When it comes to men and the control that they have over their women in the many countries that I have written about here, this story of abuse is one of the most atrocious, and insane stories that I have ever read. A girl was raped in Bangladesh – not an uncommon story in countries such as this, that treat their women as second class. Unfortunately, many girls are are raped, daily around the world

However, I am not  blogging this today because this girl was just raped. Let me preface that we all know how I feel about the abuse of women around the world. I emphasize the word ‘just’ because,  being raped is an atrocity alone that women should not have to endure. No, I am blogging this story because this girl was not just raped, but she was punished. Punished by those that should be protecting women and girls from such abuse.

Why was she punished? Well…if it isn’t enough to endure the act alone, the act of being raped, let’s punish this girl by giving her 101 lashes because she got pregnant. Yes, that is exactly what happened: A girl gets raped. She becomes pregnant by her rapist and she is punished  because she got pregnant.

Raped Teenager Receives 101 Lashes For Becoming Pregnant

A 16-year-old Bangladeshi girl was who raped 8 months ago was given 101 lashes as punishment for having conceived during the assault, Bangladesh’s Daily Star reports. Meanwhile, the paper notes, the alleged rapist received no punishment.

The village elders who issued the fatwa against the girl also fined the girl’s father and warned him that his family would be forced into isolation if they didn’t pay.

According to the Telegraph, the girl was so ashamed that she did not lodge a complaint about her attack. Human rights activists say that she married quickly after the attack, but was divorced not long after when it was revealed she was pregnant. She told the Daily Star that the rapist had “spoiled” her life.

“I want justice,” she said.

And of course her rapist is walking away free. Sick..they act as if this rapist had nothing to do with raping this woman and getting her pregnant. Oh…but he is a man – he is completely innocent in this equation of course. How stupid of me to think otherwise.

Readers: Something is so wrong with this kind of inhumane, sick thinking.

Kaylani: All I can say is that you mentioned that he never lied to you. I know how tough this must be for you, but you must know that he is most likely not lying to you now when he tells you that he will not be back until 2026. Perhaps when he calls you, you will be able to express your feelings of loneliness without him and he will be able to give you some comfort. I hope this for you.

Peace out…

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Mechanical failures. That’s been our lives lately in this household. First our dvd player broke down, then a potato caught on fire in the microwave leaving a burnt smell every time we use it, and about 3 weeks ago our wide-screen Visio television went on the brink. All that can be seen is a ‘red X’ in the middle of the screen. Oooh….that does not look good. So it sits – this big blank black screen – useless and taking up space.

At first I was pretty upset about it, even though I don’t watch much TV, and even though we downgraded to the most basic cable, which I didn’t realize at the time meant that we would be losing the channels that we enjoy the most; MSNBC and the Discovery Channel. Thankfully, I have my computer. We have now resolved to watching movies on my Mac, and the news, my only source of getting information these days. I decided to try and leave the radio off when driving. It is my time for peace and quiet, and whatever reflection I can fit in, in the drive between home and work.

So…while perusing my one source to the outside world, :) the net, this morning…the screen still splashes with news on Haiti. I think it is so wonderful how the world has come together to help support the people in Haiti. Every time I read on-line, there is something new being done to raise money. It’s amazing how we can all come together in time of need.

As grateful as I am that people come together, as they have and do, in circumstances such as Haiti, I just wish that people didn’t have to be dying or near death from a terrible disaster for our world to reach out and become one. The power of the people is truly amazing.

My mind questions. Do we have to witness devastation, the shock & awe drama of it all, before something drastic is done? We have so many deaths daily, here, right here in the United States, from lack of health insurance. Because people aren’t bleeding and dying, crying and homeless in the millions, all at once, doesn’t mean they aren’t experiencing their own personal disaster, their own living hell, in the solitude of their own homes, or out in the ‘camps’ of Darfur, or the Congo, or…where millions have already died, and will continue to die unless something is done.

