News Archive - by Category

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General News

• European managers perpetuating gender gap (Management Issues 13/6/2006)
• Time for rethink on the clitoris (BBC 11/6/2006)
• What Do Muslim Women Want? Western Rights, but Not Western Culture (ABC News 7/6/2006)
• Top women cheated by pay gap (The Observer 4/6/2006)
• Bring our boys home: Women against the war (The Independent 4/6/2006)
• Don't despair. Some women pick partners for love not money (The Independent 28/5/2006)
• Women at war: Mental health toll unknown (CNN 26/5/2006)
• Ex-wives win key divorce rulings (BBC 24/5/2006)
• Girls from broken homes 'less attractive', a study suggests (BBC Health 24/5/2006)
• New Report: Educating Mothers Saves Children's Lives (Feminist Daily News Wire 23/5/2006)
• Single minded: I want your baby (but not you) (The Independent 21/5/2006)
• The feminist battling for men's rights (The Guardian 20/5/2006)
• Chief of UN Population Fund calls on imams to promote rights of women (UN News Centre 19/5/2006)
• Working mums 'healthier than housewives' (BBC 14/5/2006)
• Home vs hospital: Where would you rather give birth to your baby? (The Independent 14/5/2006)
• More babies born to women over 50 (BBC 8/5/2006)
• How old is too old to be a mother? (The Observer 7/5/2006)
• How parents' tug-of-war can wreck a child's future (The Observer 7/5/2006)
• UNICEF: Breast Milk Does a Baby Good (Washington Post 3/5/2006)
• Study reveals gender divide in use of new media (The Guardian 3/5/2006)
• Research raises hopes for male birth pill (The Guardian 28/4/2006)
• It's 30 years since Shere Hite first alerted men & women to their problem with sex (The Guardian 28/4/2006)
• Nappy wars: Disposables may be eco worry but helped free up women's time (BBC 27/4/2006)
• Sigourney Weaver urges women to study science (CTV 27/4/2006)
• "Breast isn't best" (The Independent 25/4/2006)
• Women find domestic chores are 'therapeutic' (The Independent 24/4/2006)
• World urged to fight sex slavery (BBC 23/4/2006)
• Graduate women 'find more jobs' (BBC 21/4/2006)
• Women decide on speed-date in seconds (The Independent 14/4/2006)
• Skinny versus curvy: What is the healthiest body shape for women? (The Guardian 13/4/2006)
• "Women are still treated more like things than people" (The Guardian 12/4/2006)
• Women 'have constant body woes' (BBC 11/4/2006)
• IVF: How a generation of women is being denied the chance to give birth (The Independent 10/4/2006)
• What I know about men... (The Observer 9/4/2006)
• What I know about women... (The Observer 9/4/2006)
• Who are you calling a feminist? (The Observer 9/4/2006)
• Young Women Face Culture Shock in First Jobs (Women's eNews 7/4/2006)
• Women 'outliving men worldwide' (BBC 6/4/2006)
• Women are warned that moving in with a man makes them fat (BBC Health 6/4/2006)
• Books: A tale of two genders: men choose novels of alienation, while women go for passion (The Guardian 6/4/2006)
• What's wrong with being a mother? (The Guardian 5/4/2006)
• Women Key to Literacy in the Home (IPS 4/4/2006)
• Sex slaves to the market (The Guardian 1/4/2006)
• Women say 'casual sex is immoral' (BBC 31/3/2006)
• Going steady is better for women, sex survey finds (The Guardian 31/3/2006)
• Feminist blogs are booming. But are they just playthings for the rich & well educated? (The Guardian 31/3/2006)
• Women warned: cyber groping on the rise (Sydney Morning Herald 29/3/2006)
• Women's Groups Speak Up at World Water Forum (Feminist Daily News Wire 23/3/2006)
• Where women get real respect (The Observer 19/3/2006)
• Clarion Call for a UN Women's Agency to Address Inequity Crisis (AllAfrica 17/3/2006)
• The death of a spouse may not affect people quite as severely as thought, US study suggests (BBC 15/3/2006)
• Give the UN's Reins to a Woman (Washington Post 15/3/2006)
• UN commission urges immediate release of all women, children detained in war (UN News Centre 13/3/2006)
• Global gender gap for entrepreneurs (Management Issues 10/3/2006)
• Glass ceiling stretches around the world (Management Issues 10/3/2006)
• Pregnant women should take more calcium, says study (The Guardian 10/3/2006)
• Women's Groups Criticize UN's Commitment to Gender Equality (Feminist Daily News Wire 9/3/2006)
• International Women's Day in pictures (Globe & Mail 9/3/2006)
• This is your life (if you are a woman) (The Independent 8/3/2006)
• In pictures: International Women's Day (BBC 8/3/2006)
• Ten women reveal the differing challenges they face in their daily lives (The Independent 8/3/2006)
• It's a woman's world (The Independent 8/3/2006)
• Women's literature: The next chapter (The Independent 8/3/2006)
• UN: Women denied representation, making war on poverty hard to win (The Independent 8/3/2006)
• From its Headquarters to its furthest field work, UN marks Women’s Day (UN News Centre 8/3/2006)
• At least 1 in 3 women will be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime (The Independent 8/3/2006)
• Desperate Feminist Wives: Why wanting equality makes women unhappy (Slate 6/3/2006)
• Pope to 'reflect' on roles for women in church (NZ Herald 3/3/2006)
• Rape in time of war is not new, but only recently has anyone tried to do anything about it (The Guardian 3/3/2006)
• Extra!: Women's History Month (CNN 1/3/2006)
• Profiles in Women's History (CNN 1/3/2006)
• Women politicians 'making gains' (BBC 28/2/2006)
• Empowering women is key to development, Fréchette tells UN Commission (UN News Centre 27/2/2006)
• Gains push women to 16.3 pct of world's lawmakers (Reuters 27/2/2006)
• UN Envoy Calls for Creation of UN Women's Agency (AllAfrica 26/2/2006)
• Peacekeeper sex abuse 'too high' (BBC 24/2/2006)
• UN - It’s time for a woman Secretary General (AWC 21/2/2006)
• Half the Population, A Fifth of the News (Inter Press Service 15/2/2006)
• The thought of spending Valentine's Day alone can drive some folk to irrational extremes (BBC 14/2/2006)
• Fashion with a conscience tries Africa for size (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
• International Court of Justice elects first woman president (Ireland Online 6/2/2006)
• UNICEF hails progress toward ending female genital mutilation (UN News Centre 6/2/2006)
• UN official calls for legislation to equalize women’s access to housing (UN News Centre 2/2/2006)
• Pope's olive branch to divorcees (The Observer 29/1/2006)
• Actress Nicole Kidman becomes Goodwill Ambassador for UN women’s agency (UN News Centre 26/1/2006)
• UN report asks governments to improve data collection to better women’s lives (UN News Centre 18/1/2006)
• UNICEF urges big boost in services to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (UN News Centre 30/11/2005)
• Few Women in Power in Banking (Feminist Daily News Wire 21/11/2005)
• UN Peacekeepers Still Abusing Women, Says Report (Feminist Daily News Wire 20/10/2005)
• The United Nations Population Fund Releases 2005 Report on Gender Equality and Poverty Links (Feminist Daily News Wire 13/10/2005)

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UK News

June 2006

• Women have crucial role to play in reducing high rate of HIV among Africans in the UK (Black Britain 12/6/2006)
• UK: Too many have for too long been getting away with rape (The Guardian Comment 12/6/2006)
• UK: Labour's leadership handover must include more women, says Harman (The Guardian 12/6/2006)
• UK: More than a third of IVF patients paid more than they expected for treatment (The Times 10/6/2006)
• High court reserves judgment over a lesbian couple seeking British recognition of their marriage (The Guardian 10/6/2006)
• UK Sex case pioneer had to fight the law as well as male 'jokes' (The Times 10/6/2006)
• Goodbye to an all-girls institution (BBC 9/6/2006)
• Advice on cutting rape sentences is criticised by victims' groups (The Independent 8/6/2006)
• New vice squad to tackle airport sex-slave auctions (The Independent 5/6/2006)
• Women-only college could admit men (The Observer 4/6/2006)

