February 2010
87 posts
Rape victim receives 101 lashes for becoming pregnant →
telegraph.co.uk
Her rape emerged after her pregnancy test and Muslim elders in the village issued a fatwa insisting that the girl be kept in isolation until her family agreed to corporal punishment.
Her rapist was pardoned by the elders.
This makes me so goddamn sick.
A friend asked me what I wished to do with a Master’s degree in human rights. Well it has something to do with this.
Agreed.
The most important and unprecedented news I've heard thus far:
Iranian women are taking their veils and scarves off all over Tehran. The consequences of such an act includes beating, incarceration and stoning.
Girls less likely than boys to be freed from DR Congo’s ranks of child soldiers →
un.org
“Used as combatants, labour and sex slaves, victims of months-long violence and rape, girls are all too rarely freed by the armed forces and groups,” UNICEF said in a news release in Goma, eastern DRC, marking the International Day against the use of Child Soldiers, noting that only 20 per cent of freed children under the agency’s care were girls.
Maya Lin - Unchopping a Tree
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Simple Math
1 employee
1 paper cup per day
5 days a week
50 weeks a year1 coffee mug = 250 paper cups
Every little bit counts.
“Let’s get together and change the axis we’re spinning on, and right this ship into the future. We only have one way of being that is sustainable… we might as well go right for it, instead of wasting our time and resources on things destined to fail and cause conflict.”
—elsworthy (via runningdive)
Greenpeace - Making Waves: What's up with organic cotton? →
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Organic cotton farmers in IndiaReyes, a scientist working on our sustainable agriculture campaign, explains the latest controversy surrounding organic cotton in India:
Life is hard…
“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how you wear it, how you carry yourself, where you walk, when you walk there, with whom you walk, whom you trust, what you do, where you do it, with whom you do it, what you drink, how much you drink, whether you make eye contact, if you’re alone, if you’re with a stranger, if you’re in a group, if you’re in a group of strangers, if it’s dark, if the area is unfamiliar, if you’re carrying something, how you carry it, what kind of shoes you’re wearing in case you have to run, what kind of purse you carry, what jewelry you wear, what time it is, what street it is, what environment it is, how many people you sleep with, what kind of people you sleep with, who your friends are, to whom you give your number, who’s around when the delivery guy comes, to get an apartment where you can see who’s at the door before they can see you, to check before you open the door to the delivery guy, to own a dog or a dog-sound-making machine, to get a roommate, to take self-defense, to always be alert always pay attention always watch your back always be aware of your surroundings and never let your guard down for a moment lest you be sexually assaulted and if you are and didn’t follow all the rules it’s your fault.”
—Shakesville: Rape Culture 101 (via loudandsoft) (via ratsandcandy666) (via penismonolog)
Top Seven Sustainability Practices: The Sum > The Parts →
greenbiz.com
This report gives an introduction to the top seven strategies being employed by companies that want to stay ahead of the curve on sustainability efforts.
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them if you want to. Just as some day, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. and it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
—J.D. Salinger (via liquidnight)
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“In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.”
—George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (via quantumpossibility)
Sixty corporations volunteer to measure full lifecycle emissions of products →
news.mongabay.com
Well-known corporations like Airbus, Levi Strauss & Co., 3M, DuPont, and Kraft Foods are volunteering to ‘road test’ a new global framework to measure the full lifecycle greenhouse gas emission of consumer products from blue jeans to manufactured steel.
