Date Line 16 June 2008
Maraba, Rwanda.
This little nation whose genocide shook the world 14 years ago is doing something very right--getting their women to work growing coffee, managing companies, starting businesses. Most are widows of the genocide. What they have going for them is energy, eagerness to work, and creativity. The village cooperatives do the rest. The women have stable incomes upon which their families can rely.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, June 16, 2008.
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Updated 10 Jan 2008
Whether we like it or not, legality has no significant effect on the frequency of abortion.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Tuesday, October 30, 2007.
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Born a slave, Frederick Douglass saw firsthand the seamy side of 19th Century America. He was also a towering intellect. He had to be to rise from the ashes of oppression to see the world as it actually is--both awful and compassionate.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, October 15, 2007.
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Updated 29 July 2008
From time immemorial, women have been discriminated against, for no reason other than the fact that they are usually smaller than men. When exploding populations run head on into the nuclear genie as they surely will, it seems from here that the
genes for mothering are better prepared and well-suited to meet that crisis than than any other genes on our genome.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Saturday, March 10, 2007.
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Updated 08 Aug 2008
Societies that empower their women, societies that use all hands and all brains in cooperation, societies whose women are equal before the law, these are the societies that forge ahead, peacefully.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Wednesday, September 14, 2005.
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Personal as Opposed to Herding -- Notes For Western Women
Kris Rosenberg
Apr 2002
Posted by RoadToPeace on Saturday, July 30, 2005.
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Updated: 09 Apr 16
Mohammed was a liberal in his time. He treated his wives, and women in general, with
more respect than was customary in his day. For that he should be saluted. Where Islam failed is in his example of
moving forward in respect to women with time.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Friday, July 22, 2005.
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Nation building in these two countries has left the women behind.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Friday, July 22, 2005.
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Some thirty-three years ago, a member of the U.S. House from Brooklyn challenged her party and her country to think more boldly than it ever had before -- about what the occupant of the White House should look like.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Friday, July 22, 2005.
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A tragic figure from the Trojan War foretells events in our times:
Hang-up Behaviors in Washington
[An Allegory]
Posted by RoadToPeace on Friday, July 22, 2005.
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Updated 19 Mar 2007
Women have achieved full equality with men in very few places on Earth. To be sure, the ills ascribed to Islam are shared by many other societies. There is a great deal of radical opinion, misinformation, and disinformation on the subject of women in Islam. History has a bearing on why women have been discriminated against since record-keeping began. Fortunately there are many women today doing their best to balance the scales.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Thursday, July 21, 2005.
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Irshad Manji
Book Review with commentary
Irshad Manji is one of those rare people who combine sharp wit with very serious business--the future of world society.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Wednesday, July 20, 2005.
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Honor Lost??
Norma Khouri
Updated 29 Mar 2007
A host of research has shown this book to be fiction though it was meant to be read as a true story.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Wednesday, July 20, 2005.
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Leila Ahmed
Book Review
Ahmad has produced an even-handed book on a touchy issue and it is already a classic. Her book is so well researched and documented that it is fit for any library, scholar or historian. At the same time Ahmad's simple and readable style is accessible to the rest of us.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Wednesday, July 20, 2005.
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