This week's New York Times Magazine is titled, "The Women's Empowerment Issue." The many articles include:D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution, by Nicholas D. Kristof (featuring a woman who invented an inexpensive sanitary pad made out of banana fibers
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Erlinder Released
The AP reports that a Rwandan court has granted bail to C. Peter Erlinder, the William Mitchell law professor arrested last month on charges of promoting genocide. He is apparently free to leave Rwanda but must let the court know…
Update: U.S. Law Professor Charged With Denying Genocide
C. Peter Erlinder, the law professor who flew to Rwanda last month to see his client Victoire Ingabire, has been charged with denying the Rwandan genocide of 1994, says the AP. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in prison. As proof,…
U. S. Law Professor Arrested In Rwanda
C. Peter Erlinder, a professor at the William Mitchell College of Law and an advocate for human rights, has been arrested and jailed in Rwanda. He was in the country to see a client, Victoire Ingabire, who opposes the…
Former Legal Writing Professor Arrested in Rwanda
Peter Erlinder, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law and a former Bigelow fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, was arrested in Rwanda on Friday in connection with his defense of a presidential opposition candidate. Click here…
Professor Peter Erlinder Arrested in Rwanda
By propertyprof
Forgive me — I know this does not relate to property law, but I hope you'll agree it's worth the space here under the circumstances. William Mitchell College of Law Professor Peter Erlinder, my colleague, is passionately devoted to the protections…
Tying Family Planning to Efforts to Reduce Carbon Emissions
Salon.com: Condoms against climate change, by Andrew Leonard:Thomas Malthus: Prophet of overpopulation doom, or the first family planner? From "Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost: Reducing Future Carbon Emissions by Investing in Family Planning":The historical relevance of Malthus'work in…
Obama Expected to Reverse Pro-Abstinence/Anti-Abortion Approaches to Global Funding for Family Planning and AIDS Prevention
Bloomberg News: Condoms Trump Abstinence in Obama Global AIDS Policy, by Jason Gale & John Lauerman: President-elect Barack Obama will reverse U.S. family-planning and AIDS-prevention strategies that have long linked global funding to anti-abortion and abstinence education, a public-health…
Rwanda Circumcises Soldiers to Fight HIV/AIDS
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), RWANDA: Military to Lead the Way in Male CircumcisionThe soldiers in the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) will be the first men to benefit from a government policy to use male circumcision as a tool…
Rwanda To Encourage Men To Be Circumcised To Reduce Risk of HIV/AIDS
BBC News: Rwanda in mass circumcision drive:Rwanda has launched a campaign to encourage all men to be circumcised, to reduce the risk of catching HIV/Aids.A health minister told the BBC that soldiers, policemen and students would be asked to…