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Hillary Clinton Tweets #YesAllOfUs

Posted in Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Human Rights, Women, women and girls, Women's Issues, Women's rights, tagged , , , , , , on June 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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At the we say, “We’re all in this together.” Read Charles Blow’s NYT column this morning.

Yes, All Men

JUNE 1, 2014

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As I drove my son back to college last week, where he’ll take a summer chemistry course, he said something that struck me: “I believe it’s very important for everyone to be a feminist.”

He didn’t say it for effect, to shock or provoke conversation. It was just one of those thoughts that surface on a road trip, a kind of sorting out of life by a son before his father.

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Women are not property #YesAllWomen #RightToLove

Posted in Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Human Rights, Right to Love, Women, women and girls, Women's Issues, Women's rights, tagged , , , , , , , on May 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »

You have to ask yourself why God would have instituted love at all and incorporated it in the human makeup (and possibly – probably –  also that of other animals).  We could have been created devoid any emotions at all.  Why give us love?  Why did God do that to us?

Since we have it, why does man do this,  especially to a family member, a daughter,  who should be loved instead of being seen as chattel?  Why to an unborn, innocent, loved and wanted child?

There is a human right to love.  God gave us the capacity.  It was intentional and is a mystery.  That right to love, whomever, must be respected and protected.  No one and no government or religion should ever stand against anyone’s God-given right to love.

Pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death by family

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By K.M. CHAUDHRY and ZAHEER BABAR May 27, 2014

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A pregnant woman was stoned to death Tuesday by her own family outside a courthouse in the Pakistani city of Lahore for marrying the man she loved.

The woman was killed while on her way to court to contest an abduction case her family had filed against her husband. Her father was promptly arrested on murder charges, police investigator Rana Mujahid said, adding that police were working to apprehend all those who participated in this “heinous crime.”

Arranged marriages are the norm among conservative Pakistanis, and hundreds of women are murdered every year in so-called honor killings carried out by husbands or relatives as a punishment for alleged adultery or other illicit sexual behavior.

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There is also this case about which Hillary Clinton tweeted.

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Meriam Yahya Ibrahim’s death sentence is abhorrent. Sudan should stop threatening religious freedom and fundamental human rights.

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Christian ‘Apostate’ Sentenced to Death in Sudan Gives Birth in Jail

…and just when you thought it could not get worse.

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Apostasy woman in Sudan sentenced to death forced to give birth ‘with her legs chained’

Meriam Ibrahim was shackled while she gave birth to a baby girl in the Omdurman Women’s Prison on Tuesday.

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#YesAllWomen on Twitter: If you haven’t been there, go!

Posted in violence against women, Women, women and girls, Women's Issues, Women's rights, tagged , on May 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Viral and monumental on Twitter, the hashtag #YesAllWomen requires no hype from me.  Just go there and look.  Add to the collection if you feel so inclined.   Here is a sample.

 

 

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