May 2006

• UK Unmarried couples to get new rights (The Guardian 31/5/2006)
• UK Home abortions 'hit record high' (BBC 29/5/2006)
• UK Teen mums spurred on to exam success (The Observer 28/5/2006)
• How we split: It's not just divorcing couples. Now even unmarried partners are heading for the courts (The Independent 28/5/2006)
• UK: Cameron woos 'political virgins' (The Independent 28/5/2006)
• UK Sexual harassment rife in armed forces (The Guardian 26/5/2006)
• NI: 10,000 in 'breast cancer backlog' (BBC 24/5/2006)
• Action women at the heart of WI history (The Guardian 24/5/2006)
• NHS go-ahead for new breast cancer drugs (The Guardian 23/5/2006)
• UK: Female gambling addicts 'on rise' (BBC 23/5/2006)
• British Girls Gone Wild: 'Ladette Culture' on the Rise (ABC News 22/5/2006)
• Coroner issues baby death warning (BBC Health 21/5/2006)
• Anti-abortionists bombard MP with hate mail and death threats (The Independent 21/5/2006)
• Film based on British woman's story of domestic violence and prison is riddled with inaccuracies (The Observer 21/5/2006)
• Plan to let carers qualify for full state pension (The Guardian 19/5/2006)
• First woman to sail 'wrong way' round world returns (The Guardian 19/5/2006)
• UK Birth rate increase may reflect Blair policies, says expert (The Guardian 19/5/2006)
• Amy Pascal: An untypical leading lady who's taken Sony to the top (The Guardian 19/5/2006)
• 'New deal' for women on pensions (BBC 18/5/2006)
• More babies for early-30s women (BBC 18/5/2006)
• The UK's first man to have kids without a female partner (BBC 17/5/2006)
• Fire career drive targets women (BBC 16/5/2006)
• UK Health services failing depressed mothers (The Guardian 15/5/2006)
• Mothers demand breastfeeding law (BBC 15/5/2006)
• Postnatal depression care 'poor' (BBC 14/5/2006)
• More women should have babies at home, not in hospital, says Health Secretary (The Independent 14/5/2006)
• Britain's oldest mother-to-be hits out at critics (The Independent 14/5/2006)
• Study finds catalogue of failings at Britain's IVF clinics (The Independent 14/5/2006)
• We fight for equality, yet balk at the first death of a woman in action in Iraq (The Guardian 12/5/2006)
• Apprentice victor Michelle Dewberry says women don't need to be bolshie to succeed at work (The Guardian 12/5/2006)
• Women and minorities first. Cameron shows off his 'babes' list (The Independent 11/5/2006)
• City worker claims £11m for sexual discrimination (The Independent 11/5/2006)
• Tyneside: £90,000 boost for abuse victims (BBC 9/5/2006)
• Evidence-gathering in rape cases in crisis, doctors warn (The Guardian 8/5/2006)
• UK: Shortage of foster parents leaves children unsettled (The Independent 8/5/2006)
• Nightmare world of suburban sex slaves (The Guardian 8/5/2006)
• Sex trafficking op 'rescues 46' (BBC 8/5/2006)
• Servicewoman among helicopter crew killed in Basra (The Guardian 8/5/2006)
• UK: Anti-abortionist jailed for photo protest (The Independent 8/5/2006)
• Carolyn McCall has been appointed chief executive of Guardian Media Group (The Guardian 8/5/2006)
• Dora Thewlis: The Lost Suffragette (The Independent 8/5/2006)
• Labour apology for all-woman list (BBC 7/5/2006)
• Toddlers to help halt teen pregnancies (The Observer 7/5/2006)
• The new breed of businesswomen who shunned higher education (The Observer 7/5/2006)
• UK Has First Female Foreign Secretary (Feminist Daily News Wire 5/5/2006)
• Behind this outcry lurks the image of a haggard witch and her demon child (The Guardian 5/5/2006)
• Doctor defends IVF for woman, 63 (BBC 4/5/2006)
• Britons put work and fun before babies (The Guardian 2/5/2006)

April 2006

• The drugs cost burden for breast cancer patients (BBC Health 28/4/2006)
• UK Couples are being warned about seeking fertility treatment abroad (BBC 28/4/2006)
• Businesswoman of the Year rejects 'superwoman' tag (The Independent 28/4/2006)
• Nurses 'need help over drug-rape' (BBC 26/4/2006)
• UK: Move to ban sacking of pregnant women (The Observer 23/4/2006)
• Secret filming of UK police reveals officers dismissing rape cases, watching pornography and ignoring calls (The Observer 23/4/2006)
• Saving Sarah: How your bone marrow could save a young bride's life (BBC Health 22/4/2006)
• National Downshiting Week (The Guardian 22/4/2006)
• Three Northern Ireland Companies achieve Top Scores for supporting women (BITC 21/4/2006)
• Southampton Woman remortgages home to give excluded girls a second chance (BBC 20/4/2006)
• Cameron's drive for women and minority candidates (The Guardian 19/4/2006)
• UK: Why nanny is no longer a dirty word (The Guardian 19/4/2006)
• Anger at no jail plan for abusers (BBC 12/4/2006)
• Woman wins Herceptin court fight (BBC 12/4/2006)
• 91-yr-old former secret service agent to be given parachute wings, 63 yrs after being denied them because she was a woman (The Guardian 12/4/2006)
• Women prisoners are being given support to talk about and tackle their eating disorders (The Guardian 12/4/2006)
• Birmingham Rep Theatre gets its first female head (The Guardian 11/4/2006)
• Newcastle Study highlights family violence (BBC 10/4/2006)
• Rape cautions double over decade (BBC 10/4/2006)
• English women lose out in Herceptin's 'postcode lottery' (The Guardian 10/4/2006)
• Seven out of 10 absent parents pay maintenance for children (The Guardian 10/4/2006)
• Sham marriage law breaches rights (BBC 10/4/2006)
• Not only are women often paid less than men, they also seem to be less extravagant in their expenses claims (The Guardian 10/4/2006)
• Outrage of war widows who face pension cut (The Independent 10/4/2006)
• Cambridgeshire IVF clinic calling for egg donors (BBC 10/4/2006)
• The Ladies in the Lords: In a building built for men, where's a baroness to relieve herself? (The Independent 9/4/2006)
• Court rules mother must give children to lesbian ex-partner (The Guardian 7/4/2006)
• Calendar Girls reveal all again (BBC 7/4/2006)
• Helen and Sylvia, the new face of terrorism (The Independent 6/4/2006)
• Woman flies to India for hip op (BBC Health 6/4/2006)
• JK Rowling rails at fashion's obsession with weight (The Independent 6/4/2006)
• Public bodies need to take note of the new gender equality duty (BITC 5/4/2006)
• NHS 'putting parents off home births' (The Guardian 5/4/2006)
• More women having babies at home (BBC 4/4/2006)
• Saturday last week thousands of black women celebrated their sisterhood at ‘In Celebrations of my Sisters’ (The Voice 4/4/2006)
• Careers advice for girls 'biased' (BBC Education 3/4/2006)
• Black women face a double discrimination at work says TUC and EOC (Black Britain 3/4/2006)
• Raped, beaten and helpless: UK's sex slaves (The Observer 2/4/2006)
• Women hire private eyes to check on husbands-to-be (The Independent 2/4/2006)
• Number of new fathers changing work hours soars (The Guardian 1/4/2006)
• Bradford: Surgeon 'could have put breast cancer patients at risk' (The Guardian 1/4/2006)

