August 2002, women in the news

Women in the News, August 2002


Bangladesh opposition leader, Shaikha Hasina, during an anti-government rally yesterda (Khaleej Times, 8/25/02).

McKinney gives her concession speech early Wednesday:

The Candadian Prime Minister, Cretien, announced that he won't seek reelection in 2004 (Alittihad, 8/23/02).

Chris Akino, the daughter of the former Philippines President Curazon Akino starting her own political career (Alittihad, 8/22/02).

Cynthia McKinney, the honest, progressive, and brave Congress woman from the 4th district of Georgia, lost the Democratic primary elections (42%) to Denise Majette, who got 58% of the vote (8/21/02).

A Palestinian woman, a relative of 15-year-old Ayman Zorab, weeps next to his body at Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Zorab was shot dead by Israeli troops (Arab News, 8/21/02).

Nishrin Hussain with her father Ahsan Jafri, the former member of Indian Parliament who was murdered at the height of Gujarat riots. (Arab News, 8/22/02).


Arab League Secretary-General, Amr Musa, and his wife Laila, posing for a picture, with the Moroccan Island of Laila in the background. Alittihad reported that he is in love with the two Lailas (8/16/02).	Mary Robinson (former Irish President) receives the international human rights award for her services as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Alittihad, 8/17/02).	The mother of five-year-old Ayman Faris, who was killed by Israeli soldiers, cries as she bids him her last farewell during his funeral in the Khan Yunis refugee camp on Friday (Arab News, 8/17/02).	The Indonesian President, Migawati Sokarno Putri, and her husband, Tawfiq Khamis, celebrating the 57th anniversary of Indonesian independence (Alittihad, 8/18/02).


361 Iraqi couples had their mass wedding to coincide with the 14th anniversary of ending the Iran-Iraq War (alquds alarabi, 8/9/02).	Part of the mass wedding of 361 couples in Baghdad, on 8/9/02 (Khaleej Times, 8/10/02).	Cynthia McKinney, an honest, progressive, and brave Congress woman from the 4th district of Georgia. She was among the few representatives who dared not to support the pro-Israel resolution, in April, which rewarded Israeli aggressors. As a result, she is being targeted by pro-Israel groups to prevent her reelection in August, 2002. If you care about a genuine representative, who cares about Georgria and the United States, support Cyntia McKinney:	Israeli occupation military trials have extended to reach even Palestinian women. Charges are usually based on mere suspicions. Here, Intisar Ajouri accused of prior knowledge of her brother's suicide bombing (alquds alarabi, 8/12/02).	Lamis, crying her father, Ahmed Quraini, the Nablus Municipality truck driver, who was killed by Israeli soldiers yesterday while doing his job, despite having an Israeli permission (alquds alarabi, 8/12/02).


Palestinian Samira Al-Janeza sits arrested in the back of a military jeep after being taken away from a computer center in Hebron on Monday. The army reimposed a curfew after taking Samira and another woman Ghada Al-Titi (Arab News, 8/6/02).	Another Palestinian woman arrested in Hebron, by Israeli male soldiers, which is a grave cultural mistake that will increase Palestinian anger against the Israeli brutal military occupation (alquds alarabi, 8/6/02).	Israeli occupation forces have increased arresting Palestinian young women in a new wave of arrests throughout the Palestinian territories (Alquds alarabi, 8/7/02).	Nivin Jihad Salma (6) died on Friday, as a result of her earlier injury caused by Israeli bullets (alquds alarabi, 8/3/02).	Indonesian women demonstrating in Jakarta in support of Islamic law (Khaleej Times, 8/4/02).


Palestinian women from Dair El-Balah, central Gaza Strip, during the funeral of the child Ata Ayesh Abu Mughisib, who was killed by Israeli soldiers (aljazeera.net, 8/10/02).	Female members of the Iraqi volunteer popular army march in the anniversary of ending the Iran-Iraq War (alquds alarabi, 8/9/02).	A Palestinian woman standing on the ruins of her house, which was destroyed by Israeli occupation forces (Al-Hayat Al-Jadeda, 8/9/02).	After arresting 8,000 Palestginian men, Israeli occupation forces are short of arrestees. This week, they have increased the arrests of Palestinian women (Alittihad, 9/8/02).	A Palestinian mother and her children on the ruins of their house that was destroyed by Israeli forces (Alquds alarabi, 8/7/02).