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Sexual and Reproductive Rights

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  • Hitmen charge $100 a victim as Basra honour killings rise
  • Stoning victim 'begged for mercy'
  • Islamists stone to death Somali woman for adultery
  • Call to end doctor abortion power
  • Girls being "raped for grades"

Trafficking

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  • Sex for sale 'is a form of violence'
  • Trafficking of girls, abuse worsening

United Nations

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  • ‘No Aid Effectiveness without Gender Equality’
  • African ministers fine-tune AU gender policy draft
  • U.N. tells Saudis to tackle violence against women
  • Development Financing Still Gender-Blind
  • Sudan admits rights abuses, including rape by allies in Darfur

Violence Against Women

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  • Child marriage and divorce in Yemen
  • Hitmen charge $100 a victim as Basra honour killings rise
  • Girls being "raped for grades"
  • Mass stigma scars Congo's rape survivors
  • Violence against women on rise in Mali

War and Armed Conflict

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  • Hitmen charge $100 a victim as Basra honour killings rise
  • Self-immolation on the rise among women in Afghanistan
  • Women Fight For Right To Join Al Qaeda
  • "God Should Be So Kind That I Can Have Contraceptives"
  • Arab Voices on Abu Ghraib

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