March 2006

• Spot checks on women's pay are scrapped after cash cut (The Guardian 31/3/2006)
• The rise of the 'childfree' (BBC 31/3/2006)
• Postcode lottery in rape convictions (The Guardian 30/3/2006)
• Waitress awarded £124,000 in sexual harassment case (The Independent 30/3/2006)
• Lad culture corrupts men as much as it debases women (The Guardian 30/3/2006)
• Government plans trials shake-up to boost rape convictions (The Guardian 29/3/2006)
• The new pro-lifers: Rise in infertility has given huge boost to the anti-abortion movement (The Guardian 29/3/2006)
• Soaring rate of caesarean births linked to legal action fear (The Guardian 28/3/2006)
• Anti-abortionists turn sights on schools and hospitals in US-style campaign (The Guardian 27/3/2006)
• Mother's Day worries for a parent who adopts from abroad (BBC 24/3/2006)
• UK Budget: Women And Work: Schemes aim to narrow gender gap in employment (The Independent 23/3/2006)
• Today's ultimate feminists are the chicks in crop tops (The Guardian 23/3/2006)
• London 'worst' for pregnant women (BBC 22/3/2006)
• UK Budget: Brown cuts VAT on contraceptives (BBC 22/3/2006)
• Women rescued in trafficking op (BBC 22/3/2006)
• UK young women 'out-drinking men' (BBC 21/3/2006)
• NI: Pregnant women 'turning to internet' (BBC 21/3/2006)
• Female hair loss treatment hope (BBC Health 21/3/2006)
• Menstrual problems are 1 of the 4 most common reasons why women of reproductive age see their GP (BBC 20/3/2006)
• Hearing for abortion bid mother (BBC 20/3/2006)
• Abortion row at Catholic hospital (BBC Health 20/3/2006)
• British couples desperate for children travel to India in search of surrogates (The Guardian 20/3/2006)
• Mothers' job prospects are worst of all, new research suggests (The Observer 19/3/2006)
• UK: Families and working women likely to be Budget winners (The Independent 19/3/2006)
• Mothers sue over gender test that promised 99.9% accuracy (The Guardian 18/3/2006)
• Blogger puts guide to abortion online (The Independent 17/3/2006)
• L'Oréal buys Body Shop for £652m (The Guardian 17/3/2006)
• Anti-rape ads mean well, but making men entirely responsible for sex implies that women are incompetent (The Guardian 16/3/2006)
• Now men have a body-image problem (The Independent 16/3/2006)
• Dads asking, but failing, to spend more time with their kids (Management Issues 15/3/2006)
• Sex consent campaign targets men (BBC 14/3/2006)
• Tackling domestic violence - at work (BBC 14/3/2006)
• Move to give women carers fair pension deal (The Guardian 14/3/2006)
• New Prize for UK's Female-Led Ethical Businesses (Women's eNews 14/3/2006)
• Cameron warning to Tories on women MPs (The Guardian 14/3/2006)
• Efforts to get children in England eating more healthily are stymied by poor cookery lessons (BBC 14/3/2006)
• Sex violence policy has failed - minister (The Guardian 13/3/2006)
• School science held back by battle of the sexes (The Independent 13/3/2006)
• Judges told: slash jail terms for rapists (The Observer 12/3/2006)
• Forced marriage ban lacks support (BBC 12/3/2006)
• Women go private to get 'miracle' drug (The Observer 12/3/2006)
• Fathers fight for family flexi-time (The Observer 12/3/2006)
• Whose embryo is it anyway? (The Guardian 9/3/2006)
• Breast milk 'won't halt obesity' (BBC Health 9/3/2006)
• Suffragette tea service auctioned for £6,000 (The Guardian 9/3/2006)
• Campbell promotes female high-fliers (The Independent 9/3/2006)
• How accessories have saved fashion industry (The Independent 9/3/2006)
• In the UK, yet more women's weeklies (Media Life 8/3/2006)
• UK Government plans anti-rape campaign (The Guardian 8/3/2006)
• Drunken sex can be rape (The Sun 8/3/2006)
• Only one British female in four calls herself feminist (The Independent 8/3/2006)
• Wales: Women 'missing out' on top jobs (BBC 8/3/2006)
• Why every woman needs a wife (The Independent 8/3/2006)
• Firms' fears over fertility treatment leave (The Independent 8/3/2006)
• Ensure consent for sex, men told (BBC 7/3/2006)
• Woman loses frozen embryos fight (BBC 7/3/2006)
• Behind the baby gap lies a culture of contempt for parenthood (The Guardian 7/3/2006)
• WWI aircraftswoman dies aged 107 (BBC 7/3/2006)
• Big hitting Smiths head formidable list in battle for Orange prize (The Guardian 7/3/2006)
• Can you choose your baby's sex? (The Independent 7/3/2006)
• Women need support as well as equal pay (The Guardian 7/3/2006)
• Why mothers should be offered caesareans (The Observer 5/3/2006)
• Why can't our women artists earn as much as the men? (The Observer 5/53/2006)
• Marital rows 'harm heart health' (BBC Health 4/3/2006)
• Breast screen treatment concerns (BBC Health 3/3/2006)
• VAT 'to be cut on contraceptives' (BBC Health 3/3/2006)
• Woman to renew Herceptin battle (BBC Health 3/3/2006)
• Asylum Seeking Women speak out in the UK (Black Britain 3/3/2006)
• Yummy mummies leave a bad taste for young women (The Guardian 2/3/2006)
• Is giving birth becoming a spectator sport? (BBC 1/3/2006)
• Hysterectomy inquiry reveals 25-year scandal of silence (The Guardian 1/3/2006)
• UK pay gap of black & ethnic minority women has not been addressed, says a campaign group (Black Britain 1/3/2006)

February 2006

• Young women told to raise their sights on pay (The Guardian 28/2/2006)
• It really won't do to blame women for Britain's pay gap (The Guardian 28/2/2006)
• "Breaking the gender barrier" (Management Issues 28/2/2006)
• Birthing suit 'could save lives' (BBC Health 28/2/2006)
• Wales: Six jailed for sex acts with girl (BBC 28/2/2006)
• Marks & Spencer and New Look are both about to launch major maternity wear ranges (The Guardian 28/2/2006)
• Car seat for under-10s to be compulsory (The Guardian 28/2/2006)
• Employers urged to do more for women (Opportunity Now News 27/2/2006)
• Criticism for women's pay report (BBC 27/2/2006)
• PM urges progress on UK pay gap (BBC 27/2/2006)
• Most cot deaths due to accidental suffocation, says US study (The Guardian 27/2/2006)
• St Hilda's students vote to admit men (The Guardian 27/2/2006)
• Divorced father brings test case to publicise shared parenting deal (The Guardian 27/2/2006)
• Is the on-site creche the key to work/life balance or just another way to tie us to our desks? (The Guardian 27/2/2006)
• Why the pay gap never went away (The Observer 26/2/2006)
• Teenage girls demand better sex education (The Observer 26/2/2006)
• Fertility fears: 'I thought my fibroids had cost me the chance of children' (BBC 26/2/2006)
• Want to get on, girls? Marry beneath you (The Observer 26/2/2006)
• Cash fears lead to fall in divorce rates (The Observer 26/2/2006)
• The eye-watering treatments and cost of female pampering (BBC 25/2/2006)
• Temp work 'harms women's health' (BBC Health 25/2/2006)
• Sex discrimination at work hits men too (The Guardian 25/2/2006)
• L'Oréal plans takeover bid for Roddick's Body Shop empire (The Guardian 24/2/2006)
• The lives of Emmeline Pankhurst & daughter Christabel, who helped win women the vote, commemorated (BBC 24/2/2006)
• Parents will pay 'up to £43,000' to live near good school (The Guardian 24/2/2006)
• Twice as many men as women start civil partnerships (The Guardian 23/2/2006)
• Midwives call for epidurals fee (BBC 23/2/2006)
• Fall in teenage conception rate (BBC 23/2/2006)
• Breast screening 'a life-saver' (BBC Health 22/2/2006)
• Councils fund 'panic rooms' for domestic violence victims (The Guardian 22/2/2006)
• Victims of domestic abuse helped to stay in their homes by creation of a reinforced 'sanctuary' (The Guardian 22/2/2006)
• Men urged to report brothels using trafficked women (The Guardian 22/2/2006)
• Births out of wedlock 'pass 40%' (BBC 21/2/2006)
• Young men stay home as women go in search of a toyboy (The Times 21/2/2006)
• UK: Drive to help young women trafficking victims (BBC 21/2/2006)
• Hormone may block premature birth (BBC Health 20/2/2006)
• Cancer vigil woman meets minister (BBC Health 20/2/2006)
• UK baby shortage will cost £11 billion (The Observer 19/2/2006)
• 'No woman priest' move defended (BBC 19/2/2006)
• Herceptin maker asks for licence (BBC 17/2/2006)
• Sally Clark doctor wins GMC case (BBC 17/2/2006)
• "Luton Fashion Week" - do catwalk creations filter down to the High Street? (BBC 17/2/2006)
• Women 'get more headache drugs' (BBC Health 16/2/2006)
• "Abortions at home are safe" (The Guardian 16/2/2006)
• £43,056 - the cost of bringing up a child (The Guardian 16/2/2006)
• Dean considers blessing gay couples in civil partnerships (The Guardian 16/2/2006)
• Nowadays it's marriage that's more likely to bring about equality between men & women (The Guardian Comment 16/2/2006)
• Wales: Women losing out in pay league (BBC 15/2/2006)
• Woman loses Herceptin court bid (BBC 15/2/2006)
• Many student nurses quit courses (BBC Health 15/2/2006)
• Three shaken baby deaths to be reviewed (BBC 14/2/2006)
• Ladies' toilet for women truckers (BBC 14/2/2006)
• More contraceptive advice urged (BBC 13/2/2006)
• Wedded bliss 'only lasts a year' (BBC 13/2/2006)
• Shaken baby convictions will stand (The Observer 12/2/2006)
• Wales: Top midwife's natural births call (BBC 11/2/2006)
• One-hour breast implant operations raise concerns (The Guardian 11/2/2006)
• A lawyer who stabbed his wife to death has been cleared of murder (BBC 10/2/2006)
• Serial snogging puts teens at deadly risk (The Guardian 10/2/2006)
• Former swimming coach admits carrying out sexual assaults on young children over a 50-year period (BBC 10/2/2006)
• Obesity crisis prompts leading food firms to add health labels (The Guardian 9/2/2006)
• Child Support Agency to be replaced (The Guardian 9/2/2006)
• English sexual infection rates highest in UK (The Guardian 9/2/2006)
• Boom in women-owned businesses (Management Issues 8/2/2006)
• UK: Nursery costs soar, charity says (BBC 8/2/2006)
• Scotland: Child protection shake-up planned (BBC 8/2/2006)
• Why are the highest ranks of arts administration still dominated by men? (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
• Compromise over women bishops 'discriminatory' (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
• In praise of... family planning (The Guardian Leader 7/2/2006)
• Care workers face vetting scheme (BBC 7/2/2006)
• Wales: Sex trafficking is 'real problem' (BBC 7/2/2006)
• Concern over womb cancer increase (BBC Health 7/2/2006)
• Britain defies US with funding to boost safe abortion services (The Guardian 6/2/2006)
• Author Zadie Smith has won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' regional award for best book (BBC 6/2/2006)
• Cash woe of breast cancer women (BBC Health 6/2/2006)
• New powers to force absent fathers to pay child maintenance (The Guardian 6/2/2006)
• Dumping your wife is now as easy as trading your car (The Guardian 6/2/2006)
• Woman tells court Herceptin Drug refusal 'a death sentence' (BBC 6/2/2006)
• Increasing demand for more black women on public sector boards (Black Britain 6/2/2006)
• Legal battle for right to have cancer drug (The Observer 5/2/2006)
• Baby rusks contaminated with banned pesticides (The Guardian 4/2/2006)
• Chocolate bars to carry 'health warnings' on wrapping (The Guardian 4/2/2006)
• Schoolgirl's religious dress case to go before Lords (Education Guardian 3/2/2006)
• Free childcare 'reducing choice' - CBI (BBC 3/2/2006)
• Cuts and staff shortages put maternity care pledge at risk (The Guardian 3/2/2006)
• UK Doctors 'prescribing Herceptin' (BBC 3/2/2006)
• UK childhood vaccination programme being extended to protect against disease which causes blood poisoning, meningitis & pneumonia (BBC 3/2/2006)
• Chlamydia texts 'speed up help' (BBC Health 2/2/2006)
• Sexual health clinics 'cannot meet demand' (The Guardian 2/2/2006)
• Elderly couple reunited after council separation (The Guardian 2/2/2006)
• Babies given drugs untested on the young (The Guardian 2/2/2006)
• Herceptin campaigner in Welsh Assembly protest (The Guardian 1/2/2006)
• Women reveal concerns over HRT (BBC Health 1/2/2006)

