BBC: Red River Women 9 April 2015 (From the section Magazine)

On the trail of the murdered and missing - why have so many of Winnipeg's Aboriginal women and girls been killed? Enter This is an immersive story told through text, images and video...…

Violence against women rises in Ebola-hit nations - ministers

by Maria Caspani, Thomson Reuters Foundation - 18 Mar 2015…

China: Release IWD activists

Li Tingting © Private

Five young women activists have been detained in unknown locations in China after planning to hold events against sexual harassment to mark International Women’s Day. They could be at risk of torture and other…

Ashley Judd Pens Powerful Essay About Online Violence and Rape Threats: "Kiss My Ass"

by Lorena O'Neil

From scrapped arms deals to pleas for democracy: why Sweden is the only Western country standing up to Saudi Arabia

Sweden's foreign minister Margot Wallstrom has emerged as an outspoken figure, not averse to taking moral stands

by Ishaan Tharoor, 12 March 2015

        

The Swedish government this week decided to scrap an arms deal with…

WLUML Joins Women’s Alliance For Kurdistan Iraq and Syria and will March Together for International Women’s Day

How Women Are Changing The World, Shown In Gorgeous Illustrations

The Huffington Post, by Nina Bahadur, 02/18/2015

Peruvian artist María María Acha-Kutscher wants to make women's participation in social movements more visible -- and her gorgeous illustrations do just that.

Acha-Kutscher started her "Indignadas" project in 2012, paying homage to woman…

A digital home for abused women: How a new Canadian website aims to offer personalized support

https://twitter.com/50shadesabuse

Massive protests in Turkey after student murdered & burnt in attempted rape

Chibok girls who escaped Boko Haram defy militants by returning to school

Left to fend for themselves by the government, the traumatised schoolgirls a second chance at education thanks to one determined Nigerian woman

Some of the Chibok schoolgirls who escaped Boko Haram. Ten months on, some girls are now back in education. Not all could shake off the fear the militants would return for them. Photograph: AFP/Getty…

Boko Haram's 'deadliest massacre': over 2000 children, women, elderly- all dead in Nigeria

Ify Elueze…

Statement Against Misogyny and Gendered Violence

Prominent Black Female Activists on Twitter Launch #ThisTweetCalledMyBack Social Media Black Out After Mainstream Academics Steal Their Work

A new comic book with a female rape survivor as its "super hero" has been launched to focus attention on the problem of sexual violence in India.

Priya's Shakti, inspired by Hindu mythological tales, tells the story of Priya, a young woman and gang-rape survivor,…

(Included here are two excerpts, but please go to the link to read the whole poem)

The teacher’s struggle:

at the start of each term

after I scan the class list

I fumble for weeks

mastering the correct pronunciations…