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Daud Sharifa Khanam / Photo credit: Infochange
07.05.2008 Durgabai Deshmukh Award winner Daud Sharifa Khanam from southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu provided Muslim women a platform to challenge the oppressive patriarchal system. For this, she has had to face the ire of Muslim clerics. She was hated, abused and threatened but she never gave up the fight.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Religion] [Culture] [Ethics & value systems]
Image: Daud Sharifa Khanam / Photo credit: Infochange
Children produce their own programmes at the Erive Community Radio station/ Photo credit: UNICEF/Lemoyne
07.05.2008 Erive Community Radio is bringing a change in the lives of young girls in Maganja da Costa. The UNICEF-supported station has led to a rise in enrollment in primary schools through its programmes promoting girlsÂ’ education. The station is run in partnership with MozambiqueÂ’s Social Communication Institute.
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Related topics/regions: [Mozambique] [Southern Africa] [Education] [ICT]
Image: Children produce their own programmes at the Erive Community Radio station/ Photo credit: UNICEF/Lemoyne
Nigerian lawyer Oby Nwankwo will participate in an upcoming Roundtable.
07.05.2008 NEW YORK, May 6 (OneWorld) - Women's rights advocates in the United States have launched a novel global initiative aiming to help millions of women across the world who face violence at the hands of men.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Capacity building] [Communication] [Knowledge] [Civil society]
Image: Nigerian lawyer Oby Nwankwo will participate in an upcoming Roundtable. © Peace X Peace
Dr Ranjana Kumari speaking to OWSA
06.05.2008 Indian government has decided to table the contentious WomenÂ’s Reservation Bill in Rajya Sabha on May 6. Earlier in an interview with OWSA, Dr Ranjana Kumari, Director, Centre for Social Research spoke on the whole gamut of issues concerning the need for women in governance.
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From: OneWorld South Asia
Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Politics] [Democracy] [Governance] [Law]
Image: Dr Ranjana Kumari speaking to OWSA
Women outside Parliament Street on April 30 demanding 33% reservation / Photo credit: Mahipal S. Rawat / OWSA
06.05.2008 Initially introduced in 1996 and subsequently in lapse; snatched and torn up in 1999, the contentious WomenÂ’s Reservation Bill is finally set to be tabled in Rajya Sabha on May 6. The Bill seeks to provide 33% reservation for women in state assemblies and the parliament.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Politics] [Democracy] [Governance] [Law]
Image: Women outside Parliament Street on April 30 demanding 33% reservation / Photo credit: Mahipal S. Rawat / OWSA
06.05.2008 Indian government has decided to table the contentious WomenÂ’s Reservation Bill in Rajya Sabha on May 6. Earlier in an interview with OWSA, Dr Ranjana Kumari, Director, Centre for Social Research spoke on the whole gamut of issues concerning the need for women in governance.
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From: OneWorld South Asia
Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Politics] [Democracy] [Governance] [Law]
A Kenyan Maasai woman.
02.05.2008 Once one of the few Maasai girls able to attend school and now the chairperson of a leading coalition of indigenous peoples' organizations in Africa, Mary Simat embodies the changing gender norms of the Kenyan Maasai community.
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From: Cultural Survival, Inc.
Related topics/regions: [Kenya] [Education] [Culture] [Ethics & value systems]
Image: A Kenyan Maasai woman. © Women Thrive Worldwide
Sex workers in Kolkata / Photo credit: Getty Images
02.05.2008 In a major victory to get their profession legally recognised, sex workers in eastern India have been granted a life cover by the countryÂ’s largest insurance company. The move is being hailed as a significant breakthrough in efforts to help them fight poverty and discrimination.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Social exclusion] [Sexuality]
Image: Sex workers in Kolkata / Photo credit: Getty Images
Use of shared needles is one of the major reasons for HIV transmission / Photocredit: istockphoto
01.05.2008 For N.Nandadevi, a dedicated health activist in Manipur in north-eastern India, mere counseling on HIV/AIDS is not enough to tackle the fatal disease. A believer in pragmatic solutions, she distributes disposable syringes among drug users to prevent transmission through shared needles.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Youth] [Health] [AIDS] [Disease]
Image: Use of shared needles is one of the major reasons for HIV transmission / Photocredit: istockphoto

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