Global Feminist Link Love: May 2-15

Hey Global Feminists!

Below are a list of links to blog posts and news stories about what other global feminists have been up to last week. But we also want to know: what have you been reading/writing this week? Share your own link love in the comments!

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Africa

• Rape of women in DR Congo “tops 1000 a day” (Al Jazeera)
• Family Law at the Crux of Algerian Women’s Future (NPR)
• The Price of Education: Sexual Abuse and HIV/AIDs at Zimbabwe’s Universities (WIP)

Asia

• Comic book heightens awareness of violence against women (Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online)
• Women: more jobs but less pay – “The gender gap in the labour force of Macau is lower than the Asia-Pacific and other regions, according to a report issued last Friday by the International Labour Organization (ILO).” (Macau Daily Times)
• For Women, War for Survival Continues in Peacetime (IPS)

Europe

• Humiliating “virginity tests” at Heathrow revealed (Asian Correspondent)
• Violence against women, Europe must take a step forward (Cyprus Mail)

Latin America

• Violence in Venezuela (enGender)
• “Miss Bala,” and Explosion of Beauty and Violence at Cannes (Latin American Herald Tribune)
• Internet Users Commemorate Legal Recognition of Gay Civil Unions – “On Thursday, Brazil’s Supreme Court recognized civil unions for same-sex couples. In a unanimous decision, the justices stated that stable homosexual couples merit the same rights and obligations that Brazilian legislation grants to heterosexual couples.” (Global Voices)

Middle East

• Saudi Arabia’s Extravagant Investment in Higher Education: Is Money Enough? (Inside Higher Ed)

North America

• My Motherhood Transformation, or: on Mother’s Day and every day, I can see your broken heart (The Radical Housewife)
• Dear Pro Choice Canadians – “Like most of you I’m still reeling from the results of the election last night. It was, in word, bittersweet.” (Anti-choice is Anti-Awesome)
• Non-overt, overt and assumed feminist in pop culture (Pandagon)

Oceania

• Winners and Losers has definitely lost (Zero at the Bone)
• Row rages over school abortion (New Zealand Herald)

Global

• My Family Found Out I Blog About Sex (Blogher)
• We’re Sluts, Not Feminists. Wherein my relationship with Slutwalk gets rocky. (Feminisms.org)

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