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Vital Voices Blog » Study Reveals 10,000 Women Sex-Trafficked Every Year in Mexico.
In a study presented on July 20 in Monterrey, Mexico, data revealed that approximately 10,000 women are trafficked for sexual exploitation annually from southern and central Mexico into northern Mexico. The Latin American Herald Tribune reports that the study found that women were [...]
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Population Reference Bureau PRB Discuss.
Chat online with Leela Visaria, researcher and president of the Asian Population Association, on the Asian countries imbalance of genders and the implications for the future. June 11, 2009, 1 pm EDT.
India, along with China and several other countries, has a history of neglect for girls and women that produced lower [...]
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IntLawGrrls: Ebadi on the death penalty
We have been observing a constant deterioration of the human rights situation since 2005. In 2008, for example, we saw that there had been a 300% increase in executions in the prior 3 years! Speaking proportionally, Iran has surpassed even China: there were 355 executions in Iran, a country of [...]
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http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/05/13/us-act-prevent-rape-war
Today there’s a hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee co-sponored by Barbara Boxer and Russ Feingold to agree to put pressure on the United Nations to ACT not simply report on rape in war
Sexual violence against women and girls has been a horrifying characteristic of all recent armed conflicts and many post-conflict situations. Human [...]
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Freedom House has been in existence since 1941. They looks at many aspects of freedom around the globe. This study of Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA) is set to be completed by fall of 2009. Statistics so far are very telling.
“It is vital that MENA countries more urgently recognize [...]
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Let women be Enlightened
Helen Irving
April 24, 2009
The assassination of a leading Afghan women’s rights activist, Sitara Achakzai, this month was yet another tragic reminder that equality between the sexes is far from accepted in the world today. Achakzai, who spent the years of Taliban rule in exile in Europe, returned to her country five years [...]
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Instead of gifts, you may want to donate money in honor of a dear friend or relative. There are so many organizations out there it is important to make a wise choice. Looking for effective use of the funds they receive, their administrative expenses, and their capacity for continuing their work are all part of [...]
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Updated for 2008!
If you’d like to be a more socially conscious consumer, here are some organizations, some local, some online, where you can purchase gifts while making a difference in the lives of real people. These suggestions come from two of our UConn professors who teach and embody the ideals of these organizations. [...]
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Joan B. Kroc Institute For Peace&Justice: Womens Peacemaker Conference
IPJ Women PeaceMakers Conference
Crafting Human Security in an Insecure World
An international working conference to probe and address global acquiescence to impunity, gender violence and exclusion that continues to obstruct peacebuilding and deny human security.
September 24 – 26, 2008
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace [...]
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Every day, midwives are saving women’s lives. In Afghanistan, a man cannot attend a woman in childbirth and because of the recent years under the Taleban, young women did not receive enough education to ready them to take their place as future midwives. That’s in only one country. Governments everywhere must support educational opportunities for [...]
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