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Gordon Brown vists Camden estate as "Police do nothing where women attacked".

Gordon Brown made an unannounced visit to a Camden council estate in Gospel Oak. A gran told Gordon how she defended herself and her granddaughter with a baseball bat when 60 male youths chased her, tried to set her on fire, sabotaged her garden and threatened her granddaughter. Gordon visited as people have complained about failed ASBOS and the CNJ reported a lack of faith in police.

NATO WC Communique #1 One Month to Go!

13-10-2009 19:06 | Anti-militarism | Gender | World

Hello and welcome to the first communique from the NATO Welcoming Committee. This is going to be the way the NATO Welcoming Committee communicates with the media and with people following the mobilisation against the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in November.

Gude Cause Anniversary March In Edinburgh

10-10-2009 21:27 | Gender | History | Social Struggles | World

Here are 20 photos from the `GUDE CAUSE` march in Edinburgh which commemmorated the 100th anniversary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement Procession along Princes Street in 1909.

Anarchists of South Africa are Queer and Proud

04-10-2009 02:22 | Gender | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Anarchism is an ideology that fights against exploitation and all forms of oppression. We fight for a world in which women will be equal to men, a world without racism and class inequality, a world in which LGBTI and queer people are treated with respect.These struggles are part of the anarchist struggle against hierarchy and inequality, for an equal and free world.Anarchists have been at the forefront in the struggle against LGBTI discrimination

G20 Pittsburgh: Bash Back! Black Bloc

27-09-2009 23:00 | Gender | Social Struggles | World

Shortly after 10 p.m., a Bash Back!-themed black bloc a hundred or more strong appeared on Forbes Street between Atwood Street and Oakland Avenue. The march was pushing half a dozen or more dumpsters, which were upended in the intersections while seemingly all the corporate businesses on the block lost their windows. Another dumpster was rolled further down the street and set alight before being upended as the bloc fled north.

See video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPx-oDBRxKk

Pride Parade cancelled in Serbia due to "security risks"

22-09-2009 12:37 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This morning organisers Belgrad Pride held their final press conference before tomorrows pride parade. Except pride will not be held, due to high security risks and a lack of cooperation on the part of state and police to secure the event. Serbian police have cancelled permission for the pride to be held in its planned location in the centre of the city.

Hermaphrodites speak out in Solidarity with Caster Semenya

22-09-2009 00:43 | Gender | Social Struggles | World

Unfair and harmful treatment of hermaphrodites in sports has a long and painful history, shattering careers and crushing lives. When the global media started hounding Caster Semenya, worldchampion 2009 over 800 m, after she had been subjected to a sex test, and she eventually was exposed to be a "hermaphrodite", this was also noted in the intersex community, and several people spoke out in solidarity.

Gays in Iraq. Asylum for the Iraqi gay activist Anwar Basim Saleh

15-09-2009 23:41 | Gender | Iraq | Repression | World

Anwar Basim Saleh, the 21-year old Iraqi gay activist from Baghdad, is at present in Holland, where he has applied for asylum.

ex-political-imprisoned women speak up against rape in Iran

“ By Islamic law, it’s illegal to execute virgin girls. So, the islamic regime remedies that little problem, by staging sham “weddings” between the frightened virgin girls and prison guards the night before their executions. The guards then brutally rape the girls.”

Message to the women of Iran

15-07-2009 08:04 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Women!

Your struggle against the misogynous regime of the Islamic Republic has gained great respect and admiration in the world. Your struggle has been followed by the world.

Racist Murder in Dresden, Germany (trans)

03-07-2009 00:26 | Anti-racism | Gender | World

Yet another example of racist brutality in the land of ideas.

During a hearing at the State Court in Dresden, 31-year-old Marwa was stabbed 18 times in front of her 3-year-old sun by 31-year-old Alex. Ten months before, the man had hurled racist insults at the women at a playground, which resulted in a fine 3 months later.

http://de.indymedia.org/2009/07/255200.shtml

Zagreb LGBTIQ Pride

14-06-2009 18:26 | Culture | Gender | Repression | World

Yesterday the 8th LGBTIQ (lesbiangaytransintersexualqueer) pride took place with around 500 people in zagreb, the capital of croatia.
The pride this year was for two reasons something special. On the one hand the stonewall riots have their 40th anniversary in 2009. On the other hand it was first time this year that a legal "anti-pride" demonstration was announced by variouse small croatian fascist and nationalist groups and parties.

