Posted by admin on September 2, 2010
By Diana Mendoza
MANILA, Sep 2 (IPS) "I felt scared. When I looked around, all the
mothers had
finished giving birth, while I was still there. The blood that
flowed from me had already dried and caked onto my body,"
Lisa, a 19-year-old married mother of three, says, recounting
her experience in post-abortion care at a public hospital here
in the Philippine capital.
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By Aprille Muscara
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 1 (IPS) The number of women raped by rebel groups
during last month’s raid of more
than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the
Congo
(DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today.
Posted by admin on September 1, 2010
By Ángel Páez
LIMA, Sep 1 (IPS) Hilaria Supa has broken down many barriers in her life.
Now she has overcome another one, in an unprecedented achievement: this
Quechua indigenous woman who never went to school is today chair of the
congressional education committee in Peru.
Posted by admin on August 31, 2010
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO, Aug 31 (IPS) Since their first child was born 16 years ago,
Hiroyuki Ozaki has taken care of
the household, relinquishing his traditional role as the main breadwinner
while
his wife held on to her career in the travel industry.
Posted by admin on August 28, 2010
By Aprille Muscara
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (IPS) As details emerged this week of the
U.N.'s knowledge of rebel
activity in the villages where nearly 200 women were
systematically gang raped by armed groups in the eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month, human
rights groups are demanding an investigation into the U.N.'s
failure to prevent the raid from occurring.
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By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Aug 28 (IPS) As Hamas cracks down on the rights of Palestinian
women in the Gaza Strip,
their sisters in the occupied West Bank are slowly gaining ground. But a
bureaucracy, that is sometimes supported by foreign aid, is crippling
these
advances.
Posted by admin on August 27, 2010
By Wadner Pierre
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 27 (IPS) At six in the morning in Cite Soleil, the
poorest zone of
Haiti's capital city, the sun is already up. It's the start of
another workday for Lurene Jeanti, making cookies from mud,
butter and salt. She's been mixing the ingredients on the side
of the road to sell to her neighbours for the past eight
years.
Posted by admin on August 26, 2010
By MBALE, Uganda
Wambi Michael, Aug 26 (IPS) Irene Wangolo was advised to take an HIV test
during her antenatal visit and to return to the clinic with her husband so
they could be counselled on preventing HIV transmission to their unborn
baby.
But her husband refused to accompany her saying it was not his business
and Wangolo never returned to the clinic in Bungokho in eastern Uganda. So
she missed all the services, including the prevention of mother-to-child
transmission (PMTCT).
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By Claire Ngozo
LILONGWE, Aug 26 (IPS) News that Malawi’s November local government
elections are to be postponed yet again has hit female candidates hard
– and mostly in their pockets. And it could mean that the country
will have less female candidates to vote for when they finally go to the
polls.
Posted by admin on August 25, 2010
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY, Aug 25 (IPS) When she gets up in the morning, Ghadeer Malek,
a young Palestinian feminist activist, checks her Facebook page to keep up
on new developments and messages linked to her work.
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