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Sexism Against Conservative Women Is Still Sexism

Published date: 
11 Jun 2009

Amy Siskind, the president of The New Agenda says feminists in the United States remain silent when conservative women are attacked. 

Parents Sell Girls As Child Brides

Published date: 
30 May 2009
Girls as young as 14 are being forced into marriages under the under the costum of "ukuthwala".

Commentary: War On Women In Congo

Published date: 
18 May 2009

Eve Ensler the playwright of "The Vagina Monologues" and the founder of V-Day wrote this commentary based on her remarks to the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommitte on Internation Operations and Organisations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women's Issues.

 

RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: Women Call for Truth, Justice and Reconciliation

Published date: 
13 May 2009
Women's rights groups have urged the establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission in Zimbabwe as part of bringing to justice people who committed human rights violations - including sexual abuse against women - during the run-up to a second-round presidential vote in June 2008.

Rape Now Being Prosecuted As Weapon Of War

Published date: 
11 May 2009
Local and national women's organizations In Colombia say there are thousands of cases of sexual violence - by right-wing paramilitaries and leftist guerrillas - that go unreported by women too afraid to talk. But now, the groups are campaigning to make women aware of their rights as victims and to push prosecutors to question paramilitaries about sexual violence.

Judge Says Ok For Men To Beat Wives

Published date: 
11 May 2009

A Saudi judge told a conference on domestic violence that a man has the right to slap a wife who spends money wastefully and said women were as much to blame as men for increased spousal abuse, a Saudi newspaper reported.

RIGHTS: Against Sexual Violence: Solidarity Among African Women

Published date: 
2 May 2009
Increased cases of rape and sexual abuse of women and girls is closely associated with armed conflict and its aftermath in Africa.

Former Child Soldiers, Sex Slaves Recover From Liberia’s War

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Fri, 17/04/2009 - 10:15
Publisher: 
World Focus
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http://worldfocus.org/
Published Date: 
2009
Abstract: 
This video shows survivors of the bloody civil war that spanned 14 years in the signature series Liberia's Long Road Back.
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Former Child Soldiers, Sex Slaves Recover From Liberia’s War

'Women Are Not Equals in Our Society'

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Wed, 15/04/2009 - 09:51
Publisher: 
IPS
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http://www.ipsnews.net/
Author: 
Mel Frykberg
Published Date: 
2009
Abstract: 
As a man in a patriarchal society, an outspoken advocate of women's rights and a harsh critic of the way Palestinian women are treated, Mashoor Basissy, MOWA's director in the West Bank, brings a fresh male perspective to the growing problem of domestic violence against Palestinian women.
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'Women Are Not Equals in Our Society'

Life in Jail For Rapist Teacher

Published date: 
14 Apr 2009
A 51-year-old Limpopo teacher has been jailed for life for raping a pupil inside a classroom in Makhado in November 2007.
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