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Environment

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  • Grassroots Women's Groups Respond in Storm-Hit Haiti
  • Development Financing Still Gender-Blind

Equality and non-discrimination

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  • Stoning victim 'begged for mercy'
  • Islamists stone to death Somali woman for adultery
  • Posters of women barred on buses in Jerusalem
  • Livni to introduce 'civil marriage' bill
  • Fighting for Muslim women's rights

Family

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  • Women protest against polygamy in Kurdistan
  • Livni to introduce 'civil marriage' bill
  • Court rules Islamic law discriminatory
  • Iranian women successfully lobby government to reform family law
  • KENYA: Ready For New Abortion Law?

Freedom of expression

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  • Iranian-American Student Esha Momeni Bailed Out of Iran Jail: Interview with Shirin Ebadi
  • IRAN: Sussan Tahmasebi Banned from Travel, Home of Sussan Tahmasebi and Parastoo Alahyaari Searched Property Seized
  • Iran: Intensification of repression of women's rights activists
  • Fighting for Muslim women's rights
  • Malaysia bans Nobel laureate from speaking

Girl Child

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  • Child marriage and divorce in Yemen
  • Girls being "raped for grades"
  • Underage marriage fatwa prompts official inquiry
  • FGM continues in rural secrecy
  • Women call for media support in fight against FGM

Globalization

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  • Arab Voices on Abu Ghraib
  • Civil Society Groups Celebrate Collapse of Doha Round: The Best Outcome for World’s Poor
  • STOP THE WTO TALKS AND BURY THE DOHA ROUND
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