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LDC-IV, Istanbul: Ms. Bachelet Makes Case for Women’s Engagement in Global Business Value Chain, Promotes Women’s Empowerment Principles as Useful Tool</strong></p> |
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Constitution Extends New Protections for Women By Teresa Lanza and Gladys Melo-Pinzon |
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22 December 2008. We are writing in reference to a statement made by Liberia’s Information Minister, Lawrence Bropleh on the rape of a 9 year old girl and associated insinuations that men who want to rape should seek older women and sex workers for such ‘services’. |
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NAIROBI, Kenya (WOMENSENEWS) --By now Ester, a 51-year-old grandmother of six, has grown tired of the people who come to scribble notes about what happened to her on the evening of Jan. 30. On that date, men kicked in her door and beat her and her sister down to the ground, tore away their clothes, and raped them. That, she says, is how she became infected with HIV. |
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Criminal laws targeting all HIV carriers, however, are counter-productive and inherently unjust. These laws effectively make criminals out of millions of the disease's innocent victims, especially its women victims. |
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