Afghan women held a summit of their own in Brussels and demanded women’s needs–from schools to health care–be included in the new nation’s agenda. They also insisted on helping write the new constitution and being included in the new national assembly.
Women are two-thirds of the world’s 1.2 billion people living on less than $1 a day. Tiny micro-credit loans improve their lives, but experts debate whether micro-lending will help more people by becoming profitable or by remaining largely subsidized.
As the Taliban flees Kabul, an Afghan woman at a Cambridge peace conference provides a series of guidelines for those involved in the peace process, which she insists should include women. She adds: Never underestimate veiled women.
Soviet domination meant Islamic religious zeal was suppressed in Central Asia, even as women advanced educationally and professionally under socialism. Religious revival has not been kind to women and military action is likely to hurt women most.
A Washington, D.C.-based women’s rights activist says she was in the Afghanistan outpost on Sept. 9 where terrorists killed an anti-Taliban leader. She claims a second man, one dedicated to women’s rights, also died in the attack.
A woman chemist quit her job at a large pharmaceutical company to head her nation’s own effort to create generic Brazilian copies of patented, life-saving imports. Her skill helped the nation cut treatment costs by 70 percent and increase survival rates.
Colombia, obsessed with physical beauty, is also obsessed with a soap opera starring an unattractive financial whiz who repeatedly saves her inept boss from ruin. Viewers also are forced to take a hard look in the mirror and think about true beauty.
Under a new French law, half of all candidates for political office must be women. And in recent municipal elections, they won nearly half the seats, yet real power remains elusive and women are just beginning to enter the political pipeline.
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