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Despite all odds and losses, the only option is to move forward and that can be effectively achieved only by engaging men (who, whether feminists like it or not, are decision makers both at the household and policy levels) in such a way as to create new heights of empowerment for women rather than dependencies. There are no short cuts or magical recipes. |
However, one starting point could be to popularise common knowledge or simple scientific doctrines that would ultimately lead to a transformation in the concept of hegemonic masculinity. |
If this begins to happen, our young women will not suffer because of the demand of sons, and may be many mothers in Pakistan would no more be punished physically and emotionally or both against the “crime” of giving birth to daughters. |
Dr Rakhshinda Perveen |
Dr Rakhshinda Perveen |
A civic entrepreneur and a non-elite gender activist. |
• Tahir |
For married men in poor countries, control over their fertility is essential from an economic standpoint (to stay out of poverty) and to avoid the up to 1-in-6 chance of losing their wives to death in childbirth. Cultural shifts and urbanization are also influencing desired family size. Pakistani men needs to be educated for thier positive contribuntion. Is “Withdrawal” not an indirect contraceptive, so why afraid of others?Recommend |
• Nida S. |
I agree. A few years ago, I was volunteering at PIMS in Islamabad, and I used to accompany doctors on their daily rounds. There was a woman who had just given birth to her 5th child, and she was in a really bad condition. She suffered from severe post-natal depression every time she gave birth, to the point that she would try to take her own life. The doctor I was with that day repeatedly asked her why she was doing this to herself and why she did not use contraception. Her answer was that her husband did not allow it. I remember at that point the doctor got so angry, he ordered her tubes to be tied up and said he would speak to the husband himself. I really hope he knocked some sense into the husband. Recommend |
• Disco Molvi |
The day the ‘religiously sanctioned’ mindset which teaches women that they are not in control of their bodies, instead their husbands are; when this is challenged, disowned and ultimately done away with, only then can there be hope of practicing of contraceptionRecommend |
• Columbus |
in countries like us, for the poor only economical entertainment is his wife and vice versa …. now think how much emphasis shall be given on educating male and female here on this issue…Recommend |
• Khalid Rahim |
TV and SEX are two entertainments allowed as Islamic by our religious teachers! Any other |
entertainment such as musical concerts, theatre, joint sports, etc are taboo. Specially with the power failure and no TV what can the couple in the village do or in a high rise building?Recommend |
• waqas |
Mothers are instructed to feed their milk to new born till baby turned two years, so automatically the gap of 2 years is minimum,so a good muslim husband should try to grab this atleast. |
And its ALLAH who is (RAZIQ) and HE provides food to every living thing,but the point is the character building is parents duty and they should take enough time and space to build a good muslim pimarily,which eventually ll be a good citizen . |
To fulfill their materialistic needs is not the only job of the parents as in most of the families parents think it the sole responsibility.Recommend |
• rhealyn |
this is one of the big issue in some conservative and third world countries such as the Philippines, until now the issue of using contraceptive (RH BILL) is still in on the congress..Recommend |
• Aaeisha Qureshi |
Planning is allowed and always done by each and every person in every field of life.ALLAH has asked to lookafter your family ,its health, education and security.Males have more responsibility they have to look for the welfare as he is the decision maker.Decisions based on sound facts and evidence are always fruitful.Planning afamily is right of every male and female and . prevention is better than cure Family planning is cost effective and efficient way to improve the health of mother and child and thus less burden on men.Involving men is a good strategy. well informed men can make better decisionsRecommend |
• Jamil Ahmad Chitrali |
To me, we need to focus on integrating gender and Islam into Modernity and development. There were times when due to first hand information and direct contacts with the prophet numbers were counted more but its time now to revisit that thinking and focus more on quality and not quantity of muslims being produced. We also have to consider if Islam is only for men or women have thier share in it, if so, why not to encourage going to mosque with families. once this practice get started many things will get influenced….Recommend |
• Khalid Rahim |
@Jamil Ahmad Chitrali: |
Unfortunately the seeds that were sown by General Zia ul Haq and his coterie have now bloomed fully. Skill and Wisdom have been replaced by Egotism and Religion has lost it’s spiritual capacity to that of a commodity sold as pork barrel at the commodity exchange. In |
the context of contraception I am recluctant to shake hands for I find that half the males here give a limp downward hand depicting that they are impotent, the other half a stiff straight hand that does not grip your hand, indicating leave that to your imagination? Jamil |
we first have to reclaim the mosque from the usurpers of Islam.Recommend |
Deporting to Death? |
A Los Angeles gang-peace organizer faces an immigration ruling that his supporters say could be a death sentence. |
| Fri Feb. 15, 2002 3:00 AM EST |
Alex Sanchez has worked for years to calm the violence between the warring gangs that dominate Los Angeles' Pico Union/Koreatown area -- a role that has won him the respect of gang members as well as some of California's leading politicians. But now he faces a deportation hearing that could not only end his peace-making -- it might also lead to his own violent death. |
Sanchez, a 30-year-old citizen of El Salvador, former gang member, and current program director of the Los Angeles and San Salvador-based youth organization Homies Unidos, is facing deportation charges before Immigration Court Judge Peters Collantes in a trial beginning today. Neither side disputes his undocumented status. But Sanchez's supporters say deportation would be tantamount to an execution order. |
