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French Teen, 14, Deserts Family, Joins Islamic State

By Hajer Naili ● Arts & Culture ● September 15, 2014

Since 2012, up to 150 French women have joined the ranks of the Islamic State or Al Nusra Front. Here the family of a 14-year-old describes how her departure has left them stunned and wondering why the government isn’t doing more.

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Database Spotlights Gaps in Campus Rape Policies

By Samantha Kimmey ● Crime & Law ● February 15, 2012

Justice for survivors of campus rape is often weakened by administrators leery of attracting negative press. The Campus Accountability Project confronts this with an online, free, searchable database compiled by students that shows how well a school responds.

Bride’s Death in China Spurs Anti-Violence Bill

By Jia You ● Crime & Law ● August 2, 2011

The death of a young Chinese bride in 2009 under the fists of her husband shocked the public about the lack of protection for victims of domestic violence. Now, lawmakers have a national anti-domestic violence bill to consider.

Algerian Women Test the ‘Arab Spring’ Winds

By Brahim Takheroubte ● Politics ● March 17, 2011

To appease “Arab spring” protesters, Algeria lifted a 1991 law that banned public assembly, but a longstanding women’s vigil for the country’s “disappeared” complains it doesn’t help them. Other political women debate the effects.

Lap-Band Complications Could Tie Up Nation’s E.R.

By Alizah Salario ● Employment ● March 14, 2011

The FDA’s recent expansion of gastric-banding weight-loss surgery to millions more Americans could burden the nation’s E.R. with complications that patients discuss in online forums, such as vomiting and abdominal pain. The third of three stories.

Granite State May Pass Must-Tell Parents Law

By Sharon Johnson ● Employment ● January 14, 2011

New Hampshire may pass a parental notification law this year and spur other states to follow. Nebraska could take leadership on fetal pain legislation. The second of two stories on anti-choice momentum in the states after the 2010 elections.

Protesters Break Prayer Rules at Leading Mosque

By Julia Marsh ● Arts & Culture ● February 23, 2010

The Feb. 20 protest at a leading U.S. mosque ended peacefully and unresolved. Demonstrators seeking to remove a partition blocking women’s view of the prayer leader say they will persist with their decade-long push.

Charge: Sahara Tribal Women Jailed for Adultery

By Dominique Soguel ● Politics ● May 28, 2008

A member of a Moroccan delegation in New York this month described a secret detention center in southwestern Algeria for mothers whose only crime was being unwed. The story’s political backdrop is a complicated territorial dispute in Western Sahara.

New Law Leaves Divorced Algerian Women Homeless

By Ilhem Rachidi ● Politics ● March 4, 2007

Algeria has a law designed to defend women from being made homeless by divorce; a prospect heightened by a severe housing shortage. Advocates, however, say the law is not enforced and women are still winding up in the streets.

Algerian Amnesty Heightens Danger to Women

By Leela Jacinto ● Politics ● October 27, 2006

Women’s activists in Algeria say a sweeping 2005 amnesty, offered to most prosecutors of Algeria’s decade-long “dirty war,” is making the culture more dangerous for women. Reports of domestic violence, they say, are rising.