Congo's Dr Denis Mukwege Calls For 100% New Recruits In Army & With No History of Sexual Violence
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Congo’s Dr Denis Mukwege Calls For 100% New Recruits In Army & With No History of Sexual Violence
Last week Dr Mukwege described the Congolese army as being mired in a culture of violence and as being ‘completely sick’, so sick that it should be disarmed and replaced with new recruits who have never committed sexual violence or fought for a violent militia, reports The Guardian.
The UN estimates that one-third of the rapes that occur in the eastern part of the country are committed by members of the army. Dr Mukwege’s questioning the wisdom of the international community spending large sums of money to support an army that is the greatest perpetrator of violence against women and sometimes men, too, is timely.
Marilyn Mosby Vogue Interview | New Gallup Data Underscores Sexual Hypocrisy | Women Directors Speak | 80% Of Data About Women Is Missing
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Anne is reading …
1. Vogue magazine July profiles Baltimore presecutor Marilyn Mosby
2. New data from Gallup’s Values and Beliefs Survey reminds us that Americans of all genders are sexual hypocrites.
3. In 2012, the United Nations Economic and Social Council set down 52 indicators crucial to measuring gender equality in any country. 80% of Data is missing.
4. Even though women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population, only about 4 percent of movies are directed by women. Bloomberg interviews women directors.
5. . The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education has settled on a new word to describe female self-pleasuring.
Gucci's Alessandro Michele Tells His Creative Director Story To Vogue July 2015
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Vogue magazine’s Hamish Bowles interviews Gucci’s new creative director Alessandro Michele, describing him as ‘a lot like the woman he champions: daring, curiously compelling — and with a streak of mystery and eccentricity’.
“Fashion is about creating emotion—it’s not necessarily rational,” explains new Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri, whose first scheduled hour-long meeting with Michele—at the designer’s apartment—segued into three hours discussing the future of the brand. “I thought, Why should I look for someone else when he can translate the heritage—and when the values of Gucci are in his veins?”
The Gucci design team has recently led a peripatetic life. Ford centered it in London, where he lives, while Giannini moved operations to Florence (birthplace of Guccio Gucci, who founded the company in 1921)—and much of the business side is based in Milan, where the company is in the process of relocating to a Mussolini-era aircraft hangar where Michele will stage his collections. Michele, though, prefers Rome. “There is something about the culture of the fifties and the cinema,” he says of his hometown. “But I also need to travel. I need to go to London. You have everything there—present, past, future, exhibitions, theater. And real eccentricity is still very much alive with the English—the kids in the East End, beautiful English old ladies.” He also loves contemporary Los Angeles dressing (“the way they put things together—it’s not chic, but it’s inspiring”) and New York, where he shops vintage stores and where he will present his 2016 resort collection—“a couture show in a garage,” as he explains. “I love couture, but the other side of me loves the street, and I think the mix of these two can create something new. When I go to New York and London, I love to see how very brave the young people are—they have no rules. Even the superchic ladies of the past, like Princess Irene Galitzine, had supermodern attitudes. Today they’d all be into street style.”
Tami Williams & Mica Arganaraz are styled by Camilla Nickerson in images by Jamie Hawkesworth
