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Pooja | Sep 14 2008
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What is the place of women in the military world especially when it is of the US? A country that boasts of providing equal status to women and men but its sheer shame on the part of the administration that instead of treating women as human beings, they..
Suparna | Sep 13 2008
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In the so called developed world, the position of women in public sphere remains static and insipid with any issue relating to them considered innocuous. Time and again women are looked upon as mandated individuals ordained only with duties pertaining..
Pooja | May 16 2007
sex crimes
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. Japan is one the most technological...
Mandira S | Mar 3 2007
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After 59 years of independence, women still facing slavery in society. We call our self literate society, but still women are facing physical or sexual abuse by their husbands. According to the survey done by National Family Health Survey-III reveals...
Pooja | Mar 3 2007
sexual abuse
Women irrespective of profession are subjected to face sexual harassment and there's hardly any field left where they are not exploited. Recently, a similar case has come up which postulates the abuse of women in sports. The International Olympic.
Pooja | Feb 2 2007
stop viol against women
Social taboos hovering around brutality are the main causes of perpetuating violence against women in Algeria. In addition, lack of a sufficient response and support for sufferers of violence silence the victims, and perpetuate the violence. Many.
Pooja | Jan 19 2007
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A family is a place where everyone should be safe, yet violence, abuse and neglect within the family are major problems in New Zealand, which often goes unreported. New Zealand boasts to tighten up its laws against domestic violence. But is it really..

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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