Kathleen Peratis
By Kathleen Peratis
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Opinion In Defense of Condi’s Right To Choose
In a much-publicized Senate foreign relations committee hearing earlier this month, Senator Barbara Boxer of California questioned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about who was paying a price for the Iraq War. Boxer’s own children and grandchild, she admitted, are either too old or too young to do so. And, she said, “You’re not going…
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Opinion In a Land Where Women Are Invisible
I write this from Saudi Arabia on the last day of a 9-day visit. My small band of fellow travelers has been here under the sponsorship of an official Saudi governmental body. We would have preferred to come without “sponsorship,” but that is not how things work here. Apart from the 1.5 million or more…
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Opinion Lives Lost Amid the Slogans of a Time Long Ago
Judy Clark is a 57-year-old Jewish woman who has a sweet face, wears a chai and laughs a lot. She is often (I am told) accompanied by a dog — a dog she is training to be a seeing-eye dog, part of the program “Puppies Behind Bars.” The bars are those of Bedford Hills Correctional…
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Opinion Turn to Sharia To Promote Human Rights in Muslim Countries
In many Muslim countries, even those with ostensibly secular governments, some of the legal codes — especially family and personal status laws, laws regulating sex outside of marriage and laws of punishment — are enactments of Sharia, or Islamic law. Sharia-based laws are generally seen by the local population as not merely the law of…
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Opinion Anti-sex Campaign Abstains Only From Scientific Truths
To you and me, an ATM is a cash machine. To America’s religious conservatives, ATM stands for the “Abstinence ‘Til Marriage” pledge — and it, too, is a cash machine. The federal government funds abstinence-only programs in public schools to the tune of $165 million annually. If the Bush administration has its way on a…
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Opinion Let Darfurian Refugees in Israel Go
As thousands, not a few of them Jews, assembled in Washington on Sunday on behalf of the victims of genocide in Darfur, more than a hundred Darfurian refugees languished in jails — in, of all places, Israel. As of the end of 2005, about 30 Sudanese had escaped persecution and violence in Darfur by fleeing…
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Opinion The U.N. Reforms, Despite Bolton’s Best Efforts
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has long been an embarrassment to the decent nations of the world. Its membership has included the world’s worst abusers of human rights — Sudan, for example, and Cuba and Zimbabwe — who have used their membership to protect themselves and each other from condemnation for their human…
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Opinion For Gay Palestinians, Tel Aviv Is Mecca
Al-Fatiha — which calls itself the principal international organization promoting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Arabs — is located not in Beirut or Cairo, but in Washington, D.C. And no wonder: The international movement for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people hardly exists inside the Muslim world. Arab human…
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