Government hopes new Tanzanian constitution bans child marriage
Kizito Makoye
2013-10-15
Tanzania is banking on the on-going constitutional review process of marriage laws to stop child marriages, according to a report |
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Forbidden Love And Execution Leaves Afghan Mullah Crying Foul
Shapur Saber and Farangis Najibullah
2013-10-15
It's a young woman's story of true love blocked by forced engagement, prompting a romantic nighttime escape with her beloved |
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Saudi preacher jailed over daughter's death
Sebastian Usher
2013-10-09
A Saudi preacher accused of torturing his five-year-old daughter and beating her to death has been sentenced to eight years in prison and 600 lashes |
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Eighteen imams agree to perform child marriages in UK -report
Maria Caspani
2013-10-08
Undercover reporters who asked Muslim clerics in Britain to perform child marriage, found 18 imams willing to do so, despite it being illegal in the UK, according to a television investigation |
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Sudanese woman flogged for getting into car with man who isn't related to her
Carol Kuruvilla
2013-10-07
She was reportedly guilty of riding in a car with a man who wasn’t her husband or an immediate family member, an offense that is prohibited by Sudan’s public order law |
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Italian men join femicide protest in high heels
2013-10-02
It was a very Italian protest. Men, children and women from all parts of the country donned high heels in order to raise awareness about the pressing issue of femicide in Italy |
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Girls ‘have chests flattened out’ to disguise the onset of puberty
2013-10-01
A hidden form of abuse known as “breast ironing”, in which girls as young as 10 have their chests pounded with hot objects to disguise the onset of puberty, could be taking place in Britain |
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Violence against women-the missing millennium development goal
Lisa Anderson
2013-09-27
Violence against women and girls is so pervasive that the next set of United Nations development objectives must include it as a priority when the Millennium Development Goals expire in 2015 |
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In football match, UN, national figures team up against sexual violence
2013-09-27
Bolivian President Evo Morales and other high-level Government and United Nations officials met on the football field to support the UN campaign ‘UNiTE to End Violence Against Women,’ |
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