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Tag - Discrimination

Pooja | May 3 2007
women in uganda 97
Betty Ochan Oyo, Gulu Woman Member of Parliament asserted that traditional practices which encourages women kneeling before men must be banned permanently. While addressing the Uganda Change Agent Association during a National Development Forum, she...
Pooja | Apr 9 2007
women in kenya
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.
Pooja | Mar 2 2007
discrimination at work place
Discrimination at work place is a ubiquitous phenomenon, whether its corporate sector or government job, inequity against women would always exist. Even women correspondent is paid less than men under the flagship of BBC. The same has happened with...
Pooja | Feb 14 2007
domestic workers
Stripped of their rights and denied adequate legal recourse, women domestic workers in Indonesia are often discriminated, exploited, even abandoned in their host countries. Domestic workers in the nation lack vital protection of their rights, which...
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 20 2007
women in china
China like India has a stereotypical patriarchal society where boys are preferred over girls. Consequent upon which, recently, more than 70% of female undergraduates have experienced discrimination based on their gender as they struggle to available..

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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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