RIGHTS-PARAGUAY: NGO Offers Girls a Way Out of Sexual Exploitation
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Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN, Aug 17 (IPS) – Claudia was 13 years old when she came to the capital of Paraguay from her small rural town. Just a few weeks after her arrival she was wandering the streets of downtown Asunción, a victim of sexual exploitation. [...]
RIGHTS-AFRICA: Elusive Justice for Victims of Gender-Based Violence
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By Joshua Kyalimpa
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 14 (IPS) – Florence Mukambi will always bear the brunt of the country’s post-election violence.
Her two young children were burnt alive in their beds while she was disfigured and rendered destitute as the ethnic hatred raged through the slum where she still [...]
CUBA: Following the Trail of a Woman Who Lived as a Man
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Dalia Acosta
HAVANA, Aug 4 (IPS) – When Cuban historian and anthropologist Julio César González and his Spanish friend Alberto Góngora Sanz arrived at the birthplace of Swiss physician Enriqueta Favez, in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, their joy at finally reaching their destination was so [...]
RIGHTS: U.N. Body Relentlessly Pursues Women’s Equality
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 31 (IPS) – The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is known to publicly castigate countries accused of gender discrimination or violating international conventions governing women’s rights.
So, when it met in January 2001, the 23 experts in the Committee [...]
