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		<title>Caught between the Right &amp; the Left: Protecting the religious rights of global women</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 03:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meredith Tax &#8211; WNN Religion &#38; Belief (WNN/OD) New York, N.Y. UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: I have spent the last twenty years working on issues of women and religious censorship.  As a feminist activist in International PEN and then in Women’s WORLD, I couldn’t help noticing that increasing numbers of women writers were being targeted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Nobel Laureate, a UN Special Rapporteur &amp; others say no to killer robots</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 22:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Ridgwell &#8211; WNN Breaking (WNN/VOA) United Nations, Geneva, SWITZERLAND, EUROPE: United Nations’ special rapporteur on executions has joined calls for a moratorium on so-called ‘killer robots’ &#8211; automated weapons systems which critics fear may one day operate independently from human commanders. It may sound like something from a sci-fi movie &#8211; but campaigners say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does it mean to be African?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wale Idris Ajibade &#8211; WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) New York, New York, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: What does it means to be African in the real sense? Is it spiritual? Is it a course, a journey, a deep sense of hope of healing, reconciliation, or a birthright based inclination? Is it a responsibility for just Africans, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South American domestic workers move closer to justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 18:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gabriela De Cicco &#8211; WNN Justice (WNN/AWID) Brasília, BRAZIL, SOUTH AMERICA: Long working hours, lack of rest time and poor treatment and compensation, in the absence of national legislation, often turns domestic work into a form of slavery in many countries. Some of the changes taking place in Latin America regarding decent work for domestic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bike-themed festival kicks off with Boston woman’s tale</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/05/24/bike-themed-festival-kicks-off-boston-womans-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James H. Burnett III &#8211; Boston Globe &#8211; Friday, 24 May 2013 (originally published 20 May) ARLINGTON — Ask the most ardent sports fans to name some of the earliest female stars and they are likely to toss out names like Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias. All stars, no doubt, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incarcerating Afghan women for ‘moral crimes is unjust says Human Rights Watch</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/05/23/incarcerating-afghan-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 22:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WNN Justice (WNN/HRW) Kabul, AFGHANISTAN, SOUTH ASIA: The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for “moral crimes,” Human Rights Watch said on Monday, May 21, 2013.  Commitments by senior government officials to end such abuses have had little practical impact. Statistics from Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[India] By the women, for the women</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avik Das &#8211; Times of India &#8211; Thursday, 23 May 2013 (originally published 21 May) For a group of women in Khagra, Berhampur, the next month will bring with it the promise of a changing fortune. They have their business plan &#8211; to manufacture low-cost biodegradable sanitary napkins &#8211; ready. Their target consumers are in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biodiversity of marine life is essential to saving species</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 05:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WNN Earth Watch (WNN/UN) United Nations, New York, N.Y., UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Unless greater efforts are made to reverse current trends, the world will run out of freshwater, the United Nations said today marking the International Day for Biological Diversity and urging stronger scientific alliances to understand and protect natural resources. “We live in an [...]]]></description>
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