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To say nothing of making loud phone calls at the mall

Good grief: LUCKNOW, India — A northern Indian village has banned unmarried women from using cell phones for fear they will arrange forbidden marriages that are often punished by death, a local...

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Doing it right

Yes, more of this please. PICTURES OF KATLYN GUNN’S little girl line the walls, cover the fridge and top the tables. Her baby’s name — Kylie — loops across her inner wrist, a tattooed reminder when the...

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Building the City of Joy

Here’s a pro-woman solution if ever there was one, For years, diplomats, aid workers, academics and government officials here have been vexed almost to the point of paralysis about how to attack this...

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Congratulations Murhabazi Namegabe

Murhabazi Namegabe has been awarded the World’s Children’s Prize for his work in the DR Congo. “You’re going to die tonight. Eat your last meal!” Murhabazi read the short message that beeped on his...

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That’s bravery

And those are real women’s rights she’s fighting for, as opposed to the fake reproductive kind: A Saudi mother said Sunday she defied a ban on women drivers in the ultra-conservative kingdom by getting...

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Lower income women

Will an abortion make them magically wealthy? Will an abortion end her employment in the sex trade? Will an abortion find them child care arrangements for their other children? The majority of...

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“Freedom to keep their children”

When I learned about a local charity and support group for young mothers, SHYM, I was astonished that no one had thought of this before. While SHYM does wonderful work here in Nova Scotia, there is...

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Not the answer

Poor women are delivered a message in this country, that rather than deliver their baby, their baby would be “better off” having never been born at all. A message we can see at work here. Among poor...

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Congolese women still targets

It’s hard to think that women and children would be military targets, but for militias and rebel groups operating in the DRC, that’s exactly what they are. The killings of the civilians took place on...

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Mark your calendars: The Justice Summit

May 5, 2012, a day-long conference about human trafficking in Ottawa. Read more about it, here.

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