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Ensure Equitable JS Seats
Distribution
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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