Gay Rights: Save Ali and Roodabeh, Iranian Homosexual Refugees

13-06-2009 23:40 | Gender | Migration | Sheffield | World

EveryOne Group, IRQR and a network of human rights organizations are asking the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Turkish Government for international protection and asylum for Roodabeh and Ali, two Iranian homosexuals.

Sign Petition now:

http://www.gopetition.com/online/28514/sign.html

LGBT RIGHTS. Asylum for Roodabeh and Ali, two Iranian homosexuals

12-06-2009 11:03 | Gender | Migration | World

" ... They live in a state of anguish (as well as discrimination, seeing they are both foreigners and homosexuals) knowing their lives are in danger. They survive only thanks to the commitment of individuals and human rights organizations, but their condition will deteriorate rapidly if their right to international protection is not urgently recognised... "

A film about using VHS video tape wins top fashion film festival

21-05-2009 12:30 | Gender | Health | World

Undercurrents won a film festival by stating our independence from consumerism

GLBT Rights. Everyone Group Offers A Gift To The Ambassador Of Iraq In Italy

29-04-2009 23:55 | Gender | World

“We will soon be meeting His Excellency”, say the activists, “to discuss the situation of homosexuals in Iraq, the need to work towards peace in his tormented country, and the anti-Islamic sentiments rife in the West”.

GLBT Rights. Save the lifes of 128 homosexuals in Iraq

04-04-2009 21:59 | Gender | Sheffield | World

According to the judicial and religious authorities, the prisoners will be murdered in groups of about 20 people. The first series of executions is imminent.

Petition to save the lives of 128 homosexuals in Iraq

04-04-2009 19:21 | Gender | World

EveryOne Group and civil society in democratic countries have taken up the appeal from the IRAQI LGBT association, based in London, which calls on activists and democratic citizens to take part in an international campaign to save the lives of 128 prisoners sentenced to death because they are homosexual.

Gay Refugees. Save John Bosco Nyombi

31-03-2009 14:19 | Gender | World

REFUGEES/UNITED KINGDOM: EUROPE MUST SAVE JOHN BOSCO NYOMBI, A UGANDAN GAY MAN PERSECUTED

Refugees Rights: Save ** * ****

31-03-2009 08:18 | Gender | Migration | World

A BRITISH COURT JUDGE HAS FORBIDDEN THE CIRCULATION OF HIS NAME, TO AVOID FURTHER PUBLICITY ON THE CASE. “EVERYONE GROUP’ PROTESTS: “ONLY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES CANCEL OUT THE IDENTITIES OF PERSECUTED PEOPLE. TO ACT AGAINST ABUSE, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT INTERNATIONAL OPINION KNOWS THE REFUGEES’ NAMES”

World Gender Newswire Archive

Gordon Brown vists Camden estate as "Police do nothing where women attacked".

NATO WC Communique #1 One Month to Go!

Gude Cause Anniversary March In Edinburgh

Anarchists of South Africa are Queer and Proud

G20 Pittsburgh: Bash Back! Black Bloc

Pride Parade cancelled in Serbia due to "security risks"

Hermaphrodites speak out in Solidarity with Caster Semenya

Gays in Iraq. Asylum for the Iraqi gay activist Anwar Basim Saleh

ex-political-imprisoned women speak up against rape in Iran

Message to the women of Iran

Racist Murder in Dresden, Germany (trans)

Zagreb LGBTIQ Pride

Gay Rights: Save Ali and Roodabeh, Iranian Homosexual Refugees

LGBT RIGHTS. Asylum for Roodabeh and Ali, two Iranian homosexuals

A film about using VHS video tape wins top fashion film festival

GLBT Rights. Everyone Group Offers A Gift To The Ambassador Of Iraq In Italy

GLBT Rights. Save the lifes of 128 homosexuals in Iraq

Petition to save the lives of 128 homosexuals in Iraq

Gay Refugees. Save John Bosco Nyombi

Refugees Rights: Save ** * ****

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