Q&A: ”Women Will Benefit From Secularism”
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Cam McGrath interviews Egyptian feminist author NAWAL EL-SAADAWI
CAIRO, Oct 23 (IPS) – Controversy stalks dissident writer Nawal El-Saadawi, whose views on women and religion have put her at odds with Egyptian conservatives.
Recently she returned to Cairo after nearly three years in exile, and has [...]
PHILIPPINES: Like Men, Women Aim to Put Food on the Table
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Stephen de Tarczynski
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines, Oct 9 (IPS) – Despite experiencing an unsuccessful first foray into the world of commerce, the members of the Canduman Women’s Co-operative (CWC) remain focused on producing a profit to aid their families’ day-to-day living expenses.
Established in September 2008, the women-only CWC [...]
RIGHTS-AFRICA: Uganda Women Seek Gender Recovery Plan
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By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA, Sep 26 (IPS) – After two decades of war during which thousands of children were used as child soldiers and many women raped, northern Uganda’s recovery plan is to be spent on building roads rather than helping the country’s most vulnerable.
Civil [...]
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 [...]
COLOMBIA: Women Lead Opposition to Gold Mine
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Helda Martínez
IBAGUÉ, Colombia, Aug 3 (IPS) – Women in the small Andean town of Cajamarca and the nearby city of Ibagué, in the central-west Colombian province of Tolima, are leading the struggle against a major gold mining venture that threatens to alter their way of [...]
POLITICS-NEPAL: Women Push for Gender Equality in New Constitution
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Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU, Aug 3 (IPS) – A political crisis, which has dragged on for months, crippling progress in drafting a new constitution for Nepal by the Constituent Assembly (CA) has considerably dampened the euphoria of women’s organisations here.
The victory of many female candidates in [...]