I do not make this statement lightly or without sympathetic thought toward the Haitians. This is not to downplay the recent disaster in Haiti – it is truly horrific. My point is that I am so moved by the amount of money and provisions that are being donated to help…so moved by people: The flood of money from individuals. The focused fundraising events that are organized in record time to assist the Haitians. The urgency that is created. Like I said, the power of the people is truly amazing.

My wish is that it didn’t have to reach that level before people came together, before people respond in such a huge way to help. I wish that this type of urgency to give, this camaraderie that is created so instantaneously, could sweep the world in support of health reform, in support of women, in support of equality for all, in support of global warming, in support of…

Do you know what I mean?

I got a little sidetracked  in my passion and thoughts. What I really wanted to share this morning is a little article that I found….speaking of people being amazing. A young boy in London was so upset by the disaster in Haiti, that he decided to raise money by taking a 5-mile bike ride around his local park.

LONDON — A young British schoolboy has raised nearly 100,000 pounds ($160,000) for Haiti’s relief effort.

Seven-year-old Charlie Simpson was so upset by the devastating images of Haiti’s deadly earthquake that he asked his mother if she could help him set up a sponsored bicycle ride around his local park in west London.

Charlie originally hoped to raise 500 pounds ($800) for UNICEF’s Haiti appeal with Sunday’s 5-mile (8-kilometer) bike ride, but his Internet page was flooded with donations.

He raised nearly 50,000 pounds in a single day and money is still flooding in after Charlie’s story was splashed on the front page of Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper Monday.

His mother Leonora Simpson says she can’t believe the public response.

Peter: I ran out of time the other day but I wanted to respond to your comment. I can feel your angst and I believe it is totally warranted. It doesn’t take much for the whites, nor very many, to infiltrate your beloved island and take over. Your fear is justified. What to do?

Peace out…

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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I decided to post this article because I know that the reason many of my readers can’t even ‘see’ my blog sometimes is because their governments are censoring what they can and can’t ‘see’. And let me blatantly add, our government is too evidently. I rely on the internet and the freedom of it to talk to you my readers. And it upsets me when our communication is blocked, by those that oppose, and whom want to control what is accessible to hungry inquiring minds who want to know.

We are at a time in our lives, that because of internet freedom, the world can be a very small place, and information can be relayed in seconds. I and others, can connect with people that we never dreamed we could connect with, and carry on conversations that inform, inspire, and move us to our core. I can’t imagine living without it. The internet is to our lives, like the blood in our veins are to our vitals: It connects us to life…EVERYWHERE.

The internet also allows for transparency to go viral before anyone can put a stop to it. I like that about it. Engage in an act of dishonesty and get caught? In this day,  you can try to run, but you can’t hide when your perfidious practices are front page news on every media device out there.

I just wonder in this age of transparency…Will people become more honest? It isn’t what you do anymore, but how you do it. Will integrity jump to first place when it’s been lazily lagging behind?

I’m getting a tad off subject as my mind thinks and wanders…but still some good questions to ponder. Anyway, back to the topic at hand….

Internet Freedom, Hillary Clinton and Being the Web’s First Global Diplomat

Internet freedom.

When it comes to education and how students learn in the 21st century, when it comes to developing businesses and encouraging entrepreneurship in a flattening digital marketplace, when it comes to forming social connections regardless of geographic, linguistic and cultural borders — when it comes to promoting democracy and protecting the rights of individuals around the world — no two words, no other phrase, holds more value. It may sound trite but it’s true — just ask students and activists in Iran and China. With the Internet comes freedom. With freedom comes the Internet. In countless ways, for many people, the Internet is freedom.

Hillary Clinton underlined that reality in a bold, impassioned speech at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. this morning. Words like “bold” and “impassioned” are not usually found in most of the mainstream media’s caricature of Clinton. Nevertheless, the Secretary of State gave by far the most important speech about Internet freedom delivered by a top U.S. official. What makes it all the more notable is the fact that it was given by arguably the most recognizable female political figure in the world. In parts of the Middle East, women are beaten and killed by relatives who find out they are using sites like Twitter and Facebook. “Honor” beatings, they’re called.

