Global Feminist Link Love: March 3-9

Hey Global Feminists!

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

Eve Arnold, the brilliant American photographer who died in January 2012

Africa

• Preview: Out in Africa, South Africa’s Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Africa is a Country)
• Hundreds of Egyptians march to parliament on International Women’s Day  (Ahram)
• Zambia: Sata Honours Women With Ministry – “President Michael Sata has upgraded the Gender in Development Division at Cabinet Office to a full ministry to be headed by Inonge Wina”(allAfrica)
• The unfinished revolution of Tunisia’s women (France24)

Asia

• Statutory boards lead in boardroom gender diversity (Channel News Asia)
• Investigate Sexual Assault in Police Custody (HRW)

Europe

• The Fairer Sex: A new study shows that women bosses take better care of their employees than men do  (Slate)

Latin America

• The Perils of Being A Feminist in the Dominican Republic (The F Bomb)
• Firms with Women Executives 20% Less Likely to Fail - “Firms that have “mixed management teams are 20 percent less likely to fail,” Mexican economist and former energy secretary Georgina Kessel said Monday, citing data from a 2010 study by consultants McKinsey & Company.” (Latin American Herald Tribune)
• In Mexico, a Scarcity of Female Mayors (NY Times)

Middle East

• Iranian Women Strip Down to Protest the Repression (Jezebel)

North America

• When Humour Crosses the Line - “Cartoons are all about lines. Lines form shapes and words, which in turn become characters who speak in cartoon bubbles and say and do things that make us laugh. Sexual harassment is all about lines too.”  (AAUW)
• Which feminist messages dominate? (Shameless Mag)
• 19th Images de Femmes (The Unexpected Twists and Turns)

Oceania

• Women’s awards under rug as Goward cans event (Sydney Morning Herald)
• Papua New Guinea: Gender-based violence left untreated (AWID)

Global

• LBT Women: OUT at the UN Commission On The Status Of Women (The New Civil Rights Movement)
• This International Women’s Day, Support CEDAW and Combat Gender Discrimination at Home and Worldwide (NWCL)

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