It has come to our attention that the Canada Border Services Agency invaded a shelter for women - on February 27, looking to track down Jane, a single mom and survivor of violence from Ghana...“It’s so scary...I thought the shelter was supposed to be a safe space for me and my baby. I’m scared not just for myself, but for non-status women in shelters everywhere who are facing the same fear...”

New book chronicles inner workings of Saipan's garment factories from first ever first-hand perspective of a former garment factory worker.

By Jordan Flaherty - January 15, 2010

More than half of the people on Louisiana's Sex Offender Registry - which was designed for rapists and child molesters - are indigent women convicted of sex work...Of the 861 sex offenders currently registered in New Orleans, 483 were convicted of a crime against nature (oral or anal sex)...[O]f those convicted...78 percent are Black and almost all are women.

By DTES Womens' Centre Power of Women Group - January 11, 2010

“[Prime Minister of Canada Stephen] Harper and other politicians are always quick to point out the undemocratic nature of other countries. To us, Canada is a failed state given the consistent and systematic failure of all levels of government to address the pressing issues of homelessness, gentrification, missing and murdered women, poverty, and criminalization in the DTES. We are demanding that the government prorogue the Olympics!”

--Harsha Walia, Project Coordinator of the Downtown Eastside Womens' Centre

By Jackie Shymanski - 9/01/2010

[Malalai Joya] states more than once that though a withdrawal of U.S., Canadian and British troops might very quickly result in the internecine fighting that led to the Taliban, that is actually preferable to foreign occupation in support of yet another corrupt regime.

By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY - December 24, 2009

One of the main arguments made by self-proclaimed "liberal humanitarian interventionists" in support of President Obama's escalation of the Afghan War is that a return of the Taliban to power will condemn women to conditions approaching slavery...[T]he central question of humanitarian intervention is fundamentally one of whether the US escalation will improve things or make matters...The United States has a sorry track record in this regard, and we bear a heavy moral burden for the current state of affairs, including the dismal state of woman's rights. worse.

By Laurie Penny - December 24, 2009

For decades, the feminist movement has been split over the status of trans people, and of trans women in particular. High-profile feminists...have spoken out against what [Germaine] Greer terms "people who think they are women, have women's names, and feminine clothes and lots of eyeshadow, who seem to us to be some kind of ghastly parody"...[T]rans people have responded to this harassment by vigorously defending themselves, demanding that anti-trans feminists are denied platforms to speak on other issues and...by renouncing feminism altogether.

By Laura L. Finley - November 28, 2009

An estimated one in three women across the globe endures domestic violence. Domestic violence agencies...provide crisis lines for help and emergency shelter, among other services, but are often inadequate to meet the other needs of victims...Innovative grassroots non-profits are helping address these limitations.

Play aims to reduce stigma of mental illness one show at a time. Courtesy Digital Journal by KJ Mullins

By DAVE ZIRIN - November 18, 2003

Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write: if you care about democracy and the rule of law, you need to care about women's ski jumping. This juxtaposition, straight out of a Hunter S. Thompson acid trip, relates to a court ruling in Canada that is both frightening in its scope and outrageous in its implications.

By DANNY WEIL - Counterpunch

Violence has broken out all over the country of Nicaragua...but this time organized by Sandinista thugs...Beatings and brutal physical attacks against intellectuals, journalists and civil rights group members are frequent here now. There is currently no legal opposition allowed in the country against the policies of the Nicaragua government (FSLN), controlled by the Sandinistas...This is disconcerting...to those of us...who a quarter of a century ago lived and worked in Nicaragua supporting the Sandinista government against the ruthless Contra war that blanketed the small country with venal bloodshed.

By Shadi Elien - October 22, 2009

Stephen Harper is the most “sexist and anti-woman” prime minister that this country has seen in the past 50 years, according to Vancouver feminist and human-rights activist Shelagh Day...Since taking power in 2006, the Harper government has scrapped plans for a national child-care program and eliminated the Court Challenges Program...In addition, his government axed jobs at Status of Women Canada and removed the word equality from its mandate.

Victoria Law is a longtime prison activist and the author of the new book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press). In this interview, Law talks specifically about how women are affected by solitary confinement and other forms of torture in US prisons, and what women are doing to fight back.