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		<title>&#8216;Mourning Mothers Iran&#8217; Stand with Activist Mothers Worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elahe Amani with Lys Anzia – Women News Network &#8211; WNN
A mother protecting her child isn’t anything unique. But in Iran, humanitarian activist mothers are now becoming global icons for human rights causes worldwide. In silent public protest, the ‘Mourning Mothers of Iran,’ known locally in Tehran as the ‘Mothers of Laleh,’ stand together each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1765&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Africa Climate Change Threatens Life and Health of Maasai Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Kajiado, Kenya: The Maasai are struggling with frequent water shortages which are threatening their way of life. But one women&#8217;s group is taking action. 
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		<title>Acid Crime Survival Zambia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women face extreme violence from acid
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Lusaka, ZAMBIA: “You have to “grow” crocodile skin to clean the wounds of an acid survivor. The worst ordeal was while in the hospital, as the skin kept peeling off.
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		<title>Anti Mail-Order Bride Law Philippines Doesn&#8217;t Limit Human Trafficking</title>
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MANILA: Like many Filipinos, 20-year-old Analyn dreamed of a brighter future for her family abroad, but instead of a well-paying job, she was forced to marry a man more than twice her age from South Korea to get an entry visa to that country.
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		<title>Can Nepal women &#8216;untouchables&#8217; outlive tired caste systems?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- PUNITA RIMAL / correspondent - Women News Network – Fri July 17, 2009
Kathmandu: Kalli Kumari B.K. is 45 years old and is a Dalit woman, an &#8216;untouchable.&#8217;
&#8220;On March 20, Kumari was accused of practicing witchcraft by the villagers, and was mercilessly beaten up and forced to eat her own excreta in public,” said the Asian Human Rights [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1422&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global politics of ‘pretty’ women bends coverage of Iran&#8217;s election protesters?</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/06/26/global-politics-of-%e2%80%98pretty%e2%80%99-bends-coverage-of-irans-election-protesters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sex sells, but so does Iranian beauty, compelling even those who are disinterested in politics and current events to pay attention, if for no other reason to find out why the alluring girl in the photo has painted palms while she flashes a peace sign.  Advertising agencies understand that attractiveness draws people in, forcing them to pay attention.  In addition, photographers are known for working toward a poignant, beautiful, and memorable picture, so their focus on beauty should come as no surprise.  However, is the narrative around what’s happening in Iran becoming dominated by the idea of what is beautiful?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1372&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors campaign for safe abortion in Zambia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SALLY CHIWAMA &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN
WNN Zambia: Selina’s gullet (where food passes) is constricted, burning and on fire. An opening has been created in her stomach in an effort to feed her because food and water cannot pass through the gullet. Next, she must undergo an operation to fix what’s left of her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1320&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christian minority women face unknown world in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/05/18/pcw812/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 12:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LYS ANZIA &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN








Minority girl from Sindh Province, Pakistan. Image: Alysha


During the recent days of battle in the northwest region of the Swat Valley, minority groups are leaving as quickly as possible. Although the majority of religious minorities in the Swat Valley are ethnic Pushtuns, with Sunni religious beliefs, Christian minority [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1224&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt’s Spinsters Fight Against Society Stereotypes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cairo Correspondents MANAR AMMAR and JOSEPH MAYTON - Women News Network &#8211; WNN


