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  1. Women in Afghanistan: rhetoric vs reality

    included severe restrictions on women's freedom of movement, expression and association. During this ... Female singers are not allowed on Kabul television and women's songs are not played. Karzai's ... unmarried girls from hearing explicit details about sex from married classmates. The "war on ...

  2. Anti-war activist has no regrets

    words "No war" on the sails of the Sydney Opera House. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly 's Niko Leka and ... all marched on February 16 last year, each one was trying to stop a war with their own two feet and ... to — with illegally and immorally sending our troops to war in all of our names, that message ...

  3. UNITED STATES: Huge turnout for abortion rights rally

    had a government that respected the rights of women." But more restrictions on abortion rights ... by the estimated 1 million turnout for the April 25 march for women's lives in Washington, DC. ... the first time she had attended a protest. Hundreds of thousands of women and men travelled from every ...

  4. Singing through the silence

    BY ALLAN GARDINER At a nearby table, women in soft headscarves arranged an elaborate hookah among ... Brisbane on April 3 to share food, words and music by Phil Monsour to raise funds for APHEDA/Union Aid ... family. Phil's performance on this night broke a sort of personal silence, too. During the 1980s and ...