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When a Girl Student Stands Up and Wins
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:06:23 +0000
Sally Chiwama, Zambia correspondent - Women News Network - WNN
Fighting teacher-student rape in Zambia
A sex-safety school poster for students in Lusaka, Zambia. Image: Joshua Treviño
Lusaka, Zambia - 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 student was calculatingly [...]
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Do Signature Campaign Activists Belong on Trial?
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:43:19 +0000
Campaign for Women Rights - Iran
Attorney, Shirin Ebadi, speaks at WSIS - World Summit of Information Society summit 2005
Image: Rik Panganiban
“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,” said humanitarian defender, Human [...]
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No Dignity, no Justice
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:32:54 +0000
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 [...]
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Harvesting a Field of Their Own ?Woman?s Right to Food in the Global Food Crisis
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:56:25 +0000
Lys Anzia - Women News Network - WNN
World Food Programme delivers food to Haitian women - 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 [...]
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A Nation?s Lowest Women Work Under Severe Degradation
Mon, 12 May 2008 21:00:23 +0000
By Shuriah Niazi with Lys Anzia - Women News Network - WNN
- Manual Scavenging Girl, India - 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 Paul, National [...]
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The Heavyweight Girls of Manipur
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:07:29 +0000
by Thingnam Anjulika Samom - Panos correspondent
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Women News Network - WNN
Manipur Children eat kobok, a local sweet. Photo image - 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’s a different story.
Tucked away near the Himalayas in [...]
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South African HIV Women Suffer Under Inequality
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:30:58 +0000
- March 2008 Women News Network - 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 [...]
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Shelter of Camps in Zambia Not Enough for Refugee Congolese Child-Brides?
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:23:41 +0000
- by Sally Chiwama in Mporokoso, Zambia — with Lys Anzia of 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 married for three [...]
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Suffering Without A Nation ? The Plight of Kurdish Women in the Diaspora
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:02:46 +0000
- Lys Anzia ? Women News Network - 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 - Iraq, ?This semi-autonomous area (in [...]
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Caste difference contributes to violence against Dalit women - Central India
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:26:44 +0000
Shuriah Niazi - Women News Network - 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 after working in [...]
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