http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=12&catid=302News Feed for - Womens-rightshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96379818&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-24T08:33:00KHOST, Afghanistan, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Gun shooting by unidentified armed men claimed the lives of four civilians including two women in Khost province of eastern Afghanistan, an official said on Tuesday. Xinhua News Agencyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96294422&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-24T06:53:00JOHANNESBURG �?? United States (US) President Barack Obama was on Monday expected to honour Zimbabwean human rights activists Jenni Williams and Magondonga Mahlangu with the 2009 Robert F Kennedy Human Zim Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96291777&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-24T07:18:00WASHINGTON_President Barack Obama praised representatives of a women's organization whose members have been beaten by President Robert Mugabe's police force and face court trials for challenging the Zimbabwean Poten & Partnershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96258552&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-24T03:35:00Voxy News Engine Last Saturday night, a highly-billed charity event in Auckland was disappointingly marred. During an otherwise fabulous night, two top male entertainers from a bygone era, each told a Voxy.co.nzhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96361828&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-24T02:26:00Dr. Michael S. Kramer, at The Montreal Children's Hospital in Quebec, Canada, and colleagues assessed children through age six and a half years for a number of outcomes including blood pressure, intelligence Grub4Lifehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96251460&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-24T01:20:00Harare Three women kidnapped an 18-year-old man in Chitungwiza and forced him to be intimate with one of them at a cathedral in Harare's city centre on Tuesday, police have confirmed. On Tuesday, the AllAfrica.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96355204&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-24T00:46:00Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, said she was encouraged by the leadership shown by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) today, which called on all companies Australian Governmenthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96336987&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T20:03:00Jasvinder Sanghera set up the charity after fleeing a forced marriage A leading campaigner against forced marriages has warned that thousands of south Asian schoolgirls in West Yorkshire could be at risk BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96211918&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T22:50:00The 2008 national election shows our next generation of leaders must possess something many recent and current elected officials lack: intellectual courage. President Nixon believed all leaders, regardless Family Security Mattershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96296523&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T10:41:00Lauryn Oates, was just 14 when she became a human-rights campaigner. Back in 1996, the then-Grade 9 student read a newspaper article about the Taliban's banning of women from schools that infuriated her. National Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96169843&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T05:49:00Thought we've overcome this monster? Not so. It seems deep-rooted attitudes within our communities are keeping it alive. woman holding face Data from the analysis phase of a USAID-funded four-year initiative Women24.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96266363&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T02:30:00As the global economic crisis deepened in the first half of this year, the National Hotline for Battered Women and Children at Risk cited on Sunday a sharp increase in the number of women reporting domestic Jerusalem Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96338218&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T20:13:00Kumasi, Nov. 23, GNA - The African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA), has called for an early passage of the Property Rights of Spouses Bill (PRSB) into law. It said an early introduction of the law was Ghana News Agencyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96338170&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T20:13:00NEW DELHI // India might have reason to boast about its booming economy, but it is lagging far behind its neighbours when it comes to gender equality, according to the annual report of the World Economic Abu Dhabi Nationalhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96337626&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T20:09:00The NYT has a symposium on the topic featuring Richard Vedder. I especially like Alfonso Trujillo's response: Subsidizing top-tier universities in the hope of getting more underprivileged students National Reviewhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96334344&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T19:42:00Follow Israel news on and . (IsraelNN.com) �??We are members of the coalition and as such I ask that you respect us,' United Torah Judaism (UTJ) Chairman Rabbi Eliezer Menachem Moses said during a government Israel National Newshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96201213&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T10:13:00by editors. � Integrate customized newsfeeds in any format covering all industry and geopolitical topics, updated every 15 minutes. � Upload press releases to the EIN network and have them submitted journalists Ein Newshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96284464&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T07:32:00Kigali A Representative of Inter-Parliamentary Union; Zeina Hilal, has commended the government's commitment and respect to treaties that advance women's rights and protect them from several forms of AllAfrica.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96177056&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T06:55:00Hi Jon. I appreciate your response. But I think the men�??s movement should use caution when using �??biological�?� excuses to justify our dire situation. All that does is lead to �??learned helplessness�?� Men's News Dailyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96270867&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-23T04:34:00A RALLY was held in Mt Hagen last Friday as part of a campaign against violence against women and children. Many people attended including women leaders and prisoners from Baisu. It was revealed during Papua New Guinea Nationalhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95850513&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-18T00:20:00By Divya Talwar BBC Asian Network Jasvinder Sanghera said many victims had nowhere else to turn The UK's only national helpline for victims of forced marriages and so-called "honour" violence is to cease BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96122036&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-22T04:34:00Tip your editors: Editor-in-Chief: Anna Holmes Email | Twitter Deputy Editor: Dodai Stewart Email | Twitter Senior Contributing Editor: Tracie Egan Email | Twitter Contributing Editors: Anna North Email Jezebelhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96199654&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-22T02:00:00Article by: Creamer Media Reporter This report from the comments on the relationship between literacy and women's traumatic experiences of violence. Downloads: - 930 KB Edited by: Creamer Media Reporter Polity.org.zahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96193251&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-22T00:21:00Two out of three people in England believe maternity services should be spared from health service spending cuts, according to a poll out today. The survey of more than 1,700 people for the Royal College The Independenthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96193044&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=3022009-11-22T00:19:00HAPPY hookers, lesbians being 'converted' by ageing men and the head of the Girls' Schools Association explaining that women can be clever and still, like, look nice. What a week; I'm practically nauseous The Scotsman