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Mercedes Sayagues , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
VICTORIA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Annette* is a small, lively woman in her early sixties. Married to an abusive husband -- who once threw boiling water on her, landing her in hospital -- she was not repeating the story with her alcoholic and drug-addicted son. Just as her husband was growing...
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Jul 03, 2008
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Thalif Deen , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 2 (IPS) - When the United Nations Security Council adopted a key resolution last month critical of violence against women, the condemnation was also directed at the increasing number of peacekeepers, mostly soldiers, expelled from U.N. missions on charges of rape or sexual abuse....
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Jul 02, 2008
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Ephraim Nsingo , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
HARARE, Jun 28 (IPS) - "We are too familiar with the violence that was meted upon numerous of us from 1890 when the colonialists came into our country right up to the most recent elections. Chief among these forms of violence is sexual violence, and it concomitant implication, HIV infection. Zimbabwean...
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Jun 28, 2008
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Pilirani Semu-Banda , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
LILONGWE, Jun 27 (IPS) - Gladys Mawera's face is contorted with pain – both she and her newborn baby survived a complicated birth three days ago, but she has not been able to take the painkillers and antibiotics prescribed to her by the medical personnel at the Chiradzulu District Hospital in...
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Jun 27, 2008
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Interview with Sofía Montenegro of the Nicaraguan Autonomous Women’s Movement , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
MONTEVIDEO, Jun 27 (IPS) - The action taken on abortion by the governing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in Nicaragua is "a betrayal" of women, who were "key allies" of the 1979 revolution. Therefore there has been a "radicalisation of the women’s movement," which is declaring itself in opposition, activist Sofía...
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Jun 27, 2008
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Francis Kokutse , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
ACCRA, Jun 25 (IPS) - Agbogbloshie Market is a vibrant market in the heart of Accra, Ghana's capital, where one can buy almost anything. But the market is also the stage for a sad tale of many who gain nothing from the commercial bustle: Hundreds of young girls from the northern...
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Jun 25, 2008
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David Cronin , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
BRUSSELS, Jun 25 (IPS) - Foreign aid budgets administered by the European Union's most recent entrants do not pay sufficient heed to the needs of women in poor countries, a series of new studies has found....
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Jun 25, 2008
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Interview with Loughty Dube, Chair of the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Zimbabwe , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
BULAWAYO, Jun 17 (IPS) - For activists campaigning to put more women into Africa's parliaments, the media has become a key battleground. All too often, female candidates are sidelined in election coverage, or reported on in a way that entrenches stereotypes of women rather than analysing the strength of their political...
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Jun 24, 2008
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Haider Rizvi , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 23 (IPS) - Millions of women in many parts of the world are facing discrimination and abuse simply because they happen to be either widows or divorced, according to a new report released by a U.S.-based independent research organisation....
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Jun 24, 2008
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Mallika Aryal , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
KATHMANDU, Jun 24 (IPS) - Representatives from the Madhesis, Janajatis, Dalits and other indigenous groups were present when Nepal’s newly elected constituent assembly sat for its very first meeting late last month, and 191 of the 601-member assembly were women....
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