“Given the magnitude of the challenges we’re facing, we need people around the world to pool their knowledge and creativity to help rebuild the global economy, protect our environment, defeat violent extremism and build a future in which every human being can realize their God-given potential,” said Clinton, who announced a new $15 million project to help more women, young people and citizen groups to get online. (WATCH: Video of her speech is below.)

Clinton, speaking in broad strokes and finer details, outlined what she called the “five key freedoms of the Internet age.” Freedom to connect online anywhere. Freedom of speech. Freedom of worship. Freedom from fear of cyber attacks. “In an interconnected world,” she said, “an attack on one nation’s networks can be an attack on all.” Freedom of “want” — which means that the here-comes-everybody ethos of the Web, the fact that we can bear witness to each other online, can be leveraged in helping relieve suffering worldwide.

On the Twitterverse, where Internet observers and activists commented on Clinton’s remarks and her subsequent Q&A in real time, some took note of her “disappointing” answers regarding China’s alleged cyber attacks targeted at human rights activists. And inevitably, immediate coverage of the speech in our conflict-driven mainstream media, from the New York Times to the Associated Press, focused on the China-Google dispute, which is being closely watched by human rights activists, government officials and Internet companies. But the overall meaning and message of her remarks,beyond the China-Google stand-off, cannot be overstated. The Internet, after all, was born in America, created by our researches and funded by our government. With help and input from other countries, the Web’s evolving ethos and guiding principles should be shaped by America — and, naturally, by America’s top diplomat.

“Sec. Clinton once and for all established the fact that free speech and free enterprise can no longer be achieved unless we have Internet freedom,” Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference on technology’s impact on politics and policy, told me shortly after Clinton’s remarks. He called her speech nothing short of a “milestone” in the future of American foreign policy. “

“In a world where billions are connected with each other through technology — through the Internet and mobile phones — it is imperative that governments recognize that it’s easier and faster for people to connect with each other than for governments to connect with their citizens. Any government that fails to understand this dynamic will left in the history books,” Rasiej continued.”

Less than two weeks ago, Clinton hosted a nearly two-hour dinner for some of the tech industry’s leading thinkers and innovators. It was a small, intimate affair, and guests included Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Howcast CEO and co-founder Jason Liebman, who wrote about the event for HuffPostTech in a blog titled “Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Are Tools For Diplomacy.” Rasiej was one of the guests. Clinton is interested in how technology can spur innovation within the State Department and in countries that the U.S. has interest in supporting, Rasiej said. Accompanying Clinton in the dinner was her senior staff and her growing new media department; most recently, Katie Jacobs Stanton, a former Google exec who joined the White House as its director of citizen participation, joined the State Department.

There’s a bit of irony at work here. Early in the long, bruising primary campaign that pitted the establishment-backed former first lady turned New York senator against the little-known insurgent junior senator from Illinois, Clinton was considered less Web-savvy than Barack Obama. Hers was a top-down, command-and-control operation, online observers suggested. In fact, the first online attack ad that spread on YouTube and foreshadowed the narrative of their historic fight for the Democratic nomination portrayed Clinton as the old PC and Obama as the shiny new Mac.

“After having lost to Obama, especially to Obama’s use of the Internet in attracting and mobilizing supporters,” Rasiej pointed out, “Clinton is now leading the way within the Obama administration in recognizing the transformational opportunities that the Internet can provide.”

Using DipNote, the State Department’s blog, recording videos from all corners of the world, especially where girls and women are considered second-class citizens, leveraging technological tools that, as we’re seeing in the response and outpouring of support for Haiti, allow us to become “global citizens,” Clinton can be the Web’s first global diplomat.

To see the entire video of the speech, courtesy of the State Department, click here, or click here for the transcript of the speech.

