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IWD 2012 – Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty

  United Nations   Theme for International Women’s Day 2012:   Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty     read more here and here     ♥         ‘Suomen UN Women on YK-taustainen järjestö, joka toimii naisten ja tyttöjen aseman parantamiseksi maailmassa. UN Womenin tavoitteena on saavuttaa kaikissa yhteiskunnissa tasa-arvo,

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International Women's Day 8.3.2011

  UN’s theme for International Women’s Day 2011: Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women     100 years…and still a lot to do to make this world a better place!     “FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CULTURE, TRADITION OR RELIGION. IT IS

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desperate housewifes…

picture: Self-immolation by women in Afghanistan 1st Prize Contemporary Issues Singles This post is not about an American television comedy-drama series.           I read an article in New York Times. “HERAT, Afghanistan — Even the poorest families in Afghanistan have matches and cooking fuel. The combination usually sustains life. But it

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the sexualization of children

Sexualization in products for children Some commercial products seen as promoting the sexualization of children have drawn considerable media attention:   Bratz Baby dolls that wear thongs. Girls aged 10 and 11 wearing thongs in primary school. Padded bras on bikinis aimed at seven-year-olds. Some people regard training bras similarly.   picture from Wikipedia …

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month October 2010

On Tuesday, 12 May, 2009, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I documented my feelings and what happened during 31 days starting from the morning of the surgery… You can download that pdf-book for FREE here > my story… (that book has some old information: my blog is now self-hosted http://www.BLOGitse.com and I live now

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WO*IMA #83 = your WOrds my IMAge

you give me WOrds and I give you an IMAge = WO*IMA my IMAge #83     As always you have time till Sunday 6 pm Casa time… Don’t know what WO*IMA is about? Check this WO*IMA page!   Have F U N!   * * *     Objective: “To provide youth and women

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reading Between Two Worlds, Zainab Salbi…

Zainab Salbi is the founder and president of  Women for Women International, a nonprofit organization providing women survivors of war with resources to move from crisis to stability and build peace one woman at a time. Yesterday I started to read Zainab’s memoir Between Two Worlds…   More of  Zainab Salbi in Wikipedia   Sky

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