January 2006

• London Business School launches business centre for women (Management Issues 31/1/2006)
• Boy, 14, admits raping four girls in park (The Guardian 31/1/2006)
• Hospital asks for external inquiry into childbirth deaths (The Guardian 31/1/2006)
• Dame Judi heads UK Oscar charge (BBC 31/1/2006)
• "Talking about abortion time limits is just a new way of peddling the pro-life position" (The Guardian Comment 31/1/2006)
• Scotland: Rape law change plan put forward (BBC 30/1/2006)
• Law Lords should set guidelines on the division of assets in high value divorce cases (BBC 30/1/2006)
• U-turn on plan to take babies from refugees (The Observer 29/1/2006)
• Cancer woman's Herceptin protest (BBC 29/1/2006)
• UK: Hewitt against abortion changes (BBC 29/1/2006)
• UK: Women demand tougher laws to curb abortions (The Observer 29/1/2006)
• New book presents the positive role of Caribbean mothers in the UK (Black Britain 27/1/2006)
• UK: Woman sues trust for cancer test blunder (The Guardian 25/1/2006)
• Women in the UK need better careers advice (Black Britain 25/1/2006)
• One woman's fight to adopt the Romanian orphan she loves (BBC 23/1/2006)
• Mother loses abortion 'right to know' case (The Guardian 23/1/2006)
• Scotland: Equal pay could raise council tax (BBC 23/1/2006)
• Flaming Norah! Is that what men have to go through? (The Observer 22/1/2006)
• UK: Calls for smacking ban rejected (BBC 22/1/2006)
• Bias against men in the workplace (The Observer 22/1/2006)
• Heart disease & diabetes linked to stress in the office: Women five times more likely to have risk factors (The Guardian 20/1/2006)
• Why having a baby means lower pay and prospects (The Guardian 20/1/2006)
• Oxfam finds women more generous givers than men (The Guardian 20/1/2006)
• Judges uphold five-year jail term for wife killer (The Guardian 20/1/2006)
• Private firms to chase CSA debts (BBC 18/1/2006)
• Four out of five absent fathers pay nothing for children (The Guardian 18/1/2006)
• Fathers 4 Justice to end campaign (BBC 18/1/2006)
• UK: New law to permit small brothels (BBC 17/1/2006)
• Abducted girl repeatedly attacked (BBC 17/1/2006)
• Too few' school psychologists (BBC 16/1/2006)
• African churches fight allegations of child abuse and violent exorcisms (The Voice 16/1/2006)
• Health Trainers against health inequality succeed in Black and Ethnic Minority Communities (Black Britain 5/1/2006)

2005

• UK agencies still hiring poorest nations' nurses: Loophole undermining Africa's fight against Aids (The Guardian 20/12/2005)
• Legislation making things worse for working women (Management Issues 7/12/2005)
• Athletics: Hero Holmes announces retirement (BBC Sport 6/12/2005)
• Quarter of British blue-chips have no women on the board (Management Issues 25/11/2005)
• Gender equality is 'thin veneer' (BBC 23/11/2005)
• Women are being blamed for rape attacks (Black Britain 22/11/2005)
• Risk to children from mothers in stressful jobs (The Guardian 21/11/2005)
• Black domestic violence victims made aware of support (Black Britain 21/11/2005)
• Black and Minority Ethnic communities must come forward to adopt in the UK (Black Britain 08/11/2005)
• Half of women want to pack it all for an easier life (Management Issues 3/11/2005)
• New report uncovers black women carer's at risk of pension poverty (Black Britain 3/11/2005)
• Contraception 'must widen' as figures of unplanned pregnancies in black women rise (Black Britain 31/10/2005)
• Women unaware of the cost of caring (Age Concern 13/10/2005)
• More research needed on breast cancer in black women (Black Britain 7/9/2005)
• England's oldest woman dies (The Guardian 31/8/2005)
• Women put families first and pensions second (Age Concern 29/06/2005)

Pre-2005

• Double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes has been made a Dame in the New Year Honours List (BBC 31/12/2004)

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African News

June 2006

• Will African women reach their potential? (BBC 12/6/2006)
• Sierra Leone's forgotten 'bush wives' (BBC 9/6/2006)
• Somalian charged after circumcising daughter (IoL 7/6/2006)
• Women queue up to join Johnson-Sirleaf's army (The Guardian 6/6/2006)
• Only radical action will end centuries of male domination, says Africa’s first female president (Black Britain 5/6/2006)

May 2006

• DR Congo women forced into prostitution to survive (IoL 25/5/2006)
• Rape, brutality ignored to aid Congo peace (CNN 24/5/2006)
• Ethiopian girls fear forced marriage (BBC 16/5/2006)
• The woman who has the power to change Africa (The Independent 16/5/2006)
• Nigeria: Female Genital Mutilation Hampers Sexual Pleasure - Experts (AllAfrica 15/5/2006)
• The woman who took on Zuma (IoL 10/5/2006)
• S Africa's Zuma cleared of rape (BBC 8/5/2006)
• Liberia sex-for-aid 'widespread' (BBC 8/5/2006)
• Morocco women preachers appointed (BBC 4/5/2006)
• Africa: Leading Women to Converge for Groundbreaking Conference (AllAfrica 3/5/2006)

Apr 2006

• Women Protest Male MP's Trivialization of Rape in Kenya (Feminist Daily News Wire 28/4/2006)
• Kenyan women's anger at MP 'slur' (BBC 27/4/2006)
• Women's groups angered by Zuma court case (Cape Times 24/4/2006)
• Tanzania: Domestic Violence a Serious Concern - WHO (AllAfrica 20/4/2006)
• Liberia: Scholarships for Female Students Soon As Pres. Sirleaf Launches Girls Education Policy (AllAfrica 19/4/2006)
• Zimbabwe: Domestic Violence: More Radical Approach Needed (AllAfrica 19/4/2006)
• Helping the mothers of Benin (BBC 17/4/2006)
• UN launches new programme for girls’ education in West and Central Africa (UN News Centre 17/4/2006)
• South African Trial Brings Rape into Public View (IWPR 14/4/2006)
• Botswana: First Woman Judge - Profile (AllAfrica 12/4/2006)
• Uganda: Women Condemn Female Circumcision (AllAfrica 11/4/2006)
• Zimbabwe: Rape Cases On Rise Countrywide (AllAfrica 11/4/2006)
• Liberia: Rape Victims' Voices Not Heard, Aid Workers (AllAfrica 7/4/2006)
• UN agency calls for strong action following recent surge in rapes in Kenya (UN News Centre 7/4/2006)
• Female 'invisible condom' could be the answer to HIV transmission (IOL SA 4/4/2006)
• AU's Darfur troops in sexual abuse probe (BBC 4/4/2006)
• South Africa: Women Still Fighting for the Right to Own Their Own Homes (AllAfrica 3/4/2006)
• SA's Zuma testifies in rape case (BBC 3/4/2006)