Readers: I think it is awesome that Hillary has realized the power of internet, not just for the obvious reasons, but the deeper more important reasons why pushing for internet freedom can be hugely beneficial throughout the world. I wish her much luck and support in her endeavors.

Let me add, I wish there was a little more freedom here, so I could converse with you more easily.

Hillary: Can you help me out here? :)

It’s Friday – Enjoy it. Peace out….

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Well maybe not right now, at this very present moment,  but hopefully soon.

Think about it…if you can’t flap your lips here, on my blog, at least be grateful that you’re able to flap your lips at all…and not be jailed for the words that you speak and the hand that writes. Women across the world do not have the comfort of freedom of speech as we do here in the US, but that doesn’t stop them from voicing their views even when they are aware that speaking their minds could mean jail, or worse, execution.

Widespread Arrests of Women’s Rights Activists, Female Journalists and Relatives

Numerous women’s rights campaigners, female journalists and relatives are being arrested and persecuted as authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran attempt to repress masses of Iranians from advocating for their civil rights in recent weeks, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.

“It is evident that the authorities are singling out women’s rights activists and arbitrarily arresting them, as well as female journalists, in the context of recent public demonstrations,” stated Aaron Rhodes, a spokesperson for the Campaign.

Dr. Nooshin Ebadi, the sister of Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, was arbitrarily arrested on 28 December. Nooshin Ebadi has no record of political or human rights activism and her arrest is a blatant attempt to intimidate and silence Shirin Ebadi.

“The arrest of Shirin Ebadi’s sister is an act of hostage-taking by the state and should be strongly condemned by the international community,” Rhodes said.

Some activists have been threatened with execution, while others have disappeared, with no official record of their arrest or whereabouts provided.

Atieh Yousefi, one of the most active members of the One Million Signatures Campaignin the city of Rasht, was arrested on the Shiite Holy day of Ashura (27 December). According to information provided to the Campaign, Yousefi was arrested while trying to assist a young man who had been severely injured by plain clothed agents who had beaten him. Still in detention, a judge has denied her family permission to visit her.

On 2 January 2010, Parisa Kakaie, a member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, who had been summoned to the Intelligence Ministry and threatened in telephone calls, was arrested when she appeared at the Intelligence Office. On 3 January, Kakaie called her home and said that she was in ward 209 of Evin prison. Previously, Kakaie was summoned to Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court, along with other women’s rights activists, and was questioned at the Investigation Office of the Intelligence Ministry.

Bahareh Hedayat, a women’s rights advocate and a leading student activist, was arrested on 30 December 2009, by intelligence agents who presented a written order to detain her. Her home was searched and many of her personal belongings, including her computer and books, were confiscated.

Zohre Tonkaboni, 62, a former teacher and member of Mothers for Peace, was arrested on 28 December. Mahin Fahimi, another member of Mothers for Peace, was arrested on 8 December 2009, along with her son, Omid Montazeri. Fahimi’s husband was executed in 1988 while he was a political prisoner.

On 20 December 2009, Shiva Nazarahari, a leading member of theCommittee of Human Rights Reporters, was arrested on a bus en route to Qom for Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s funeral, when the bus was stopped by Security Forces in Enqelab Square in Tehran. Nazarahari went on a dry hunger strike after she was arrested, and was transferred to the health clinic of Evin prison’s ward 209 on 1 January, where she was warned that she would be executed if she continued her hunger strike. Previously, on 14 June 2009, Nazarahari had been arrested at her office but was released after 100 days on bail of $200,000, and is waiting for her trial. Before  these detentions, she had been arrested in August 2004, in a gathering of  political prisoners’ families in front of the UN building, and was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term.

Somayeh Rashidi, a women’s rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, was arrested on 20 December 2009 while she appeared before the Revolutionary Court following her summons. She was questioned in court without her lawyer being allowed to accompany her; later, she was transferred to Evin prison. Her home was subsequently searched by agents who took her personal belongings and those of her roommate. Rashidi was previously denied the possibility to pursue her graduate work in women’s studies because of her activities.

