Tag Archives: violence against women

A Burning Ring of Fire

Sam­buca is flam­ma­ble. Stuart Feltham, a young Bri­tish man, found this out when, alle­gedly, after inap­pro­pria­tely touching, and pos­sibly expo­sing his geni­tals to Marina Fanou­raki at a night club on Crete, he got Sam­buca thrown on him, and ended up in fla­mes. (Brit Stuart Feltham’s geni­tals set on fire on Greece holi­day.)
Stuart has been

Silence is the Enemy

A rare cross pos­ting from Dar­fur: An Unfor­gi­va­ble Hell on Earth.
There is clearly a debate as to whether all publi­city is good publi­city. We won’t get into that here, but I lean on the side of usually, with excep­tions. “Silence is Not Gol­den”. As I’ve writ­ten about the situa­tion in the Congo here many

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Today is Inter­na­tio­nal Day for the Eli­mi­na­tion of Vio­lence Against Women.
Inter­na­tio­nal Day for the Eli­mi­na­tion of Vio­lence against Women  –  Sta­te­ment from the Exe­cu­tive Direc­tor
The first year-long phase of UNIFEM’S Say NO to Vio­lence against Women cam­paign conc­lu­ded today, when sig­na­tu­res collec­ted world­wide were pre­sen­ted to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a high level UN event.
In

Things Go Better With Coke Unless It’s Rape Fantasy That’s Pepsi’s Territory Now

The peace I own late Fri­day eve­nings is dif­fi­cult to dis­turb.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Pepsi has res­pon­ded by den­ying and denoun­cing the ad. Please see this post. See this post a Femi­nist.
Howe­ver you might want to follow the com­men­tary at the link. There is no rea­son to believe Pepsi is not telling the truth, but read the