Mar 2006

• Kenyan schoolgirls raped on march (BBC 28/3/2006)
• South Africa Rape Trial Dashes Hope for Change (Women's eNews 24/3/2006)
• Kenya: Muslim girls don sporting jilbabs (BBC 24/3/2006)
• Over 4 Million Unsafe Abortions Occur in Africa (AllAfrica 22/3/2006)
• Sierra Leone [opinion]: International Women's Day And Sierra Leone's Unsung Heroines (AllAfrica 22/3/2006)
• Zimbabwe Delays Needed Tampon Shipments (Feminist Daily News Wire 21/3/2006)
• PanAfrica: $600m for Girls' Education (AllAfrica 20/3/2006)
• Africa: 'Care needed' for Aids children (BBC 20/3/2006)
• Period misery for Kenya schoolgirls (BBC 17/3/2006)
• Quality test for Zimbabwe tampons (BBC 14/3/2006)
• South Africa: Top Women Slate Zuma Trial (AllAfrica 12/3/2006)
• Nigerian Women Take Centre Stage On International Women's Day (AllAfrica 10/3/2006)
• As UNICEF laments violence in Africa one scientist says apartheid to blame in the south (Black Britain 10/3/2006)
• Women's Day Marked in Namibia (AllAfrica 10/3/2006)
• South Africa: Activists Lament Aids And Rights Abuses On International Women's Day (All Africa 9/3/2006)
• Zuma South African rape trial reveals a culture of silence (Black Britain 8/3/2006)
• Egypt: Illiteracy Still Rife Among Rural Women (AllAfrica 8/3/2006)
• Uganda: Millions of Women And Children Living Rough - Unicef (AllAfrica 8/3/2006)
• Zambia: More Needed to Help Sexually Abused Women (AllAfrica 8/3/2006)
• SA: Zuma's 'rape' accuser questioned (BBC 7/3/2006)
• Int'l Women's Day: SA: More Female Voices On Screens, Airwaves And Pages (AllAfrica 7/3/2006)
• International Women's Day Africa: Handful of Nations Rejects Politics As Usual (AllAfrica 6/3/2006)
• SA court hears of 'rape' by Zuma (BBC 6/3/2006)
• A life ended by child traffickers (BBC 4/3/2006)
• Human Rights Group Blasts Unwarranted Detention of Libyan Women and Girls (Feminist Daily News Wire 3/3/2006)
• Rwanda leads UN rankings for biggest number of women parliamentarians in the world (AllAfrica 2/3/2006)
• South Africa: Sexual Assault Hidden in Culture of Silence (AllAfrica 2/3/2006)
• How Africa's first elected female leader is faring in Liberia (BBC 2/3/2006)
• South Africa’s black gay community fearful after lesbian murdered (Black Britain 2/3/2006)
• Unicef Calls On All Zimbabweans to Halt Horror of Violence Against Women (AllAfrica 1/3/2006)
• "Female Genital Mutilation Serious Problem in Ethiopia" (AllAfrica 1/3/2006)
• Libya rape victims 'brainwashed' (NZ Herald 1/3/2006)

Feb 2006

• Malawi Agency BLM Distributes 20,000 Female Condoms (AllAfrica 28/2/2006)
• SA couple look forward to gay wedding (BBC 27/2/2006)
• A Ghanaian tells why she chose to have an illegal termination (BBC 24/2/2006)
• Uganda's first lady running for election shows gender shift in African democracies (The Guardian 23/2/2006)
• Zimbabwean play has challenged how a woman should react in situations of adultery (BBC 22/2/2006)
• Southern African Development Community Pushes for Affirmative Action to Accelerate Gender Equality (AllAfrica 21/2/2006)
• International fight against FGM pushes African activists to a new juncture (Women's eNews 20/2/2006)
• With Nearly Four Million Dead, Is World Watching Congo? (AllAfrica 15/2/2006)
• South African women demand reform of outdated rape laws (BBC 15/2/2006)
• Over a hundred women arrested after Zimbabwe Valentine's rally (Black Britain 15/2/2006)
• Liberia: Women Express Displeasure Over FGM (AllAfrica 14/2/2006)
• Nigeria: "Abortion Claims 55,000 Women Yearly" (AllAfrica 14/2/2006)
• '4 Million Women Trafficked Yearly' (AllAfrica 10/2/2006)
• DRC: Rape On the Rise in North Kivu, As Fighting Displaces 70,000 (AllAfrica 10/2/2006)
• Treat Rape As Crime Against Humanity, Women Urge (AllAfrica 9/2/2006)
• Ugandan Women Poverty Levels Alarming - Expert (AllAfrica 8/2/2006)
• Tanzanian Govt Bans Miniskirts (AllAfrica 8/2/2006)
• Sharp rise in number of deaths of young women in Botswana (BBC 6/2/2006)
• Dramatic fall in Zimbabwe HIV infections: About 49% fewer young women test positive (The Guardian 3/2/2006)
• A 3-decade law banning pregnant girls from attending school has been scrapped by MPs in Zanzibar (BBC 1/2/2006)
• Malawi: Abuse of Women And Girls a National Shame (AllAfrica 1/2/2006)
• Gender Equality is Rwanda's Priority (All Africa 1/2/2006)

Jan 2006

• "Many Cameroonian Laws Don't Favour Women" (AllAfrica 28/1/2006)
• Kenyans break with tradition to join the dating game online (BBC 24/1/2006)
• Liberia's new leader pledges to crackdown on the scourge of rape (BBC 20/1/2006)
• Africa: Women leaders: Rights for all women or only ruling women? (Pambazuka Editorial 19/1/2006)
• Nigeria to outlaw same-sex unions (BBC 19/1/2006)
• Sexual violence against women & children is being used to break the will of the population that remains in Darfur, says Glenys Kinnock (The Guardian 18/1/2006)
• UN official says Sudan should adhere to women’s anti-discrimination treaty (UN News Centre 16/1/2006)
• Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has been sworn in as Liberia's president, making her Africa's first elected female leader (BBC 16/1/2006)
• Africa: Vaginal Douching Increases HIV Risk (AllAfrica 16/1/2006)
• Close to 50 Million Children in Africa With No Access for School (AllAfrica 16/1/2006)
• Nigeria: Anambra Women Go Nude in Protest (AllAfrica 14/1/2006)
• Kenya: 'Here, Rapists Can Get As Low a Sentence As a Fine...' (AllAfrica 11/1/2006)
• 3.9 million dead from war in Democratic Republic of Congo: The Lancet (UN Mission in DR Congo 6/1/2006)
• Free treatment is the key to survival: Médecins Sans Frontières is running a campaigning clinic in Lagos, Nigeria (The Guardian 2/1/2006)

Pre-2006

• UK agencies still hiring poorest nations' nurses: Loophole undermining Africa's fight against Aids (The Guardian 20/12/2005)
• Women's Rights Treaty Enacted by Fifteen African Nations (Feminist Daily News Wire 13/12/2005)
• Antiretroviral drug is helping prevent HIV-positive mothers in Africa transmitting virus to babies (BBC 10/12/2005)
• South Africa: Young Women Have Highest Risk of HIV/AIDS (Feminist Daily News Wire 8/12/2005)
• South Africa plunges into political crisis as Mbeki's ex-deputy charged with rape (The Guardian 7/12/2005)
• Sudan: Gender-Based Violence Still Rampant in Darfur, Say Aid Agencies (AllAfrica 5/12/2005)
• Africa's Condom Conundrum: Fighting HIV in Africa (AllAfrica 1/12/2005 - World AIDS Day)
• South Africa to have gay weddings (BBC 1/12/2005)
• Liberian leader 'to boost women' (BBC 24/11/2005)
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Maintains Leads in Liberia Election (AllAfrica 10/11/2005)
• Nigerian Lawyer Awarded Human Rights Prize (Feminist Daily News Wire 8/11/2005)

