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Woman filmmaker reveals secret slavery of Armenian women

U.S. sponsored Armenian refugee camp in Aleppo, Syria in the 1920s.

Lisa A. Phillips – WNN Reviews (WNN) Stockholm, SWEDEN: Armenian filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian has done much to reveal the horrors of the Armenian genocide under the Ottoman government’s systematic decimination of Armenian citizens that began before World War I and lasted until the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923. Originally stretching across a large [...]

SYRIA: Injured journalist Edith Bouvier pleas for help facing crisis conditions

Injured journalist Edith Bouvier - Homs, Syria

WNN Breaking (WNN) Homs, SYRIA: Following the untimely death of woman war correspondent Marie Colvin, another woman journalist named Edith Bouvier, a French correspondent working for le Figaro news and other news agencies, has asked for urgent help today to save her life as she lay in an injured state. Her plea was made public through [...]

Women protesters in Tunisia and Egypt forge forward for human rights

Engagement Citoyen protest

Lakshmi  Eaasey – WNN Features (WNN) U.S./Global: As women across the MENA (Middle-East and North Africa) region experienced victory and discouraging setbacks with political participation and human rights for all in Egypt and Tunisia women activist leaders look back to reflect on what has gone wrong and what has gone right for the women who [...]

Lebanon advocate Ghida Anani talks TV media & how men can protect women

Performance art in Beirut shows attitudes about marriage for women

Elahe Amani – WNN Features (WNN) Beirut, LEBANON: In an amazing coordinated campaign, a Lebanese advocacy group dedicated to protecting women  from violence shook up the media world by working closely with men as they asked them to act decisively and without hesitation to stop violence against women. Elahe Amani, special reporter from Iran for [...]

Excessive use of tear gas endangers women protesters Bahrain

Bahraini women protesters

Lys Anzia – WNN Features (WNN) Manama, BAHRAIN: Expressing grave concern about the ongoing violence that has impacted Bahrain with forty-four casualties, the BCHR – Bahrain Center for Human Rights is asking for a stop measure in the use of excessive force on Bahraini citizens and activists, especially the excessive use of tear gas as [...]

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