About Alice Backer
My name is Alice Backer. I am founder and team leader of GV Lingua, which amplifies Global Voices in languages other than English. I used to be Francophonia Editor. I was once an editor of New York University School of Law's Review of Law & Social Change. See my Big Apple flavored Haitian and Caribbean musings at kiskeyAcity. Oh and yes I am a lawyer person.
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March 13th, 2007
Middle East & North Africa
TunisienDoctor writes [Fr]: “Finally another Arab country, Marocco, adopts a law that authorizes women to give their nationality to their children even when married to foreigners. Tunisian women have had this right for about 20 years.”
Sub-Saharan Africa
Blogger Pierrot Dupuy comments [Fr] on a local women's magazine's Women's Day issue: “One of the main articles is titled Mentalities Must Change. Sure, no doubt. But why then do all the ads featured in the magazine contribute in conveying a negative image of women?“
March 12th, 2007
Sub-Saharan Africa
Le Pangolin posts [Fr] the flyer for a meeting to take place March 20 in Paris where French presidential candidates including Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy will answer the question: “What do you plan to do about Darfur?”
March 11th, 2007
South Asia , Americas
For Women's Day, India-based Haitian Blogger Pascale Doresca compares [Fr] the lot of women in the third world to that in the first world and concludes: “Developed countries are far in advance of developing ones if one takes into account that having a daughter in many parts of India is considered a curse, that about 45% of women under 18 are married, that a maternal death takes place every 2 hours in West Bengal. Giving the world's women human dignity is not a feminist act. It is a humanist duty… “
March 9th, 2007
Middle East & North Africa
EspaceMaroc writes [Fr]: “Comedian Gad El Maleh is coming home to present his one man show I am the Other, his latest comedic creation featuring very original sketches. He will be in Casablanca on Marh 12 and 13 and then in Rabat on March 17. The comedian was named one of the funniest men of the year by [French TV channel ]TF1.”
Sub-Saharan Africa
Blog Politique du Sénégal [Fr] doesn't understand why some are unhappy with the doubling or tripling of public transportation costs during the Magal, an annual event of the Mouride moslem sect. “Personally, I find logical and normal that the drivers increase the fares as mush as they can. We are after all in a capitalist state where freedom in trade, as in the law of offer and demand, is king. “
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