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Pakistan: Warm reception for Dr Tahira S. Khan, author of "Beyond Honour"
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521 |
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Maternal mortality: 529,000 deaths annually, the burden greatest in sub-Saharan Africa & South Asia
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7855 |
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Obstetric fistula: Increasing to 30,000–130,000 cases annually in Africa alone;
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1961 |
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Natasha Walter: Feminist activism to overcome the under-representation of women in the film industry
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743 |
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Scotland: Sex industry undergoing sinister change - men preferring foreign underage prostitutes
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1778 |
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US: The brutal world of teenage prostitution in Toledo, Ohio
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2102 |
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US: Antiwar activists & women's organizations rally behind accused army deserter Suzanne Swift
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657 |
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Afghanistan: Weak judiciary, lack of law enforcement & misogyny fuel rise in honour killings
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755 |
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Women compelled to leave their homes & countries open to new & old forms of violence & exploitation
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643 |
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Pakistan: Protection of Women (Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill cast aside [in tatters]
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627 |
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Sex Tourism: The client royalty. The Other, most often female, a sexual slave
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850 |
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Guatemala: 2,200 women murdered since 2001
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651 |
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Germany: Peril for lawyers, writers, social workers, teachers, standing up for Muslim women's rights
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642 |
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Pakistan: Musharraf's proposed Amended Hudood Ordinance Act disintergrates
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776 |
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UNFPA State of World Population 2006
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1090 |
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India: Hospital evicts pregnant HIV-positive woman with "pills" to perform self-abortion
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610 |
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Lucinda Marshall: How the Media Exploits Sexual Crimes
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682 |
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Equal Rites Awards 2006: Bush Jnr wins "The Man-Handling Prize"
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665 |
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Karnataka, India: High Court rules acid attack is attempted murder, hands down life sentence
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695 |
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Lucinda Marshall: Women Speaking Out about the Violence in the Middle East
|
738 |
|
Kalpana Sharma: Saluting South Africa's women for their achievements
|
593 |
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China: Part 2 Family size, fertility preferences, & sex ratio in the one child family policy era
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548 |
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China: Part 1 Family size, fertility preferences, & sex ratio in the one child family policy era
|
764 |
|
China: A policy that changed the world, but at what price for women?
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620 |
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Pakistan: Musharraf backtracks on "Repeal of Hudood Ordinances". Settles for "Amendment"!
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674 |
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W. Virginia: Ortho-McNeil price hike puts contraceptives beyond reach of low income & student women
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656 |
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Lucinda Marshall: The truth that must be spoken and we dare not be silent
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613 |
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Turkey: Village girls taken from school at 13 to "preserve" for marriage at 14 or 15
|
622 |
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South Africa: Women march in Pretoria to protest against domestic violence & child abuse
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871 |
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Martin J Walker: HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim
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2259 |
