Month: March 2012

March 25, 2012 Michael Kaufman

When I speak to MPs in the British Parliament on Monday, I’m going to say that for too long women have stood alone. When it comes to violence against women, we’re still thinking it’s “just” a women’s issue.this. Sexual and physical violence at the hands of a man hits a staggering 45 percent of women…

March 8, 2012 Michael Kaufman

It’s another day for most women in the world: breakfast is cooked, diapers are changed, fields are tended, computers switched on, patients treated, students taught, and houses cleaned. In the distance, groups of men thump the drums of war. They talk of the cleansing power of explosives stuffed into a car. They anonymously rain missiles…