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	<title>Qadin, Azerbaijani woman</title>
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	<description>World is made of two part, Woman and Man</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Women in India Form Their Own Political Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tumrus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The first all-women&#8217;s political party in India has formed after 100 women joined. A first order of business is to boost female representation in parliament from 8 to 50 percent. Seventh in a series on the changing role of women in India.
It is a mellow December morning in Delhi. Soft sunlight filters through the trees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Bank, IMF Charged With Short-Changing Women</title>
		<link>http://www.qadin.org/world-bank-imf-charged-with-short-changing-women.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tumrus</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Activists are pushing the World Bank and IMF to change the lens through which they view gender&#8217;s role in development. Although women are the majority of the world&#8217;s poor, activists say, the institutions overlook that when influencing economies.
After working inside the World Bank as an economist earlier in her career, Elaine Zuckerman is now on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 10th annual L’OREAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science</title>
		<link>http://www.qadin.org/the-10th-annual-l%e2%80%99oreal-unesco-awards-for-women-in-science.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.qadin.org/the-10th-annual-l%e2%80%99oreal-unesco-awards-for-women-in-science.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tumrus</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Five distinguished women researchers in the life sciences were named on October 5th as recipients of the 10th annual L’OREAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science. The international Life Science Awards Jury, which was presided by Professor Gunter Blobel, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1999, is made up of 18 eminent members of the scientific community. Professor Christian de Duve, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974, is the Founding President of the Awards.]]></description>
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		<title>A Moroccan scholar-activist links language and power</title>
		<link>http://www.qadin.org/a-moroccan-scholar-activist-links-language-and-power.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tumrus</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new citizenship law follows the 2004 Moudawana (Family Law), which entitles women to a range of civil rights. The minimum marriage age was raised from 15 to 18; women may now wed without the consent of a male wali (marital tutor); polygamy is restricted to cases in which wives, including the new bride, consent by written contracts approved by a judge; and men may no longer unilaterally “repudiate”—divorce—their wives without compensation.]]></description>
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		<title>Senior UN officials call on Member States to address rape as a weapon of war</title>
		<link>http://www.qadin.org/senior-un-officials-call-on-member-states-to-address-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.qadin.org/senior-un-officials-call-on-member-states-to-address-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tumrus</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the eve of a Security Council debate on the role of women in peace and security, two senior United Nations officials have stressed the need to combat gender-based violence and to ensure that violations of women’s rights, including the use of rape as a weapon of war, are viewed as a security issue.]]></description>
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		<title>British women treat abortion as the easy option, claims angry Archbishop</title>
		<link>http://www.qadin.org/british-women-treat-abortion-as-the-easy-option-claims-angry-archbishop.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.qadin.org/british-women-treat-abortion-as-the-easy-option-claims-angry-archbishop.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tumrus</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA['There has been an obvious weakening of the feeling that abortion is a last resort in cases of extreme danger or distress,' Williams writes, noting that 'nearly 200,000 abortions a year in England and Wales tell their own story'. Instead, the leader of the Church of England claims the growing belief that 'abortion is essentially a matter of individual decision' means it is no longer 'the kind of major moral choice that should involve a sharing of perspective and judgment'.]]></description>
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		<title>Progress in slowing maternal deaths too slow, UN agencies warn</title>
		<link>http://www.qadin.org/progress-in-slowing-maternal-deaths-too-slow-un-agencies-warn.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.qadin.org/progress-in-slowing-maternal-deaths-too-slow-un-agencies-warn.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tumrus</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Attaining Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 – one of several global anti-poverty and development targets agreed to by a UN summit in 2000 – requires an annual decline of 5.5 per cent in maternal mortality ratios between 1990 and 2015. But the current annual decline is less than 1 per cent, according to figures released by the UN World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Bank.]]></description>
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		<title>Women’s empowerment key to achieving UN’s goals, says Ban Ki-moon</title>
		<link>http://www.qadin.org/women%e2%80%99s-empowerment-key-to-achieving-un%e2%80%99s-goals-says-ban-ki-moon.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.qadin.org/women%e2%80%99s-empowerment-key-to-achieving-un%e2%80%99s-goals-says-ban-ki-moon.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tumrus</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[He noted that too many women die during pregnancy and childbirth because their right to sexual and reproductive health is denied; too many women become infected with HIV because they do not have the power to protect their own health; and too many women are subjected to violence – “one of the most systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world.” ]]></description>
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		<title>OPT: Few legal options for abused Palestinian women, say activists</title>
		<link>http://www.qadin.org/opt-few-legal-options-for-abused-palestinian-women-say-activists.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.qadin.org/opt-few-legal-options-for-abused-palestinian-women-say-activists.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tumrus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA["Legally the police are under no obligation to arrest or charge the perpetrators for less serious assaults," Basisy, from the Ministry for Women's Affairs, told IRIN 

"Honour killings" 

"Furthermore, over the last three to four decades fewer than 12 men have been jailed for `honour killings'. Our ministry has proposed changes to the penal code on ]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s groups demand more empowerment in constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.qadin.org/womens-groups-demand-more-empowerment-in-constitution.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.qadin.org/womens-groups-demand-more-empowerment-in-constitution.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tumrus</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Qadin main]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hülya Gülbahar, president of the Association for Educating and Supporting Women Candidates (KA-DER), a nonprofit organization which works to increase the number of women in the Turkish Parliament, said the now present principle of equality between men and women has been removed from the draft. In addition, an affirmative action policy for women is not present, she said.

"Instead women are reduced to the status of needing to be protected ]]></description>
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