Violence against women to take centerstage in forum
VIOLENCE against women worldwide continues to rise. This scenario prompted the Zonta Club of Cebu II to renew its commitment to unite in their stand against violence against women and children.
VIOLENCE against women worldwide continues to rise. This scenario prompted the Zonta Club of Cebu II to renew its commitment to unite in their stand against violence against women and children.
Out of the 150 who registered for the All Women Ultramarathon 50K last weekend, 143 official finishers made it to the 10-hour cut-off. That’s a 95% success rate. High by ultramarathon standards where DNFs are commonplace.
Why do we have to dedicate a month for women? “It’s a man’s world!” it has been said. Women were less visible in the past, limited to the home, the private sphere while men dominated the public sphere. In the writing of histories focusing on the rise and fall of kingdoms with wars as the main events, females had limited exposure. Only in cultures where women’s work was considered of great value to the economy as in the case in pre-colonial America, were women recognized. Misconceptions about females like the beliefs that they had smaller brains or had no soul also marginalized them.
Women workers marked the eve of the International Women’s Day Thursday with a protest action in Manila to raise their economic and labor demands.
On March 9, 2013, Cebu’s running community marks women’s month with the 2nd edition of the All-Women Ultramarathon (AWUM).
March is celebrated as Women’s Month in recognition of their undeniably important role in ensuring a world that is safe, healthy and productive. Shining examples are the likes of the late 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai, who led the Green Belt movement in restoring forest ecosystems by planting millions of trees; the world famous Dr. Jane Goodall known for her impassioned advocacy for fair treatment of animals, whose trail-blazing study of the chimpanzees in Gombe Forest made humans reassess our relationship with wildlife, and who still devotes 300 days of each year to reach out to the world especially the children to instill love for life’s elements; and Rachel Carson whose ground-breaking book “Silent Spring” unmasked the devastating effects of chemical pesticides and caused the US government to ban dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT.
I was moved watching the coverage “Farewell to a Pope” from the last audience with the cardinals to the 20-minute flight to Castel Gandolfo. The camera followed the helicopter that brought Benedict XVI from the Vatican to the Castel Gandolfo.
About 12 percent, or 80,968 of the total 680,858 cases handled by the Public Attorney’s Office in 2011, involved women as clients.
The Parañaque police has launched a hunt for the commander of local police precinct who is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in his car on the parking lot of the city’s central police station.
At the 15th year anniversary of Cebu Daily News last February 8, I did not realize it has been that long since I became part of it when it started in 1998 at a small but cozy office in Escario Street to a bigger, more spacious and comfortable building at the North Reclamation Area. Originally, [...]
This is my first visit to the Philippines. I usually campaign for peace in Congo, Somalia and other conflict-affected countries in Africa.
Violence against women is increasing all over the world. In Cebu, one out of three women experience violence ranging from beating to rape in their lifetime.
A Mexican girl said to have given birth last month at the age of nine has disappeared with her baby, and authorities now suspect she may be older, a top prosecutor said Thursday.