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Caribbean News

• Domestic violence-related homicides remain major challenge for Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean Net News 5/4/2006)
• Jamaica gets first woman leader (BBC 31/3/2006)
• Jamaican PM? Portia Simpson: Profile (BBC Caribbean 27/2/2006)
• Jamaica to get first woman leader (BBC 26/2/2006)
• Forced abortions for Netherlands Antilles teenage women? (Caribbean Net News 21/2/2006)
• Jamaica reassures same-sex marriages will remain illegal (Black Britain 17/2/2006)
• New book presents the positive role of Caribbean mothers in the UK (Black Britain 27/1/2006)
• Women who return to Jamaica after jail in the UK find life is tough (BBC 19/1/2006)

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European News

• Forced marriages, domestic violence contribute to female suicide in Turkey (UN News Centre 1/6/2006)
• Outrage over Irish rape loophole (BBC 31/5/2006)
• Europe's plunging birthrate has become a source of growing alarm in capitals across the EU (The Guardian 3/5/2006)
• German Woman tried for eight baby deaths (BBC 27/4/2006)
• Feminists frown on 'Mademoiselle' (BBC 13/4/2006)
• What have those top French feminists been doing all these years? (The Guardian 13/4/2006)
• Unseen Anne Frank letters on show (BBC 12/4/2006)
• Russians enjoy baby boom but will they remember granddad? (BBC 31/3/2006)
• Italian poll stirs up abortion row (BBC 29/3/2006)
• French government eyes 'le baby boom' (BBC 29/3/2006)
• Norway's welfare model 'helps birth rate' (BBC 28/3/2006)
• Italian women shun 'mamma' role (BBC 27/3/2006)
• France raises marriage age limit (BBC 23/3/2006)
• Chechnya's New Prime Minister Mandates Headscarves for Women (Feminist Daily News Wire 20/3/2006)
• Europe offers women a raw deal at work (Management Issues 9/3/2006)
• EU's gender gap still wide open (BBC 8/3/2006)
• Norway shatters the glass ceiling - but will it promote women's cause? (The Independent 8/3/2006)
• A woman's guide to success in the Kremlin (The Guardian 7/3/2006)
• Ice Hockey: Martin to break gender barrier in Sweden (Globe & Mail 7/3/2006)
• Spain: Equality Act requiring 40% women corporate directors (Spain Herald 6/3/2006)
• Is this the face of France's first Madame la Présidente? (The Guardian 3/3/2006)
• Project Lifts Curtain on East Bloc Women's Past (Women's eNews 27/2/2006)
• Bosnian film about women raped during Balkans war wins the Golden Bear award at Berlin Film Festival (BBC 18/2/2006)
• Italy rape ruling draws criticism (BBC 17/2/2006)
• Women less likely to become professors in Sweden (Swedish News in English 15/2/2006)
• Joan of Arc 'relics' to be tested (BBC 14/2/2006)
• Vatican abortion treaty brings down government (The Guardian 11/2/2006)
• Polish woman fights abortion case (BBC 7/2/2006)
• Dutch Party Sticks to Ban on Female Candidates (Women's eNews 6/2/2006)
• Italy: How young is too young for the catwalk? (The Observer 5/2/2006)
• Portugal blocks lesbian marriage (BBC 2/2/2006)
• Finns narrowly re-elect Halonen, the country's first woman leader (BBC 29/1/2006)
• Albania: a step forward for justice for women (Amnesty International 26/1/2006)
• Female Dutch MP defies Muslim pressure (BBC 24/1/2006)
• Famed Italy priest held for rape (BBC 24/1/2006)
• French women defy macho garages (BBC 23/1/2006)
• One woman's fight to adopt the Romanian orphan she loves (BBC 23/1/2006)
• New Law in Norway Requires Women to be 40 Percent of Corporate Boards (Feminist Daily News Wire 20/1/2006)
• UN Police: Georgian policewomen’s initiative is a model for the region (UN News Centre 20/1/2006)
• Could Segolene Royal become France's first female president? (BBC 18/1/2006)
• Women in Italy March for Abortion Rights (Feminist Daily News Wire 17/1/2006)
• Dutch MPs to decide on burqa ban (BBC 16/1/2006)
• Female equality: Norway shows up UK's slow route to smashing glass ceiling (Opportunity News 6/1/2006)
• Russian Federation: Nowhere to turn to - Violence against women in the family (Amnesty International 14/12/2006)
• Angela Merkel Named First Woman Chancellor of Germany (Feminist Daily News Wire 12/10/2005)
• Portugal Agrees to Hold Abortion Referendum (Feminist Daily News Wire 30/9/2005)

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North American News

• Bush calls for gay marriage ban (BBC 3/6/2006)
• Oprah Winfrey book deal tops Clinton's $12m (The Guardian 22/5/2006)
• American moms demand better work-life balance (Management Issues 10/5/2006)
• Golf: Wie will attempt to qualify for men's US Open (ESPN 2/5/2006)
• US anti-war grandmothers on trial (BBC 20/4/2006)
• Flushed with success, the US anti-abortion movement is radically expanding its goals (The Guardian 18/4/2006)
• US TV host Katie Couric is to become the first woman to anchor a US evening news bulletin on her own (BBC 5/4/2006)
• New book gives an insight into influence of First Lady Laura Bush (BBC 5/4/2006)
• Doctor flies into South Dakota to perform abortions (CNN 4/4/2006)
• US Mint forks out $9m over sexual harassment of staff (The Independent 2/4/2006)
• Women's Suffrage Artifacts Go Online (Women's eNews 23/3/2006)
• Amazon accused of anti-abortion bias (The Independent 21/3/2006)
• Two women die in US of infection after taking abortion pill (The Independent 18/3/2006)
• Woman sells ad rights to pregnancy on eBay (Globe & Mail 16/3/2006)
• The death of a spouse may not affect people quite as severely as thought, US study suggests (BBC 15/3/2006)
• California weighs up cost of electing first lesbian bishop (The Guardian 13/3/2006)
• Abortion battle lines drawn in Mississippi (BBC 12/3/2006)
• US men fight child support laws (BBC 9/3/2006)
• US State's abortion ban fires first shot in a long war over women's rights (The Guardian 8/3/2006)
• Survey names top U.S. companies for women (Management Issues 8/3/2006)
• Barbie doll gets live stage show (BBC 8/3/2006)
• US state tightens abortion laws (BBC 7/3/2006)
• Wal-Mart bows to pressure to sell morning-after pill in US (The Guardian 6/3/2006)
• USA State to give birth control to the poor (Detroit News 3/3/2006)
• US jails 'shackle pregnant women' (BBC 2/3/2006)
• African American Women Gain Ground in Sciences (Women's eNews 28/2/2006)
• Baseball Hall of Fame Elects First Woman (Yahoo! News 27/2/2006)
• Female Pilots Get Their Shot in the Iraqi Skies: Men Say Women Are Proving Skills in Direct Combat (Washington Post 27/2/2006)
• Sheryl Crow has breast cancer op (BBC 25/2/2006)
• Could a South Dakota law really end US abortion rights? (BBC 24/2/2006)
• US state takes aim at abortions (BBC 23/2/2006)
• USA: Woman, 62, gives birth to 12th child (The Guardian 23/2/2006)
• Drives to ban gay adoption heat up in 16 US states (USA Today 20/2/2006)
• Romance novels for women get frankly sexual (USA Today 20/2/2006)
• USA: Mississippi plans to put the names & faces of convicted sex offenders on roadside billboards (BBC 20/2/2006)
• Interview: Cristina Page, author of controversial new book about the state of sex, morality & abortion rights in America (Alternet 17/2/2006)
• USA: Pregnancy Remains Heavy Load for Working Women (Women's eNews 16/2/2006)
• USA: More single women buy their own homes (USA Today 15/2/2006)
• USA: Women Hold Fewer State Govt Posts Than Men (Yahoo! News 15/2/2006)
• Alice Walker: Outlaw, Renegade, Rebel, Pagan (AlterNet 14/2/2006)
• Wives were key in civil rights struggle (Atlanta Journal 12/2/2006)
• Teen Girls Tell Their Stories of Sex Trafficking and Exploitation in USA (ABC News 10/2/2006)
• California: Women 'underutilized' in executive roles, study says (Mercury News 10/2/2006)
• USA: Young women form anti-abuse group (CNN 9/2/2006)
• Canada: Hormone therapy gets limited nod for menopause (Globe & Mail 8/2/2006)
• Britain defies US with funding to boost safe abortion services (The Guardian 6/2/2006)
• Coretta Scott King becomes the first African-American and the first woman to lie in state at the Georgia Capitol rotunda (Chicago Tribune 5/2/2006)
• Hillary Clinton raises millions for 'doomed' tilt at presidency (The Observer 5/2/2006)
• Divorce deals - by Mrs 50 Per Cent (The Observer 5/2/2006)
• Girl first to win state prep wrestling title over boys (ESPN 5/2/2006)
• Mourners honour Luther King wife (BBC 4/2/2006)
• US supreme court nears crucial abortion ruling (The Guardian 2/2/2006)
• Wal-Mart is being taken to court over the sale of morning-after pills in USA (BBC 2/2/2006)
• Coretta Scott King, widow of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, has died aged 78 (BBC 31/1/2006)
• US reviews minors' abortion law (BBC 18/1/2006)
• Nanny state: Why Chinese-speaking childminders are all the rage in New York (BBC 16/1/2006)
• USA: Federal Law Protects Battered Women From Housing Discrimination, Court Rules (ACLU 4/1/2006)
• She's probably the most powerful woman in the United States: Oprah Winfrey profile (The Observer 20/11/2005)

