Good News

Finally some good news from Burma

"Burma has said it plans to release Aung San Suu Kyi, the imprisoned opposition leader, after it stages widely derided parliamentary elections next month ... Burma has kept the opposition leader under confinement or arrest for almost all of the two decades since her National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide in the elections in 1990 that were later annulled."

Of course she will be released after the elections, but hey, that is a start.

In other good news the wife of the Nobel peace prize recipient was able to tell her husband (who is in jail for speaking out against the human rights policies of China) of the award.

Finally "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia and the first woman ever elected head of state on the continent of Africa...She has a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard and a reputation for fiscal vigilance dating back to her rise through Liberia’s financial ministry in the late 1960s and ’70s. By the ’80s, her stances against dictatorial repression and official plundering earned her a sentence to prison and years in exile. " http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/magazine/24sirleaf-t.html

Although well-behaved women rarely make history, they rarely go to jail.