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After Victory, Groups Seize Moment to Move Agenda
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Midwife School in Mexico Finds Itself in Vanguard
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U.N. Puts Female Peacekeepers on Display
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U.N. to Japan, Switzerland: Improve Rights Record
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U.N. Tackles Universal Problem for Women: Divorce
UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)–Guardians of the U.N.’s treaty on women’s rights have begun to address one of the most daunting challenges for women the world over: financially surviving divorce.Setting...
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Banishing Bedbugs Means Scouring Memory Lane
NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)–On my way to visit my sister overnight, I walked into the grocery store carrying two jumbo-sized, clear plastic bags of possessions and asked the cashier, "Where are the...
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Photos of Congo Sex Abuse Travel the U.S.
UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)–Last summer, news in the United States that Jaycee Dugard had been kept in captivity in Antioch, Calif., for 18 years and raped by her captor until her Aug. 28 rescue was...
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Trafficking Victims at U.N. Highlight Need for Recognition
UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)–The U.N. has held hearings and sessions on human trafficking many times before, where professional advocates and police authorities have offered evidence. But an Oct. 22...
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Professor Urges More Translations to Arabic
UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)–When Muna AbuSulayman started reviewing term papers from her college students that cited inadequately informed newspaper articles instead of professional journals and other...
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‘Vagisil’ Military Award Led to Journalism Kudos
(WOMENSENEWS) — It started with the "Vagisil Award" in which a foam tiara decorated with military fatigue cloth and the label of an anti-itch vaginal ointment was placed on the head of a lower-ranking...
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After Victory, Groups Seize Moment to Move Agenda
(WOMENSENEWS)–Even as jubilation among Democratic voters was still erupting after Sen. Barack Obama’s historic presidential victory, women’s groups began looking ahead to what comes next and how to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Midwife School in Mexico Finds Itself in Vanguard
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Mexico (WOMENSENEWS)–As the United Nations puts new emphasis on midwifery as a way of combating maternal and child mortality, a small school in Mexico’s central highlands could...
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U.N. Puts Female Peacekeepers on Display
UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)–They are squatting down to speak to children, interviewing rape victims with concern in their eyes, wielding guns or a stethoscope with equal ease.These are the faces and...
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U.N. to Japan, Switzerland: Improve Rights Record
UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)–It was all very low-key and cordial, but the questioners at Japan’s women’s rights review session here didn’t mince words. “You have many highly capable women. Too little...
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U.N. Tackles Universal Problem for Women: Divorce
UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)–Guardians of the U.N.’s treaty on women’s rights have begun to address one of the most daunting challenges for women the world over: financially surviving divorce.Setting...
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Banishing Bedbugs Means Scouring Memory Lane
NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)–On my way to visit my sister overnight, I walked into the grocery store carrying two jumbo-sized, clear plastic bags of possessions and asked the cashier, "Where are the...
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Photos of Congo Sex Abuse Travel the U.S.
UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)–Last summer, news in the United States that Jaycee Dugard had been kept in captivity in Antioch, Calif., for 18 years and raped by her captor until her Aug. 28 rescue was...
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Trafficking Victims at U.N. Highlight Need for Recognition
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Professor Urges More Translations to Arabic
UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)–When Muna AbuSulayman started reviewing term papers from her college students that cited inadequately informed newspaper articles instead of professional journals and other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Vagisil’ Military Award Led to Journalism Kudos
(WOMENSENEWS) — It started with the "Vagisil Award" in which a foam tiara decorated with military fatigue cloth and the label of an anti-itch vaginal ointment was placed on the head of a lower-ranking...
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