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Experts Now Focusing on Demand-Side of Sex Trade

By Victoria Zunitch ● Uncategorized ● October 17, 2003

A conference to define the forces creating the global demand for sexual services, which helps drive the sex slave trade, is underway in Chicago. Experts are focusing on a wide range of factors that may be driving up demand.

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Refugee Women Need Bias-Free Assistance

By Nisha Varia ● Uncategorized ● October 1, 2003

As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees holds its annual meeting in Geneva this week, it should commit to refugee women having independent access to all aid packages and better protection from gender-based violence.

Bush’s Picks Ultra-Conservative Again for Federal Bench

By no-author ● Arts & Culture ● August 9, 2003

Military Women Prevented from Having Abortions Overseas

By Jodi Enda ● Uncategorized ● July 27, 2003

A proposal died in Congress to permit U.S. military women to pay for abortions in overseas military hospitals with their own money. For now, those opting for abortions still must return to the U. S. or risk a procedure at a private overseas facility.

Roma Women Organize to Fight Triple Bias

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Uncategorized ● July 3, 2003

Roma women are banding together to fight the triple bias that increases their rates of poverty and shortens their life span by as much as 17 years. The new organization of Roma women is the first to involve representatives from across Europe.

Mail Order Brides Find U.S. Land of Milk, Battery

By Asjylyn Loder ● Politics ● June 22, 2003

As Congress considers the need for greater regulation of international marriage brokers, a Ukrainian woman is suing the brokerage that united her with her now ex-husband who, she claims, battered her and is also abusing his latest “mail-order bride.”

UN: Women Gain in Political Clout, Lag in Schooling

By Ginger Otis ● Uncategorized ● May 30, 2003

A new report by the United Nations indicates that women are gaining political power around the world, while they continue to suffer unequal access to education and employment.

U.S. Is 11th in Mother’s Day Rankings

By Por Alison Bowen ● Arts & Culture ● May 11, 2003

In honor of Mother’s Day, Save the Children released its annual Mothers’ Index of the best and worst places to be a mother around the world. The relief agency is also supporting legislation to protect women and children in war-torn regions.

$34 Million Friends Campaign Expands to Europe

By Barbara Crossette ● Uncategorized ● May 8, 2003

A grass-roots campaign led by two women is aiding the leading international reproduction-health group, which lost all its U.S. funding last summer after a damaging anti-choice report whose findings were not officially corroborated.

U.N. Pact Sinks on Issue of Violence Against Women

By Emily Freeburg ● Uncategorized ● April 24, 2003

The U.N. commission on women found itself at a diplomatic impasse for the first time in its history over a document describing what steps nations should take to reduce violence against women and girls.