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Russia: Small child raped & strangled on heavily militarized Kamchatka Peninsula
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865 |
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Pornography: A culture centred around the sexual abuse & torture of females and ..
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1524 |
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US: Inertia at the top grows military violence against women on the battlefield & on return home
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570 |
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Iraq: Post-Bush Jnr's invasion & occupation, a new Taliban controls the lives of women
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1041 |
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Australia: Bad Dreaming - Aboriginal Men's Violence Against Women and Children
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695 |
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Iran: Growing aggression of security forces, "even as women's actions become more peaceful"
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759 |
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Afghanistan: Bush Jnr's "liberation" leaves 50,000 widows begging for a crust in Kabul
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831 |
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Plan International: One hundred million girls are missing, millions more face life of discrimination
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546 |
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Iraq: Partly due to US & British liberation & rights rhetoric, women pushed back into their homes
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531 |
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Australia: PM Howard's underhand misogyny exposed
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511 |
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Gorno: Mainstream "torture porn" films which reek of violence against women
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3559 |
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South Africa: 150 children, the overwhelming majority female, raped by men each day
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1442 |
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UK: Inquest into death of RAF servicewoman told of psychological bullying & sexual harassment
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535 |
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Zimbabwe: Women pro-democracy protesters, most mothers, stripped, jailed naked
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960 |
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Guatemala: Open season to murder women & girls. More than 2,600 slain since 2001
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748 |
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World Bank: Managing director purges family planning increasing women's risk of AIDS in Madagascar
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844 |
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Saudi Arabia: Without a male escort, women ineligible for study scholarships abroad
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1582 |
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US: Don Imus not alone in broadcast misogyny, nor in the language of ho's
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580 |
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US: Don Imus's villification of Rutgers basketball team an affront to all Afro-American women
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563 |
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Australia: Virgin Blue Airlines guilty of ageism against women recruits
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759 |
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India: Female foeticide an organized crime & the ultrasound machine the instrument of murder
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654 |
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South Asia: Women tsunami victims continue to face violence and poverty in relief camps
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498 |
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India: Hundreds of women annually slain or disfigured when scapegoated as witches for "misfortune",
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579 |
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Iraq: US Military fails to protect women soldiers from sexual assault by male comrades
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1692 |
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New Delhi Women Writers' Colloquium: Taslima's thoughts on gender-based fundamentalisms
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446 |
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Iraq: US servicewomen exposed to historic levels of male colleague and battlefield violence
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682 |
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Afghanistan: Increasing women's self-immolation to escape domestic abuse, forced marriage, etc. etc.
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451 |
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Afghanistan: Gender equality aligning with the imperialist occupation proving a failed strategy
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449 |
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UN CSW: Teenage girls bear witness to rape, trafficking, prostitution, child labour & AIDS
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479 |
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New Delhi Women Writers' Colloquium: Women empowered by struggle for space & intellectual freedom
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489 |
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India: Uttar Pradesh's marriage market & links to female foeticide & crisis in weaving industry
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695 |
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India: Female foeticide, infanticide & abandonment destroying country's entire social fabric
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1227 |
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Iraq: US Sgt. Daniel Edwards Franklin demoted to private for sexual assault of 19 yr old female G.I.
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191 |
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India: Birth of not a solitary girl child sees "All Boys" school in Hassan village of Karnataka
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787 |
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US: Mere 12 years behind bars for Texan offering $10,000 & Rolex watch to have wife killed
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1487 |
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India: Despite "economically shining", maternal mortality rate an international disgrace
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1255 |
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Afghanistan: For most women the burqa is the least of their problems
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545 |
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Pakistan: Post Women's Protection Bill, 38 women murdered in Sindh, 17 slain in the name of honour
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812 |
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Russia: Remains of 30 or more girls & women abducted into prostitution found in the Urals
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1153 |
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Rape-tolerant society: Leaves men who rape confident they can get away with it
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480 |
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UK: So easy for men to escape conviction, rape might as well be legal!
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480 |
