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Thousands of Yazidi women captured as ISIS took Sinjar city in August Girls as young as 12 forced into marriage, raped, and beaten for resisting Others sold to fighters who took them home to live with their wives Many girls commit suicide, according to witnesses who have escaped
Chris Pleasance and Jennifer Newton […] December 24th, 2014 | Tags: Amnesty International, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), misogyny, sexual abuse, slavery, Yazidi | Category: child abuse, Human Rights, Islam, United Nations | Comments are closed
Even the president and provost were unaware of the divisive decision until they read about it in Harvard’s school newspaper. Alan Dershowitz Opinion The Jerusalem Post 12/19/2014 The Harvard University Dining Service has been rebuffed in its efforts to join the Boycott Movement against Israel. A group of radical anti-Israel Harvard students and faculty had […] December 18th, 2014 | Tags: "Boycott Divest and Sanction" (BDS), anti-semitism, Drew Faust, ebola, Harvard University, Palestinian Authority, SodaStream | Category: Education, Human Rights, Israel, Palestinians, Politics | Comments are closed
Susan Jones CNS News 12/17/2014 Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says he’s glad that American “hostage” Alan Gross has been released from a Cuban prison after five years, but he opposes the process by which his release was secured — “because it puts a price on every American abroad.” “Governments now know that if they can […] December 17th, 2014 | Tags: Alan Gross, appeasement, Brothers to the Rescue, Charles Krauthammer, David Corn, dictatorship, Fidel Castro, MSNBC, Pope Francis I, Raul Castro, Sen. Marco Rubio | Category: Barack Obama, Communism, Cuba, Foreign Policy, Human Rights | Comments are closed
Ashe Schow The Washington Examiner 11/20/2014 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a harsh critic of Islam’s treatment of women, said Wednesday that modern American feminism is focused on “trivial bullshit” and needs to be reclaimed. Speaking at the Independent Women’s Forum Women of Valor dinner, where she received an award for courage, Hirsi Ali reminded her audience […] November 22nd, 2014 | Tags: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, clothing, Dr. Matt Taylor, Egypt, fashion, female genital mutilation, Feminism, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), misogyny, rape, Rosetta mission, Sohair al-Bata’a, Yazidi | Category: Civil rights, Education, Human Rights, Islam, Science/Research/Technology | Comments are closed
unwatch UN Watch 11/6/2014 Georgetown University law professor Christina Cerna said the U.N.’s highest human rights body “killed” her candidacy as its expert on Palestine — despite her selection by a 5-member vetting committee — on account of her not being partial like William Schabas, whom the 47-nation council chose to chair its commission of […] November 6th, 2014 | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Christina Cerna, Gaza, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, William Schabas | Category: Human Rights, Israel, Palestinians, United Nations | Comments are closed
Tom Tillison BizPac Review 11/1/2014 The mother of 18-year-old Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager shot to death by a police officer during an altercation in Ferguson, Mo., is going to Geneva, Switzerland to address the United Nations on police brutality. Never mind that the investigation into the incident is ongoing, and it has yet […] November 1st, 2014 | Tags: Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Geneva, Lesley McSpadden, Michael Brown | Category: Human Rights, law enforcement, Missouri, United Nations | Comments are closed
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