Cairo, Egypt – It is a challenge to be unmarried in Egypt and even more so if the woman is “growing old” according to Egyptian customs. This means any unmarried woman past her mid-twenties is seen negatively through society’s lens, leaving many questions to be answered. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1113&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Victory of Iranian Women 30 Years After</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Correspondent ELAHE AMANI with Lys Anzia – Women News Network – WNN
Dr. Shirin Ebadi and other lawyers and activists working with DHRC – Defenders of Human Rights Center Iran welcome the decision to set up a Campaign in defense of the Center and express their gratitude to members of the women’s movement who have provided much support [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=973&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Girl Soldiers &#8211; The cost of survival in Northern Uganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mindy Kay Bricker – Women News Network – WNN
UGANDA &#8211; It had been 11 years since my feet had touched the dusty rust-colored soil of Uganda. My first visit had been particularly remarkable as it had been the first time the long, black barrel of a gun had been pointed within centimeters of my face.
In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=877&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Daughters – An ongoing tragedy in Nepal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KAMALA SARUP, Nepal Correspondent with LYS ANZIA &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN
WNN Nepal &#8211; &#8220;In recent years, millions of women and girls have been trafficked across borders and within countries. The global trafficking industry generates an estimated five to seven billion U.S. dollars each year, more than the profits generated by the arms and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=706&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>60 percent of women harassed on daily basis &#8211; Cairo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protective laws unfit for women on streets of Cairo
- WNN correspondents JOSEPH MAYTON and MANAR AMMAR

CAIRO: Being an Egyptian woman is to accept sexual harassment as daily routine, according to a recent report from the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights (ECWR). The study outlines, 60 percent of Egyptian women and 98 percent of foreign women [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=590&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Women Say No to Polygamy</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/09/23/iran-women-say-no-to-polygamy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women achieve temporary victory over Iran Family Protection Bill
ELAHE AMANI &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN &#8211; Tues 23 Sept, 2008
The Iranian “Family Protection Bill,” which is anything but protective of families, has brought together one of the largest coalitions to oppose a bill since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Prisons – A Global State of Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LYS ANZIA &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN
&#8220;The strategy used in women&#8217;s prisons now is one of humiliation rather than rehabilitation,&#8221; said Jane Evelyn Atwood in her 2007 Amnesty International video documentary, &#8220;Too Much Time.&#8221; For nine years, Atwood photographed and documented the conditions for women in 40 women&#8217;s prisons worldwide including the US, Europe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=391&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/08/11/rapecasezambia-articl804/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SALLY CHIWAMA, Zambia correspondent with Lys Anzia &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN
Fighting teacher-student rape in Zambia
 

A sex-safety school poster for students in Lusaka, Zambia. Image: Joshua Treviño
Lusaka, Zambia &#8211; In Feb 2006, only three months before the Zambian government ratified the African Union’s Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, a young girl [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=245&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Signature Campaign Activists Belong on Trial?</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/07/21/iran-globalreport802/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Campaign for Women Rights &#8211; Iran
 

Attorney, Shirin Ebadi, speaks at WSIS &#8211; World Summit of Information Society summit 2005
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&#8220;The Iranian government has been asked to drop charges against four women’s rights defenders facing imminent trial, and set aside other convictions for peaceful activities to promote equal rights for women in Iran,&#8221; said humanitarian defender, Human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=164&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Dignity, no Justice</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/06/24/iran-arrests-globalreport801/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New crackdown on women activists in Iran
- Elahe Amani, Special Correspondent – Women News Network – WNN
 
