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		<title>Dropping trends in maternal mortality still show greater needs for women</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WNN Breaking (WNN/UN): UNITED NATIONS, New York, N.Y.: The number of women dying of pregnancy and childbirth related complications has almost halved in 20 years, according to new estimates released today by the United Nations, which stressed that greater progress is still needed in significantly reducing maternal deaths. The report, entitled Trends in Maternal Mortality: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nepal: Concern over condition of elderly, women and children homeless by evictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BM - Bikyamasr &#8211; Wednesday, 16 May 2012 (originally published 13 May) The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns the excessive use of force and the lack of due process in the eviction of the community living in the squatter settlements in Thapathali, Kathmandu on the banks of the Bagmati River on 8 May 2012. Over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. FBI works to stop discrimination of Muslims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://womennewsnetwork.net/?p=16134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nadia S. Mohammad - WNN Opinion (WNN/CGN) New York, N.Y.: New York, New York &#8211; As the American public reads of yet another report released on governmental surveillance of Muslim American communities, it is refreshing to know that for the first time since the 9/11 attacks, the US Senate Judiciary Committee, along with various state legislatures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INDIA: Magida dalit woman hero moves beyond caste and ‘untouchability’</title>
		<link>http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/05/15/india-magida-dalit-woman-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Madiga as told to Stella Paul &#8211; WNN MDG Stories (WNN/PL) Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA: When I was 25 I went to jail for demanding jobs and civic facilities for Madigas, the Dalit community that I belong to. I was dragged into the police van by constables who pulled my hair, slapped and kicked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Red Cross works with widows to track the missing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WNN Breaking (WNN/ICRC) Kathmandu, NEPAL: Laxmi Devi Khadka has been in the dark about the fate of her husband for over nine years. In 2003, armed people came to her house in Bardia, southern Nepal, and took her husband, saying they wanted to speak to him for a few minutes. He has never been seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Native American women have little recourse against attackers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Reilly with Marielle DeJong &#8211; WNN Opinion (WNN/PM) Washington, DC, U.S.: As a result of the unprecedented rates of violent crimes against Native American women, there has been an increase in legislation dealing with criminal investigations and legal procedures on Native American reservations. For example, the Stand Against Violence and Empower Native Women Act (SAVE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[U.S. Congress Violence Against Women Act] tribal provisions [for Native American women] are constitutionally sound </title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jefferson Keel - Hill - Tuesday, 15 May 2012 (originally published 10 May) There is a group of criminals, on Native American lands, who assault, rape, and abuse Native women and they can’t be arrested. These criminals are non-Native men. They don’t have to face a judge, spend any time behind bars, or be hounded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[United Arab Emerates] Women in rural areas assert independence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vivian Nereim &#8211; National &#8211; Monday, 14 May 2012 (originally published 07 May) RAS AL KHAIMAH // Duaa Murad arrived in Rafaq after a two-hour drive, rumbling up a rocky road past a goat. The sun was blazing. The electricity at Rafaq School for Basic Education had cut out. Still, she found a classroom of [...]]]></description>
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