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  • May 19, 2013 (ABC )
    AFGHANISTAN: Anger as Afghan MPs Halt Women's Bill Debate Islamic fundamentalist politicians in Afghanistan have stopped a debate on whether to give parliamentary approval to a law protecting women against violence.
  • May 14, 2013 (IPS)
    ECUADOR: Young Men Break with Machista Stereotypes in Ecuador At the age of 20, Damián Valencia speaks knowledgeably about every aspect of gender equality. He is a member of Cascos Rosa, a young people's initiative working for cultural change against machismo and violence against women in Ecuador.
  • May 13, 2013 (eNAC)
    INDIA: India's Women Activists Seeing Red India's "Red Brigade" is a group of angry young women with a simple message for the country's sexual predators: change your ways or be ready to face the consequences.
  • May 1, 2013 (The Sun Daily )
    DRC: UN Envoy "Shocked" Over Eastern DR Congo Abuses The new UN special envoy for Africa's Great Lakes region, former Irish president Mary Robinson, expressed her "shock" Tuesday over human rights abuses in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • April 9, 2013 (New York Times)
    ISRAEL: Compromise Is Proposed on Western Wall Praying Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, outlined new ideas on Tuesday for making the Western Wall a place where all Jews could pray comfortably, after tensions over rituals there peaked in recent months and caused discord between the Israeli authorities and Jewish leaders abroad.

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Women's Human Rights and Gender Unit (WRGU)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences

 

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