Lauren Wolfe
The Atlantic
February 8, 2012

It doesn’t matter where you look; sexualized violence is intrinsic to conflict. Qaddafi’s soldiers committed rape in the last days of Libya’s regime. The Egyptian military has been sexually violating female journalists and protesters in that revolution. Across the Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of thousands of women are suffering the fallout of the sexualized violence that has torn apart their bodies, their families, and their communities.

A new project from the Women’s Media Center, initiated by one of its founders, journalist and activist Gloria Steinem, has begun documenting this tool of war and genocide. From the Holocaust through today, Women Under Siege is illuminating the causes as well as the cures of sexualized violence by uncovering patterns and making links between them.

As the director of Women Under Siege, as well as a journalist myself, I interviewed Steinem about sexualized violence in conflict and what needs to be done to understand and stop it.

To read the full interview at theAtlantic.com, click here.

Diane A Wade
Belle News
January 8, 2012

Sahar Gul, a teenage bride from Afghanistan, who was tortured for months after her arranged marriage, has spoken out for the first time since her rescue, saying she hopes her husband and his family are jailed for her abuse.

15-year-old Sahar Gul became the bruised and bloodied face of women’s rights in Afghanistan after she was rescued in late December when an uncle called police.

Speaking in an interview on Saturday from a hospital in Kabul, Sahar Gul blamed her husband, his parents and his sister for her ordeal.

To read the full story at bellenews.com, click here.

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The Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial to Life, a cross-campus display at California State University San Marcos, will commemorate the deaths resulting from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, now in their 7th and 9th years. By remembering individual Iraqi and Afghan civilians and U.S. military personnel who were killed in the wars, the memorial calls on viewers to consider the cost of war in terms of human lives, across and beyond national boundaries.  All events are free and open to the public.

• Monday through Thursday, Oct. 25-28: Memorial on display across campus.
• Sunday, Oct. 24, 7:00 p.m.: Dedication ceremony, Library Plaza.
• Monday, Oct. 25, 7:00-9:00 p.m.: Memorial to Life Evening Program with speakers and performers, Clarke Field House/University Student Union, Grand Salon.
• Tuesday and Thursday, Oct. 26 and 28, 12:00-1:00 p.m.(Uuniversity Hour):  Speakers and performers on the outdoor stage, Library Plaza.

Sponsored by the CSUSM Human Development Club and organized by a group of concerned CSUSM students.

University Hour programs will take place on Tuesday and Thursday, Oct. 26 and 28, from  12:00 to 12:50 p.m.

Sponsored by the following groups at California State University San Marcos — Human Development Club, a co-curricular grant from Student Life and Leadership, the USUAB fund, the Cross Cultural Center, and the Women’s Studies Department.

For additional information, contact Rachel James, project coordinator, atjames030@cougars.csusm.edu, or Professor Linda Pershing, Faculty Coordinator,Lpershing@csusm.edu, 760 750-8008.

David Allen and Chiyomi Sumida
Stars and Stripes
May 20, 2010

Failing to get support from junior members of his ruling coalition for his plan to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama may break with the coalition and make his proposal public without their approval.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano said Monday in Tokyo that there may be a way for Hatoyama to keep his pledge to present a relocation plan by his self-imposed May 31 deadline without getting the Social Democratic Party or the People’s New Party to agree.

To read the full story in the Stars and Stripes, click here.

Okinawans protested US bases on their island yesterday, shouting slogans as the prime minister visited. (Issei Kato/Reuters)

Japanese Leader Says Moving US Base Off Okinawa Unlikely

Malcolm Foster
Associated Press at boston.com
May 5, 2010

Japan’s prime minister said for the first time yesterday that at least part of a key US military base will remain on the southern island of Okinawa, a move that could reduce tension with Washington but dent his sinking popularity and raise the ire of island residents.

A dispute over the relocation of Futenma Marine Corps airfield has become the focal point of US-Japan ties since Yukio Hatoyama took office in September promising to move the base off Okinawa — contrary to a 2006 agreement with Washington that called for it to be moved to a less crowded, northern part of the island.

But on his first visit to Okinawa as prime minister, Hatoyama conceded it would be difficult if not impossible to move Futenma’s facilities off the island, which hosts more than half the 47,000 American troops stationed in Japan under a security pact.

To read the full story at boston.com, click here.

William Browning
Casper Star-Tribune as posted in the Billings Gazette
January 20, 2010

Prosecutors on Tuesday formally charged a California man with five felonies in connection with allegations that he posted an advertisement on an Internet site requesting the rape of a Casper woman.

Jebidiah James Stipe is accused of posting the Craigslist advertisement that led to the brutal rape of a 25-year-old woman inside her Casper home on Dec. 11.

The 27-year-old Marine — who has been in custody since Dec. 16 — made his initial appearance in Natrona County Circuit Court on Tuesday. With his hands and ankles shackled, he wore a dark-green jumpsuit during the proceeding.

To read the full story as posted in the Billings Gazette, click here.

By Rick Maze
Armytimes.com
October 28, 2009

Army Secretary John McHugh, who spent 17 years in Congress as a Republican lawmaker before being asked to head the Army by a Democrat administration, finds himself at the center of debate over President Barack Obama’s pledge to try to repeal the military’s ban on service by openly homosexual people and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that is part of the controversial idea. He shared his views on the issue in an exclusive interview with Army Times.

To read the full story in the Army Times, click here.

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