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American Halliburton/KBR employee gang- raped by co-workers.(IRAQ)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... BAGHDAD -- Jamie Leigh Jones, a young employee of Halliburton/KBR working in Iraq, was drugged and, while she was unconscious, at least seven fellow employees gathered to socialize after work brutally gang raped her. Doctors who examined Jones documented the rapes and took photos of her ...

Political violence hits women hardest.(KENYA)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... NAIROBI -- The violence after a very likely rigged presidential election has disproportionately targeted women, according to a United Nations official in Kenya. But the apparently successful mediation efforts did not include women, and Kenyan women are demanding inclusion. ...

500 women rally to protest kidnapping.(AFGHANISTAN)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl lindsey ... KANDAHAR -- On Jan. 20, about 500 Afghan women rallied to protest the kidnapping of an American aid worker and her driver and to demand their release. Cydney Mizell, who works for the Asian Rural Life Development Foundation, was kidnapped Jan. 26, along with her driver, Abdul ...

Benazir Bhutto assassinated.(PAKISTAN)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... RAWALPINDI -- Benazir Bhutto, 54, the first woman to have been elected Prime Minister of an Islamic state, and who just last October emerged from her self-imposed exile of eight years to return to Pakistan, was assassinated in late December 2007. A suicide bomber hit crowds gathered to ...

Government closes down leading feminist magazine.(IRAN)(Zanan)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... TEHRAN -- The Iranian government has closed down Iran's leading feminist magazine, Zanan ("Women" in Farsi) for "publishing information detrimental to society's psychological tranquility." Zanan, which for 16 years has been a forum for Iranian women's issues, was also accused of "offering ...

Abusive husband's testimony leads to stoning sentence for sisters.(IRAN)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... SHAHRYAR -- Zohreh Kabiri-niat and her sister, Azar, have been sentenced to execution by stoning in Iran for being accused of infidelity by Zohreh's abusive husband. The women have already both received 99 lashes, after which they were returned to prison. Instead of being released as ...

Saudi Arabia to behead woman for witchcraft.(SAUDI ARABIA)(Fawza Falih)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... RIYADH -- Fawza Falih, a Saudi Arabian woman accused of witchcraft in 2006-one man said she cast a spell on him that caused him to be impotent--has been sentenced to death by beheading. When she was arrested in 2006, she was held in prison and beaten over 35 days in order to extort a ...

American businesswoman arrested, strip-searched.(SAUDI ARABIA)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... RIYADH -- A 37-year-old American businesswoman, married and a mother of three, was arrested in February for meeting for business purposes with a male colleague to whom she was not related. Their meeting was being held in a "family" designated area of a Starbucks in Riyadh, where men and ...

United Nations prods saudis to give more rights to women.(SAUDI ARABIA)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... GENEVA -- On Feb. 1, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women called on Saudi Arabia to immediately end its requirement that all women must have male guardians. Women still cannot travel, appear in court, marry or work without permission from a male ...

King pardons rape victim.(SAUDI ARABIA)(King Abdullah)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... RIYADH -- In response to a worldwide outcry against sentencing a woman who had been raped to several years in prison and 200 lashes, King Abdullah pardoned the raped woman. The courts had sentenced her because she and a male friend had been alone together in a car when seven men raped them ...

Ban on head scarves in universities to end.(TURKEY)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... ISTANBUL -- On Feb. 9, Turkey's parliament voted overwhelmingly to approve an end to the ban on women wearing headscarves in universities. The end of the ban was proposed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who heads a religiously oriented party; adoption of the law requires a change ...

Police storm hospital, harass woman after abortion.(ITALY)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... NAPLES -- Police stormed into a hospital Feb. 11 and interrogated an abortion patient while she was still recovering from anesthesia. Because the police had received an anonymous tip that the fetus was over the prescribed 24 weeks allowed for abortions, they confiscated the aborted fetus ....

Archbishop of Canterbury advocates sharia for Britain.(UNITED KINGDOM)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... LONDON -- On Feb. 7, Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Anglican Church, said that Britain should allow Muslims to use sharia law alongside the British legal system. He said the introduction of sharia in family law was "unavoidable." Williams said Jews and Catholics ...

Woman-only buses.(MEXICO)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... MEXICO CITY -- Mexico City has become the newest city to debut woman-only buses. While the city has long operated woman-only subway cars during rush hour, complete with police overseeing the segregating of the sexes on subway platforms, the woman-only buses are new, a response to women's ...

Marine raped, murdered by fellow Marine, supervisor.(UNITED STATES)(Maria Lauterbach, Marine Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... NORTH CAROLINA -- Last November, Maria Lauterbach, 20, of Dayton, Ohio, who had enlisted in the Marines in June of 2006, became part of the combat logistics regiment based at Camp LeJeune, N.C. She worked for Marine Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean, 21, who was her senior officer. In April of ...

New York governor posed as prostitution foe.(UNITED STATES)

Apr 01, 2008; Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey ... NEW YORK -- Almost everyone in the United States knows that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) resigned March 12 because the FBI discovered he was paying $5,000 per visit to a prostitution ring called the Empire Club that allegedly has Mafia connections. Spitzer may face charges under the ...

Bros before hoes.(WOMEN HATING, 2008)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008; Haines, Megan ... Life's a bitch so ... DON'T VOTE FOR ONE! This selection of Anti-Hillary Clinton media showcases a mudslinging campaign different than any other in the presidential race. Clinton's flaws, real or imagined, have been seized and blown into hobbling ineligibilities. Any cracks ...

Septemper 11: the epitome of American arrogance.(Reprint)

Apr 01, 2008; Marshall, Lucinda ... ANOTHER SEPTEMBER 11TH has been and gone. Flags were waved, tears were shed and silence observed. Generals offered their assessments and politicians blustered. Across the political spectrum, we Americans continue to insist upon our unwavering support for the troops, from the right-wing ...

Julia Carson.(in memoriam)(Obituary)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008 ... Rep. Julia Carson (D-IN) Rep. Julia Carson (D-IN) died of lung cancer in December 2007 at the age of 69. She was the daughter of a single mother who made her living cleaning houses and graduated from a segregated high school in 1959. Married briefly, Carson went on to raise her ...

Barbara Seaman.(in memoriam)(Obituary)

Apr 01, 2008 ... Barbara Seaman, Principal Founder of the Feminist Women's Health Care Movement Barbara Seaman, tireless pioneer and principal founder of the feminist women's health care movement, passed away February 27, 2008, of lung cancer at the age of 72. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...