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Distribution
of Govt. Allowance for Women Disrupted
May
23, 2000
UNB
News
Noakhali,
Bangladesh – Some 1,575 distressed women in Senbagh and
Begumganj upazilas are not getting their monthly government
allowance despite necessary instruction by the authorities.
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Magistrate
Awarded Death
Penalty for Killing Lady Magistrate
May
22, 2000
UNB
News
Dhaka,
Bangladesh – A metropolitan sessions judge court today
awarded death penalty to a magistrate for killing a lady
magistrate in 1993.
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Women's
Response to Stress May Lead to Healthier Lives
May
19, 2000
UNB
News
LOS ANGELES,
USA - Women react to stress
differently than men, turning to their children and seeking out friends instead
of using the "fight-or-flight" reflex, according to a
study out Friday.
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Housewife
Killed
May
17, 2000
UNB
News
Barguna,Bangladesh - A housewife was slaughtered allegedly by her
husband and other in-laws at village Purba Lemua in
Patharghata upazila on Tuesday.
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Supreme
Court Rejects Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against
Women Act
May
16, 2000
AP
News
The
U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected in a 5-4 ruling the civil
rights section of the 1994 federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA),
preventing victims of rape from suing their attackers in federal
court.
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Women
More Likely Than Men to Put Emotions in Motion
May
15, 2000
AP
News
NASHVILLE,
USA -- Men and women
experience the same level of sadness while watching a
tearjerker at the movies, but women are more likely to reach
for a box of tissues, according to a Vanderbilt University
psychologist.
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Supreme
Court Rejects Federal Rape Law
May
15, 2000
AP
News
WASHINGTON,
USA- The Supreme Court today threw out a law that let rape
victims sue their attackers in federal court, saying Congress
wrongly trampled on an area of state authority.
The
5-4 ruling in a Virginia case invalidated a key provision of
the 1994 Violence Against Women Act and followed the court's
recent trend of expanding states' rights at the expense of the
federal government.
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Miss India Wins Miss
Universe Contest
May
13, 2000
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Miss India, Lara
Dutta, was crowned Miss
Universe in Cyprus Saturday, beating 78 other contestants vying for the
title.
In a glittery event in the island's capital Nicosia,
Dutta, 21, spoke
out to defend the contest after protests by religious and leftist groups
which marred the start of the pageant.
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Honor
Crimes Against Women in Pakistan Reported
May
8, 2000
The
Washington Post featured today the appalling plight of
women in Pakistan who are mutilated or killed by husbands or
family members for so-called "honor crimes," which
sometimes includes seeking a divorce.
The
story of Zahida Perveen, whose husband gouged out her eyes,
and cut off her earlobes and nose because of an alleged
affair, illustrates the horror women face in countries such as
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia where violence against women in the
name of male honor has been largely socially sanctioned.
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SriLankan
President Orders Checks on Ministers' Baggage
MAY
3, 2000
UNB
News
COLOMBO,
Srilanka - President Chandrika Kumaratunga has ordered
customs authorities to check the baggage of government ministers
when they travel, the state-run Daily News reported Wednesday.
"A
DPL (diplomatic) passport does not entitle a politician to go
through the Sri Lanka Customs
without the normal checking of baggage,"
said a statement by Kumaratunga, as reported by the Daily
News.
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Allowance
for Widow from Social Service Department
MAY
3, 2000
UNB
News
Habiganj,(Bangladesh) - Social Service Department has given allowances to
180 divorced women and widows in four unions of Sadar upazila.
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Thailand
Likens Women to Elephants in Annual Jumbo Queen Contest
MAY 1, 2000
AP
News
BANGKOK,
- Twenty hefty ladies competed for Thailand's
prestigious Jumbo Queen contest Monday, a beauty pageant
for fat women.
Having
to weigh over 80 kilograms (176 pounds) to qualify, it pitted
contestants from/ across the country out to show that big is
beautiful.
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Asma
in Hospital
Again
April
13, 2000
Asma
is in hospital again only 14 months after she had a kidney
transplantation.
The
19-year old girl was admitted to Bangabandbu Sheikh Mujib
Medical University (BSMMUH) on Sunday, about eight months after
she left it with a fresh lease of life.
Looking
pale and worried Asma said. "I was leading a normal life
till a couple of weeks ago when doctors suggested me to
discontinue one of the drugs (cyclosprine) I have been taking
since my kidney transplant."
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France
to Give Women Equal Access to Politics
March
13, 2000
France's National Assembly late Thursday voted
overwhelmingly to give men and women
equal
access to political office, in what the minister for women said
was a historic move.
Under
the
bill , passed on second reading , there must be equal numbers of
women and men candidates for
elections
and lists of candidates must alternate between women and men .
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Suu
Kyi Urges UN to Pressurize Govt to Restore Democracy
April
5, 2000
Pro-democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged the United Nations to keep pressure
on Myanmar's military regime to give her country a change to
prosper under democracy, reports AP.
In
a videotaped message secreted out of Myanmar, also known as Barma,
and bound for the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Suu Kyi
said the military was interested only in keeping the power it
seized in 1962.
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Margulies,
Jhumpa Win Pulitzers
April
11, 2000
Pulitzer
Prize voters went for
little-known artists over olds favorites this year, with
playwright Donald Margulies, fiction writer Jhumpa Lahiri
and composer Lewis Spartan among the winners.
Margulies
won Monday for his off-Broadway play "Dinner With
Friend," the story of two married couples and what happens
when one decides to divorce. Lahiri was cited for her
collection. "Interpreter of Maladies." and Spratlan for
"Life is Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act Two, Concert
Version."
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