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Argentina: poor women forced into prostitution
South America As unemployment rates for women living in Latin America and the Caribbean continue to rise, many women are moving to Argentina to...
Off Our Backs, 07/01/04 by Christian, Sena; Stachowski, Roxanne; Ferden, Sara; Walter, Shoshana · More from publication -
Pakistan: two women murdered in "honor killing"
Two young Pakistani women were murderedin a so-called "honor killing" after they were deemed to have "loose morals" because they visited their...
Off Our Backs, 07/01/04 by Christian, Sena; Stachowski, Roxanne; Ferden, Sara; Walter, Shoshana · More from publication -
United States: no rape charges to be filed against Colorado University football players
DENVER-On May 11, Colorado's attorney general decided that no criminal charges will be filed against Colorado University football players accused...
Off Our Backs, 07/01/04 by Christian, Sena; Stachowski, Roxanne; Ferden, Sara; Walter, Shoshana · More from publication -
Kenya: Bush administration restricts health care
Africa NAIROBI-In June, seven clinics that offered safe abortions and post-abortion care closed down following the withdrawal of one million...
Off Our Backs, 07/01/04 by Christian, Sena; Stachowski, Roxanne; Ferden, Sara; Walter, Shoshana · More from publication -
United States: HRT study flawed?
According to researchers at Yale University, the 2002 Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) study-conducted by the Women's Health Initiative (WHI)-may...
Off Our Backs, 07/01/04 by Christian, Sena; Stachowski, Roxanne; Ferden, Sara; Walter, Shoshana · More from publication -
Kuwait: women's suffrage a possibility
Kuwait's Council of Ministers approved a bill in May giving women the right to vote and to run for parliamentary election. The full 50-member...
Off Our Backs, 07/01/04 by Christian, Sena; Stachowski, Roxanne; Ferden, Sara; Walter, Shoshana · More from publication -
United States: trafficking and rape victim freed after serving 22 years
MarÃÂa Suárez, a mexican woman who served 22 years in prison for aiding the murderer of a man who bought and raped her in 1976, was...
Off Our Backs, 07/01/04 by Christian, Sena; Stachowski, Roxanne; Ferden, Sara; Walter, Shoshana · More from publication -
United States: judge blocks abortion ban
SAN FRANCISCO-On june I, a federal judge permanently blocked the Bush administration from enforcing the federal abortion ban on certain late-term...
Off Our Backs, 07/01/04 by Christian, Sena; Stachowski, Roxanne; Ferden, Sara; Walter, Shoshana · More from publication -
Sudan: militia uses rape as weapon
WEST DARFUR-An Arab paramilitary group has terrorized black towns in western Sudan, systematically using rape as a weapon of genocide. Some of the...
Off Our Backs, 07/01/04 by Christian, Sena; Stachowski, Roxanne; Ferden, Sara; Walter, Shoshana · More from publication -
United States: court rules in favor of Title IX
WASHINGTON, DC-In May, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in support of Title IX, affirming a ruling that the...
Off Our Backs, 07/01/04 by Christian, Sena; Stachowski, Roxanne; Ferden, Sara; Walter, Shoshana · More from publication
