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		<title>Men must play a role to stop sexual harassment of women in Egypt</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/10/16/men-role-stop-sexual-harassment-egypt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nihal Magdy - WNN SOAPBOX (WNN/CGN) London, UNITED KINGDOM: Reports of sexual harassment in Egypt have risen drastically in the past few months. The problem, while not new to Egypt, has become an epidemic seriously affecting the lives of millions of women in the country. Whether incidents of sexual harassment have risen or whether more women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political diversity and tolerance is key to a new Egypt</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/10/11/politcal-diversity-egypt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nada Zohdy - WNN SOAPBOX (WNN/CGN) Cairo, EGYPT: In recent weeks, speculations about Salafis have erupted in headlines as people try to understand the role they played in the tragic episodes of violence associated with an incendiary video ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad. Salafis are a broad group of conservative Muslims who typically have a literal understanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls, not guns: The promise of progress for South Sudan</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/09/19/girls-not-guns-south-sudan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tracy Fehr &#8211; WNN Opinon (WNN/EP) Juba, SOUTH SUDAN, AFRICA: During the first year of independence for the world’s newest nation, women of South Sudan united to amplify their voices and ensure their rights are guaranteed in the constitution and enforced by the government. These efforts have led to some milestones in the development of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With amnesty off the table Ugandan rebels could remain in force</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/08/29/amnesty-ugandan-rebels-remain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gillian Lamunu - WNN Opinion (WNN/IWPR) Gulu, UGANDA, AFRICA: Last month, the Ugandan government dropped its 12-year-old amnesty for rebel combatants who decide to lay down their arms and renounce violence. On May 23, Interior Minister Hilary Onek extended the Amnesty Act for a further 12 months, but in a form that left out crucial clauses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online advertising may be only funding doorway to keep Egypt&#8217;s bloggers going</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/08/28/online-advertising-funding-egypts-bloggers/</link>
		<comments>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/08/28/online-advertising-funding-egypts-bloggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nadine El Sayed - WNN Opinion (WNN/CGN) Cairo, EGYPT: Social media and blogs play a crucial role in maintaining a diversified, vibrant and well-rounded public sphere in Egypt. Social media clearly played a large role in the Egyptian uprising and political bloggers and online activists helped create a dynamic public sphere online during and after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage laws in modern China still leave women behind</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/08/24/marriage-laws-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leta Hong Fincher &#8211; WNN Opinion (WNN) Beijing, PEOPLE&#8217;S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: China’s Supreme People’s Court in August, 2011 issued a new interpretation of the country’s Marriage Law to state that after divorce, marital property belongs solely to the person who took out a mortgage and registered as home owner. Most residential property is registered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulating Bhutan&#8217;s first woman Supreme Court judge</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/08/22/bhutan-woman-supreme-court-judge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Langa Tenzin - WNN Opinion (WNN) Nangkor, BHUTAN: First of all, I would like to offer my hearty congratulations to the recently elected first women Dzongda [governor] and now the newly appointed woman Justice of the Supreme Court of Bhutan.  I am proud of our country when it comes to gender equality and the performance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In spite of local microlending efforts climate change brings food shortages to Mali</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/08/20/climate-change-food-shortages-mali/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaidia Samaké  (as told by Soumaila T Diarra) &#8211; WNN Opinion (WNN/PL) Gwelekoro, Sahel region, MALI, AFRICA: Rainfall shortage in Mali is almost a regular phenomenon in our country, but this year’s case is worrying. We are going to face a famine this year. The harvests failed because it didn’t rain enough. My field of [...]]]></description>
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