Maryam Zia, a women’s rights activist who is the director of an organization devoted to children’s welfare, and is the wife of Mansour Hayat Ghaybi, a member of the Executive Board of the Bus Workers’ Union, Vahed Syndicate, was arrested on 31 December at her home. She wasn’t at home when the plainclothes came to arrest her, but her son was forced to call her and ask her to come home. She was taken to an unknown location. Previously, she had been arrested during the women’s rights gathering in Haft Tir square in 2006.

Mansoureh Shojaie, a member of One Million Signatures Campaign and the Women’s Cultural Center, has been arrested, but no information about her location or legal status has been released.

In addition to these cases, the following female journalists have also been imprisoned:

Badrossadat Mofidi, General Secretary of the Journalists Association, was arrested on 28 December 2009 at her home.

Nasrin Vaziri, a journalist and reporter for ILNA and other publications, was taken into custody by unknown persons on 28 December at 22:00. According to her family, there is no information about her whereabouts and her name is not on any detainee list. Her family, in an interview with the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, said that the Tehran prosecutor’s office had informed them that the office didn’t issue any order for her arrest, so she has effectively been “disappeared.”

Mahsa Hekmat, a reporter for the daily Etemad Meli, was arrested on 1 January 2010. She was visiting Ali Hekmat, a well- known journalist at his house in Saveh. The agents had apparently ordered the arrest of Ali Hekmat, but after they coordinated with their superiors, they arrested Mahsa as well.

Other women have also been jailed, some apparently based on their relationships to political and civil society activists. Two daughters of Mohammad Tavasoli, a member of the Freedom Movement (Nehzat e Azadi), Layla and Sara Tavasoli, were arrested in the last four days. Tavasoli’s daughters are not activists and they were reportedly arrested to force Tavasoli to announce the closure of the Freedom Movement.

Some of the other female political activists arrested include Azar Mansouri, the deputy of the Iran Participation Front, and student activists Niloufar Hashemi Azar, and Atefeh Nabavi and Shabnam Maddadzad.

The Campaign calls on the Islamic Republic authorities to immediately release all women’s rights activists and others who have been arbitrarily arrested.

Source: United4Iran

StreetJournalists 1.6.10

Why is it that those who bathe in the land of milk and honey have become complacent in their bed of roses, whispering their wants when the mood strikes, free from fear…while those with their hands tied, living in constraint, shout for sovereignty day after day after day, confined in fear?

I am so grateful that my words are not restrained and my hands speak freely. There is no stumble in my speech, nor shake in my gesture. I am free from fear, free to express. And I will continue to do so for those that can not.

Peace out….

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Back in June of last year, I wrote about Neda Soltan, the young Iranian girl, who became a symbol for Iran’s pro-democracy protesters. Her horrible death was caught on video and thanks to Facebook and Twitter her silent ‘voice’ went viral for the world see. To this day Neda, the angel of Iran, continues to be an icon of inspiration of hope.

And what happens when people hold onto hope and inspiration? Those that oppose will do anything including airing a documentary discrediting Neda, claiming she was a fake.

But the people know better. They are not blind; they know the truth.

One comment in regards to this fake claim: “Why the surprise, this regime will do anything do discredit the opposition, if they kill, so why not deny.” And a few others have stated, “lies have short legs…..the iranian government (sic) cant run too far…..”

Iran State TV Suggests Neda’s Iconic Protest Death Was ‘Faked’

Readers: I’d love to hear from any of you. Especially my readers in Iran. How are you girls doing? So much is happening. I know you’re reading. Know that you are in my thoughts and I am just as frustrated that we have no communication, as you must be.

ZL: I’m running late – Let’s talk in person. I’ll call you later on today and hopefully we’ll connect.

Peace & Love to all,

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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