Virginity pressures in Albania bring women to the operating table

Albanian woman in wedding dress

Marjola Rukaj – WNN Features (WNN/OBC) Tirana, ALBANIA: A secret crisis for women is happening in Albania. It has to do with a women’s health, identity, chastity and marriage. According to confirmations by doctors at gynaecological clinics in Albania’s capital city of Tirana, up to three young women each day are undergoing a surgical procedure [...]

Music star Deeyah speaks pride and multiculturalism in Norway

Mutlitcultural people get on a train in Oslo, Norway.

Eva Fernández Ortiz – WNN Features (WNN) Oslo, NORWAY: As Norway’s 32-year-old right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik looked out at a Norwegian public courtroom in Oslo, Tuesday, November 14, 2011, he made a formal statement before the court in an attempt to place himself at the head of a “resistance movement” against immigrants and multiculturalism [...]

Female Genital Mutilation, not Europe’s problem. Or is it?

Caterina Dolcher and Bruna Zorzini of the STOP FGM campaign in Trieste, Italy, 2003

Sabine Clappaert – WNN Features (WNN) EUROPE: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a topic that has been rarely associated with Western Europe, yet due to the arrival of immigrants and refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, female circumcision has become a specific Western concern. It is estimated that in the European Union alone, [...]

“The Whistleblower” film sharpens issues on sex-trafficking at the UN

Scene clip with actress Rachel Weisz starring as Kathy inTHE WHISTLEBLOWER

Lisa A. Phillips  – WNN Reviews UPDATED: 2 September, 2011 (WNN) BOSNIA: In 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac, a single mother from Nebraska and a seasoned cop, joined the U.N. peacekeeping force in Bosnia, a country still in tumult after its brutal civil war. Her job was to investigate the sex trafficking of young women from Eastern Europe. [...]

Poverty women of Albania continue to suffer legal advocacy exclusion

Woman selling socks in Albania's capital city, Tirana

Aida Dervishi – WNN Features   (WNN) TIRANA, ALBANIA: As poverty remains a serious plague throughout South Eastern Europe and the Balkans, especially Albania, rural women who have migrated to urban areas are one of the most vulnerable groups facing hardship and abuse. This is especially true in regions where advocacy programs for women who [...]

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