The Nahmias Cipher Report

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 16:00 PM EDT, 3 May 2012 Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is currently one of the most egregious women’s rights abuses occurring globally. It is a subject that is hard to discuss because of its intimate, sexual and graphic nature. However, it is exactly because of the life-long psychological and physical [...]

When the media reported on the attempted rape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) it seemed strange that they referred to

The assignation of this descriptor to the rape victim in the 21st century was incongruous. A fact that must have been noticed as the media in subsequent coverage began to refer to her as a cleaning women. When I heard about the ‘chambermaid’ from Guinea who despite the shame this accusation could cause her, displayed uncommon courage in reporting the attempted rape, I was proud of her.

Reblogged from The Bedroom Door.: Whilst the majority of us get up each day, get dressed and go to work to earn a living, Women all over Ireland are waking up each day to face another day of torture, another day of being degraded, another day of being ‘Raped for a Living’. These are the [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 00:17 AM EDT, 21 March 2012 BEIRUT, Lebanon – An Ethiopian domestic worker, Alem Dechasa, was taken to a psychiatric hospital following an attempt by a group of Lebanese men to kidnap her outside the Ethiopian embassy. First aired by Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI), the video shows Dechasa lying [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:31 PM EDT, 18 March 2012 MOROCCO – On Saturday, 17 March 2011, thousands of people around the world awoke to the horror of the suicide of a young girl who had been forced to marry her rapist. Her rapist was given the option of marrying the girl under Article [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:23 PM EDT, 13 March 2012 KAMPALA, Uganda – With the recent fervor over the viral Joseph Kony video, Uganda has shot to the forefront of many American’s consciousness. There are many tragedies occurring across the Continent, and we have focused most recently on the genocide that is occurring in [...]

The story of how my life has been impacted directly by AIDS, and why it is important that we remember all of the children who are and have been orphaned by this terrible scourge.

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 18:11 PM EDT,  7 March 2012 MASVINGO PROVINCE, Zimbabwe – Shocking news hit the internet six days ago when a 17-year-old HIV positive maid from Mupandawana, Gutu, was sentenced to a 10-year prison term for trying to infect her employer’s four-year-old child with the HIV virus. People deliberately infecting other [...]

Thousands of Israelis, many of whom originally from Ethiopia, take part in a demonstration against the discrimination of Ethiopian-Jews in Israel. the protesters march from the Israeli Parliament to the city center in Jerusalem, on January 18, 2012. Keren Manor