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Russia rebuffs UN’s report on violence against women

Russian representative Valery Loshchinin stated that the report framed by the United Nations on violence women is false and is not just. According to the report, the condition of women in Russia is deteriorating and that the law is not enough to protect the women as a whole. Loshchinin totally refuted the information. However, Yakin [...]

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Afghanistan: Women earning their livelihood through bee keeping

Life for women in Afghanistan is as always going through the tough patches however, United Nations program of bee keeping by the female refugees is a ray of hope towards earning their livelihood. Participation of approximately 50 women has been recorded in the program that first started in Jalalabad suburb in end of June this [...]

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Egypt: Poor teenagers get sold into short-term marriages

The International Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Egypt is a signatory, prohibits the auction of children and marriage under the age of 16 is outlawed. However, this law is not fully implemented. Recently a case has come up which reveled how a teenage girl was sold into a short-term marriage by [...]

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Women in Kenya, trying to surface from the ‘cocoons’ of discrimination

In the past decade, many Kenyan women lived in a world where they were subjected to the pain of female circumcision, ignorance of deadly disease prevention methods and a lack of education. Often forced into arranged marriages, these women were faced with the reality of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis. Considering the [...]

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