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Asian & Pacific News

• Australian jailed for sex slavery (BBC 9/6/2006)
• India child marriages flout law (BBC 8/6/2006)
• UN agency welcomes new advance of women’s rights in Nepal (UN News Centre 6/6/2006)
• Australia celebrates baby boom (BBC 2/6/2006)
• Japan fertility hits record low (BBC 1/6/2006)
• Nepal women's rights law hailed (BBC 31/5/2006)
• Taking the 'jihad' to Kashmir's women (BBC 30/5/2006)
• India tackles child marriages (CSM 24/5/2006)
• Kashmir sex storm: Why protesters have taken to the streets in war-torn Srinagar (BBC 18/5/2006)
• The Indian village bucking the female foeticide trend (BBC 17/5/2006)
• Culture of violence see Aboriginal girls raped (Reuters 16/5/2006)
• Indian Women Hit Social Walls (LA Times 15/5/2006)
• Boys flocking to be 'ducks' for China's bored housewives (The Observer 7/5/2006)
• Filipinas aim for breast-fed best (BBC 4/5/2006)
• Pakistani rape survivor turned education crusader honored at UN (UN News Centre 2/5/2006)
• Afghan women get down to business (BBC 1/5/2006)
• Tax burden heaviest on working women in Australia (Sydney Morning Herald 1/5/2006)
• Bangladeshi Activist Leaves Inspiring Legacy (Feminist Daily News Wire 1/5/2006)
• Working together against Gender-Based Violence (Asian Tribune 19/4/2006)
• Report Shows Continued Violence and Discrimination Against Afghan Women (Feminist Daily News Wire 17/4/2006)
• Kashmir gets its first women's magazine (DNA India 14/4/2006)
• India sees rise of independent women (BBC 10/4/2006)
• 29 women and children killed in mosque stampede (The Guardian 10/4/2006)
• Woman flies to India for hip op (BBC Health 6/4/2006)
• Sri Lanka banks on poorest women (BBC 6/4/2006)
• India's 'bride buying' country (BBC 5/4/2006)
• Japan in Solidarity Against Female Genital Mutilation (AllAfrica 5/4/2006)
• How safe is Mumbai for women? (BBC 3/4/2006)
• Nepal women hail divorce ruling (BBC 31/3/2006)
• Indians crack down on gender abortions (CSM 31/3/2006)
• First doctor jailed over India's aborted girls (The Independent 30/3/2006)
• Pakistan gets women combat pilots (BBC 30/3/2006)
• Urgent action needed to break male dominance in Thai Government (UN News Centre 29/3/2006)
• S Korea nominates first female PM (BBC 24/3/2006)
• The life and death of the Tamil woman who struggled for justice (BBC 22/3/2006)
• Australian women shrink the pay gap (Christian Science Monitor 21/3/2006)
• UNICEF official warns of continuing threats to Afghan women and children (UN News Centre 21/3/2006)
• British couples desperate for children travel to India in search of surrogates (The Guardian 20/3/2006)
• China: Women emerge as major consumer force in sports (China Economic Net 20/3/2006)
• Philippine Congresswoman Charged with Rebellion; Women's Movement Declared Illegal (Women's Media Centre 16/3/2006)
• Afghanistan's feared woman warlord (BBC 16/3/2006)
• Protests for Women's Rights Mark International Women's Day Across Asia (Feminist Daily News Wire 13/3/2006)
• Malaysia female 'apartheid' row deepens (BBC 11/3/2006)
• Japan's domestic abuse cases rise (The Guardian 10/3/2006)
• Singapore rejects maids' day off (BBC 9/3/2006)
• Girl 'angers' Muslim elders with classical Indian dances (BBC 9/3/2006)
• Malaysia women 'suffer apartheid' (BBC 8/3/2006)
• UN: Nepal's war weighs on women (CNN 8/3/2006)
• Afghan women still suffer widespread mistreatment, including rape, murder and forced marriage (The Independent 8/3/2006)
• Report on the status of Afghan women (Globe & Mail 8/3/2006)
• Women on Afghan buses to get new deal under UN-backed programme (UN News Centre 7/3/2006)
• Afghan Legislator Calls for Enforcement of Chaperones for Women (Feminist Daily News Wire 23/2/2006)
• NZ: Women's mags thrive amid declines (NZ Herald 22/2/2006)
• 'Retired husband syndrome' blamed for rise in Japan divorces (BBC 22/2/2006)
• NZ: Suicide rate in young women increases (NZ Herald 21/2/2006)
• India's feisty untouchable woman (BBC 19/2/2006)
• Australia ends abortion drug 'ban' (BBC 16/2/2006)
• Why Japanese women dislike Valentine's Day (BBC 14/2/2006)
• India 'to register all marriages' (BBC 14/2/2006)
• Women Enter Business Sector in Afghanistan (LA Times 13/2/2006)
• Young lovers in Shanghai, are turning to cosmetic surgery as a Valentine's Day present (BBC 13/2/2006)
• Fertility drug use booms in China (BBC 13/2/2006)
• Bollywood film breaks sex and marriage taboo (The Guardian 11/2/2006)
• India rape girl accuses teachers (BBC 10/2/2006)
• "1 in 3 Women Have Had an Abortion, and I'm One of Them", Says Australian Democrats leader (Sydney Morning Herald 9/2/2006)
• Bollywood veteran, Nadira, dies (BBC 9/2/2006)
• Japan PM cools on female succession bill (BBC 8/2/2006)
• Australia to debate abortion drug (CNN 7/2/2006)
• Kashmir: Schools bring hope for quake children (BBC 6/2/2006)
• China: Under house arrest: blind activist who exposed forced abortions (The Guardian 3/2/2006)
• Don't work with men, Muslim clerics tell Indian women (The Guardian 3/2/2006)
• China ban for Memoirs of a Geisha (BBC 2/2/2006)
• About 40 Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo rally to protest against allowing women to ascend to the throne (BBC 1/2/2006)
• Indian actress sues 'lad mag' over underwear photo (BBC 31/1/2006)
• Japan's husbands head home early for Beloved Wives Day (BBC 31/1/2006)
• Pakistani women race peacefully (BBC 29/1/2006)
• Village of widows: Female victims of Thai insurgency now living together for support (BBC 28/1/2006)
• Islamic activists arrested at protests against plans to allow women to run alongside men in Lahore marathon (BBC 27/1/2006)
• Afghan MP says she will not be silenced (BBC 27/1/2006)
• New centre to fight family violence opens in Afghanistan with UN help (UN News Centre 25/1/2006)
• Beijing parents hire 'grannies' as nannies head home (BBC 23/1/2006)
• Afghan women celebrate freedom - with driving lessons (BBC 22/1/2006)
• Japan bill to let women on throne (BBC 20/1/2006)
• Women killed in Sri Lanka attack (BBC 16/1/2006)
• Afghan Women's Rights Editor Released From Prison (Feminist Daily News Wire 3/1/2006)
• Afghan Man Killed by Taliban for Teaching Girls (Feminist Daily News Wire 19/12/2005)
• Burmese Women Expose Rapes by Military Regime (Women's eNews 26/9/2005)

