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Showing posts with label women's issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's issues. Show all posts
Mar 16, 2010

Afghan women fear loss of hard-won progress

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Image via Wikipedia By Karin Brulliard Tuesday, March 16, 2010; A01 LAGHMAN, AFGHANISTAN -- The head-to-toe burqas that made women a ...
Mar 1, 2010

With pressures high, South Korean women put off marriage and childbirth

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By Blaine Harden Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, March 1, 2010; A10 SEOUL -- In a full-page newspaper advertisement headlined ...
Nov 3, 2009

Keeping Focus on Fighting Genital Mutilation - Nation

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Image via Wikipedia For a couple of decades, a small, underfunded nonprofit organization in New York called Equality Now has bolstered com...
Nov 2, 2009

The Chosun Ilbo - Korea Lags Behind in Closing Gender Gap

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Image via Wikipedia Many countries are making great strides toward gender equality , but women still lag behind men in political and economi...
Oct 23, 2009

Remember the Women of Aghanistan? - Nation

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Women are made for homes or graves. -- Afghan saying Gen. Stanley McChrystal says he needs more American troops to salvage someth...
Aug 18, 2009

Hillary Clinton Signals That She Intends to Make Women's Rights a Signature Issue

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By Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 18, 2009 She talked chickens with female farmers in Kenya. She liste...
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