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law in Malaysia is based on Islamic law. Women face many injustices in terms of divorce, polygamy, ... prescribed to women to prevent miscarriage from the 1940s to the 1970s, despite the pharmaceutical ... women. Today, there are 10 million DES mothers and children. SBS, Sunday, June 27, 10.30am. A Memory and ...
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... and ain't I a woman?: Not over for victims of rape
the refugee experience in Kosova will depend on the support given to the women victims of war, whether ... Kosovar population can begin to get on with their lives. But the large numbers of women who were the ... , whose status in society is still below that of men. The rape of women in a war situation is often ...
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John Pilger: The 'new feminism'
Blair's government, and the disciplining of working women and men and those denied work; on the promotion ... "equality"; only Glenys Kinnock mentioned the continuing struggle of working women. This is not surprising; ... the aspirations of ordinary women and men. Along with their mantle of semi-celebrity, such feminists ...
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Bangladesh students 'united with the people'
on March 25, 1971, which killed thousands of people. The war was to claim 3 million lives before ... non-students. Large rallies have been held against the finance minister and other government figures. On June 6, ... 2000 Dhaka University students marched on the parliament building, only to be stopped by hundreds of ...
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What we can't and can afford
themselves, or whose forefathers, had taken the Aborigines' land, women, children, and labour on whatever ... justifies lower wages, even though we, as a nation, claim to have outlawed discrimination on the basis of ... their pay. I am old enough to have been around in the 1960s, when, to the horror of many, women were ...