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Many current and former gang members deported to El Salvador have been killed in recent years. Since 1999, according to Sanchez's lawyer and Homies Unidos, five members of the group have been deported to El Salvador -- and all five have been murdered. |
"We are very fearful for his life, knowing what we know about what happens to gang members or former gang members in El Salvador," says Angela Sanbrano, executive director of the Central American Resource Center of Los Angeles. |
No one has been convicted of any of the killings of Homies Unidos members, says Sanbrano. But Sanchez and his supporters believe the killings are the work of either street gangs or right-wing vigilantes. Homies Unidos' efforts in Los Angeles and San Salvador, says Sanchez, directly threaten the gangs' transnational growth and strength. |
In recent years, hundreds of convicted criminals, including many gang members, have been deported from Los Angeles to El Salvador -- where they have often simply replicated their gang culture anew. As the Salvadoran gangs compete in a bloody battle for numbers, power, and prestige, Homies Unidos' peace organizing stands in the way, says Sanchez. |
The right-wing vigilantes, on the other hand, view all former gang members as a criminal element that needs to be eradicated. |
"Former death squad members are involved in a 'social cleansing' program," says Mayra Gomez, El Salvador country specialist with Amnesty International USA. "They do actively target people such as alleged criminals, prostitutes, street children, and transvestites." |
"I fear both sides, because of what I've been speaking against," says Sanchez. "This hearing is a life-or-death decision." |
Sanchez has attracted a powerful set of supporters, including civil rights stalwart Reverend James Lawson, film director Robert Greenwald, former state Assembly Speaker and current Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa, and former state senator and famed progressive Tom Hayden. |
Reverend Norman S. Johnson, Sr., executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Los Angeles, worries that if Sanchez is deported, "the community would experience a void in leadership from a true survivor committed to peace, justice, and non-violence." |
Since becoming an organizer with Homies in 1998, Sanchez has been credited with helping keep a tenuous peace in central Los Angeles, where mostly Latino rival gangs once killed each other by the dozens every year. |
Homies Unidos works with other local groups to provide educational and cultural programs to local youths. They have formed a coalition called "The Peacemakers" with other gang workers to expand a truce movement launched by black and Latino gangs after the 1992 riots. |
A former member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, which is composed mainly of Salvadorans, Sanchez maintains a close relationship with many gang members. "That's what it's all about -- maintaining this trust with the gang members in order to have them change their ways and be a positive person in their own community," he says. |
Sanchez was born in San Salvador in 1971 and came to the US at the age of six, a refugee of his country's brutal civil war. During the late 80s, Sanchez's family obtained green cards, but Sanchez had run away from home by that time and joined the then-new Mara Salvatrucha. "It was a complete liberation, it was complete independence. I wanted to rebel against everybody," he says. As a result, he never secured his papers. |
Sanchez has been deported once before. In 1994, he was returned to San Salvador after serving time for a auto-theft felony conviction. He slipped back over the border again the next year, returning to his Los Angeles neighborhood. There, he met Magdaleno Rose-Avila, the founder of Homies Unidos, who steered him toward peace work. Inspired by Rose-Avila's mentoring and hoping to do better for his newborn son, Sanchez joined Homies as a volunteer, removed many of his old gang tattoos, and began to turn his life around. |
Father Greg Boyle, who runs East Los Angeles' gang intervention program, Jobs For A Future, has watched Alex's transformation. "His impact on that community is enormous," says Boyle. "It's not just that he's been there and done that, it's that (gang members) see him as a genuinely caring adult." |
But despite Sanchez's community support, the INS is pressing forward with deportation charges against him. |
INS officials say they cannot comment directly on Sanchez' case due to privacy laws. |
Sanchez's latest immigration troubles, he believes, stem from his success as a gang peace activist. In 1999, Sanchez began putting youths complaining about police brutality in touch with civil rights lawyers. He took a more active role in mediating potential conflicts between gangs. At one point, he says, he prevented a bloody war with a simple three-way phone call. |
But just as Sanchez' street organizing began to show signs of progress, Homies Unidos came under the scrutiny of officers of LAPD's controversial, now-disbanded CRASH anti-gang unit, according to Sanchez's lawyer, Allen Diamante. Homies Unidos members say that police told them that their peace meetings seemed to be a front for the creation of a "supergang." |
In January 2000, CRASH officers arrested Sanchez and turned him over to the INS, despite a city council executive order that limits police intervention in immigration cases. Meanwhile, the US Attorney's Office in Los Angeles moved to have Sanchez deported for illegally re-entering the country. |
Sanchez's case quickly became a cause celebre. At the 2000 Democratic Convention, hundreds of demonstrators chanted "Free Alex Sanchez!" during a protest against the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division. The same day, Sanchez, who has spent much of his life in prison or juvenile detention, says he organized a hunger strike to protest living conditions at the INS Detention Facility at Terminal Island. |
