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Women and Violence

17 hours ago ago from Should I Circumcise?

  Violence affects the lives of millions of women worldwide, in all socio-economic and educational classes. It cuts across cultural and religious barriers, impeding the right of women to participate fully in society. Violence against women takes a dismaying variety of forms, from domestic abuse and rape to child marriages and female circumcision. All are violations of the most fundamental human rights.   In a statement to the ...

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Analysis finds immigrant women, ages 18-64, outnumber native-born women

17 hours ago ago from Ylse

Tomorrow Rep. Luis Gutierrez plans to introduce his version of an immigration reform bill. Whatever it contains, the bill will definitely entail a more humane way to treat the immigrants who have been contributing to our economy since their arrival. Yet, who are they? Courtesy of the Migration Policy Institute , we get a much clearer picture of who one segment of the immigrants are the women. For anyone who thought they knew ...

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Saudi Women Get Smacked for Spending Too Much Money

10 hours ago ago from Exposing Liberal Lies

Calling all feminists. Where on earth are you when it comes to Muslim women being abused by their husbands , especially those in the more conservative Islamic countries? Why are you silent on this issue? Are these women of less value than women in the West ? Oh, that's right, you're spending your time and energy condemning Sarah Palin for having the audacity to give birth to a child whom you consider not quite perfect. Read the latest ...

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My World: Confusing Contradictions

1 day ago ago from JEDDAH DAILY PHOTO JOURNAL

In a strict Muslim country where men actually hold paying jobs censoring books and magazines by applying black marker to photos of women showing exposed skin, I can only shake my head in disbelief when I see something like this window dressing in an upscale mall here in Jeddah. I just don't get it! The store mannequins here are all headless (reason: something about idolatry), and it is perfectly ok for them to expose skin or expose their ...

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Australia holds lesson for provinces - Toronto Star

11 hours ago ago from Service SA

BigPond News Australia holds lesson for provinces Toronto Star He's the premier of the state of South Australia , an arid region that is home to about 1.6 million people and most of the country's successful wine growers. ... We're hot on climate change - Rann NEWS.com.au Rann proposes tree planting program Adelaide Independent Weekly all 6 news articles

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Dr. Ana Langer: Dear Copenhagen: What about Women?

48 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post

As the global architects of a new treaty to combat climate change meet in Copenhagen this month, they continue to work from a conspicuously incomplete blueprint. Last Thursday morning, George Soros made it very clear that significantly greater resources must be allocated to mitigate the impact of climate change on the world's poorest people, who are the most vulnerable to its affects. This is a welcome development. But still absent from the ...

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Activists: Harassment Across Arab World Drives Women to Seek Cover

4 hours ago ago from FOX News

Activists: Harassment Across Arab World Drives Women to Seek Cover Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Print AP Egyptian boys watch passing girls at the Nile bank in Cairo, Egypt, in this file photo from July 23, 2008. CAIRO The sexual harassment of women in the streets, schools and work places of the Arab World is driving them to cover up and confine themselves to their homes, said activists at the first-ever regional conference ...

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Yalidy Matos: No Woman Left Behind: CEDAW and the Stupak-Pitts Amendment

6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

The United States is one of seven countries that have yet to ratify The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Alongside the United States are Iran, Nauru, Palau, Tonga, Somalia and Sudan.[i] In summary, CEDAW addresses basic human rights of women and girls. It affords women equal access to resources such as education, employment, and property. In addition, CEDAW is viewed as ...

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BBC News - Kashmir shutdown in protest at 'cover-up' of deaths

8 hours ago ago from BBC

Protesters accuse security forces of killing the women Protesters brought Indian-administered Kashmir to a virtual standstill amid claims that a federal inquiry into the deaths of two women is a cover-up. Locals allege the women, who died in the town of Shopian in May, were raped and murdered by security forces. But on Monday India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told the high court in Srinagar they had died by ...

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Diane Tucker: What's an Underemployed Gal to Do? Run For Office.

3 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Since the recession began, millions of women have found themselves underemployed, working in survival jobs for which they're overqualified. If you're in the process of making similar life changes , why not run for office? America needs more women in politics. Because why? "Governments with more women legislators are more productive," noted the World Economic Forum. "National parliaments with the largest numbers of women have the lowest ...

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