Documents tagged with womens rights

The Straw that Broke the War on Women’s Back

  • Foreign Relations published this 5 days ago
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Islamic Feminism in the Middle East

  • Foreign Relations published this 02 / 04 / 2012
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stedawa (cd3): burst onto the scene (track info)

This 3rd batch of tunes by stedawa still has his international perspective in terms of content. 7 songs are actually poems by sallysense that stedawa added tunes too. preview clips will be added t...
  • stedawa published this 01 / 06 / 2012
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Building on Our Legacy: The Future of the Ms. Foundation for Women

For nearly 40 years the Ms. Foundation for Women has believed that by building women's collective power we can build a better world. Today, we know that in order to address the challenges we face t...
  • kgladki published this 12 / 14 / 2011
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Care of Women With Female Genital Mutilation-cutting

  • Giorgos Thomaidis published this 12 / 05 / 2011
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Fourth Arab Report on Cultural Development

Dubai, Sunday December 3rd 2011- On the day before the 10th round of FIKR takes off, His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Al Faisal, President of the Arab Thought Foundation launched the Fourth Arab Re...
  • Fiker Arab published this 12 / 04 / 2011
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Ataturk's Reforms

Atatürk's Reforms (Turkish: Atatürk Devrimleri) were a series of political, legal, cultural, social and economic reforms that were designed to modernize the new Republic of Turkey into a democratic...
  • curseofham published this 11 / 19 / 2011
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Women in Islam

Five years ago, I read in the Toronto Star issue of July 3, 1990 an article titled Islam is not Alone in Patriarchal Doctrines, by Gwynne Dyer. The article described the furious reactions of the pa...
  • bayahya published this 11 / 17 / 2011
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Fair Trade, Empowerment and Human Rights

Examine the Principles of Fair Trade and it quickly becomes apparent the intention of Fair Trade is to Empower disadvantaged producers and their communities. The principles reflect business practic...
  • Mitch Teberg published this 11 / 12 / 2011
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Veto by Ed Griffin - Chapter 1 of a Political Drama Novel

This excerpt is certain to pull you into the political drama of Pilar Marti, the worlds first female Secretary-General of the United Nations.
  • Caszie Veronika Wilde published this 11 / 08 / 2011
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Free Press Issue 6 2011: Sexuality

Issue 6 of 2011: Sexuality
  • UConnFreePress published this 11 / 04 / 2011
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Longwe's Women's Empowerment Framework

The purpose of Longwe's Women's Empowerment Framework is to move from gender equity to gender equality. Firstly, through the provision of the needs of women; the followed by the second step to rais...
  • Mitch Teberg published this 11 / 04 / 2011
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A Rights-Based Approach to Fair Trade - Understanding CEDAW

All Fair Trade Organizations, supporters, consumers, advocates and activists support the Principle of Gender Equality. Unfortunately, I must admit that most of them are not familiar with the United...
  • Mitch Teberg published this 10 / 29 / 2011
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Center for Reproductive Rights State Midyr Wrapup 2011 8.10.11

The Center for Reproductive's rights provide a state-by-state analysis on the war against women since the 2010 mid-term elections
  • Deb Della Piana published this 10 / 25 / 2011
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The Moral Permissibility of Abortion

  • Jose Romero published this 10 / 24 / 2011
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Blame the Victim Alive & Well in Sierra Leone and in the United States

We in the Western part of the world think we are enlightened when it comes to child sexual abuse. In this article, I discuss the case of Fulamuta, 15, raped repeatedly by a pastor who lived next do...
  • Jane Gilgun published this 10 / 13 / 2011
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Women's Rights in Islam in Western Societies

Women Living Under Muslim Laws Dossier on Secularism and Women's Rights
  • borninbrooklyn published this 09 / 22 / 2011
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Bcimagirl -So what about Boys? Summary

This year’s report is the fifth in the ‘Because I am a Girl’ series. From the very first, in 2007, when we began monitoring the State of the World’s Girls, we have been asked: “What about boys?” ...
  • PlanInternational published this 09 / 21 / 2011
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Going CEDAW in the Philippines

UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality. Placing t...
  • Jane Garcia-Comilang published this 09 / 18 / 2011
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CEDAW and Muslim Family Laws

CEDAW and Women's Rights in Islamic Societies
  • borninbrooklyn published this 09 / 07 / 2011
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