GREECE:   Nigerian Women Make a Living on the Street
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ATHENS, Sep 25 (IPS) - Every night besides the town hall of Athens, next  to Omonia square, where the narrow streets of the popular  entertainment hub district Psirris begin, black girls from  Nigeria gather to work.
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More women are working than ever before, but most are stuck in low-wage jobs and virtually all are paid less than their male counterparts, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Thursday.
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STAFF CORRESPONDENT; Staff writers Kathy Kerr, Earl Lane, and wire service reports contributed to this story. LIVERPOOL, England - At a health clinic off Penny Lane, the street made famous
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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, vans and buses full of aspiring models brake to a stop here in front of the unmarked offices of the Daphne Agency. Coming from small towns scattered across the Brazilian countryside, the hopefuls have spent hours on the road, often...
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NAIROBI -- One ordinary afternoon in a bright, marble-floored lobby downtown here, the following conversation took place between two women, a government worker and a self-employed soapmaker.
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PATNA, India  - Young girls and their mothers huddle under shawls in the central reservation of one of the city's main streets, picking through trash for grimy metal scraps that might earn them 20 rupees (half a dollar) a day.
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When there's panic in the streets, there's money to be made.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Seventeen-year-old Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school. She has to share textbooks with schoolmates because her parents can't afford to buy them, and she does homework by candlelight.
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Nigerian teen Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school. She has to share textbooks with schoolmates because her parents can't afford to buy them and does homework by candlelight.
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The women received their first paychecks a few weeks ago Â about $500 for a month's work as police officers. They paid rent, bought food, wiped out debts. But the seemingly simple transaction has left at least one woman in fear for her life, another threatened with divorce.
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Lifestyle: 7 January 2005, Friday. Bulgaria's cleverest woman says she has been inundated with job offers following reports she couldn't find work, Daily Times reported.
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CANCUN, Mexico  - International smugglers of  weapons and drugs are increasingly trafficking women from  Africa, Latin America and Asia to developed countries where  they are duped into working as prostitutes, Interpol said on  Wednesday.
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ATHENS, Greece  Grit is now available in an economy size. It can be found in Carly Patterson, and in spades.
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MARABA, Nigeria  - A short drive away from Nigeria's capital Abuja, with its air-conditioned villas and ministers in luxury cars, life for many in the town of Maraba is a daily struggle to eat.
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EL ALTO, Bolivia -- The women attending Esperanza Mitta's community meetings moved here from tiny mountain villages and worn-out mining towns, and now they are fashioning a modern metropolis out of whatever they have in hand.
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YABED, West Bank - Dozens of women defied traditional Islamic limits and pressures, running for office and winning in last weekâs West Bank local elections, reflecting a new political awakening in a male-dominated society.
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BANI NAIM, West Bank -- Of the many troubles that the economic slide has brought to this town on the edge of the Judean Desert, Jihad Manassrah saw none more threatening than the growing number of single women walking in prim pairs through its narrow streets.