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Rebecca Murray , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
TYRE, Lebanon, Aug 8 (IPS) - "Mine action is a male dominated sector, but it doesn't have to be," declares Christina Bennike, the dynamic head of Danish charity Dan Church Aid (DCA) in south Lebanon. "I really felt it would be important to address this from the beginning, then it would...
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Aug 08, 2007
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Tracy Idell Hamilton info@pushjournal.org, The Push Journal
As the City Council puts together its 2007-08 budget, advocates told council members Wednesday that programs bolstering the education and health of women and girls will strengthen the city overall. ...
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Aug 08, 2007
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Source: Reuters By Rupam Jain Nair AHMEDABAD, India, Aug 7 (Reuters) - The horrors of one of India's worst religious riots have come alive in a new film that focuses on the atrocities through the eyes of a pregnant ...
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Aug 07, 2007
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Source: Reuters By Clarence Fernandez LANGKAWI, Malaysia, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Zambia appealed on Tuesday for all nations to contribute troops for a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, saying ...
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Aug 07, 2007
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Source: IRIN Untold numbers of women have become victims of sexual violence at the hands of rebel and government forces in Cote d'Ivoire, according to human rights organisations. Estelle Kouakou, 21, is one such woman who told her story to IRIN:...
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Aug 07, 2007
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Thalif Deen , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2 (IPS) - When the United Nations concluded a two-day debate Thursday on the potential devastation from climate change, it covered a lot of territory: deforestation, desertification, greenhouse gases, renewable energy sources, biofuels and sustainable development....
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Aug 07, 2007
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Source: Reuters KAMPALA, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Women who give birth to premature babies in poor rural Uganda should use charcoal stoves to keep them warm if no incubator is available, the government has said. Premature ...
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Aug 07, 2007
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Source: Reuters SOFIA, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Five people drowned and another five were missing after heavy rain caused severe flooding in northern Bulgaria, civil defence officials said on Tuesday. Four elderly people ...
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Aug 07, 2007
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Kintto Lucas , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
QUITO, Aug 7 (IPS) - Legislation in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean has not succeeded in ending discrimination against women in political and public life, say participants at the 10th Regional Conference on Women being held in the Ecuadorean capital....
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Aug 07, 2007
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LA PAZ, Aug 6 (IPS) - The role of self-sacrificing wife and mother who stays at home is no longer the main goal of many Bolivian women....
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