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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
December 14, 2006
 
IT lobby to encourage gender equity (
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/it-lobby-to-encourage-gender-equity/28499-7.html
)
CNN-IBN - New Delhi,India
... of the Indian IT industry, on Thursday announced that it would
institute awards for companies to recognise outstanding practices
promoting gender empowerment. ...
 
The only answer to prostitution (
http://www.theherald.co.uk/76692.shtml )
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... That demand stems from gender inequality, and is exacerbated by
the eroticisation of inequality, especially through pornography. ...
 
Effort begins to repair, maintain civil rights site (
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5815966 )
WIS - Columbia,SC,USA
(Columbia-AP) December 14, 2006 - Two buildings where some of South
Carolina's most important civil rights battles were plotted could soon
face the wrecking ...
 
An Historic Day for Civil Rights - New Jersey Passes Two Big Gay ...
( http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061214/nyth118.html?.v=83 )
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... These national civil rights organizations, as well as
MassEquality, Garden State Equality's counterpart in Massachusetts
that has set the standard for ...
 
Coaltion: Raids violate civil rights, terrorize families (
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20061214/NEWS/61214004 )
Greeley Tribune - Greeley,CO,USA
The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, a statewide coalition of
over 80 community, faith and labor organizations, denounces the US
Immigration and Customs ...
 
New report agrees that immigrants are invaluable to the UK economy (
http://www.workpermit.com/news/2006_12_13/uk/immigrants_boost_economy_01.htm
)
Workpermit.com - UK
... concept, a report released 11 December 2006 from researchers
linked to the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England,
says that immigrants in the ...
 
The creation of male privilege through gender socialization (
http://www.progressiveu.org/190000-the-creation-of-male-privilege-through-gender-socialization
)
ProgressiveU.org - San Mateo,CA,USA
... Also, I do not want to have an argument about whether feminism is
a good or a bad thing. Comments generally bashing feminism or women
will be ignored. ...
 
Racism in the US Farm Program The Plight of Black Farmers (
http://www.counterpunch.org/pennick12142006.html )
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
By JERRY PENNICK and HEATHER GRAY. In 1999, black farmers in the
United States reached a $2.8 billion settlement with the US Department
...
 
CU study discounts effects of poverty on kids' success (
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4836267 )
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... the successful development of children from different kinds of
neighborhoods in Denver and Chicago and found that kids from
high-poverty neighborhoods were ...
 
One more denial ( http://www.newsobserver.com/580/story/520703.html
)
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... The issue is homophobia and hypocrisy in the church. The idea
that a church can single out one group for exclusion is an outrage.
...
 
Corruption and Xenophobia in Russia (
http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/121306Russia.shtml )
Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union -
Washington,DC,USA
... process. The only ideology that can legitimize the elite's power
and protect its corrupt wealth is xenophobia in its various forms.
...
 
Microcredit pioneer criticizes globalization at Nobel ceremony (
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/10/news/nobel.php )
International Herald Tribune - France
By Walter Gibbs. OSLO: The Bangladeshi banker Muhammad Yunus, who
developed microcredit, the practice of making small, unsecured ...
 
Many faces of gender inequality (
http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?newsid=1721&section=1
)
The Statesman Online - Accra,Ghana
... Gender inequality exists in most parts of the world, from Japan
to Morocco, from Uzbekistan to the United States of America. However
...
 
Inequality and Health Care (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121201436.html
)
Washington Post - United States
THE RISE of inequality over the past generation calls for a
rethinking of tax and education policies, as earlier editorials in
this series have said. ...
 
Blighted By Inequality: Young Women in NI (
http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2006/2889.html )
University of Ulster Online - Coleraine,UK
... While many young women identified gender inequality in home life
and in paid work as unfair they often perceived it as inevitable. ...
 
UNICEF Report Finds Gender Equity Benefits Children (
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=10055 )
Feminist Majority Foundation - USA
... 12/13/2006 UNICEF Report Finds Gender Equity Benefits Children -
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) released a report Monday
that found that gender ...
 
Gender gap still prevalent by degrees (
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/295765_genderstudy13.html )
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... Some of the state's other four-year public universities saw
similar discrepancies, according to a report on gender equity released
this week from the ...
 
Officers Accuse Richmond Police Chief Of Racism (
http://www.nbc11.com/news/10521825/detail.html )
NBC11.com - San Jose,CA,USA
Six high-ranking African American officers in the city's police
department are accusing Police Chief Chris Magnus of racism and
harassment. ...
 
Jail guards win sexual discrimination lawsuit (
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/16230336.htm )
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
... A group of female jail guards who claimed they were passed over
for jobs and certain shifts because they are women has won a sexual
discrimination lawsuit. ...
 
Lesbian student alleging discrimination seeks up to $1.3 million ...
( http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid40337.asp )
The Advocate - Los Angeles,CA,USA
A lesbian student suing her Orange County, California, school
district and her high school principal because of alleged
discrimination is seeking up to $1.3 ...
 
Census says 10 percent of North Dakotans in poverty have degrees (
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2006/12/13/news/update/doc457ecf57b06fe703064093.txt
)
Bismarck Tribune - ND, USA
... officials say. Figures from the 2000 census show 10 percent of
North Dakotans living in poverty have a college degree. The figures
...
 
Liberia: Poverty - Matter of Obligation, Not Charity (
http://allafrica.com/stories/200612130919.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... years. Unemployment stands at a dreaded 85% while even the
employed have so much to desire. This is poverty in its ghastly rope.
Many ...
 
Africa and the Middle East (
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=11620
)
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
... Violence in the Middle East, a result of US empire building,
Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and oppression of Palestinians,
legitimate resistance and ...
 
UN adopts landmark bill for disabled rights (
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/12/13/un-disability-convention.html
)
CBC British Columbia - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... Its purpose is to "Promote, protect and ensure the full and equal
enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons
with disabilities, and ...
 
No Child Left Behind failing our children (
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/16228361.htm
)
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
It's really ridiculous the way our educational system has become
under the No Child Left Behind Act. Testing, testing, testing and ...
 
Naked Imperialism (
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=11611
)
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
The global actions of the United States since September 11, 2001, are
often seen as constituting a "new militarism" and a "new imperialism."
Yet, neither ...
 
The struggle for national liberation (
http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-2/613/613_10_NationalQuestion.shtml
)
Socialist Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
... The struggle of peoples of oppressed nations for
self-determination plays a crucial role in the overall fight against
imperialism, and therefore capitalism. ...
 
 
 
 

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