NOVANEWS By Wijhat Nadhar Global Research This article was published on December 2, 2012. When women in Iraq are arrested, they routinely go through three gruesome phases, starting with humiliation, followed by torture, and often ending […]
NOVANEWS Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire: Breaking the Silence on Israel’s Human Rights Abuse of Palestinians to Support Women Human Rights Defenders Nobel Women Initiative’s Conference – The Netherlands, April 24-26, 2015 By Mairead Maguire Global […]
NOVANEWS By Joachim Hagopian Global Research First published by GR in April 2014 Steve McQueen, director of this year’s Oscar winner for best film “12 Years A Slave,” mentioned in his acceptance speech last month that 21 […]
NOVANEWS By Janine Jackson Global Research The New York Times‘ vision of women in the workplace. (Anna Parini) Familiar, frustrating construction from today’s New York Times (5/26/15): It turns out that generous maternity leave and flexible rules on part-time […]
NOVANEWS By Ajamu Baraka Global Research The Black Lives Matter movement has another martyr, as it prepares for a national conference in Cleveland, this weekend. Sandra Bland’s murder in Texas shows, once again, that “defending one’s […]
NOVANEWS Review of Two Recently Released Films: “Scheherazade: Tell Me a Story” and “Before and After the Spring Revolution” By Barbara Nimri Aziz Global Research Do you remember one reason Washington gave for invading Afghanistan in […]
NOVANEWS Rocket scientist, inventor, cancer pioneer, human computer, bomber pilot, judo master. Why do we have to read their obituaries to know about them? By Joyce Chediac Global Research Did you know that satellites stay in […]
NOVANEWS By Julie Lévesque Global Research This article was first published on April 13, 2013. Women’s rights are increasingly heralded as a useful propaganda device to further imperial designs. Western heads of state, UN officials and […]
NOVANEWS Mother of the sit-down strike By William Loren Katz Global Research Originally published on March 6, 2012 During the late-Nineteenth-Century struggles against America’s Robber Barons and the Ku Klux Klan, Lucy Gonzales Parsons was a […]
NOVANEWS By Garikai Chengu Global Research Unbeknown to many, most of human history took place in Africa, where women were equal, if not superior, to men. For thousands of years, African societies were matriarchal and they […]