France24 (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
African countries must work harder to ban female genital mutilation, Chantal Compoare, the first lady of Burkina Faso, said on Monday. "I call on all African states to cooperate on all levels in order to speed up the elimination of the practice of female genital mutilation," Compoare told delegates at an international conference on the subject. Emma Bonino, the deputy leader...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... remark sums up a more general “Berlusconi philosophy toward women.” It’s “pathetic,” charges Emma Bonino, vice-president of the Italian senate. “No political ?ght justi?es such a second-rate, misogynistic insult.”There are signs that Italian women are ?nally fed up. In a letter to La Repubblica, a number of Italian academics issued a call to action: “We protest against this cretinization...
Torchlight (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... of parents to educate their children in conformity with their convictions." Opposition politician Emma Bonino from the centre-left Democratic Party and deputy president of the Italian senate told the government not to react angrily at the decision. "There is no scandal, there is no secular frenzy that inspired the sentence of the European Court in Strasbourg," she told Italian daily,...
