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  1. and ain't I a woman: Racism won't fight rape

    bomb threats. Muslim women have also reported a significant increase in harassment on the street. On ... lynchings of black men in southern USA after the American civil war. While black women had suffered rape at ... women's horrific experiences to justify racism against Muslims. By attempting, on little evidence, to ...

  2. EGYPT: Charges dismissed against prominent feminist

    70-year-old Saadawi forcibly divorced from her husband, Sherif Hatata, on the grounds that she is an apostate, ... a ban on the intellectuals' work or for their imprisonment. In 1995, a Cairo court ordered the ... on the basis of this amendment that the case against Saadawi was dismissed on July 30. Saadawi ...

  3. Afghani refugees: Why they are seeking asylum in Australia

    gunpoint to attend mosques and made beards compulsory for men. The restrictions on women are the most ... in Sydney on three-year temporary protection visas. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly spoke to them about why they ... fled Afghanistan. Zaher left Afghanistan on September 26, 1999 and Riz left in early March, 1999. Both ...

  4. Looking out: To this day

    United States' involvement with slavery, the group is right on the money — no pun intended. The US ... States undertook the greatest and most devastating war of our history. More Americans were killed in the ... Civil War than in all of the rest of the wars we've fought put together. Those 620,000 dead ...

  5. Appalling treatment of refugees exposed

    centre on July 22. Stefan, a 32-year-old Algerian Berber, was targeted by both sides of the civil war in ... considering publishing an open letter to Ruddock in a major newspaper, calling on him to release women and ... Four Corners on the conditions inside Australia's immigration detention centres. The report, ...