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December 27, 2006 09:49 AM EST --   During the last few decades the state and local governments has taken a much stronger stance against domestic violence against women, although estimates of the problem indicate that many cases . . . more
March 01, 2009 09:02 PM EST --   The Violence Against Women Act was writen to end violence against women. Vice President Joe Biden wrote the ground-breaking Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) . . . more
December 29, 2006 09:27 AM EST -- The US Department of Justice has issued a report that indicates that domestic violence rates have fallen by more than fifty percent from 1993 to 2004. The sharp decline is attributed to a number of factors . . . more
December 02, 2008 12:55 PM EST -- Over the past decade, a complex web of local, regional, and national conflict has devastated much of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ethnic strife and civil war broke out in 1996, . . . more
November 30, 2009 05:42 PM EST -- As President Barack Obama sets his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan into motion, another problem in that country is going largely ignored. The United Nations reported today that rape in Afghanistan . . . more
April 26, 2006 02:20 PM EDT -- This is the English translation of the court transcript, originally published in Etemaad, a state-backed publication in Iran.  Aside from highlighting the atrocities to which women and girls are subjected . . . more
September 24, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --   Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FDLS) is on trial for being an accomplice to rape for using his religious position and authority to coerce a fourteen-year-old . . . more
June 15, 2007 01:50 PM EDT --    The father and uncle of twenty-year old Banaz Mahmod of London were convicted of her murder by a UK court.  She was murdered by her Iraqi Kurdish family for the cultural crime of falling . . . more
July 08, 2006 11:55 PM EDT -- The following article was sent to me by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to visit their website, listed below, for a vivid picture of the living . . . more
May 13, 2006 03:20 PM EDT -- A rise in the incidence of "temporary" marriages among Shi'ite Muslims is causing concern among women's rights activists. According to women's NGOs in the south of the country, more . . . more
May 30, 2007 11:49 AM EDT --   A mother in Texas hanged her three young daughters and them herself in the closet of their mobile home.  A fourth eight-month-old daughter survived the hanging.  An AP article detailed . . . more
November 25, 2009 12:55 AM EST -- Women's activists have marked November 25 as a day against violence since 1981. On December 17 , 1999 , the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for . . . more
July 01, 2006 03:42 PM EDT -- According to AdnkronosInternational (AKI), on June 29, 2006, another Iranian woman was sentenced to death by stoning.  A court in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia found the Kurdish woman, Malak . . . more
July 03, 2006 06:46 PM EDT -- Here is the direct link: http://www.petitiononline.com/Malak/petition.html UPDATE:  This is the link to the web site set up to provide background information, as well as updates with Malak's . . . more
March 13, 2008 11:13 PM EDT -- MURDER. Every day four women die in this country as a result of domestic violence , the euphemism for murders and assaults by husbands and boyfriends. That's approximately 1,400 women a year, according . . . more
July 03, 2006 06:29 PM EDT -- Here is the direct link:  http://www.petitiononline.com/Malak/petition.html UPDATE:  This is the link to the web site that has been set up to provide background information, as well as updates . . . more
April 24, 2006 11:55 PM EDT -- "I felt like I was coming home," Barbara says. "I felt like everything would be okay." This comment is from an article written by a woman who commented on her first thought when starting . . . more
May 08, 2006 02:51 PM EDT -- Author Terri Jentz will be live on Gather.com Wednesday, May 24, 2006 to discuss her memoir, Strange Piece of Paradise, the investigation into her own near murder in 1977. We invite you . . . more
April 20, 2007 04:03 PM EDT -- Actress Jennifer Lopez, both producer and star of the upcoming film, Bordertown, will receive Amnesty International's "Artists for Amnesty" award at the Berlin Film Festival where the film . . . more
April 18, 2006 09:53 AM EDT -- Wednesday, March 08, 2006 Speech to members of Congressional Women's Caucus and members of the United States House of Representatives re:  Human rights violations of woman in Iran.   Good . . . more
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