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July 29,2000

          

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- A U.S. soldier scheduled to stand trial next week for the killing of an ethnic Albanian girl in Kosovo has pleaded guilty, a military spokeswoman said Saturday. 

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Russia's Demographic Decline Grows  

July 29,2000

         

MOSCOW (AP) -- Over the past six years, Dr. Irina Budnikova has examined thousands of Russian women who want to give birth but can't -- women who have had six miscarriages, women whose ovaries atrophied before they turned 30, women so anemic that pregnancy made them faint daily.

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Chicago Police Seek Asian Attacker  

July 29,2000

      

CHICAGO (AP) -- Police have issued an arrest warrant for a man suspected in a series of attacks against Asian women. The suspect, Mark Anthony Lewis, 33 of Chicago, is believed to have fled to the Philippines, Chicago police said Friday. The FBI has also obtained a federal fugitive warrant.

   

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U.N. Judges Uphold Rape Verdict  

July 21,2000

     

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Friday upheld a landmark ruling that established rape as a war crime, rejecting an appeal by a Bosnian Croat commander convicted of watching as a knife-wielding subordinate tortured and raped a female prisoner.

   

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Mexican Women Seek Respect  

July 21,2000

   

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Banging spoons against pots, hundreds of women marched down a main boulevard in Mexico City on Friday to demand men share domestic chores and to publicize a one-day household work stoppage.

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Taliban May Block Women Workers  

July 20,2000

  

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Hard-liners among Afghanistan's ruling Taliban appear to have won the battle against allowing women to work in international relief agencies, a senior U.N. official said Thursday.

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Malaysians Ban Unisex Hair Salons  

July 19,2000

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Islamic politicians in a Malaysian state said Wednesday that barbers will no longer be allowed to cut both women's and men's hair.

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Philippine Rebels Release Sick Woman  

July 17,2000

 

JOLO, Philippines (AP) -- The ailing German woman stepped slowly from a van, a Muslim scarf over her head and a rice sack in her hands containing her belongings.

"Mrs. Wallert, I'm Secretary Aventajado,'' said the Philippines' chief hostage negotiator. "You're free now.'

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U.N. Urges Taliban to Reverse Ban on Women Aid Workers  

July 17,2000

 

The United Nations has begun formal talks with the Taliban to convince them to reverse their ban on Afghan women working for international relief agencies.

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Pregnancy AIDS Treatment Helps  

AP News

July 11,2000

 

Durban, South Africa - Treating HIV-infected mothers during pregnancy reduces the number of babies who get AIDS, even if the women risk passing on the virus later through breast-feeding, researchers report.  

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Ex-Nepalese Sex Slaves Help Victims

AP News

July 10, 2000

 

Katmandu - Nisha and Geeta watch every woman who crosses out of Nepal at the Kakarvitta border point, trying to spot those destined to be sold into brothels in India.

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Female Army Officers to Be in Command Positions by 2002

The Daily Star

July 8, 2000

 

The nearly 1,00,00 strong Bangladesh army will induct female officers in its active ranks shortly. The first duly recited women cadet officers are expected to undergo a two-year extensive training beginning in December this year. They will join the 47th BMA long course at the Bangladesh Military Academy (BMA) at Bhatiary in Chittagong.

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Women and Children in Odd Jobs

UNB News

July 8, 2000  

 

Magura  – Driven by abject poverty, women and children of poor families of the district are increasingly taking up odd jobs for survival.

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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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Ex-Israeli Official Loses Immunity

AP News 
July 5, 2000 
 

Jerusalem - An Israeli parliamentary committee voted Wednesday to revoke the immunity of a former Cabinet minister accused by three women of sexual assault and harassment.  

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Fighter Denies Raping Muslim Women

AP News
July 5, 2000
 

The Hague - A Bosnian Serb, accused of taking four Muslim women from a sports hall and molesting them during the Bosnian war, denied on Wednesday he raped them and said he "was shocked'' when first told of the allegations.  

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Woman Gives Birth After Sentence 

AP News

July 5, 2000

 

Cairo - A woman gave birth in a courtroom Wednesday, minutes after she was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labor, police officials said. She promptly named her baby girl "Felony.''  

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Korean Women Add Voices to Protest

AP news 

July4, 2000 

 

South Korea - On weekdays, women in this west coast village tend vegetable patches and pluck shellfish on the beach. Some weekends, they gather at a village hall to shout anti-U.S. slogans.  

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They Kill Their Women Like Clay Pigeons  

AP News

July 4, 2000

 

CAIRO  - Nora Ahmed was on her honeymoon when her father cut off her head and paraded it down a dusty Cairo street because she had married a man of whom he did not approve.

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69 Acid-Burnt in Last One Month

The Daily Janakantha      

7-4-2000

 

69 people were burnt by throwing acid during last one month, a report by Bangladesh Human Rights Commission says. Commission suggested a special tribunal to implement the trial of the acid-burnt.

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U.N. Women's Committee Criticizes Iraq, Praise Cuba

AP News
July 1, 2000
 

U.S - Expressing concern about the effect of sanctions on Iraqi and Cuban women, a U.N. committee criticized Iraq Friday for failing to ensure that both sexes get an equal share of humanitarian aid and praised Cuba's determination to end sexism in the face of hardship.

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