links for 2008-07-16

“Many of these women who work overseas are separated from their families, work alone, and are subject to modern day slavery conditions, particularly in the Middle East, Singapore, Japan, and the US.”

(tags: international women gender humanrights)

“[A] new Health and Human Services Department proposal that would define the pill, the patch, the shot, the IUD, the ring, and Plan B as abortion rather than contraception.”

(tags: gender choice government)

“How is simply reaching youth effective or important if they are being hand fed content that is ignorant, racist, sexist or merely marketing product?”

(tags: hiphop youth)

“Becker, University Professor of Economics and of Sociology, acknowledged that the idea might strike some as “repugnant,” but putting a price tag on immigration could draw more skilled workers here and stem the tide of illegal immigrants—some of who

(tags: via:jasmine immigration economics government politics)

“On June 29th, [...] Pat Buchanan appeared on a neo-Nazi radio program to promote his new revisionist history of the Second World War, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World.”

(tags: via:ignoblus)