WNN Twitter – @womenadvocates (WNN) GLOBAL Media: Twitter is now being used to bring the most relevant and recent news in the world.“Twitter is widely regarded as an essential digital news gathering tool as it is able to distribute information much faster than even the traditional news agencies.,” says news agency France 24. “The phenomenon [...]
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Sandy Oestreich – WNN Opinion (WNN) St. Petersburg, FLORIDA, U.S.: “What war on Women?” some ask with a smirk. It’s not as if it’s enough that there’s been a steady drumbeat of regulations and legislation that increasingly restrict and demoralize half the U.S. population, American women. No, now they’ve come for the ultimate victory, women’s [...]
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Gera van Wijk – Upsides – Friday, 18 May 2012 (originally published 15 May) You are a recent laureate of the Freedom from Want, one of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedom Awards. What does Freedom from Want represent to you? ‘For me it relates to what has been my focus for so many decades: [...]
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WNN Breaking Tensions continue as violence results in death of teenage girl in Cambodia over land grabs (WNN) Kratie, CAMBODIA: Human Rights organization LICADHO – Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights recently condemned the reckless and bloody attack on a Kratie village by soldiers and police on Wednesday, which resulted [...]
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Ariana Kramer – Tao News - Thursday, 17 May 2012 (originally published 13 May) Since 2010, a group of women farmers have been meeting informally to share information and encourage one another in the arts of growing, preserving, seed saving, beekeeping, milking goats and related enterprises. They call themselves Taos County Women Farmers Group. Melissa [...]
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WNN Breaking (WNN/UN): UNITED NATIONS, New York, N.Y.: The number of women dying of pregnancy and childbirth related complications has almost halved in 20 years, according to new estimates released today by the United Nations, which stressed that greater progress is still needed in significantly reducing maternal deaths. The report, entitled Trends in Maternal Mortality: [...]
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BM - Bikyamasr – Wednesday, 16 May 2012 (originally published 13 May) The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns the excessive use of force and the lack of due process in the eviction of the community living in the squatter settlements in Thapathali, Kathmandu on the banks of the Bagmati River on 8 May 2012. Over [...]
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Nadia S. Mohammad - WNN Opinion (WNN/CGN) New York, N.Y.: New York, New York – As the American public reads of yet another report released on governmental surveillance of Muslim American communities, it is refreshing to know that for the first time since the 9/11 attacks, the US Senate Judiciary Committee, along with various state legislatures [...]
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