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in Cina qualcosa - a fatica - si muove: su questo sito diversi articoli interessanti sulla vita delle donne cinesi e sulla loro lotta per ottenere il riconoscimento e la tutela effettiva della parità di diritti;
ad esempio, chi sapeva che non è previsto il reato di stupro da parte del marito?

Legislators Fail to Recognize "Marital Rape" Twice

The Women’s Development Report issued yesterday revealed that Chinese law makers have ignored the thorny issue of marital rape, failing to seize two recent opportunities to make it a crime under Chinese law. Though it was a hot topic discussed during the amendment of the Marriage Law and Women’s Law, the legislative amendments required to make it a crime were not passed.

Wang Jinling, chief editor of the Report, said that marital rape is a key issue in domestic sexual violence, reflecting the full extent of discrimination against and violence to women in .
The Chinese legal system still does not consider it a crime for a husband to force his wife to have sex, reflecting the male-oriented bias in the law.

::: Women of China

Acciderboli, sto per uscire di casa e non riesco a trovare il giubbotto antiproiettile, quello rosa, più primaverile, l'ultima volta l'avevo usato per fare una passeggiata tra i monumenti del Foro romano, chissà dov'è finito.
Il dipartimento di stato USA ha diffuso un allarme sulla pericolosità delle piazze italiane, dove si aggirerebbero come a Bengasi, come a Dhaka, in attesa delle elezioni, terroristi sia comunisti che islamisti, roba pesante, insomma. 

su peacereporter  la traduzione di un intervento di Howard Zinn da The Progressive:
La storia degli Stati Uniti, costruita sulle bugie, per dominare il mondo.

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::: legambiente-contratto mondiale per l'acqua

agli antipodi, dove vorrei trovarmi in questo momento, ha inizio l'autunno

The Benghazi Home for Juvenile Girls

Financing from the General Secretary of Social Affair’s social fund (sanduk al-iktima’i) established the Benghazi Home for Juvenile Girls in the 1980s. It is located in a larger compound housing people with disabilities and juvenile males who have been convicted of crimes. It houses girls (both Libyan and non-Libyan) below the age of 18. The director of the facility described the usual admission process, involving girls who are fearful for their safety should their families learn that they have had sex (consensual or forced): “Usually girls are afraid. They go to the police, who send them to the public prosecutor, who transfers them into temporary detention. If the father or family is sympathetic, they [the girls] can get a pass to stay at home.”

When Human Rights Watch visited the facility in April 2005, five girls—three Libyans and two Egyptians—were detained, all aged sixteen and seventeen. All of the girls had been tested for communicable diseases without their consent, and four of them had been forced to undergo virginity examinations administered by male forensic doctors. Three of the five girls told Human Rights Watch that they were victims of a rape or an attempted rape. They were brought to the facility by families who no longer wanted to provide them with housing.

Girls at the Benghazi Home for Juvenile Girls, many of whom are in fact victims of crimes and not perpetrators of them, are treated like criminals. Once in the facility, they are detained indefinitely and require permission from their fathers to leave. During their detention, they are provided with no education except religious instruction from a sheikh who visits the facility once a week to teach the Qu’ran. Girls complained of being hit or sent to solitary confinement if they talked back or misbehaved in even the smallest way. The mandate of the facility allows the authorities to hold girls in solitary confinement for up to seven days. However, staff at the facility admitted to holding some girls for periods of two to three weeks and showed us a record log of the days girls were held in isolation. The girls we interviewed reported that staff sometimes handcuffed them while they were in isolation. While the food they were provided was sufficient, they told Human Rights Watch that personal hygiene supplies were inadequate. One girl said, “[t]hey give you soap and shampoo only once a month. They don’t care if it runs out.” The girls are only allowed visitors with the permission of a prosecutor.

Mona Ahmed, has been detained in the Benghazi Home for Juvenile Girls for over a year. She became pregnant following a rape and was brought to the facility by her father. While the family initially doubted that she had been raped, the rapist eventually confessed. However, her father continues to prohibit her from leaving until she agrees to give up her child, who is kept in the facility with her. She told Human Rights Watch, “the rapist confessed but my father is complicating things. Only my father can give permission to release me. My father will agree only if I give up the child so that he can marry me off to his friend.” She does not know whether she will ever be permitted to leave the facility.

Nada Mounir, seventeen, was brought to the facility on April 21, 2005 after the death of a relative who tried to rape her. She attacked him with a knife in self-defense, and he subsequently died of complications. She told Human Rights Watch, “[h]e tried to rape me but he didn’t succeed. My parents were in another house. He came from behind the house. He kissed me. He had a knife. He pulled me down by my hair and said he was going to do it but I took the knife and stabbed him. I told my mother about it. She took me to the police station. They [the police] took me to the prosecutor who brought me here.” Her family refuses to visit her or agree to take custody of her. She does not have a lawyer.

ieri il mio pc, dopo un lungo sbandare e cincischiare s'è schiantato, esausto; per il momento non voglio neanche sapere se potrà riprendersi, mi restano un antico  lap top per disegnare e questo da cui scrivo ora - assurdamente privo di mouse - sottratto con ingegnosa ma arrischiata manovra ad ippncimt.
in attesa di tornare efficiente accetterei volentieri consigli su una questione spinosa:posto che non ne condivido il programma - almeno in alcuni punti per me importanti - perché dovrei votare per il ccccccccccccccs?

a bientôt, j'espère