Violence mars Algerian women's equality
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The sight of women working as bus and  taxi drivers, petrol pump attendants or police officers in  Algeria's larger towns can surprise newcomers by suggesting  women are emancipated in Algeria. They are not, feminists say.
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A suicide bombing in Algeria that killed 19 people and wounded more than 100 marked two worrying developments for the energy exporting country's fight to end attacks by armed groups seeking a purist Islamic state.
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Women who say they were sexually assaulted in Iraq by co-workers have found themselves unable to seek justice.
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PARIS, Dec. 27 On a hazy winter day in 1994, I drove with then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to the dedication of Pakistan's first women's police station. A controversial and bold initiative, it would be a place where Muslim women would feel more at ease discussing abuses like rape with female...
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GOMA, Congo  - Intense fighting between government and militia forces in eastern Congo has led to a surge in rape by fighters from all sides, women and doctors say.
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Yakin Erturk, is visiting Sudan to examine the situation of women in the conflict-ridden African country.
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A suicide bombing in Algeria that killed 19 people marked two worrying developments for the energy exporting country's bid to end attacks by armed groups seeking a purist Islamic state.
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The UN secretary-general warned that violence against women has reached "hideous" levels in some countries trying to recover from conflict
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Algeria's government has failed  to take needed measures to protect women from rape, beatings  and widespread legal and economic discrimination, Amnesty  International told a U.N. panel on Monday.
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African women in Darfur, Sudan, continue to be insulted, beaten and raped by armed men who belong to Arab tribes.
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The large turnout seen in many parts of Iraq -- and in many parts of Mosul -- did not materialize in the southeast quadrant of the city. A month-long campaign of violence by insurgents in the Sunni Muslim neighborhoods of al-Whada and Palestine proved effective; a reporter who visited all four sites saw a total of four voters, all women.
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ABIDJAN, Nov 12  - The top French soldier in Ivory Coast has confirmed that women were raped in anti-French violence that has erupted in the volatile west African nation over the last week.
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The wife of Djibouti's President Ismael Omar Geulleh delivered a strong attack on female genital mutilation, calling for an end to the practice that is widespread in her country.
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Three years after the fall of the Taliban, women remain subject to many legal, religious and cultural restrictions and domestic violence is endemic.
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Zimbabwean women activists fighting the political and economic crises ravaging their country are suffering increasing violence and repression, an Amnesty International report said on Wednesday.
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NAIROBI, Sept. 8 -- The prevalence and intensity of sexual violence against women in eastern Congo are "almost unimaginable," the top U.N. humanitarian official said Sunday after visiting the country's most fragile region, where militias groups have preyed on the civilian population for years.
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The Algerian government in Algeria has reached an agreement with tribal leaders from the restive Kabylie region, where hostility to Algiers authorities erupted into bloody unrest in 2001, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia revealed.