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Chile’s Bachelet Promises Pension Payday for Women

By Jen Ross ● Arts & Culture ● March 10, 2006

Chile’s president-elect Michelle Bachelet has promised an overhaul of the nation’s private pension system. She says her reform will do much more to help women than the “pension for housewives” promised by her opponents during the campaign.

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Igric Shines Bright Light on Dark Balkan Stories

By Laura J. Winter ● Arts & Culture ● March 2, 2006

The Balkans is a fractured region, still mending from years of ethnic and sectarian war and a media saddled by tycoons peddling nationalistic views. Gordana Igric is determined to bring the Balkans together through a truer, independent journalism.

Women’s Lowly News Status Is a Global Insult

By Sheila Gibbons ● Arts & Culture ● February 22, 2006

Women’s secondary role in making and breaking news is, in journalism jargon, an “evergreen.” But Sheila Gibbons says new data about the second-sex status of women in the newsroom is stunning in its global magnitude and cross-cultural consistency.

Tape Reveals Mexican Plot; Women Lag in State Govs

By Anju Mary Paul ● Uncategorized ● February 18, 2006

Programs for Batterers Changing Their Focus

By Suzanne Batchelor ● Uncategorized ● January 30, 2006

A new domestic violence program in Texas signals a shift in the treatment of batterers. Increasingly, ex-offenders are leading recent offenders to confront how their own decisions to use violence are linked to an underlying belief in male dominance.

Responders Learn to Spot Signs of Strangulation

By Marie Tessier ● Commentary ● December 19, 2005

Non-lethal strangulation is a common but often invisible crime against battered women. New research and investigative techniques are helping to bring it into the courtroom and make it a felony in a growing list of states.

Child Pornography Dodges Detection on Web

By Sandra Kobrin ● Arts & Culture ● December 8, 2005

Child-porn ads–the bulk of which feature girls, some under 5–are pouring into e-mail in-boxes. The $3 billion global industry is concentrated in the U.S. and operates through temporary Web sites and online credit card payments.

Venezuela Will Retry Teen’s Accused Torturer

By Jen Ross ● Uncategorized ● October 7, 2005

In a case that has drawn international outrage, Linda Loaiza Lopez’ perpetrator was found not guilty last year, four years after she was kidnapped, raped and tortured. Now, a retrial is set to start next week.

Efforts to Track Rape Emerge Between Hurricanes

By Nancy Cook Lauer ● Commentary ● September 23, 2005

Police at the Houston Astrodome were instructed to start accepting rape reports from women displaced from Louisiana. But now coastal Texas deals with its own evacuation while the New Orleans evacuees are being moved out.

Rape-Reporting Procedure Missing After Hurricane

By Nancy Cook Lauer ● Uncategorized ● September 13, 2005

The rape report of New Orleans’ singer Charmaine Neville is one of the few coming out of the beleaguered Hurricane Katrina area. Advocates for sex-assault victims say they are collecting plenty of stories, but no reporting process is in place.