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In Jordan, the Price of Honor Is Women’s Blood

By Jamal J. Halaby ● Arts & Culture ● November 14, 2000

In a desert nation of conservative Bedouin tribes, activists are trying to scrap the time-honored law that gives men light sentences for murdering female relatives for offenses to family honor. The new king opposes these “honor killings.”

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Pro-Choice Forces Pick Up Senate, House Seats

By Womens Enews Staff ● Commentary ● November 9, 2000

Women prepared as never before and they scored significant gains, winning seats, placing more women in the pipeline for the future and getting out the vote in coalitions with African-Americans and labor in Michigan, Florida and elsewhere.

Fact Sheet on Women Government Appointees

By the 2001 Womens Appointments Project ● Arts & Culture ● November 7, 2000

Pro-Choice Women Stepping Up Attacks on Nader

By Cindy Richards ● Arts & Culture ● November 3, 2000

Alarmed that Ralph Nader could hand the Presidential election to George W. Bush, women’s advocates are saying that Nader is not really progressive, does not champion women’s rights and does not understand the critical importance of Roe v. Wade.

Lynne Seeks Public Role; Hadassah Shuns Spotlight

By Melinda Rice ● Politics ● October 30, 2000

The job description requires the Second Spouse to always look admiringly at the Veep and the Prez whenever cameras are near, always look well-dressed but not fashionable, and to take up a good, non-controversial cause. Here are the two candidates.

Scholars Contrast Childhood’s Rhetoric, Reality

By Barbara Raab ● Employment ● October 26, 2000

They claim treatment of kids is hypocritical. We say all kids need care, protection and education, but kids who commit crimes are prosecuted as adults, and kids who become parents are said to be responsible for most of the nation’s social problems.

Columnist Says Women Vote on Image Alone

By no-author ● Arts & Culture ● October 23, 2000

Women the World Over Demand End to Violence, Poverty

By Elizabeth Randolph ● Politics ● October 18, 2000

In a groundbreaking global effort, women from Hong Kong to Jamaica rallied against poverty and violence in a march at the United Nations where delegates presented a petition outlining 17 demands.

Women Journalists Honored for Courage Under Fire

By Victoria Graham ● Arts & Culture ● October 11, 2000

Awards for courageous journalism were presented to an editor in Kyrgyzstan, a broadcaster in Burundi, an American correspondent who dodged bullets in the West Bank, Kosovo and other hot spots and a senior diplomatic correspondent and pioneer.

Reno Bartender Fired for Refusing to Wear Makeup

By no-author ● Arts & Culture ● October 9, 2000