by John Pilger, renowned investigative Australian journalist and international academy award winning documentary film-maker May 16, 2012 (TSR) - In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama recently announced he supported same-sex marriage, American planes had [...]
May 7, 2012 (TSR) – A woman who has refused for 16 years to grant her husband a divorce was put behind bars in Israel last week – the first time a woman has been arrested in such a case. The 60-year-old woman, a teacher, has appealed to the Supreme Court, whose president, Asher Grunis, [...]
NEW YORK, USA. November 19, 2010 (TSR) – AUTHORITIES closed down 20 brothels masquerading as massage parlours and arrested 22 people for running a sex trafficking and prostitution network involving Korean women across four US states, officials said. The New York Asian Organized Crime Task Force, comprised of FBI and New York police investigators, uncovered [...]
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor, explains why women’s compensation and advancement to the highest ranks have failed to keep pace with their impressive inroads into the workforce.
Sexual harassment will only disappear when men take an active role in ending it. Most men don’t harass, and most don’t condone it. But sexual harassment is largely a problem of men’s behaviour, against women and other men. Four of every five harassers are male, according to a recent national survey. Two thirds of incidents [...]
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