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The U.S. appeals court in Boston ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, while the anti-choice group Live Action released a video against Planned Parenthood.
Among an indigenous group in Nepal’s western region, the human rights violation of kidnapping women and girls for marriage is still a matter of masculine pride. Stealing a bride is more honorable than eloping, one husband says.
Now that Yemen’s Saleh has agreed to cede power, Nadya Khalife says it’s time to remember the country’s girls who are being forced into marriage. The practice dooms many young women and should be stopped as part of the transitional reform process.
At a mass-matchmaking session in Hangzhou, China, some parents of unmarried, well-educated women express desperation at their “pickiness.” One single woman says she’d like to be married, but her work gives her a strong “inner universe.”
What kind of mothers subject their daughters to drudgery, deny them education and threaten them with early marriage and other human rights abuses? The answer, one family’s story suggests, are women who’ve gone through just that themselves.
Coptic Christians in Egypt have almost no divorce rights, even in cases of domestic violence. In keeping with the country’s revolutionary mood, a women’s advocacy group aims to change that.
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq has seen a proliferation of female journalists and radio programs focused on women’s issues. Three female talk show hosts visited New York to hone their skills with U.S. talk radio pros.