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The appeal date for the Al-Azhar University students is postponed to April 2. The young women were detained in what is being described as the biggest roundup of Egyptians in two decades; AP reports an unofficial detention figure of 16,000.
Twitter users expressed support for the Dec. 5 protests around the country for fast food workers. “All our wages will rise,” said one tweet. Fifty-two percent of the families of fast food workers receive public assistance, according to recent research.
Women have often been the face of anti-government protests taking place in Turkey over the past month. Clues to gender tensions come from headlines about a rape case involving police, government condemnation of abortion and more women in the work force.
Three Nobel Peace Prizes, untold numbers of protestors who are demanding economic justice and the women’s march in Cairo are the best gifts of the holiday season, says Rita Henley Jensen, editor in chief and founder of Women’s eNews.
Brazilian women who work in rural areas and forests are pressing their campaign for legal and land rights. Last month, President Dilma Rousseff, a self-proclaimed ally, promised them floating health clinics for rural rivers and stronger enforcement of labor standards.
Wearing white for peace, a Ugandan women’s advocacy group has appealed to the United Nations amid a violent police crackdown on protesters. Ten have been killed, 100 injured and 600 arrested since April, a rights group says.
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