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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

May - June Recap

Some items that may not have made the post in May & June:
  • Housewife seeks refuge from fatwa in law
  • Women-friendly mosques
  • Kingslover wins Orange prize for fiction
  • Women's group demands probe into killings
  • Kenyan women seek justice from Hague
  • US State Department - roundtable on Afghan women
  • Abandoned women fight for respect
  • Emirati women love their jobs
  • Sexual harassment of Israeli women
  • Qatar calls for protection of womens rights
As mentioned, just a few they may have missed being posted .
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