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		<title>Zimbabwe land reform leaves women farmers far behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tania Ghosh for Women News Network &#8211; WNN Zimbabwean women are denied access to land under African the government&#8217;s land reform programme, a new report has found. According to the report, women make up 51 per cent of the population and yet there has been little mention of women, if at all, during the two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=3200&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nora Shourd and Iran Mothers of Prisoners of Conscience</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/08/10/norashourd-iranmoms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elahe Amani with Lys Anzia – Women News Network &#8211; WNN “We are no different than one another.” TEHRAN: Outside the prison walls of ward 350, in the IRI – Islamic Republic of Iran’s Evin Prison, a group of brave demonstrators hold placards and pictures of their loved ones who are part of a hunger [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=3013&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KENYA: Climate Change Water Crisis Impacts Hospital Maternal Care</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/07/13/kenyamaternalh2o/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya correspondent Gitonga Njeru for Women News Network &#8211; WNN Kakamega, Kenya: At the Kakamega Provincial District General Hospital, located in Western Kenya, access to adequate and clean water still remains a pipe dream. Even though the need is critical the hospital, which works with maternity medicine and birthing procedures for women, still lacks an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=2937&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Global Profit Outrank Human Rights – Women’s Rights?</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/06/29/globalprofitrights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARIA H. LEWYTZKYJ for Women News Network &#8211; WNN Editor &#8211; Katherine Rea In part three of a ground breaking interview, Monterey Institute of International Studies MA graduate, U.S. born Ukrainian, Maria Lewytzkyj, continues a fascinating discussion with U.S. foreign policy expert, Jan Knippers Black on how transnational and corporate profits can cause human rights [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=2906&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sifting through Politics in Human Rights – Women’s Rights</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/06/18/sifting-through-politics-in-human-rights-womens-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/06/18/sifting-through-politics-in-human-rights-womens-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARIA H. LEWYTZKYJ for Women News Network &#8211; WNN Editor &#8211; Katherine Rea In part two of a ground breaking interview, Monterey Institute of International Studies MA graduate, U.S. born Ukrainian, Maria Lewytzkyj, talks with U.S. foreign policy expert, Jan Knippers Black about her latest book, “The Politics of Human Rights Protection – Moving Intervention Upstream [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=2824&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Protection – Moving Human Rights Protection Upstream – Part 1</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/06/08/humanrightspolitics1-896/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maria Lewytzkyj for Women News Network &#8211; WNN Editor &#8211; Katherine Rea In a ground breaking interview, Monterey Institute of International Studies MA graduate, U.S. born Ukrainian, Maria Lewytzkyj, talks with U.S. foreign policy expert, Jan Knippers Black about her latest book, “The Politics of Human Rights Protection – Moving Intervention Upstream with Impact Assessment.” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=2753&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flexible learning helps girls education in Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/05/12/bangladeshgirls893/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 22:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AASHA MEHREEN AMIN in Bangladesh &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN In partnership with Panos London Illuminated Voices New innovative flexible learning centres are helping girls stay in school Dhaka: In Bangladesh, family poverty and poor quality state education forces millions of children out of primary school. Girls in particular lose out as they are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=2650&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KENYA: Climate Change, Poverty and Tourists put Maasai Daughters at Risk</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/04/16/kenya-climatechange-trafficking-892/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rise in human trafficking points to more than one cause Kenyan correspondent Charles Njeru – Women News Network – WNN   Nairobi: Lack of adequate education, extreme poverty and the encroaching fallout of climate change is now forcing Masaai parents in the Mar region of Kenya, Africa to ‘sell off’ their young underage daughters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=2527&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India: Protective Laws Fall Short for Women Charged with Witchcraft</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/03/21/witchcraft-india-89/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Correspondent, Shuriah Niazi &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN Chhattisgarh, India: Mita Bai, 34, will never forget the morning of May 6, 2005. It was 8 a.m. in the morning when a group of three men and six women came to her house with their allegations, branding her as, “a witch.” As an attack against her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=2417&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Women Rights Defenders Continue Undeterred by Prison Detention</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/03/03/iranprisonwomen891/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELAHE AMANI &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN Today on a daily basis, personal memoirs of ongoing encounters of government crackdown and resistance in Iran are being written in print and in cyberspace by countless Iranian civil rights activists, scholars and women human rights defenders. In the process of finding a new transitional global identity, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=2355&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti womens micro-lending