Women in the Middle East have been involved in filmmaking since 1926, when a female director gave Arab cinema its first feature-length film. Today, they struggle past censorship and shallow comedies to get their stories heard.
How do Saudi women feel about not being allowed to drive? It's a common and aggravating question that opens up the sore subject of women's awkward efforts to be more independent in a kingdom that still confines Saudi women with 100-year-old rules.
After forced sterilizations under Fujimori, Peruvian women now face coercive Toledo programs to increase the birth rate. Such extremes are dangerous for women, who deserve control over their health and reproductive destiny.
In honor of Mother's Day, Save the Children released its annual Mothers' Index of the best and worst places to be a mother around the world. The relief agency is also supporting legislation to protect women and children in war-torn regions.
It's the time of year for giving. Women should focus their philanthropy to benefit women and exert their influence over other resources on women's behalf, urges the head of The New York Women's Foundation.
President Bush's refusal to release $34 million in aid to the United Nations Population Fund-which assists women in 140 nations-reflects his determination to win a majority in both houses of Congress by mobilizing his party's anti-abortion wing.
This month, Women's Enews presents an excerpt of an interview with Pearl Cleage, an African-American novelist and playwright, as published in “Women Who Write Plays: Interviews with American Dramatists,” by Alexis Greene.
In the case of a bride murdered on her wedding day by her ex-lover, the defense tarnished her name, said she invited violence and argued for a lesser charge of ‘passion provocation' murder. But the man was found guilty of unmitigated murder.
