 10 years in prison, and 15 received 5 year sentence.
  • aromo0 on 28 Jan 16
     
    Large group of men started a rampage after team loses 3-1, 70 people died. 11 received death sentence, 10 men got 15 years in prison, 14 got 10 years in prison, and 15 received 5 year sentence.
mwrightc

ISIS video shows British boy dubbed 'Jihadi Junior' blowing up four alleged spies | Dai... - 0 views

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  • mwrightc on 10 Feb 16
     
    This video shows shocking footage of a four year old who has joined the fight for ISIS. The young boy has been called "Jihadi Junior" because he blew up four allege spies in a car bomb.
pvaldez2

Egyptian figures reveal 92% married women suffered female genital mutilation ... - 0 views

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  • pvaldez2 on 17 Feb 16
     
    This article describes how 92% of married women in Egypt have suffered female genital mutilation. Earlier this year, an Egyptian doctor Raslan Fadl was convicted of manslaughter and performing female genital mutilation that led to the death of a 13-year-old Sohair el-Batea. He was only sentenced 2 years in prison.
mwrightc

ISIS carries out Good Friday crucifixion of Catholic priest Tom Uzhunnalil in Yemen | D... - 0 views

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ISIS priest yemen catholic

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  • mwrightc on 29 Mar 16
     
    An Indian Priest was captured three weeks ago by ISIS gunmen in Yemen. Father Thomas was then used as a message to the rest of the world from ISIS when the group crucified him on Easter Sunday
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