Photo image: Khashayar Elyassi
While the global community marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a year-long celebration of “Dignity and Justice for All,” there is neither dignity nor justice for women in Iran . And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=79&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvesting a Field of Their Own –Woman’s Right to Food in the Global Food Crisis</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/06/12/globalwomenreport800/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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World Food Programme delivers food to Haitian women &#8211; Image: Peter Casier /UNWFP
The fight for women against hunger and malnutrition isn’t getting any easier.
Rising food prices and lower food assistance programs worldwide are causing the ability to help women and their families reach the lowest levels of output [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=73&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Nation’s Lowest Women Work Under Severe Degradation</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/05/12/a-nations-lowest-women-work-under-severe-degradation-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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- Manual Scavenging Girl, India &#8211; Matt Corks 2006 image -
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		<title>The Heavyweight Girls of Manipur</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Thingnam Anjulika Samom &#8211; Panos correspondent
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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Manipur Children eat kobok, a local sweet. Photo image &#8211; Ratan Luwangcha-Drik
When food is scarce in many parts of rural India, girls are fed less than their brothers. But in the north-eastern region it&#8217;s a different story.
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		<title>South African HIV Women Suffer Under Inequality</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/03/21/south-african-hiv-women-suffer-under-inequality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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- March 2008 Women News Network &#8211; WNN Report / Amnesty International
Violence and extreme poverty in rural South Africa place women at grave risk of becoming infected with HIV, according to a new report by Amnesty International. This undermines the ability of women who are HIV positive to seek and obtain treatment, thus worsening a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=67&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shelter of Camps in Zambia Not Enough for Refugee Congolese Child-Brides?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- by SALLY CHIWAMA in Mporokoso, Zambia with Lys Anzia &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN
Kapenda Buyamba was only a small six yr. old child during the early days of the bloody civil war in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1998. Today, Kapenda is only 16 years old, but she has already been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=66&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suffering Without A Nation – The Plight of Kurdish Women in the Diaspora</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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- Kurdish refugee camp in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf war -
(Jasper Young/Panos Pictures)
As the sufferings of Kurdish women increase today, acts of self-destruction increase dramatically. 
According to a recent (9 Feb, 2008) report by BBC news &#8211; Iraq, “This semi-autonomous area (in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=65&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caste difference contributes to violence against Dalit women &#8211; Central India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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- Because of their caste Dalit women, also known as Scheduled
Caste women, are often given very few equal rights or protections. -
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		<title>Nepal&#8217;s ASMITA Brings Women Powerful Advocacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Drea Knufken for WNN – Women News Network
It&#8217;s not often that you hear about a small group of female media activists playing a pivotal role in a country&#8217;s history. . .
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		<title>What Are Governments Doing to Prevent Domestic Violence? &#8211; Council of Europe Paves the Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- WNN &#8211; Women News Network editorial release
Keynote speech by Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
At the Council of Europe Conference on “Support Services for Women Victims of Violence”
Strasbourg, 6 December 2007

