Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.

Azerbaijani first lady, head of the working group for Azerbaijan-France inter-parliamentary ties Mehriban Aliyeva has met French Minister of Women's Rights, City, Youth and Sports Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.

They discussed prospects for cooperation between Azerbaijan and France in the fields of women`s rights, family affairs, youth and sports.
The parties also discussed possible projects between the two countries related to the inaugural European Games to take place in Baku in 2015.

Banquet

Culture Park

The elegant works of porcelain design artist Lili Yang grace mural walls at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and at Yingge’s Creative Culture Park, while her signature design Blue Butterflies Dancing Among Flowers adorn state banquet dinnerware.
Her works are also on display at the Pingtung Winery.
Yang, known as the Queen of Porcelain Art, is one of the few porcelain design artists in the country who has received international acclaim.
Recently, she was commissioned to create a showpiece mural at Hong Kong’s Maritime Square shopping complex.
Yang came from an impoverished background and did not receive a higher education, yet she has earned a top-notch reputation after overcoming difficulties throughout her life.
Born in Taipei, she gave up pursuing education after high school, when her father passed away.

Pussy Riot Won The War

One day I hope young people will be able to play music in the comfort of their own cathedrals.

Pussy Riot won the war - Film - San Antonio Current

Alexander

A few years ago, a series of photos by the French photographer Guillaume Herbaut were widely posted on blogs and feminist news-sites on the internet.

In the photos, a group of young women pose with swords, hatchets and nunchaku in the woods of Ukraine. In some of the photos, they are wearing black T-shirts and loose karate-style pants. 

In other photos, they are wearing flowing white shirts embroidered with flowers, a traditional Ukrainian outfit. The captions described these women as new Amazons, as in the mythical tribe of warrior women.

The group is run by a woman named Katerina Tarnovska. By day, she is a pre-school gym teacher, leading groups of wiggly four-year-olds in a circle around a gymnasium.

In her spare time, the 34-year-old is the leader of Asgarda, a female martial arts group that claims to be a new tribe of Amazons.

Amazons are the mythical, all-female warriors said to have fought in the Trojan War and worked alongside Alexander the Great. They’re famously said to have cut off their left breasts so they could aim their arrows more accurately.

Northumberlandia

We need all the giantesses we can get.

Landform up for honour - Local - News Post Leader

Top Ranking

When Iceland announced they were considering a ban on hardcore pornography online, Americans, for the most part, responded as though it were a (potentially) regressive move. But with Iceland's current track record of prioritising equality, perhaps it is Americans who should be taking a cue from the progressive country. 

Since the economic crash in 2008, the country has turned itself around in more ways than one. 

Iceland ranked first place in the 2012 Global Gender Gap report, moving up from number 4 in 2008. Based on factors like economic participation and opportunity (so, looking at things like wage equality and the number of women in the labour force and in positions of power), educational attainment (based on factors such as female literacy and the number of women enrolled in higher education), health and survival (which looks at life expectancy and mortality rates), and political empowerment (which takes into account the number of women holding political office as well as the number of female heads of state); this report ranks countries throughout the world. 

The US, on the other hand, ranked 22nd, having moved down a few notches from 17th place in 2011. 

Duello

Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century  French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels She performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world,