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Canadian born Chinese woman filmmaker Tiffany Hsiung lets former Chinese Comfort Woman, Grandma Zhou in Shan Xi province, China August 7, 2010

WNN Breaking (WNN) UN New York, New York, UNITED STATES: At the United Nations Headquarters in New York, for the UNCSW – UN Commission on the Status of Women conference on March 4, 2013, an important discussion that touches the very core of global society will take place. Since the 2013 new year the answers [...]

Colombian women migrants say “life is not so easy” in Brazil

Colombian displaced woman and child

Luisa Pascoareli - WNN Features (WNN) São Paulo, BRAZIL: Known throughout the world as a ‘welcoming’ country, Brazil in the last decade has opened its doors to more than 286,000 immigrants. They have come from a diverse group of global regions, all for different reasons, coming from the United States, Japan, Paraguay, Portugal and Bolivia, according [...]

Haiti’s CNN Hero finalist Malya Villard-Appolon still believes in women & change

Tent camp protest

Lys Anzia – WNN Features (WNN) Los Angeles, California, UNITED STATES: “These heroes speak one language – the language of humanity,” said American celebrity actor Harvey Keitel at the opening of the CNN Heroes – Everyday People Changing the World awards on Sunday night December 2, 2012. The CNN award for 2012,  which picked Nepal [...]

Cannes’ award winning Mexican film highlights the pain of teen-girl bullying

Alejandra looks at herself and injuries to her face after an encounter with bullying in Michel Franco's film 'After Lucia'. Image: Marco Polo Constandse films

Cynthia Arvide – WNN Features (WNN) Mexico City, MEXICO, LATIN AMERICA: A 2012 film depiction of a teenage girl in Mexico City creates awareness about a very real problem in Mexico that comes with fatal consequences – youth bullying. Teenage bullying is a serious problem that can leave lasting scars say today’s experts. In the [...]

Are homeless women without children in the U.S. last to get assistance?

Panhandling Penny, one of the homeless in San Francisco’s Embarcadero district

Jessica Buchleitner – WNN Features (WNN) San Francisco, CALIFORNIA, U.S.: With a current population of 812,826 people, the west coast U.S. City of San Francisco, California is a beautiful seaside region, but the city is plagued with a grinding problem that also reaches across the country into every urban area – the problem of homelessness. With [...]

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