Indoctrination: The Real Goal of the Culture and Diversity Petition
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Indoctrination: The Real Goal of the Culture and Diversity Petition
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Hey everyone!
I wanted to share this link to the Free the Nipple Campaign’s website and get any feedback you all have before I talk to Kelsey Goodwin about doing a showing of the film on campus. Let me know what you think (about the movement, ideals, etc.). The documentary is on Netflix btw! 🙂
This iteration of misogyny might be especially interesting to you future docs on this blog.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/columns/dominiclawson/article1656813.ece
Perhaps we could brainstorm the possibility of collaborating to create a shadow report much like the one on Tanzania by Professor Bond and her students?
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/12/dominican-republic-takes-womens-rights-back-to-1884/
Early Marriage and Early Pregnancy and its Impact on Girls’ Education in TanzaniaÂ
{Kindly submitted by Yasin Amba}
On Wednesday, November 18th, third-year law students enrolled in Washington and Lee University School of Law’s International Human Rights Practicum will be presenting their findings from their recent human rights investigation trip to Tanzania. The course, taught by Professor Johanna Bond, provides students with the opportunity to create a shadow report. A shadow report allows NGOs to supplement or present alternative information to the periodic government reports that State parties are required to submit to international treaty committees.
NGOs play an essential role in providing both reliable and unbiased information to United Nations committees on issues such as violence against women, which may be overlooked in official reports published by the government. Many NGOs around the world have used shadow reports to successfully lobby various UN bodies, including treaty-monitoring bodies, (such the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women), thematic groups (such as the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women), charter-based bodies (such as the Commission on the Status of Women), and the High Commissioner for Human Rights. These UN bodies will use these reports to examine particular human rights issues more closely.
This semester, students in the Practicum tackled the issue of child marriages and early pregnancies and its effect on girls’ education in Tanzania. To research this question, the students took a 12-day trip to Tanzania and interviewed current students as well as former students, and various government and educational officials in three rural villages in Tanzania. After returning from the trip last month, the students have been busy analyzing their facts and finalizing the shadow report. Once completed, the report will be sent to the Womens’ Legal Aid Center in Dar es Salaam and will be incorporated into a larger shadow report for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
The students have also prepared a presentation to share the results of their findings. The presentation will take place Wednesday, November 18, 2015 from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. in Classroom C Sydney Lewis Hall (Washington and Lee School of Law). The even is co-sponsored by Center for International Education 2015/16 Seminar on Human Rights in Africa with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gender Action Group, the Public Interest Law Students’ Association, the Women’s & Gender Studies Program, and the Women’s Law Student Organization. Dinner will be provided.
Would be very interesting to consider inviting Nancy Fraser to campus:
Hola,
I have mixed feeling about the “saving second base” tag line used in support of (anything, really) but Relay for Life most immediately. I have seen this on T-shirts and on a placard in front of the Science Center and while I can find what I have to assume is intended humor and support in this phrase, I mostly find it grossly misplaced. Fighting breast cancer is not about a sexual experience, it’s about saving a whole human being.
How do others feel about this?
Sarah Wilson
I’m posting both the full report, which is comprehensive and certainly merits our time and attention as a group and beyond, as well as a quick “Fact Sheet” as you’re likely very busy with coursework at this moment in the term!
Fact Sheet for AAU Climate Survey 9-21-15
Report on the AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct