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| 20 Nov 2009 - 10:41 | Feminist Law Professor Blog
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When the System Separates Immigrant Women from their Children
What if I told you that you could permanently lose custody of your child because you are undocumented? Or because you do not understand English? Or because you are unable to communicate with the child welfare system and family court from an immigration detention facility? What if I told you that you would have to leave your child behind when you are deported, because you may not be granted sufficient time to get the child a passport or coordinate the flight arrangements?
You might tell me that such things do not happen in the United States of America. Sadly, you would be wrong.
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| 20 Nov 2009 - 10:29 | center for reproductive rights
URL: reproductiverights.org/en/press-room/cen . . .
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Center Launches First Abortion Ad in Anticipation of Historic Senate Health Care Reform Vote
Millions of Women Could Lose Abortion Coverage; New TV Ad Starts Running (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights released a new television and online advertisement today calling on pro-choice constituents to contact their senators and demand they not ban abortion coverage that millions of American women already have.
Watch the ad here >
"The promise of healthcare reform is expanded coverage and affordability, eliminating denials of coverage for pre-existing conditions, and a new basic package of essential benefits," said Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup. "Yet some in Congress are attempting to use the reform bill as a vehicle for banning insurance coverage for abortion services, coverage that millions of women have today. But healthcare reform is not an abortion bill. This attempt to roll back the clock on women's health and rights cannot be tolerated."
D.J. Feldman, a federal employee denied insurance coverage after a termination of a anencephalic fetus, said the denial of coverage surprised and shocked her: "That's when I learned just how punishing, invasive, and painful federal policy is when it comes to women's lives. A decision that should have been left between me and my doctor was made instead by politicians
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| 20 Nov 2009 - 09:38 | rednosotrasenelmundo
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| 20 Nov 2009 - 09:06 | The National
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PNG doctor guilty of bashing wife in Darwin
A PAPUA New Guinean obstetrician in Darwin, Australia who brutally beat his wife in hospital staff accommodation was sentenced to just over six hours in the court’s custody last week.
John Lewa Opa pleaded guilty to the aggravated assault in Darwin magistrates court.
The court heard he was stressed over long hours at the hospital when an argument between him and his wife started over dirty dishes when she returned from an overnight shift as a career.
Crown prosecutor Amanda Nobbs said he became angry when his wife told him she was “not your mother” while doing the dishes about 9.30am on July 21.
Their two young children watched as Opa belted his wife 10 times in the head and face until she ran from the unit yelling: “Help, help, my eye is broken.”
A neighbour followed her back inside, and Opa said: “It’s just a domestic.”
The neighbour left to call hospital security, and, as his wife was calling the police, Opa punched her again and then kicked her about five times in the abdomen.
After the neighbour called hospital security and returned, Opa’s wife was lying outside the house and had wet herself because she was so scared.
Opa’s lawyer Alan Woodcock said Opa was in Australia working on qualifications to take back to Papua New Guinea. Mr Woodcock said his client had been stressed over his long working hours.
“He’s spent his whole life endeavouring to (better) his people and himself, especially the health of women,” Mr Woodcock said.
Magistrate Greg Cavanagh said the assault could not be trivialised as “just a domestic.”
“The community would be outraged if you were to be treated with simply a slap over the wrist for a brutal assault – especially when committed in front of children,” he said.
Mr Cavanagh sentenced Opa to three months in jail, but suspended it on the rising on the court. – Northern Territory
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| 20 Nov 2009 - 07:36 | Eco Diario
URL: ecodiario.eleconomista.es/latinoamerica/ . . .
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El Gobierno Mexicano, condenado por ocho feminicidios en Ciudad Juárez
La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos condenó este jueves al Estado mexicano por la muerte de ocho mujeres en Ciudad Juárez (estado de Chihuahua) que fueron víctimas del caso conocido como del Campo Algodonero.
Esta decisión histórica no puede ser recurrida y determina que el Estado mexicano es responsable de los hechos ocurridos por no haber realizado las investigaciones adecuadas sobre estos asesinatos cometidos en noviembre de 2001.
Esta sería la primera sentencia condenatoria que se emite contra los asesinatos que se han cometido desde 1993 en Ciudad Juárez, donde hasta la fecha han muerto unas 480 mujeres en hechos violentos que no han sido debidamente investigados.
El juicio contra el Estado de México comenzó el pasado 27 de abril en la sede del Tribunal en Santiago, Chile, ante la presunta impunidad, falta de investigación y de actuación frente a los asesinatos de mujeres que se llevan cometiendo en Ciudad Juárez.
En total fueron ocho los cadáveres encontrados en el Campo Algodonero, una zona de trabajo situada a las afueras de Ciudad Juárez, pero cinco de los cuerpos no fueron identificados a tiempo de presentar la acusación.
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| 18 Nov 2009 - 09:22 | Amecopress/CIMAC
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2727
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México sin política integral para hacerle frente al feminicidio
por Paulina Rivas Ayala
México, D.F. 18 nov. 09. AmecoPress/CIMAC.- México es conocido en el mundo por el feminicidio en Ciudad Juárez y Chihuahua y por las violaciones a los derechos humanos de las mujeres, sin embargo hasta ahora no se ha podido concretar una política integral para enfrentarlo y en cambio hay impunidad, omisión y negligencia, advirtió hoy la antropóloga y feminista, Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos.
Al presentar hoy en el Centro de Información de las Naciones Unidas el libro “Marco Jurídico. Ley General de Acceso de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia” cuyo fin es contribuir a enfrentar “la grave situación de violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas en México”, la también presidenta de la Red de investigadoras por la vida y la libertad de las mujeres, denunció la poca difusión que se ha hecho de esta Ley, que surge por el feminicidio no sólo en Juárez sino en el resto de la república mexicana, el cual documentó cuando estuvo al frente de la Comisión especial de feminicidio en la Cámara de diputados.
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| 18 Nov 2009 - 09:04 | LA Times
URL: www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/l . . .
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MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
Fixing Mexico police becomes a priority
Reversing police corruption that has tainted whole departments, shattered faith in law enforcement and compromised one of society's most basic institutions is proving difficult, but not impossible.
Reporting from San Luis Potosi, Mexico - The lie-detector team brought in by Mexico's top cop was supposed to help clean up the country's long-troubled police. There was just one problem: Most of its members themselves didn't pass, and a supervisor was rigging results to make sure others did.
When public safety chief Genaro Garcia Luna found out, he canned the team, all 50 to 60 members.
"He fired everybody," a senior U.S. law enforcement official said.
But the episode shows how difficult it will be for Mexico to reverse a legacy of police corruption that has tainted whole departments, shattered people's faith in law enforcement and compromised one of society's most basic institutions.
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| 18 Nov 2009 - 08:43 | New View Campaign
URL: www.newviewcampaign.org/video.asp
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Challenging the Medicalization of Sex
10 min Video
Female Sexual Dysfunction, Marketing and Disease Mongering
www.newviewcampaign.org/video.asp
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| 18 Nov 2009 - 08:31 | Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance
URL: www.vsdvalliance.org/secPublications/Mov . . .
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New Issue
Moving Upstream, Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance
Issue focuses on evidence based programing
www.vsdvalliance.org/secPublications/Moving%20Upstream%205-2%5B1%5D.pdf
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| 17 Nov 2009 - 11:36 | Dixon Tennessee
URL: www.wsmv.com/video/21611676/index.html
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VIDEO
Domestic Violence Cases Shut Down Before Reaching Courts
www.wsmv.com/video/21611676/index.html
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| 17 Nov 2009 - 11:12 | UNICEF
URL: www.unicef.org/spanish/sowc09/report/rep . . .
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Informe Mundial de la Infancia 2009
Salud Materna y Neonatal
El Estado Mundial de la Infancia 2009 examina cuestiones fundamentales relacionadas con la salud materna y neonatal, y hace hincapié en la necesidad de establecer una atención continua de las madres, de los recién nacidos y de los niños. El informe describe los últimos paradigmas en las políticas y programas sanitarios para las madres y los recién nacidos y explora políticas, programas y alianzas destinadas a mejorar la salud materna y neonatal. Este informe se centra sobre todo en África y Asia, y complementa el ejemplar del año pasado sobre supervivencia infantil.
Informe completo:
www.unicef.org/spanish/sowc09/report/report.php
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| 17 Nov 2009 - 10:10 | Reuters
URL: news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091028/tv_nm/us_vi . . .
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Violence against women, female teens, surges on TV
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Incidents of violence against women on mainstream U.S. television has increased by 120 percent in the past five years, with the depiction of teen girls as victims rising by some 400 percent, the Parents Television Council said in a report on Wednesday.
The media watchdog said it was particularly disturbed by the use of violence against women in comedies and said it hoped TV networks and advertisers would stand up against the trend.
"I hope the industry will look at our data and be as shocked as I was," PTC president Tim Winter told reporters
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| 17 Nov 2009 - 09:52 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49279
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CENTRAL AMERICA: Gender-based Violence, the Hidden Face of Insecurity
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA, Nov 16 (IPS) - Gender-based violence and sexual abuse are serious public security problems in Central America, and Nicaragua is no exception, according to reports by United Nations agencies and women’s organisations.
The Central American Human Development Report 2009-2010, released on Oct. 20 by the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, says violence against women, adolescents and children is the "hidden" and "most invisible face" of public insecurity in the region.
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| 17 Nov 2009 - 09:39 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49256
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U.S.: Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan
By Dahr Jamail
VENTURA, California, Nov 13 (IPS) - U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas.
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| 17 Nov 2009 - 09:33 | UN
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBcoPa0k9Ek
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VIDEO
Embracing girls in India, movement against female infanticide
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| 16 Nov 2009 - 09:51 | Radio Caracol
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Colombia
En Córdoba hay profesores que son proxenetas de sus alumnas
Docentes de algunas instituciones educativas del departamento de Córdoba se han convertido en explotadores sexuales de sus estudiantes, así se desprende de un informe de la fundación Futuro OSC, operador del programa de Prevención a la Explotación Sexual de menores de edad de la gobernación del departamento.
Glenis Pénate, coordinadora de proyectos de esta organización dijo que ya estos casos fueron denunciados ante la Secretaría de Educación y al Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar.
Sostuvo que los profesores presionan a sus estudiantes por calificaciones o con cualquier otro tipo de chantajes para que estas accedan a sus pretensiones de explotarlas sexualmente.
La señora Pénate afirmó que uno de estos casos se detectó en un colegio del municipio de Montelíbano, sur de Córdoba.
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| 16 Nov 2009 - 09:43 | Mark Logan, Polaris Project
URL: www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/colum . . .
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Mark P. Lagon: Taking a Swedish cue on prostitution
By: Mark P. Lagon
OpEd Contributor
November 9, 2009 Improbable though it may sound, the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, is taking a page from the Swedish welfare state in revising his approach to the problem of prostitution. Loudly applauding his eight-month-old experiment is End Demand Illinois (EDI), a coalition of nonprofits that aims to extend the reform statewide and eventually see it replicated across the country.
What Sheriff Tom Dart has done is shift enforcement resources from the supply side to the demand side: from arresting (and releasing and rearresting) forcibly prostituted women and girls to arresting pimps and johns and impounding their cars, while directing the prostituted females to social services. (Last week a U.S. district judge threw out another part of Dart's new strategy: a lawsuit against Craigslist for the hazard created by its online want ads offering "erotic" and "adult" services -- some 13,000 ads a day.)
It is too soon to say what effect this policy reversal will have in the Chicago area. But supporters (including the nonprofit I head) point to the success of a similar reform in Sweden that already has a track record.
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| 16 Nov 2009 - 09:26 | Sydney Morning Herald
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Rudd says sorry to forgotten children
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an emotional apology today to half-a-million "Forgotten Australians", including British child migrants, who faced abuse and neglect in care homes over decades.
Mr Rudd, echoing his historic 2008 statement to Australia's Aborigines, addressed about 1000 victims of abuse in orphanages and institutions between 1930 and 1970 who packed Parliament House.
"We come together today to offer our nation's apology. To say to you, the Forgotten Australians, and those who were sent to our shores as children without their consent, that we are sorry," he said.
"Sorry that as children you were taken from your families and placed in institutions where so often you were abused. Sorry for the physical suffering, the emotional starvation and the cold absence of love, of tenderness, of care.
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| 16 Nov 2009 - 09:05 | Amana Media Initiative
URL: www.arf-asia.org/amana/prod/index.php?op . . .
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North African women at forefront of legal reform
Written by Fatima Sadiqi
Fez, Morocco - Women in North Africa have made tremendous progress in promoting and upholding their rights. Women in this region—commonly known as the Maghreb—are at the forefront of the Arab world in terms of individual rights and gender equality, and constitute models for other Arab women to follow. A number of lessons may be drawn from the inspiring experience of women in North Africa, especially in Morocco and Tunisia.
Access to justice has been greatly facilitated by the new Family Courts in Morocco as necessitated by the Moroccan Family Code of 2004. When women marry, they are now able to retain ownership of their property thanks to Article 49 of the code, which allows for a separate contract on property alongside the marriage contract. This is in accordance with Islamic law, in which women may remain the sole owners of their property and have no legal obligation to share it with their husbands.
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| 15 Nov 2009 - 12:50 | jamilett
jazzgalo12@YAHOO.COM
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hola
yo quiero saber como hago desde hace 15 anos fui violada en nicaragua vivi maltrato ficico y moral lo siquiente es que a raiz de esa violacion nacio un ninos y este hombre me amenazo por 2 anos con matarlo si decia algo y sali envarasada si bolumtad propia de una nina trate de contar con la mama y la senora me maltrataba o me humillaba despues del nacimiento de la nina queria huir pero nunca pude tener dinero para hacerlo y un dia lo logre y sali de nicaragua hacia costa rica y el hombre este me encomtro y me quitaba todo el dinero y abusaba de mi cada salida de mi trabajo com amenasa y ultrajo bueno a lo que voy es que sali huyendo de haya y me regrese a nic a despedirme de los ninos y viaje a guatemala porque la mama de el me quito alos ninos al darse cuenta que no estaba me fue a buscar a guatemala tuve que cambiarme el nombre y todo y volvi a huir es muy duro para mi escribir esto pero necesito ayuda o un consejo porque me tuve que venir dejando amis ninos solos con ellos y ha sido muy duro para mi porque estas personas me han explotado desde entonces pidiendome cantidad de dinero para ellos y los ninos ya crecieron pero se criaron con ellos y yo no he podido lograr nada ni superar el trauma causado por que los ninos me lo recuerdan acada momento pero quisiera un consejo porque han padado 15 anos de mantener a estas personas y son una familia completa y no se que hacer los qinos quieren verme pero solo el hecho de ir sin poder regresar a usa me aterra no tengo papeles ni se que puedo hecer para poder verlos ayudenme a darme un consejo porfavor.
jamilett
jazzgalo12@YAHOO.COM
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| 15 Nov 2009 - 12:43 | New York Times, Health
URL: well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/men-mo . . .
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Divorce Risk Higher When Wife Gets Sick
By TARA PARKER-POPE
When Dr. Marc Chamberlain, a Seattle oncologist, was treating his brain cancer patients, he noticed an alarming pattern. His male patients were typically receiving much-needed support from their wives. But a number of his female patients were going it alone, ending up separated or divorced after receiving a brain tumor diagnosis.
Dr. Chamberlain, chief of the neuro-oncology division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, had heard similar stories from his colleagues. To find out if these observations were based in fact, he embarked on a study with Dr. Michael J. Glantz of the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute and colleagues from three other institutions who began to collect data on 515 patients who received diagnoses of brain tumors or multiple sclerosis from 2001 through 2006.
The results were surprising. Women in the study who were told they had a serious illness were seven times as likely to become separated or divorced as men with similar health problems, according to the report published in the journal Cancer.
