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Pooja | Jan 31 2007
peacekeepers
The United Nations' first all-female peacekeeping force made up of 105 Indian policewomen has arrived in Liberia. They would carry out security duties in forthcoming local elections. The unit is made up volunteers drawn from across India and is...
Pooja | Jan 30 2007
hakuo yanagisawa
Some Japanese women lawmakers have requested the health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa to resign on Monday for calling women 'birth-giving machines' in an earlier speech. Nearly sixteen lawyers put signatures across the protest letter tagging it as a...
Pooja | Jan 30 2007
women in ciudad juarez
Violence against women, a pandemic as maiming and fatal as any deadly microbe, is not unique to Mexico. It's global. The unsolved murders in Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, of mostly young and indigenous working-class women, are...
Pooja | Jan 29 2007
daniel ortega and rosario murillo
Daniel Ortega who won the Presidential elections of Nicaragua last year is considered as the most important figure in the nation's political scenario. However, critics are of the view that his wife Rosario Murillo holds an imminent position in the former.
Pooja | Jan 27 2007
ghost bride
Women in China, particularly western side, are being slaughtered so that they could become brides of a dead man. This is because of the prevalence of a weird custom operating in the country according to which, if an unmarried man dies, he must...
Pooja | Jan 27 2007
job opportunities for women
South China's Guangzhou municipality is pondering over a law that would be instrumental in broadening the job avenues for women, which were primarily male dominated. The bill has advocated a fine of 5,000 yuan (about 641 U.S. dollars) for the...
Pooja | Jan 27 2007
women in angola
If it were between countries, we'd call it a war. If it were a disease, we'd call it an epidemic. If it were an oil spill, we'd call it a disaster. But it's happening to women, and it's just an everyday affair. It's violence against women, or simply,...
Pooja | Jan 24 2007
peace force arrives in liberia
The commander of an all-women Indian UN police unit has arrived in Liberia to head the world body's first ever such specialized force sent on a peacekeeping operation. The Commandeer of the Indian UN Formed Police Unit (FPU), Seema Dhundiya, along...
Pooja | Jan 23 2007
violence 89
To be free from fear is a basic human need and is usually used to indicate the level of human rights in a society. In Taiwan, the status of women has been improving in the last thirty years; however, violence against women still threatens most women....
Pooja | Jan 22 2007
farm widows
Trapped in debt and failure in crop production, the farmers in the western Indian state of Maharashtra are driven to commit suicide by despair and hopelessness. In order to make both ends meet, the farmers first take money from the obvious resources..

Interview

sara and suzanne swift

Suzanne Swift, the then twenty one year old Army Specialist, was arrested for showing her reluctance in going back to fight in Iraq. She served in Iraq for a year but decided she won’t return and went AWOL. Not only did she feel the war lacked purpose, Swift said her superiors repeatedly sexually harassed her while serving in Iraq.

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