A week ago I visited a refuge in Cork, Ireland, for women who needed shelter against violence at home. Here women had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=61&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Nothing to Go Back To&#8221; &#8211; The Fate of the Widows of Vrindavan, India</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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- Widow of Vrindavan &#8211; photo image ©Tewfic El-Sawy, &#8220;White Shadows&#8221; -
“In many conservative Indian Hindu families, widows are shunned because they’re seen as bringing bad luck. Superstitious relatives even blame them for their husband’s death. The widow can become a liability with no social standing, an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=59&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Enduring Symbol of Peace During Recent Unrest in Myanmar &#8211; Humanitarian Daw Aung San Suu Kyi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Even after 18 years in and out of house arrest detention since 1989, and 12 years in prison, 62 year old Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, still has confidence and hope. In 1991, three years after her incarceration, Suu Kyi received the Nobel Prize in Peace &#8220;for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=57&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trafficking is A Long Standing Crime &#8211; US Troop Use of Japan&#8217;s Trafficked Women 1945</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2007/09/29/trqafficking-a-long-standing-crime-us-troop-use-of-japans-trafficked-women-1945/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Trafficking of women for forced sexual use is a long standing crime. The United States was also guilty of involvement in these acts immediately following World War II in Japan.
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		<title>&#8220;A Child in Danger is a Child that Cannot Wait&#8221; – Colombia and Child Prostitution in Today’s World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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   A CHILD IN DANGER
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           - Former UN Sec. General Kofi Annan -
 Colombia is a land of contrasts, as anyone who’s read Gabriel Garcia Marquez can attest. It is the largest country in South America, with a 2005 population of 45.6 million, and known for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=52&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Educate a Woman, You Educate a Nation” – South Africa Aims to Improve its Education for Girls</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2007/08/28/%e2%80%9ceducate-a-woman-you-educate-a-nation%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-south-africa-aims-to-improve-its-education-for-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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- Girls Attend School in South Africa 1980 –
“Educate a woman, you educate a nation,” said Deputy President, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka at the 4th annual Women’s Parliament Conference in Cape Town, Africa on Tuesday, 28 Aug. 2007, as she spoke out on the importance for girls education.
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		<title>A Life&#8217;s Worth of Living &#8211; Witnessing the Life of Foreign Correspondent, Dr. Ruth Gruber, in Her New Book &#8220;WITNESS&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Lys Anzia &#8211; WNN &#8211; Women News Network
As award winning foreign correspondent, Dr. Ruth Gruber, reaches her 96th year this year, her new and 19th book is out. The book, &#8220;WITNESS &#8211; One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story,&#8221; crosses decades as it speaks of humanity, crisis and rescue. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=50&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand&#8217;s Maori Women&#8217;s Welfare League: Working Toward Women’s Rights in Saving Maori Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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-Foundation members of Maori Women&#8217;s Welfare League 1950s-
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		<title>Tibetan Women&#8217;s Association and Human Rights China Ask for Greater Transparency in Chinese Country Reports</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2007/07/18/tibetan-womens-association-and-human-rights-china-ask-for-greater-transparency-in-chinese-country-reports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-Tibetan Nun Living in Exile in India-
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		<title>Italian Advocates Plan International Sit-Ins – CISDA Helps Urgent Situation for Malalai Joya</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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- Malalai Joya at home in Farah, photo image Marie Dorigny -
A group of women humanitarians is asking for help from the world on the one month anniversary of the parliamentary expulsion of Afghan parliamentarian, Malalai Joya.
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		<title>Men Who Oppose Violence Against Women Are Also Vital – White Ribbon Campaign has Global Reach for Father’s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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-Michael Kaufman, co-founder White Ribbon Campaign, UN General Assembly Special Session – Beijing +5, June 2000-
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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-Albanian family flees post war 1996 &#8211; photo Svetlana Bahchevanova-
&#8220;Put simply, how women fare in a society is an indicator of the direction that society is taking.&#8221; &#8211; Zainab Salbi.
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		<title>Honor Killings &#8211; A Worldwide Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 20:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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-May 2007 Demonstration Against Honor Killing, Kurdistan, Iraq-
- Lys Anzia &#8211; WNN &#8211; Women News Network
American social critic, Katha Pollit, is speaking out about the recent horrendous crime against a young 17 year old woman in Iraq in the coming, May 28, issue of “The Nation” magazine. The young woman was stoned to death.
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		<title>From Learning to Legislation &#8211; AFELL Empowers Liberia&#8217;s Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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-Liberia&#8217;s Courageous Women-
In 2003, fourteen years of civil war left Liberia in shambles. 175,000 civilians had died. Nearly a third of the population, or one million citizens, were displaced, and 300,000 had fled the country.
Women were involved on all sides of the war from combat to slavery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=35&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Peace Comes Into View &#8211; Women Strike Out For Greater Representation in Northern Ireland</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2007/04/07/as-peace-comes-into-view-women-strike-out-for-greater-representation-in-northern-ireland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8211; Northern Ireland&#8217;s Betty Williams, 1976 Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize &#8211;
Did you know that women make up the majority of the population in Northern Ireland?
That’s right. Fifty-one percent to be exact. But even with this edge on the male population in Northern Ireland, women are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=21&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Spontaneous Concern to Help Others &#8211; His Holiness the Dalai Lama Speaks to the Issues of Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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“I’m particularly moved by his belief that women are the caretakers and educators of our future citizens and society,” said Maria Shriver after a July 2006 personal meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala , India . Shriver had gone to ask personally if the Dalai [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=20&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feminist Dialogue Circles the Globe with Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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AMARC, the World Assoication of Community Radio Broadcasters is an international NGO for women working in the field of community radio. On January 17-19, 2007, AMARC will be participating in the third International Feminist Dialogues in Nairobi, Kenya. AMARC currently has 110 member countries and almost 3,000 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=19&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Want Every Home to Be a Zone of Peace</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2006/09/21/we-want-every-home-to-be-a-zone-of-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Muslim family returns home after the war &#8211; Kosovo, 1999 &#8211; photo credit &#8211; Svetlana Bahchevanova
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When Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold says, &#8220;We want every home to be a zone of peace. We want all forms of violence to cease,&#8221; she means it.
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		<title>Endless Work for a Peaceful World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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