Women In the News

20
Sep
2011

Afghan Police Women Want Out

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Afghan Police Women Want OutAsked about the rigors of being a female cop in this sparsely populated Afghan province, Fatima Tajik is blunt.

"We want to leave our jobs," Tajik tells her NATO mentor, U.S. Army Maj. Maria Rodriguez. "We are risking our lives for little money: $220 per month.

We also have families to take care of. All the women in Zabul hate us. Everyone hates us."

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16
Sep
2011

Abortion Blocks MDGs In Brazil

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Abortion Blocks MDGs In BrazilBrazil is on track to improve its maternal health statistics by 2015, one of the Millennium Development Goals.

But the widespread problem of unsafe abortion, which affects a million women each year, stands in the way.

Brazil is on track to meet targets to improve maternal health, goal No. 5 of the Millennium Development Goals, U.N. targets that...

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26
May
2011

Tears Of A Clown

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tears-of-a-clownFilm Producer and Founder of JNL Media, Nikki Love, will be returning to her hometown of Bolingbrook, IL for the making of “Tears Of A Clown”, a feature film about Postpartum Psychosis.

JNL Media officially launched its TEARS OF A CLOWN Campaign on Mothers Day in recognition of Postpartum Awareness Month.

ABOUT THE FILM - Postpartum Psychosis drove Cheryl McIntosh to drown her own infant son. Now recently paroled, she must begin the tumultuous journey of starting over, all the while encountering the people from her past and her own haunting memories of the son she murdered.

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19
May
2011

Libyan Iman el Obeidi Risks Life To Accuse Gaddafi Forces Of Rape

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Susan notes April 5, 2011: update is from CNN. The history of the story is below...

 

          
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01
May
2011

Young Kenyan Women Resist Culture of Cutting

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Susan notes: a horrific, yet hopeful, story of the culture of cutting in Kenya...

 

   
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28
Feb
2011

UN Women Launched To Foster Gender Equality

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un-women.jpgThe cause of promoting gender equality and meeting the needs of women and girls has taken an historic step forward.

A new organization—UN Women—was officially launched recently at the UN General Assembly Hall in the presence of leaders from the worlds of politics, entertainment, business and the media. 

The new body aims to provide a dynamic and powerful voice at national, regional and global levels for women’s rights and equality. It is also tasked with ensuring that the UN system lives up to its own commitments to gender equality, making new opportunities for women and girls central to UN programmes.

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