Stories about Women & Gender from September, 2006
Lebanon: Field Trips, Wardrobe Personification and Poetry
Have you wondered why most women like shoes? Or can blogging be life threatening? Then read on and see what answers the Lebanese Blogosphere has. This week’s blogs have topics that are as serious as a threat to a fellow blogger for his political cartoons and as light hearted as...
India: What noise?
Annie Zaidi reflects on the Blank Noise Project – an online initiative to address sexual harassment on the streets, by hoping to demarcate what is harassment and what isn't.
Malaysia: Human Trafficking
Malaysian blogger Volume of Interactions watches a documentary on trafficking of women while on a visit to Australia. The blogger is disturbed by the fact that most of the trafficking transits through Malaysia. “What irks me so much is that these things are happening right now within our very borders,...
India: Blank Noise Project
The Blank Noise Project, which has been building support and testimony about sexual harassment on the streets through blogs and blog coordinated action has a wishlist – Monica wishes they done some things differently.
Nepal: Women and Festivals
Say Na Something on being a woman and celebrating Tij. What it means to have a society's expectations burden you to look and behave a certain way – especially if you are married.
Bangladesh blog buzz
The latest opinions and views from the Bangladeshi blogs including refugees, gender equity, energy, human rights, politics, international relations, culture and cyber society etc. issues:
