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By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyOn the night of March 11, 2009, a 24-year-old Peace Corps volunteer named Kate Puzey was tied up and knifed on the front porch of her house in West Africa. Her throat was cut. She was killed the way you would slaughter a goat, Puzey's cousin told ABC's "20/20" in a Jan. 15 broadcast. Kate Puzey was the 23rd volunteer to be murdered in Peace Corps history. The killing took place just days after Puzey e-mailed her Peace Corps supervisors about a fellow teacher and Peace Corps employee. He was not an American, but rather a villager, or Host Country National. Puzey believed he was raping the ...
Can Corporations Help Stem Violence Against Women?
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS -- "On the day of the attack I woke up before dawn ... before I could even say anything he threw the acid at my face and fled. I was rushed to the hospital; my face and body were burned severely. As a result I am blind in both eyes, I have lost both earlobes have gone through 16 skin grafting surgeries" This is the story of Florence, a 40-year-old woman from Uganda, whose testimony was read out last month at the United Nations as an example of violence against women, which is described as a "pandemic." One in three women experience some form of physical abuse in their ...
'Beauty Bloggers' and the Exploited Women of Juarez: An Outcry
By Alison Fairbrother - Politics Daily"Mad Men's" Don Draper may have had hangovers and hotties at his '60s-era ad firm, but one headache he did not have was bloggers. Over the past few weeks, an army of beauty bloggers sunk their glossy nails into a collaboration between cosmetics giant MAC and fashion company Rodarte that made light of the perilous situation of women living in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (The business of promoting beauty products has changed profoundly since the days when real life Don Draper advertising executives convened focus groups to learn whether women used face cream to feel beautiful, or to catch a ...
Disfigured Afghan on Cover of Time Heads to US
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- A disfigured Afghan teen whose image has fast become the new face of the 9-year-old Afghan war -- and a harbinger of what could come if U.S. troops quit the country -- lands in America today for reconstructive surgery on her missing nose and ears. Doctors in California will try to rebuild 18-year-old Bibi Aisha's face, disfigured in an act condoned by the Taliban after she tried to flee abuse from her in-laws. But a controversy is already swirling over Aisha's photo [Warning: graphic content on this and other links] on the cover of Time magazine, and what it says about ...
Domestic Violence and Recession -- 35 Dead in Philadelphia in '09
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyDespite an overall reduction in Philadelphia's violent crime rate, the number of homicides from domestic violence hit 35 in 2009, a 67 percent increase over 2008. The New York Times reports that as the recession has deepened, domestic violence rates have risen in Philadelphia and across the nation. Says the Times: "The increase in domestic violence in Philadelphia is mirrored nationally, and experts say it is linked, in part, to the recession. In fact, data indicate that domestic violence had been falling in the 15 years before the recession took hold last year." The recession is not making ...
Lily Burk: Sweet 17, and Dead
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyHer name was Lily Burk, and her friends have gathered on Facebook, which seems to be joining curbside memorials and candlelight vigils as the way we grieve our losses in modern times. ...
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