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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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