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| 14 Nov 2009 - 08:28 | Women's enews
URL: www.womensenews.org/story/prostitution-a . . .
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Trafficking Victims at U.N. Highlight Need for Recognition
By Theresa Braine
WeNews correspondent
Survivors of human trafficking spoke at the U.N. recently as part of a new institutional effort to have their input on policymaking. Panelists said a major problem was not being seen as trafficking victims when they suffered their ordeals
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| 14 Nov 2009 - 08:09 | Lucia Tufro, TRAMA
lulatufro@gmail.com
URL: www.nuevastramas.com.ar/
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En el marco de los 16 días de activismo contra la violencia de género que se iniciará el día 25 de noviembre, la Asociación Civil Trama – Lazos para el desarrollo ha diseñado la Guía “Aportes para la sensibilización sobre violencia de género a nivel local y comunitario”.
La idea es brindar a las organizaciones, movimientos sociales y gobiernos locales, herramientas para el diseño, implementación y evaluación de campañas y acciones de sensibilización.
Este material es de dominio público y se distribuye electrónicamente en forma gratuita para lograr que la mayor cantidad de personas y organizaciones puedan acceder a sus contenidos y desarrollen capacidades de comunicación.
En el mismo sentido hemos publicado la página web “Nuevas Tramas” www.nuevastramas.com.ar una red de comunicación contra la violencia de género donde encontrarán información y recursos sobre esta temática.
Para quienes, a través de la lectura de este material, se interesen por profundizar sus conocimientos y habilidades de comunicación destinados a acciones de sensibilización sobre este y otros temas, les proponemos ponerse en contacto con el equipo de la Asociación Civil Trama – Lazos para el desarrollo. Allí estaremos para acompañar a las organizaciones sociales en sus sueños y sus luchas cotidianas.
Agradecemos la difusión de esta información
www.trama.org.ar
www.nue vastramas.com.ar
www.tramapicodelora.blogspot.com
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Asociación Civil TRAMA
Lazos para el desarrollo
Lucila Tufró
lulatufro@gmail.com
Cel. (011) 155838-8965
www.lucilatufro.com.ar
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| 14 Nov 2009 - 08:01 | Saturday Nation, Kenya
URL: www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/680450/-/uo . . .
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Shocking details of sex abuse in Kenyan schools
By SAMUEL SIRINGI
Shocking details have emerged on the extent to which school girls fall prey to sexual predators — their own teachers. Up to 12,660 girls were sexually abused by teachers over a five-year period, reveals a government report to be launched on Monday.
The report by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) says that in some cases, teachers abused as many as 20 girls in a single school before they were reported
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| 13 Nov 2009 - 09:13 | Avra Cohen, Fight Slavery Now
URL: www.thevillager.com/villager_340/talking . . .
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Roman Polanski Apologist in "The Villager"
To whom it may concern,
A current opinion piece in my community newspaper, The Villager, has me livid. The writer's fallacious arguments excusing Roman Polanski, typify every stereotype that enables our culture to find child sexual exploitation acceptable. I have responded to the editor, and I hope you will wish to do likewise.
Kindly give this a look:
www.thevillager.com/villager_340/talkingpoint.html
If you wish to take The Villager to task, here is how to contact them:
E-mail letters, not longer than 250 words in length, to news@thevillager.com or fax to 212-229-2790 or mail to The Villager, Letters to the Editor, 145 Sixth Ave., ground floor, NY, NY 10013. Please include phone number for confirmation purposes. The Villager reserves the right to edit letters for space, grammar, clarity and libel. The Villager does not publish anonymous letters.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Sincerely,
Avra Cohen
Assistant Organizer, Fight Slavery Now!
(FightSlaveryNow.Org)
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| 13 Nov 2009 - 08:18 | Women's Media Center
URL: womensmediacenter.com/ex/111109.html
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Finally, a UN Women’s Agency with Muscle
By Colette N. Tamko
Recently the UN announced approval of a new agency for women—an event that followed years of complex organizing by individuals and advocacy groups around the world. Here, one of the principle coordinators of that ongoing effort explains what it means for women, and the work that still remains to ensure its success.
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