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November 13, 2004 09:55 AM posted by lisa : track it (0)

French women file suit for Ivory Coast rapes
Foreign residents in Abidjan were subjected to at least "37 serious atrocities including three or four confirmed rapes," a representative of French expatriates in Ivory Coast said Friday.
"For the past five days, I have felt constantly ill. When people start attacking women, when they are raped, it's over, the barriers have been breached," said Catherine Rechenmann.

Women focus on roles as leaders
Ordinary women — not lawmakers, academics or agency officials — spur most changes in U.S. environmental law.

That message was from a first-ever "summit," designed to craft a model for local action to improve the lives of New York women and their families

Women Must Do Their Share
WOMEN's Action for Development (WAD) has made an impassioned appeal to Namibian women to flock polling stations when the country goes to the polls for its presidential and parliamentary elections in a few days time.
This clarion call comes amidst what is believed to be a disturbing voter apathy found among women that was detected in some of the country's regions when the registration process took place in September this year

Mississippi women wrongly warned of cancer-abortion ‘link’
To obtain an abortion in Mississippi, a woman must first sign a document saying that she has been informed of the links between abortion and breast cancer. However, studies have shown that no such link exists. Women in Texas, Louisiana and Kansas must sign similar waivers, and legislation to require such notifications has been introduced in fourteen other states.

Women's Health Breakthrough
"I don't think there's anything that has made this much impact both in cancer prevention and women's health in past 20 years. It's exciting -- very exciting!," says Dr. Diane Harper who is leading a study that she says marks the first progress in cervical cancer research since Pap smears began screening for it 30 years ago. Back then, doctors learned the disease is caused by a virus called HPV -- the human papillomavirus.
Aitraaz unfurls women psyche
A false rape claim scandal which shook this year's World Social Forum meeting and Hollywood movie Disclosure have inspired a steamy formula for a potential Bollywood blockbuster opening on Friday.

Relaxation classes may ease stress on battered women
The club is offering six one-hour meditation and stress reduction sessions to anyone who donates supplies to the shelter. The idea is simple. The club helps people at what experts say is a stressful time of the year, and those people, in turn, help women in need. You do not have to be a member of the club to participate.
The idea came from Martine Amundson, a registered nurse who is wellness coordinator and a fitness instructor at the club.

Selling sex on the High Street
Shops selling vibrators, bondage kit and naughty nurses' uniforms were once grubby basements, patronised by seedy men in macs.
Now they can be found all over the UK. But there's nothing furtive about these stores, with their novelty knickers and massage oil. They are well-lit, welcoming and packed with women.

Women struggle in Afghan cinema
"Look, there goes the wife of the mullah!"
This is what boys in the Afghan capital, Kabul, cry when 14-year-old Marina Gulbahari steps out of her house
The taunts refer to her star role in Osama, the first feature film to be made in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taleban regime.

Women offer to replace hostages
A group of women have offered to take the place of three UN workers, one from Northern Ireland, being held hostage in Agfhanistan

Spain hits back at abuse culture
New laws designed to curb domestic violence are currently passing through the Spanish parliament.
The BBC World Service's Everywoman programme examines why the government is tackling the issue now.

Afghan Women Building Lives Amid Rubble
Women, often uneducated, unemployed and still covered by the burqua, are heads of at least 30 percent of Afghan households. But with close to 70 percent unemployment, the stigma against hiring a woman remains widespread.

Clues May Aid African Americans with Breast Cancer
Many questions remain unanswered about racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer, but now researchers have an important biological clue that may lead to better breast cancer treatments, especially for African American women.

Older Women Unite! Gray Is Gorgeous
Ageism makes women turn the knife of sexism on themselves, says Margaret Morganroth Gullette. To show how rampant it is, she reviews a new documentary, "Still Doing It" and Dove's positive-aging beauty campaign

Choice Activists Brace for Roe-less Era
Fearing that a reelected Bush will succeed in his campaign to overturn constitutional protection for women's reproductive rights, pro-choice advocates are bracing for the possibility that abortion will become illegal in the United States

Did the kids rock or suck?