He was released in late September after a federal judge reduced his felony conviction to a misdemeanor. Under pressure from then-State Senator Hayden's office, the US Attorney dropped its illegal re-entry case. But the INS continues to press its bid for deportation. |
In 2000, after an almost decade-long decline, violent crimes in inner Los Angeles spiked upward. Murders alone increased by 25 percent from 1999. Sanchez, among others, attributes this in part to a resurgence in gang activity. |
Sanchez worries that, amidst the recession, gang violence will again rise. "You can only hold a truce for so long. But then what do you do after that? That's when you have to bring in resources into the community, into the youth," he says. |
If Sanchez is deported, his supporters say, there will be one less person to help maintain that truce -- and he himself might not survive long enough to witness the outcome. |
Sustainable wastes manager, Lambeth |
Jason Searles |
Salary: £31,500 |
Jason Searles |
Jason Searles |
This time last year I'd only been in my job for three months, so things have developed. I've taken on more responsibilities, running more recycling programmes. Until recently our main focus was on picking up refuse and recyclables. But now, equally important is education, trying to reach people who don't necessarily get involved in recycling. There is low participation from housing estates and households where English isn't a first language. But improving services takes time, mainly because they are contracted. |
The whole recycling agenda has gone up a notch. The mayor of London has produced a draft municipal waste strategy and we're working towards new government recycling targets for 2003-4. Plus, we're leading into local elections, so parties start trying to score points over who cares most about services. It all means recycling has been pushed up the political agenda, and that makes me feel valued. |
But I am moving to a new job in Essex, where I'm from. House prices in London are ridiculous, so I'm going to work for Essex county council. It's the same role, but slightly less money - but I'll be able to buy a house. There is a debate now about affordable housing for public sector workers, but it has been mostly about NHS staff and the police, not local authority workers. Yet there are lots of people I work with who would never be able to buy in London. |
The election debate about public services was a bit of a damp squib. A lot was said, but not much has been done. I voted for Labour and I'm glad I did, but I still want to see a bigger debate on tax increases to fund the public sector. Politically, it's not easy. But it's the right thing to do. |
The Common Good: March 21 2001 |
Sustainable wastes manager, Lambeth |
Salary: £29,000 |
You never forget you're working for the public in my job. I manage Lambeth's sustainable wastes unit, developing strategies for recycling, re-use, composting and waste reduction. The recycling schemes we run here are for residents and businesses and we need their support - so there are lots of meetings with community groups. I also help manage the borough's recycling contracts. On top of that, it's our job to secure funding. |
My days involve a lot of meetings - with council members, contractors and service providers. I've only been here four months, but I was in a similar job in Southwark before. |
I've always wanted to do this, right from doing a degree in environmental planning and pollution control. I earn about £29,000 and would probably get more in the private sector, but there isn't really a comparable role. Anyway, I'm not interested. I think you'd be distracted by profit and loss, rather than being driven by what the public wants. |
I feel like a public servant but I think the term is outdated. I'd say I was a community empowerer. I certainly feel valued. Public awareness about recycling and sustainable waste has increased dramatically since the first bottle banks appeared. Residents see recycling as a core service, not just a nice add-on - especially our green box service, collecting from doorsteps. |
But we do need a debate about how much we're prepared to pay for services. Politicians, residents and businesses have to understand that if they want services, they need to pay for them, that there are difficult choices to make. I feel very involved in that debate in my role. |
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Tuesday wasn't the first time Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez has bitten an opponent, but it stands as his best-known bite because of the attention directed at the World Cup. |
Where does it rank among memorable sports bites? Here's our list. |
1. Mike Tyson. When Evander Holyfield didn't cower in fear during their 1997 heavyweight fight, Tyson got frustrated, opened his mouth and went for the ear. Tyson was never the same, but his bite remains the undisputed champ of sports chomps. |
2. Conrad Dobler. One of the dirtiest players in NFL history admitted to biting the finger of Minnesota's Doug Sutherland. As Dobler told Esquire more than a decade ago: "So I bite one finger in my life, and I don't even chew on it. The legend grew from there. It's almost like I'm worse than Jeffrey Dahmer." |
3. Marv Albert. The Hall of Fame broadcaster pled guilty in 1997 to misdemeanor counts of assault and battery after a trial in which it was revealed he had bitten two women during sexual encounters. |
4. Luis Suarez. The incident Tuesday was not his most disgraceful act. That would be either the racial insults he directed at Manchester United's Patrice Evra two years ago, which resulted in an eight-game suspension, or his refusal to shake Evra's hand in their first encounter following Suarez' return. |
5. Wayne "Tree" Rollins. The Atlanta Hawks center wasn't the first NBA player to possess an intense dislike for Boston's Danny Ainge. But in a 1983 brawl, he became the first to take a bite out of Ainge. |
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The last train is nearly due |
The underground is closing soon |
And in the dark deserted station |
Restless in anticipation |
A man waits in the shadows |
His restless eyes leap and scratch |
At all that they can touch or catch |
And hidden deep within his pocket |
Safe within it's silent socket |
He holds a colored crayon |
Now from the tunnel's stony womb |
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