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Article Source: CNN
(CNN) -- Afghan women won the world's attention nine years ago following the routing of Taliban troops at the hands of U.S. and Afghan forces. Back then, a rush of dignitaries flew to Kabul to denounce the Taliban's brutal treatment of women, although the world had largely forgotten these same women during the previous seven years.
No school, no work, no leaving the house without a man -- even a boy would do. These are the laws Afghan women learned to live with, because they had to. Yet they also found a way to work around those rules.
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Article Source: CNN
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A fatwa, or religious ruling, issued this week is roiling theological waters after it took aim at those notorious for targeting others: terrorists.
The anti-terrorism fatwa by renowned Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri pulled no punches, declaring that terrorism was "haraam," or forbidden by the Quran, and that suicide bombers would be rewarded not by 72 virgins in heaven, as many terrorist recruiters promise, but with a suite in hell.
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Article Source: InterPress Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar: UNIFEM’S Say No-UNiTE platform is only four months old. But since its launch in November of last year, the anti-violence campaign has served as an example of how the world body can use online social networking to organise activists and civil society workers around the globe.
The “Say No” website allows activists working on gender violence issues to share ideas by posting an “action” online.
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Article Source: InterPress Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 2, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva) – When Chile elected Michelle Bachelet as its first woman president in 2005, thousands of women celebrated the historic victory as their own personal triumph, proudly marching in the streets wearing mock presidential sashes. Today, men and women both recognise the concrete and symbolic progress achieved in gender issues under her administration.
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Article Source: InterPress Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 1 (IPS/TerraViva) While the last several years have seen slight progress for gender equality in Afghanistan, such as wider access to education and political participation, women continue to face significant challenges in achieving social justice and equal rights.
Women now represent one quarter of Afghanistan’s parliament, thanks to constitutional guarantees calling for women’s active political participation. More than two million girls are in school in the country today, though only four percent of girls reach grade 10.
“There are good intentions, but there is still a long way to go,” Radhika Coomaraswamy, the U.N. Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, and formerly the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, told IPS on the first day of the two-week meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women here.
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