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May 21 2013Algerian women get down to business
May 17 2013Record numbers of Scottish women turn to farming
May 16 2013Celebrating [Nepal] mothers
May 13 2013Healthy Mothers, Healthy World
May 10 2013Witnessing a South African healer at work
May 7 2013Rescuing victims of sex-trafficking as child pornography in India rises »
WNN Features (WNN) Calcutta, West Bengal, INDIA, SOUTH ASIA: “It is estimated that 200,000 Bangladeshi children have been trafficked for sexual exploitation through the borders of [India's] West Bengal and Assam States,” says a report from ECPAT International, which is working today to end child…
May 10 2013 / Read More »Renewable energy lamps encourages safety for pregnant women in northeast Kenya »
Abjata Khalif – WNN Features (WNN) Nairobi, KENYA, EASTERN AFRICA: Sankuri village in the eastern Kenya region near the Indian Ocean is 300 kilometres (186 miles) from the nearest larger capital town of the province in Garissa. Known as a remote area that has poor…
May 6 2013 / Read More »On Mafia’s watch list: Italian women journalists remain strong »
Italy Correspondent Valeria Marchetti – WNN Features (WNN) Rome, Italy, WESTERN EUROPE: On March 17, 2013 Italy set aside a day to honor and remember all journalists in the country who were brutally killed by members of Italy’s organized crime. Historically known as the Mafia,…
Apr 24 2013 / Read More »Nepal’s civil war continues to haunt rural women »
Ekal Silwal – WNN Features (WNN) Kathmadu, NEPAL, ASIA: It was an ordinary Monday morning on June 6, 2005 in South Central Nepal. Durga Maya Magar, 55, was feeling a little too restless that day. The sun seemed to take forever to rise up in…
Apr 12 2013 / Read More »Morocco’s greatest victim was only 16 years old – Amina Filali »
WNN Features (WNN) Rabat, MOROCCO, NORTH AFRICA: Women’s rights defenders in Morocco are closer than ever to a major victory as the government plans to change a law that has allowed rapists to avoid jail time by marrying their victim. In spite of policy improvement,…
Apr 4 2013 / Read More »Murder case of Russian human rights journalist Anna Politkovskaya re-opened »
WNN Breaking (WNN/RFE/RL) Moscow, RUSSIA, EAST ASIA: The case of the 2006 killing of Russia’s prominent investigative human rights journalist Anna Politkovskaya is set now…
May 21 2013 / Read More »Survivors search for missing children & others after Oklahoma tornado »
WNN Breaking (WNN) Moore, Oklahoma, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: As a 2 mile wide tornado categorized as a F4 to F5, the most severe rating a…
May 21 2013 / Read More »EVAW Law to protect women & girls in Afghanistan stalled in Parliament »
WNN Breaking (WNN) Kabul, AFGHANISTAN, CENTRAL ASIA: Going in what numerous human rights organizations say is a ‘giant step backwards’, the Lower Afghan Parliament, known…
May 20 2013 / Read More »Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum speaks on justice & sentencing in Guatemala »
WNN Breaking (WNN) Guatemala City, GUATEMALA, SOUTH AMERICA: The long struggle for justice has come to a point of resolution this week as the High…
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