bank brings big cash to rescue</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/02/01/haiti-microbank-890/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Able to quickly reach a well-developed network of women throughout the country, an alternative banking system performs while the Haitian economy is in shambles Peggy Simpson – Women News Network &#8211; WNN in partnership with the WMC – Women’s Media Center A micro-credit program and banking system for more than 200,000 women in Haiti has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=2166&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women farmers key to Liberia climate change debate</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/01/21/women-farmers-88/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PATRICK K. WROKPOH in Liberia &#8211; Women News Network – WNN In partnership with Panos London Illuminating Voices. Monrovia: On the outskirts of Monrovia, the Liberian capital, in the town of Jah Tondo, I recently saw for myself the real impact of climate change in a tropical developing country. Jah Tondo is in the lower [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=2137&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the big deal about gender? – Female Identity as Intersex</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/01/05/femidentity888/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WNN India Correspondent, NILANJANA BHOWMICK Women News Network &#8211; WNN The changing navigation of female identity A U.N. report by Finnish international law professor and United Nations Special Rapporteur, Martin Scheinin, says, “gender is not synonymous with women, and, instead, encompasses the social constructions that underlie how women’s and men’s roles, functions and responsibilities, including in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=2057&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US troops increase as local hero says no – Afghanistan’s Malalai Joya</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/12/01/joya-810/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cairo correspondent Joseph Mayton for Women News Network – WNN Her name doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. But what makes Malalai Joya who she is has nothing to do with her name. It is the fact that the former Afghanistan Member of Parliament is not shy about speaking her mind. It has run her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1926&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEPAL: New computer learning brings girls empowerment and education</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/11/09/nepalgirlseducate820/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PUNITA RIMAL / Asia Pacific correspondent - Women News Network - WNN KATHMANDU: Nepal has always been classed as a developing country. In the U.S. it is often called a “third world” country. And it may well remain that way unless Nepal can break out of the vicious cycle of exploiting its people, particularly its women. One strategy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1851&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Mourning Mothers Iran’ Stand with Activist Mothers Worldwide</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/10/08/mourning-mothers-iran-stand-with-activist-mothers-worldwide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1765&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Africa Climate Change Threatens Life and Health of Maasai Women</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/09/14/africa-climate-change-threatens-life-and-health-of-maasai-women/</link>
		<comments>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/09/14/africa-climate-change-threatens-life-and-health-of-maasai-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ebby Nanzala Wamatsi – Women News Network &#8211; WNN 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. Day in and day out from the months of March through to June, grey and white clouds float across the blue skies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1708&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acid Crime Survival Zambia</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/08/19/zambiaacid815/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women face extreme violence from acid Correspondent SALLY CHIWAMA – Women News Network &#8211; WNN 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. &#8220;I didn’t realize that the tongue skin was also peeling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1615&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anti Mail-Order Bride Law Philippines Doesn’t Limit Human Trafficking</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/07/29/filipinatrafficking814/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- IRIN &#8211; Humanitarian News and Analysis for WOMEN NEWS NETWORK 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. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1524&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Nepal women ‘untouchables’ outlive tired caste systems?</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/07/17/nwu813/</link>
		<comments>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/07/17/nwu813/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1422&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global politics of ‘pretty’ women bends coverage of Iran’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>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors campaign for safe abortion in Zambia</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/06/12/doctors-campaign-for-safe-abortion-in-zambia/</link>
		<comments>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/06/12/doctors-campaign-for-safe-abortion-in-zambia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1320&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="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>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1224&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt’s Spinsters Fight Against Society Stereotypes</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/04/03/egypt%e2%80%99s-spinsters-fight-against-society-stereotypes/</link>
		<comments>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/04/03/egypt%e2%80%99s-spinsters-fight-against-society-stereotypes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=1113&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Victory of Iranian Women 30 Years After</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/02/25/moral-victory-of-iranian-women-30-years-after/</link>
