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Prof
Firoza Begum dead
The
Daily Star
August
12, 2000
Eminent
gynecologist Prof Syeda
firoza Begum died of cancer at her Dhanmondi residence yesterday
morning. She was 71, reports UNB.
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Clinton
pushes community homes for teenage mothers
By
DEB RIECHMANN
August
12, 2000
The birth rate among teenagers has dropped, but young
women still have nearly half a million babies each year,
President Clinton said Saturday in promoting second-chance
homes that provide job counseling and parenting skills.
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Ensure Equitable JS Seats
Distribution
The Daily Star
August
11, 2000
Bangladesh--Participants
at a dialogue on women in parliament yesterday demanded
discontinuation of indirect elections of women legislators to
the Jatiya Sangaad and equitable distribution of male and
female representation in the parliament.
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China
Official's Mistress Gets Life
August
9 , 2000
AP
News
Beijing
-- The mistress of a senior Chinese official was sentenced
Wednesday to life in prison in a highly publicized corruption
case that already has brought a death sentence for the
official, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
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Is Kuwait Still in the 19th
Century?
AP News
July 5, 2000
Kuwait - Kuwait's highest tribunal on Tuesday
refused to rule on four cases that could have led to granting women the
right to vote and run for office.
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Breastfeeding Seem as Economic
Investment
August
6 , 2000
The Financial Express
Bangladesh--An
expert in children and mother health has said, for a family
and even for a poor nation like Bangladesh breastfeeding is an
economic investment because it an economic investment because
it saves money at
all levels.
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Female
Appointed Governor in Iran
August
5 , 2000
AP
News
Iran -- A woman has been appointed a district governor for the
first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution, the official
Islamic Republic News Agency reported Saturday.
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UN Warns Afghanistan
Women On Edict
August 4, 2000
AP
News
United Nations -- The United Nations warned all Afghanistan women working for
the world organization there to stay home for their own protection because
of an edict by the country's ruling Taliban militia against women working.
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Iran Allows Female Prayer
Leaders
August
1 , 2000
AP
News
Iran -- Iranian
religious leaders have lifted a restriction on women leading
congregational prayers, the official Islamic Republic News Agency
reported Tuesday.
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Keith and kin's of the Giraffes
August 1, 2000
AP
News
HUAY PUU KAENG, Thailand - Some tourists see the charming
children with their necks rigidly encased in heavy brass coils and
say, "Poor, girls."
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