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Zagreb women establish centre
escalated by the war, have fallen most heavily on women: women have fewer job retraining opportunities than ... War Victims, have and continue to create herstory in this part of the world. On the other hand, since ... neither war nor peace, some of the rights achieved by women are jeopardised. The lack of democratic ...
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Empty promises: pursuing women's votes
occasionally. On International Women's Day 1992, aware that his lack of popularity with women could cost ... feminism in the US in the early 1970's. In The Undeclared War Against Women, Susan Faludi writes of ... Feminists", raved the Australian, "PM to Wage War on Sexism", trumpeted the Sydney Morning Herald. ...
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The trade in Asian women
By Karen Fredericks The planned launch of War of the Sexes, a book on how to find and marry ... countries also. The same forces which leave many women little choice but to place their names on the books ... on their own development, their citizens will remain super-exploited, and women and children will ...
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The backlash against women's rights
By Tracy Sorensen A solitary foot soldier in the war against women's rights reached the front ... government. It includes the attacks on women's studies and "political correctness", the outrage ... further into their newspapers.) Hostile reactions to the women's movement are hardly new. From its ...
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Women in prison
"women behind bars". Directed by Kay Pavlou (also responsible for Not a Bedroom War and The Killing ... worth seeing. It's much more an indictment of our society than of the women on the inside, whose ... Women in prison Convicted SBS documentary in the Cutting Edge series Tuesday, March 23, 8.30 p.m. ...
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Women's Embassy opens in Darwin
during the Gulf War. When the Women's Embassy took over from DRAW, it decided to function on the ... Women's Embassy ran a "bus day" on November 25, which focussed on the need to improve public ... it would axe Darwin's Women's Information Centre, feminists here began two courses of ...
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Vietnam and the women's liberation movement
Continuing our historical features on Vietnam and the movement against the war in the '60s ... and late '60s. As was true for many people at that time, radicalisation on the war issue led them ... when Harold Holt ran on the slogan "All the way with LBJ". Those opposing the war held ...
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Women and peace
Christabel Pankhurst, these women refused to "sell out" to the war machine at the outbreak of World ... War I, but continued to urge women to campaign for both the vote and peace. The book begins with ... "hidden agenda" at the forthcoming UN Fourth World Conference on Women. Author Kaye Murray describes ...
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Rallies confront political violence against women
regimes of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and on the violence against women during that war. February 10, 1993 87 ... predominantly against Muslim women by Serbian forces. Systematic rape and forced pregnancy are occurring on ... a massive scale. The Bosnian government commission on war crimes in Sarajevo puts the figure at 30,000. The ...
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Victory for Brisbane women's services
of women and men supporters outside the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission on February ... By Lisa Young BRISBANE — "Today marks a historic victory for women and women ... over its support of the Hillcrest murderer, Peter May. On January 25, May killed seven members of his ...
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The military trafficking in women
the chastity myth for women had inflicted utter shame on the "comfort women" is recognised, ... south-east Asia). But this double standard and burden of morality imposed on women is a cornerstone of ... "Militarism, Colonialism, and the Trafficking of Women: 'Comfort Women' Forced into ...
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and ain't i a woman: How the West saved Afghani women
Afghanistan under Taliban control. On September 28, women were forbidden to work, or leave their homes without ... and ain't i a woman?: How the West saved Afghan women The Taliban militia has been ... progressively gaining control of Afghanistan since mid-1994. On September 27 they swept into the bombed out ...
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250 at Women in Asia conference
organisations. A major strand of the conference concentrated on Asian women workers. Here the conference ... and screening of The Mirror Burns, a film about women in Vietnam after the war, with discussion by ... 250 at Women in Asia conference By Helen Jarvis MELBOURNE — The Fourth Women in Asia Conference ...
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Women of conscience
Gulf War. Anyone interested in joining the Women's Network can ring Amnesty on (02) 281 4188 or ... International public meeting on March 20 to hear accounts of women's social and political struggles around ... Women of conscience By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY — About 80 people turned out to an Amnesty ...
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Four women versus British Aerospace &&
of four women who go on trial in Liverpool next week. They are Joanna Wilson, Lotta Kronlid, Andrea ... In a Liverpool court on July 30, four members of the British Ploughshares organisation were ... malfeasant effect on the fabric of a single society, the Indonesian genocide in East Timor is arguably the ...
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Women's rights violated in Middle East
Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, women in the Middle East are paying a heavy price for ... "In wars and conflicts, women are killed, taken hostage, raped and driven from their homes. In peace, ... Women's rights violated in Middle East By Kim Linden Only weeks before the United Nations ...
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Women organising separately
attempts to wind back women's rights. Women's officers and women's rooms on campuses were ... "safe" places for women on campus. Rather, the real value of these facilities is that they are avenues ... facilities cannot be assured and real equality for women on campus can never be won. The argument put forward ...
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Jewish women for an independent Palestine
Palestinian people." On the links between the Palestine-Israel dispute and the war in the Gulf, Marta ... is a censorship of other viewpoints." Marta Romer, a member of Jewish Women in Support of an ... and its attitude towards the war in the Gulf. She explained that it grew out of a smaller group that ...
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Mills to aid Nicaraguan peasant women
poor farming region. After years of contra war, many women have been left widows, increasing the ... overall number of families headed by women. In 1988, Hurricane Joan had a devastating effect on the local ... By Pip Hinman Women's problems in Nicaragua stem largely from the country's poverty. ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Women aren't news
violence suffered by women, but on his personal story. Then there was the case last year of Rugby League ... Women aren't news Is it my imagination, or do threats to men's bodies, fertility or ... Media coverage focussed not on the years of abuse suffered by his wife, Lorena, or more generally on ...