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28 Dec 2011, 12:04 am
She accompanied the President to Europe after the war and watched him signed the Versailles Treaty; thus:Her presence among the queens and other women royalty of Europe put the position of First Lady on an equivalent standing, thus helping to define the uniquely American role in an international context. [read post]
27 Dec 2011, 4:06 am
War dogs serve bravely alongside the men and women of the U.S. [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 4:33 am by Alicia Gay, ACLU
Twelfth Day: Standing Up For Christmas Invariably during the run-up to Christmas, the ACLU is wrongfully disparaged for waging a mythical "War on Christmas. [read post]
24 Dec 2011, 3:00 am
No surprise there: though ostensibly about the War between the States, The Conspirator, the 2010 film this 'Grrl just saw on DVD, bears more than passing resemblance to our own era of what Washington used to call the war on terror.Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was the man in command after the April 1865 assassination of the Commander in Chief, President Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 9:46 am by Joshua Drexler
In an unusual deviation from its comic roots, last night’s episode of The Office, “Gettysburg,” tackled a difficult societal issue: the isolation and depression resulting from corporate America treating business like war….. [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 9:00 am by EEM
Displacement in Post-War Southern Sudan: Survival and Accumulation within Urban Perimeters, Research Working Paper, no. 57 (MICROCON, Nov. 2011) [text]Forced Migration, Female Labour Force Participation, and Intra-household Bargaining: Does Conflict Empower Women? [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 8:00 am
Split marriages were most common among enlisted women across the military, with nearly one in 10 marriages within this group ending this year. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 11:35 am by Cristina Finch
But women and girls are not just victims of war; they are also powerful peace-builders whose efforts to prevent conflict and secure peace have been critical, yet largely unrecognized, under-resourced, and not integrated into formal peace processes. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 8:28 am by Lovechilde
It was this faith that led him to support ‘wars for human rights’, as he described the Kosovo war, and to support the invasion of Iraq. [read post]
In November 2005, U.S. marines in Iraq were involved in the killing of 24 civilians—including women and children. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 1:00 am by Aoife O'Donoghue
These included the case brought by Georgia against Russia under the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination following its war in 2008 and the case between Greece and Macadonia on Greece’s veto of its membership of NATO were concluded while several important cases such as between Germany and Italy on immunities for human rights related crimes dating back to the Second World War and the dispute between Cambodia and Thailand regarding the temple of… [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 6:34 am by Rumpole
Ask the Iraq war vet who can't feed his kids if it was worth it. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 10:44 am by Govind Acharya
Women’s rights have come a long way but much work remains to be done. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 8:51 am by admin
Thatcher) and that he would take on the two wars against Saddam Hussein. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 7:52 pm by Faith Pincus
 You can read Abby Kelley's bio on Civil War Women Blog. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 5:09 pm by Lovechilde
 This decision so far has cost over $800 billion and the lives of 4,483 service men and women. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 12:23 pm by Lovechilde
We emerged from World War II with unions headed towards representing about 30% of the workforce. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 11:13 am
As I've posted, we began the process of designing and implementing a mobile gender justice court in eastern DRC, to provide some measure of justice to the tens of thousands of women and girls victimized by war and impunity. [read post]