Three blogs from this week that you should read today, on women and girls: “When girls bully girls and women bully women” – Eugene Cho Did you know that a girl is bullied every 7 minutes in America? Almost 1/3 of girls are directly involved in bullying – and on a regular basis. About 77% …
Check out this PSA for the Center for the Pacific Asian Family: And then please vote for CPAF here in Chase Community Giving on Facebook, January 15-22. CPAF was founded to help address domestic violence and sexual assault in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities. A woman is beaten every 15 seconds in the U.S. …
“Some 70 percent of women experience in their lifetime some form of physical or sexual violence from men – the majority from husbands, intimate partners or someone they know.”– Ban Ki-moon. Check out the blog I co-wrote with Rose Berger over at God’s Politics: “Uniting to Eliminate Violence against Women.”
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Eugene Cho blogs; warning: some disturbing images. News The first state dinner: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Google refuses to take down a racist image of Michelle Obama from its search results. I find it interesting that we (in the US) often defend freedom …
Here’s another pic of Barack and Savita (from the White House Photostream): So freaking cute! News Barack Obama becomes only the third sitting president (and the first since Woodrow Wilson in 1919) to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Here’s his statement in response. And here are some reactions. And the BBC’s coverage. More of my …