Women to stage protests worldwide against rape in Darfur
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Protests are planned around the world against the mass rape of women and girls allegedly by Sudanese government soldiers and allied militiamen in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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A worldwide "pandemic" of violence against women is fueling the spread of HIV/AIDS, human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday.
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Sudan is in denial about the extent of rape in refugee camps in its traumatised Darfur region where fear and distrust of the government is pervasive, the United Nations&#39; top human rights official says.
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Peace activists around the world staged   a day of action on Sunday to highlight the "forgotten war" in   Darfur where tens of thousands of people have been killed and   more than 2 million left homeless.
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Hundreds of women protested on Tuesday against the abduction of a female US aid worker in southern Afghanistan and called on religious leaders to condemn the kidnapping.
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The worst humanitarian crisis in the world is taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan. The government responded to a revolt of peoples there by unleashing the Janjaweed Arab militias, who have raped, pillaged and burned their way across the region.
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UNITED NATIONSâToo little has been done, too late, to end rape and killing in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said yesterday and urged a more vigorous international response.
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Peace activists around the world staged  a day of action on Sunday to highlight the "forgotten war" in  Darfur where tens of thousands of people have been killed and  more than 2 million left homeless.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council, under strong pressure to act against atrocities in Darfur, voted Wednesday to send a team of investigators to the war-torn region of western Sudan to report on civilian deaths, rapes, mass flight and destruction of villages.
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The international human rights group, Amnesty International, said on Wednesday that a global &quot;pandemic of violence&quot; against women was fuelling the spread of HIV and AIDS.
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Sudan is in denial about the extent of  rape in refugee camps in its traumatized Darfur region where  fear and distrust of the government is pervasive, the United  Nations' top human rights official said on Saturday.
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Women stage a rare demonstration in Afghanistan calling for the release of a kidnapped US aid worker.
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U.S. activists launched a fresh campaign on Wednesday to press 2008 Olympics host China to persuade its ally Sudan to stop the violence in Darfur, but rejected calling for a boycott of the landmark Beijing event.
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Thousands rally in Ankara to protest against a plan to allow women to wear the Islamic headscarf in universities.
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ARDAMATA CAMP, Sudan  - The 25-year-old Darfuri woman was raped in front of her two young children, whose screams haunted her during an attack which she is too ashamed to tell her husband about.
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Reports of rape are still rife in Darfur, western Sudan, perpetrators of abuses act with impunity, and civilians are being pressured to return to insecure areas, a UN team said on Monday.
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The United Nations has appealed to world leaders to wake up to the widespread mistreatment of migrant women, a silent human army abused as everything from sex workers to domestic slaves.