Just when you thought things would never change! The United Nations is planning to create a powerful new agency that will be working on women’s rights around the world. The title: GEAR, the Global Gender Equality Architecture Reform Campaign. For more info: Gender Equality Architecture Reform (Gear) Campaign.

Check this out: PORNLAND; How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality by Gail Dines takes an unflinching look at today’s porn industry: the stories woven into the images, the impact on our culture, the effects on us as men and women, the business machine that creates and markets porn, and the growing legitimacy of porn in mainstream media. Above all, PORNLAND examines the way porn shapes and limits sexual imaginations and behaviors. For more info: gaildines.com/pornland/pornland-about-the-book.

Over Easter weekend 2010, Irish citizens held a symbolic protest against child sexual abuse by Catholic priests by hanging children’s shoes on a fence. Check out the article and photos: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/96270

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On December 4 – 6th, 2009, Kelly Watt, Linda Macdonald and Jeanne Sarson of Persons Against Ritual Abuse-Torture were invited to attend the 20th anniversary commemoration of the December 6, 1989 Montreal Massacre at the École Polytechnique de Montréal. This multi-disciplinary conference brought together scholars and researchers, social and community workers and volunteers, and feminist activists to assess collectively how this tragedy had been understood in Quebec and other parts of the globe, reflect on the collective memory of the event & discuss issues of violence against women and feminists.

Kelly presented with Linda MacDonald and Jeanne Sarson, at the conference held at UQAM, Université du Quebec  Montreal. Their talk was titled: The Torture of Women in Canada: Sexualized and Discriminated into Invisibility. While in Montreal, Kelly was interviewed (in French no less!) by Michelle Briand and Annick Dorkstrader of the Montreal feminist radio program: L’ELLES des femmes.

About Michelle Briand and “L’ELLES DES FEMMES:”

“L’ELLES DES FEMMES”est une émission fait par et pour les femmes, pour faire connaître leur vie sous un angle politique dans une perspective de lutte et de résistance contre le système capitaliste et le patriarcat.

Au menu: entrevues, reportages, et musiques, avec commentaires sur leurs écrits et leurs réflexions.

“L’ELLES DES FEMMES” a un an!

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