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Ghana: Churches Sensitized to Respond to Sexual And Gender Based Violence

Publisher: 
All Africa.com
Author: 
Ama Achiaa Amankwah
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
Harmful attitudes towards women are reinforced by certain religious beliefs. Some religious and other community leaders exhort women to stand by their husbands under all circumstances, whereas at the same time they fail to take a clear stand against domestic violent acts such as wife battery and marital rape.

World Rural Women Day: Women Urged To Seek Independence Through Education

Publisher: 
Daily Times
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
Punjab Assembly Member Fouzia Behram on Wednesday emphasised that rural women must get education to change their destiny.

Speaking at the first national conference on World Rural Women Day organised by civil society organisations here, she said without education rural women would be further pushed into poverty, exclusion and suffering by the patriarchal society.

Hundred of rural women converged on Islamabad in a historic gathering to share their experiences and highlight their issues in a bid to create awareness among the masses that despite their handsome contribution to the country's economic and social development, they were denied their basic rights and excluded from the decision-making processes.
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