According to which version of events you read, young people's contribution to the US presidential election either Rocked or Sucked.

Drink-spike kits to help girls
About 200 Grade 12 girls will be given special kits that can detect whether a drink has been laced with drugs.
Youth workers are hoping the kits – which detect the presence of GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) and ketamine – will protect female schoolies from sexual assault and unwanted advances.

Jury finds Scott Peterson guilty
A California jury has found Scott Peterson guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Laci, and guilty of second-degree murder in the death of their unborn son.
The first-degree murder verdict carries either the death penalty or life in prison without parole

Risky girls overtake the boys
YOUNG women are increasingly engaging in risky behaviour, consuming dangerous levels of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs.

Experts say 20 per cent consume alcohol at risky levels and about 60 per cent named ecstasy as their drug of choice, compared with 47 per cent of young men.

LGTB Activists Consider Election-Day Losses
Assembling for the first time since anti-marriage equality amendments were overwhelmingly approved by voters in 11 states on November 2, members of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and others struggled to accept the losses and outline a forward-looking agenda for the movement, the Associated Press reported

Pregnant Mothers Try To Stay Thin
For many pregnant women, it's the ultimate goal: to stay as skinny as Sarah Jessica, Reese, or Catherine, to look like Julia -- she's seven months pregnant with twins -- to have that bump in the belly -- and not an ounce of fat showing anywhere else.
But the drive to stay skinny and sexy could be putting some pregnant women and their babies in danger.

More women in prison than ever before

The number of women in state and federal prisons is at an all-time high and growing fast, with the incarceration rate for females increasing at nearly twice that of men, the government reported today

Feminism can be fun

The three women of Le Tigre are feminists, lesbians, rappers, new-wavers, intellectuals and party girls. That's a lot of identities to wear -- so why not don a few more costumes and play a concert on Halloween?

Women see scarlet, men see red

The world may appear a more colourful place to women, according to a new study that finds many women perceive a greater range of colours than men, particularly shades of red

Strippers exposed

If you've ever wondered what you're going to do with that great internship at the Village Voice, or how you're going to put that hard-earned dance degree to work in the real world, or even if you've ever just wondered what it's like to take your clothes off for money - those frat parties don't count - then the documentary "Stripped" is up your alley.

Photo exhibit shows war violence against women
Human rights group Amnesty International Japan has opened a photo exhibit in Tokyo featuring pictures of women in war-torn areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

UAE to get first woman minister

The United Arab Emirates has appointed its first female government minister.
Sheikha Lubna al-Qasimi, a member of the Sharjah royal family, is to take on the key job of economics and planning minister.

Principal defends teacher who made abortion remarks

The principal of Fairhaven's Rogers Elementary School yesterday defended music teacher Rita Campoli as a "wonderful teacher and a very kind-hearted soul" who inadvertently "crossed the line" in making Election Day comments about abortion to first- and second-graders.
Irate parents began calling the school during the afternoon of Election Day after hearing their children recount the anti-abortion teacher's views against Sen. John F. Kerry.
The children framed the issue as John Kerry "killing babies," and some of them were crying and upset, according to the aunt of one first-grade girl.

ACLU gets involved in teen gay-themed T-shirts case

Twice in the last two weeks, Brad Mathewson, a junior at Webb City High School, was instructed by school officials to change T-shirts that bore gay rights themes. The first of the two incidents prompted Mathewson to contact the American Civil Liberties Union.

Now the ACLU is actively involved. The organization has engaged a local lawyer, shipped out news releases en masse and met with school officials.

Women's revenge against rapists
Women from the slums in Nagpur in central India have attacked alleged rapists who they say are walking free from court, often with the connivance of the authorities.
At the weekend a mob, dominated by 50 women and led by a rape victim, burnt down the houses of three alleged rapists who had reportedly attacked residents with impunity for months

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