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Ex-Teacher Mohan Kumar Confesses to Wooing, Bedding and Then Poisoning 20 Women, Say Indian Police
World  (tags: india, ex teacher, sex, murder, poisoning, women )

Lone
- 3 days ago - nydailynews.com
A former teacher confessed to the murders of 20 women he says he wooed with promises of marriage - only to poison them with cyanide passed off as birth-control pills, Indian police said.
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Mexico's Pink Taxis Cater to Fed-Up Females
World  (tags: cabs, women, mexico, interesting )

Lone
- 19 days ago - sacbee.com
MEXICO CITY -- Each pink taxi comes with a beauty kit, a GPS system and an alarm button. The new fleet of 35 cabs in Mexico's colonial city of Puebla are driven exclusively by women and don't stop for men. The cabs cater
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Afghan Women Still Struggle, 8 Years on
World  (tags: world, women, women's rights, afghanistan )

Katie
- 23 days ago - edition.cnn.com
Afghan women have seen their status rise and fall repeatedly over the past three decades, attaining a measure of equality in the early 1990s before the strictly Islamic Taliban muscled their way to power and forced women to again wear the burqa.
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Trouser-Wearing Woman Spared Fogging in Sudan
World  (tags: sudan, women, fined, wearing trousers )

Lone
- 61 days ago - sacbee.com
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- A Sudanese judge convicted a woman journalist on Monday for violating the public indecency law by wearing trousers outdoors and fined her $200, but did not impose a feared flogging penalty
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Many Afghan Women Stayed Away From Polls
World  (tags: humanrights, freedoms, women, Afghanistan, world, politics, conflict )

Cal
- 68 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Fear, tradition, apathy reversed a hopeful trend from previous election
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To Women Around the Globe - What's Women's Equality Day Mean??
World  (tags: Women, women around the world, women's rights, Women's Equality Day, political participation, US, India, Afghanistan, UN Convention on the Elimination of all )

Thankful
- 73 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Dr. Massouda Jalal, a CEDPA training alumna who was also the first woman to run for president in Afghanistan in 2004. She summed up the most basic political reality for women in Afghanistan: "Without power, there can be no equality."
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Malaysian Authorities Postpone Whipping of Woman
World  (tags: HumanRights, freedoms, government, violence, women )

Michelle
- 75 days ago - nytimes.com
BANGKOK -- Malaysian authorities gave a last-minute, temporary reprieve on Monday to a Muslim woman sentenced to whipping for drinking alcohol in a case that has stirred passions over the increasingly strict enforcement of Islamic law ...
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Sign Petition: Empower Women and Girls in Afghanistan
World  (tags: world, Afghanistan, women, children, human, rights, freedom, education, literacy, vocational, training, empowerment, protection, sexual, abuse, trafficking, abduction, exploitation, healthcare )

Tom
- 81 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Afghan Women Empowerment Act will protect women and girls against sexual and physical abuse, abduction, trafficking and exploitation, and give them a chance for a better life through literacy education, vocational training and health care services.
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Millions Of Afghan Women Will Be Denied Vote Due To Female Staff Shortage
World  (tags: world, Afghanistan, society, culture, Islam, women, vote, elections, politics, middle-east, humanrights, freedoms, government, law )

Tom
- 82 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Millions of Afghan women will be denied their chance to vote in presidential elections this week because there aren't enough female officials to staff the women-only polling stations. Strict cultural norms mean women can't vote in male-run stations.
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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Passes Controversial Law Limiting Women's Rights
World  (tags: government, President Hamid Karzai, afghanistan, Women, human rights, freedoms, middle-east, conflict, violence, dishonesty, lies, Women's rights )

Dee
- 85 days ago - abcnews.go.com
A controversial bill that Afghan President Hamid Karzai promised to review before implementing quietly became law last month, allowing police to enforce language that stipulates a wife's sexual duties and restricts a woman's ability to leave her own home
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Sign Petition: End Domestic Violence in the Muslim World
World  (tags: world, middle-east, sharia, law, africa, muslim, domestic, violence, humiliation, beatings, mutilation, flogging, rape, honor, killing, stoning, acid, attacks, FGM, lashes, women, girls, human, rights, freedom, abuse, cruelty )

Tom
- 91 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Assaults on women and young girls, especially domestic violence, acid attacks, honor killings, FGM and forced marriage that have become a growing problem in some Muslim countries, are barbaric, inhumane and completely contrary to Islamic teachings.
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Sign Petition: International Coalition for Women's Rights
World  (tags: society, culture, world, muslim, sharia, law, domestic, violence, humiliation, beatings, mutilation, flogging, rape, honor, killing, stoning, acid, attacks, FGM, lashes, women, children, human, rights, freedom, abuse, cruelty )

Tom
- 91 days ago - petitiononline.com
Sharia law deems a woman unequal and subordinate to her husband. Under Sharia, women's testimony is worth half that of men's, women have limited rights to divorce and child custody and women can be executed for apostasy or stoned to death for adultery.
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Pakistan Moves to Outlaw Domestic Violence
World  (tags: world, middle-east, pakistan, muslim, domestic, violence, humiliation, beatings, mutilation, flogging, rape, honor, killing, stoning, acid, attacks, FGM, lashes, women, girls, human, rights, freedom, abuse, cruelty )

Tom
- 91 days ago - google.com
Pakistan moved towards outlawing domestic violence when lawmakers approved a bill Tuesday that will punish those found guilty of beating women or children with jail terms and fines. The law, passed unanimously, was called a "big day" for Pakistani women.
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U.S. Reshaping Darfur Policy
World  (tags: world, violence, darfur, sudan, genocide, crime, death, conflict, human, rights, starvation, rape, flogging, stoning, sharia, women, freedom, obama, politics )

Tom
- 95 days ago - latimes.com
The Obama administration is working on a new approach that may soften some sanctions against the Sudan government. Obama's UN ambassador, Susan Rice, who helped draft the sanctions, argues for a tougher stance, declaring that genocide continues in Darfur.
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Western Feminists Mute on Ravages of Shariah
World  (tags: world, sudan, government, africa, middle-east, violence, flogging, whipping, stoning, honor, killings, rape, beatings, islamic, sharia, law, women, human, rights, western, feminists, freedom, repression )

Tom
- 95 days ago - network.nationalpost.com
An angry Khartoum journalist who works for the UN in Sudan started a campaign against shariah law by elevating a local police matter into an international embarrassment: She's invited the world to witness her judicial flogging. Where are the feminists?
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