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Women Face Bars to Voting, Marriages to Rapists

By Chris Lombardi ● Crime & Law ● June 14, 2000

The intense debate continues over the language of the final document produced by this special session of the U.N. Meanwhile, women’s non-governmental agencies from many nations are struggling to obtain basic civil rights.

Annan Says Women Must Be the Decision-Makers

By Chris Lombardi ● Politics ● June 8, 2000

In his speech welcoming 15,000 women to the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that women and girls must have access to education and become the “policy-makers, lawyers and bureaucrats.”