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Value us! Fair pay for domestic work in Nicaragua
Catherine Hoskyns – New Internationalists – 15 August 2013 (originally published 12 Aug) Adilia has been a beneficiary of funding from the initiative which she has used to buy cows and chickens. She is...
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South Africa Heritage Day is for women too!
Claudia Forster-Towne – WNN SOAPBOX School children walk together in a street parade on National Heritage (Braai) Day in South Africa 2011. Image: Makhulu Productions (WNN) Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA:...
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National UN women director visiting Malawi
Mana – Nyasa Times – Thursday, 10 October 2013 (originally published 08 Oct) Newly-appointed Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is visiting Malawi on her...
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Don’t tell Muslim women what to wear
Frida Ghitis – CNN – Thursday, 07 November 2013 (originally published 04 Nov) Sudanese Amira Hamed talks to a reporter. She is on trial Monday for refusing to cover her hair and faces flogging if...
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Afghan women need protection to reach election polls, says Dr. Sima Simar
Emma Batha for Thomson Reuters Foundation – WNN Breaking On September 18, 2005 an Afghan woman looks over the ballot during the successful parliamentary and provincial elections. Image: U.S. State...
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Voices For Causes
Zeenab Aneez – Hindu – Monday, 10 February 2014 (originally published 09 Feb) Amy and Elizabeth Ziff and Alyson Palmer. Image: Nagara Gopal / The Hindu For Amy Ziff (vocals, cello), Alyson Palmer...
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International film festival empowers women in Turkey
Julia Nho – Today’s Zaman – Wednesday, 14 May 2014 (originally published 09 May) The Ankara-based civil society organization Flying Broom commenced its 17th Flying Broom International Women’s Film...
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Lack of sustainable engergy is harder on women
Lisa Anderson for Thomson Reuters Foundation – WNN Improve It Charity:Water building wells to provide clean drinking water to the poor in remote villages. Women will no longer need to walk for hours to...
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Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity. Picture It!
UN Women – Huffington Post – Friday, 08 August 2014 (originally published 07 Aug) Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women Image: Huffington Post/UN Nearly 20 years ago, the world came...
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PERU: Medical war on women's reproductive rights continues
Rhona Scullion – WNN Features A mother walks the high paths in the Sacred Valley of the Andes mountains of Peru. On her back is her young child. In spite of limited more recent legal advances her...
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