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This video and report are from 2004. Coming soon will be an update to this topic. –Kathy
FRONTLINE/World . Video | PBS
In the heart of Mumbai, India [also known as Bombay] lies Kamathipura, one of the country’s poorest districts and also its largest red light district, home to more than 60,000 sex workers. In the spring [...]
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Cell phone statistics reported by Jason Griffey, July 12, 2009, and posted on The Shifted Librarian
numbers (because this arena is very important for us)
4,100,000,000 number of mobile phone subscriptions in the world
over 60% of the people on earth have a mobile phone subscription service
in 50 different countries around the world, the number of cellphones per [...]
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August 26 is Equality Day, thanks to Rep. Bella Abzug and first celebrated in 1971.
From the National Archives, follow the documents that brought women the right to vote in 1920.
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
The Documents
A Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution
December 7, 1868
Petition to Congress
December 1871
Memorial to Congress from [...]
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American Nuns Under the Vatican Microscope | Religion & Theology | ReligionDispatches
The Vatican is investigating US Women religious, concerned that nuns are not in line on issues like same-sex love, women’s priestly ministry, and interreligious dialogue. But this time they’ve gone too far.
The Vatican is up to its old tricks, investigating US women religious. Its [...]
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Friday, November 6, 2009
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
Registration is free of charge and open to the public.
The Feminist Pedagogy Conference is a venue for conversation between scholars and activists across disciplines around the present state of feminist pedagogy and work on gender, both within [...]
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HAITI: Women “More Protected” to Report Sexual Violence – IPS ipsnews.net
Port-au-Prince, Jul 22 (IPS) – It has been five years since the U.N. sent peacekeepers to Haiti following the forced departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the country, while not in a state of war, remains one of the world’s most unstable.
Kidnappings, criminal violence, [...]
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