		<comments>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/02/25/moral-victory-of-iranian-women-30-years-after/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=973&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Girl Soldiers – The cost of survival in Northern Uganda</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/01/13/ugandagirlsoldier809/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=877&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Daughters – An ongoing tragedy in Nepal</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/12/05/lostdaughternepal808/</link>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=706&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>60 percent of women harassed on daily basis – Cairo</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/10/09/womenharassedcairo807/</link>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=590&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="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>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=513&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women’s Prisons – A Global State of Crisis</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/09/09/prisoncrisiswomen8005/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=391&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When a Girl Student Stands Up and Wins</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/08/11/rapecasezambia-articl804/</link>
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		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SALLY CHIWAMA, Zambia correspondent &#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" width="1" height="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 Image: Rik Panganiban &#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; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=164&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="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>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=79&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="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>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lys Anzia &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=73&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="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>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shuriah Niazi with Lys Anzia &#8211; Women News Network &#8211; WNN - Manual Scavenging Girl, India &#8211; Matt Corks 2006 image - “In some urban slums of many major cities of India, and more so in the case of semi-urban areas, dry toilets are a sad part of the common reality,” said Dr. Sam [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=71&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Heavyweight Girls of Manipur</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/04/15/the-heavyweight-girls-of-manipur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Thingnam Anjulika Samom &#8211; Panos correspondent Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Women News Network &#8211; WNN 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. Tucked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=69&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/03/21/south-african-hiv-women-suffer-under-inequality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=67&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shelter of Camps in Zambia Not Enough for Refugee Congolese Child-Brides?</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/03/12/shelter-of-camps-in-zambia-not-enough-for-refugee-congolese-child-brides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lys Anzia</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=66&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suffering Without A Nation – The Plight of Kurdish Women in the Diaspora</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/02/14/suffering-without-a-nation-%e2%80%93-the-plight-of-kurdish-women-in-the-diaspora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Lys Anzia – Women News Network &#8211; WNN - 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=65&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caste difference contributes to violence against Dalit women – Central India</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/01/27/caste-difference-contributes-to-violence-against-women-central-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shuriah Niazi - Women News Network &#8211; WNN - Because of their caste Dalit women, also known as Scheduled Caste women, are often given very few equal rights or protections. - Nineteen-year-old Anita, of Raisen district in Madhya Pradesh in Central India was raped by a group of males, on February 9, 2007, when she was returning home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=63&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nepal’s ASMITA Brings Women Powerful Advocacy</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/01/10/nepals-asmita-brings-women-powerful-advocacy/</link>
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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. . . In Nepal, a group that goes by the name ASMITA — which means literally, “dignity” and “identity”— has, for the past 19 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=60&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Are Governments Doing to Prevent Domestic Violence? – 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=61&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Nothing to Go Back To” – The Fate of the Widows of Vrindavan, India</title>
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		<title>An Enduring Symbol of Peace During Recent Unrest in Myanmar – 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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		<description><![CDATA[- Lys Anzia &#8211; WNN &#8211; Women News Network 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=57&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trafficking is A Long Standing Crime – US Troop Use of Japan’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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		<description><![CDATA[- Lys Anzia &#8211; WNN &#8211; Women News Network 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. According to an April 25, 2007 Associated Press article about US involvement with Japanese brothels in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womennewsnetwork.net&blog=604425&post=56&subd=womennewsnetwork&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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