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A new nationwide media blitz in Sudan calls for the end of the practice of cutting girls’ genitalia. Critics say its edge is dulled by not directly referring to FGM and instead relying on a word that means “complete.”
Access to reproductive health care wasn’t an issue for my friends or me. But the more I learn about the struggles of women of color, and the leaders who have paved the way, the more I appreciate our sense of entitlement.
Women and children are driving up a homeless population that can’t afford to pay New York City’s high rents. One woman’s effort to leave a city shelter after almost three years shows the financial tightrope she must walk.
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Folk dances are gaining popularity in Mumbai and denting the dominance of Bollywood. An instructor says simple, repetitive steps let dancers show love, laughter and even anger. One city dweller says the traditional moves help her unwind.
Women are scarce on the corporate boards of leading companies; just 15 percent. As shareholders and networkers we can apply financial and social pressure to change that.
A global conference on AIDS is taking place this week in Vienna, Austria, and Shantha Rau Barriga says the special vulnerabilities of women with disabilities must be kept on the agenda.
For nearly a decade, visas that could help battered immigrant women were held up by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ failure to issue implementation regulations. Now the backlog is shrinking fast. The first of two stories.
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Abused immigrants need law enforcers to help them secure a protective U visa. But across the country, advocates say many police don’t seem to have heard of them yet and some of their clients are improperly apprehended. The second of two stories.
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