women's rights
June 1, 2008
- My dear friend, Pamela Bone of Melbourne, Australia, lost her battle with multiple myeloma--ironically, given her name, a bone cancer--about five weeks ago. We met online, during her remission, through our mutual work and writings about dishonor killings and human rights. Pammy was an extremely modest, unassuming person. She never told me she was a superstar journalist in Australia. . .I ...
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May 7, 2008
- I was thinking. . .if it's the case that everybody has a story that would break your heart, does it follow that behind every book is a good and thus-far untold story? Perhaps it's in the inspiration for it. Perhaps in the gestation of it. Perhaps in the research for it. Perhaps in the writing of it. Perhaps in the publication and promotion of it. Perhaps in the reader feedback. What ...
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April 30, 2008
- By the standards of this case, most American girls would be murdered in their mid teens.And protecting the privacy of the perpetrator, sentencing him to a measly six months (which is the average sentence in Jordan for these crimes). . .well, just for reference, consider me in my teens. I wasn't even a bad kid. Was an honor student. Hard working. Popular. Well read. Kind ...
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April 27, 2008
- I was doing my usual daily Googling of dishonor killings and came upon this disturbing news:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=562358&in_page_id=1770Please do click on the above link for full details and images, even though I'll recap the tragic tale here. A 17-year-old Iraqi girl named Rand Abdel-Qader was stomped on, suffocated, and stabbed (even ...
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April 19, 2008
- I came upon the below (look wa-a-a-a-ay below, 'til you get to Right to Life Is Sacrosanct) opinion piece today and think it represents a good starting place for blogging about why the Jordanian penal code is in dire need of reform, particularly where dishonor killings are concerned, and why the international community needs to step up.There are three penal code articles on the books that offer ...
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April 7, 2008
- Nothing But Red, edited by Skyla Dawn Cameron, is the anthology of literary and visual arts inspired by the impassioned plea of Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon in response to the “honor killing” of 17-year-old Du’a Khalil Aswad. Sales of the anthology, which is currently available at www.lulu.com/nothingbutred, will benefit the international human rights organization ...
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April 4, 2008
- On April 7, 2007, a 17-year-old Iraqi girl named Du'a Khalil Aswad was stoned to death by a mob for falling in love with a boy outside her community and running away. Du'a was a Kurdish Yezidi, while the boy she'd fallen in love with was an Arab Muslim.Shockingly, her dishonor killing was captured on someone's mobile, and the video was transmitted around the world through various ...
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April 3, 2008
- Much of my recent writing has been about "honor" killings or, as I've vowed to call them, dishonor killings. For those who are not familiar with them, here are two recent, representative examples. Read and weep! http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=6901Egyptian Gets Six Months for Murdering His Jordanian Wife By Rana HusseiniAMMAN - The Criminal Court has sentenced a 30-year-old ...
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