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Middle East News

• Iran police beat women activists (BBC 12/6/2006)
• Bahraini Government Appoints First Woman Judge (Feminist Daily News Wire 9/6/2006)
• For the women of Iraq, the war is just beginning (The Independent 8/6/2006)
• Iraq Women's Report Calls Violence Enemy No. 1 (Women's eNews 8/6/2006)
• Bahrain woman heads UN assembly (BBC 8/6/2006)
• Iran's female football fans yet to win equality (BBC 6/6/2006)
• Thirty-two women among Kuwait election candidates (Reuters 4/6/2006)
• Two Iranian women worlds apart (Globe & Mail 31/5/2006)
• Palestinian, Israeli Women Push Bilateral Talks (Women's eNews 26/5/2006)
• Stage set for Arab Women's Clubs basketball championships (Gulf News 23/5/2006)
• King warns Saudi media over women (CNN 16/5/2006)
• Iraq raises stakes for female troops (Philadelphia Inquirer 15/5/2006)
• Women in Iraq are living a nightmare that is hidden from the west (The Guardian 8/5/2006)
• Iran women sports ruling vetoed (BBC 8/5/2006)
• Israeli, Palestinian women leaders meet to discuss peace (Haaretz 4/5/2006)
• UN-sponsored Arab regional forum focuses on supporting girls’ education (UN News Centre 3/5/2006)
• Woman named to a top spot in Israeli cabinet (Philadelphia Inquirer 2/5/2006)
• Muslim girls in Israel take boxing to the limit (Chicago Sun-Times 30/4/2006)
• Hello boys: lingerie leads the fight for Saudi women's rights (The Independent 27/4/2006)
• Iran clergy angry over women fans (BBC 26/4/2006)
• Saudi novel breaks sex taboos (BBC 26/4/2006)
• Sporting chance for women as Iran ends spectating ban (BBC 24/4/2006)
• Lebanese play breaks taboos on Arab women's sexuality (Reuters 24/4/2006)
• No crackdown on unIslamic dress: Iran president (Washington Post 23/4/2006)
• Palestinians Debate Women's Future Under Hamas (Women's eNews 23/4/2006)
• Throughout the Arab world, increasing numbers of women are taking on high-profile national roles in finance & commerce (The Observer 23/4/2006)
• Police in Tehran ordered to arrest women in 'un-Islamic' dress (The Guardian 20/4/2006)
• Men are barred from Israel's new department store (BBC 20/4/2006)
• United States is no help to Iraqi women (Seattle Post 19/4/2006)
• Images of Saudi women startle menfolk in photo show (Washington Post 19/4/2006)
• Women’s Rights Focus of Media Conference in Riyadh (Arab News 18/4/2006)
• Miss Iraq forced to go into hiding after death threats (The Independent 14/4/2006)
• Iraq: Women were more respected under Saddam, say women's groups (Reuters 13/4/2006)
• One in Four Married Syrian Women Has Been Abused (Feminist Daily News Wire 12/4/2006)
• Kuwaiti women vote for first time (BBC 4/4/2006)
• Second Female Presidential Candidate in Yemen (Feminist Daily News Wire 3/4/2006)
• Iranian Police Attack Women's Rights Activists (Worldpress Org 28/3/2006)
• Saudi Arabia: Men barred from selling women's lingerie (The Guardian 21/3/2006)
• Women in Iraq Increasingly Attacked for Not Wearing Headscarves (Feminist Daily News Wire 13/3/2006)
• Iran's women intensify their demands for equal rights (BBC 9/3/2006)
• Iraqi Journalist to be honoured on Women's Day (Gulf News 8/3/2006)
• The obstacles facing women living and working in Iran (BBC 5/3/2006)
• Palestinian women wonder what the rise of Hamas might mean (BBC 3/3/2006)
• Saudi driving ban on women extends to golf carts (The Guardian 3/3/2006)
• Young Saudi women get help to start up their own businesses (BBC 27/2/2006)
• Veil power: Saudi Arabia, sexual apartheid rules. But things are changing ... (The Guardian 21/2/2006)
• Palestinian Women MPs vow to change face of Hamas (The Guardian 18/2/2006)
• Iranian Film Director Mixes Soccer With Women's Rights (Yahoo! News 17/2/2006)
• Saudi Arabia: Parliament denied debate on women drivers (The Guardian 14/2/2006)
• US releases Iraqi women prisoners (BBC 26/1/2006)
• Saudis allow women to watch football match (BBC 18/1/2006)
• Israel appoints second woman Foreign Minister (BBC 18/1/2006)
• Islamic clerics are hotly debating exactly what sexual practices are acceptable (The Guardian 17/1/2006)
• Yemen Has First Woman Presidential Candidate (Feminist Daily News Wire 6/1/2006)
• Sport and the scarf - Islamic Women (BBC 9/12/2005)
• First Women Elected in Saudi Arabia (Feminist Daily News Wire 8/12/2005)
• In Radio, Iraq Women Are Raising Their Voices (Women's eNews 5/12/2005)
• Saudi Women Vote in First Election with Female Candidates (Feminist Daily News Wire 28/11/2005)

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South & Central American News

• Guatemala Pressed to Investigate Surge in Killings 0f Women (Women's eNews 12/6/2006)
• Abortion Adds to Colombia's Election Turmoil (Women's eNews 25/5/2006)
• Women claim Mexico police rapes (BBC 10/5/2006)
• Fighting to change Mexico's culture on abortion (San Francisco Chronicle 23/4/2006)
• Michelle, top woman in a macho world (The Observer 2/4/2006)
• Woman Joins Presidential Race in Peru (Yahoo! News 31/3/2006)
• Mexico Compensates Rape Victim for Denying Her Right to an Abortion (Feminist Daily News Wire 15/3/2006)
• Chile inaugurates female leader (BBC 11/3/2006)
• Sex dolls fight Mexican machismo (BBC 9/3/2006)
• Mexican rape women 'denied help' (BBC 8/3/2006)
• Chileans Watch for a Cultural Shift With Their First Female President (LA Times 8/3/2006)
• Colombian gets four years' jail for grabbing woman's bottom (BBC 24/2/2006)
• Female Coffee Growers Find New Freedoms in Peru (Women's eNews 5/2/2006)
• Family planning row in Guatemala (BBC 2/2/2006)
• Women get half Chile cabinet jobs (BBC 31/1/2006)
• Last march for Argentine mothers (BBC 25/1/2006)
• Chilean Women Celebrate Signs of Rapid Change (Women's eNews 19/1/2006)
• Chile: New leader vows to make half her cabinet female (The Guardian 18/1/2006)
• Bachelet vow on gender equality (BBC 17/1/2006)
• The woman taking Chile's top job (BBC 16/1/2006)
• Colombians Push Abortion Onto National Agenda (Women's eNews 22/12/2005)
• Briefing Calls Awareness to Rampant Feminicides in Guatemala (Feminist Daily News Wire 27/10/2005)

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Health News

• Contraceptive pill aid for women (BBC 10/6/2006)
• NHS drug watchdog backs Herceptin (BBC 9/6/2006)
• US approves cervical cancer drug (BBC 9/6/2006)
• Breast cancer drug 'a life-saver' (BBC 5/6/2006)
• Female mutilation is 'birth risk' (BBC 2/6/2006)
• Breast cancer study finds fewer doses of radiotherapy effective (The Guardian 30/5/2006)
• Men in cervical cancer research (BBC Health 30/5/2006)
• Breast cancer drug may be 'too expensive' (The Independent 25/5/2006)
• NHS go-ahead for new breast cancer drugs (The Guardian 23/5/2006)
• Caesareans 'higher risk' for mother and baby (The Independent 23/5/2006)
• Coroner issues baby death warning (BBC Health 21/5/2006)
• UK Health services failing depressed mothers (The Guardian 15/5/2006)
• Probe into Pill depression link (BBC 8/5/2006)
• Cosmetic surgery 'may harm breastfeeding' (The Observer 7/5/2006)
• New technique to reduce breast cancer surgery pain (The Guardian 3/5/2006)
• Women 'not reassured over smears' (BBC Health 2/5/2006)
• Herceptin gets European approval in record time (The Independent 28/4/2006)
• The drugs cost burden for breast cancer patients (BBC Health 28/4/2006)
• Cervical cancer vaccine 'will protect older women' (BBC Health 27/4/2006)
• "Breast isn't best" (The Independent 25/4/2006)
• Anti-HIV Gel for Women May Be Available by 2010 (Feminist Daily News Wire 24/4/2006)
• Saving Sarah: How your bone marrow could save a young bride's life (BBC Health 22/4/2006)
• Fear over 'premature babies rise' (BBC 21/4/2006)
• Ginger raises new hope in fight against ovarian cancer (The Guardian 18/4/2006)
• Woman wins Herceptin court fight (BBC 12/4/2006)
• English women lose out in Herceptin's 'postcode lottery' (The Guardian 10/4/2006)
• Antidepression drugs may raise risk of stillborn baby (The Guardian 7/4/2006)
• Cervical cancer jab lasts years (BBC Health 5/4/2006)
• Female 'invisible condom' could be the answer to HIV transmission (IOL SA 4/4/2006)
• Pregnancy does not slow the brain down (The Independent 1/4/2006)
• Bradford: Surgeon 'could have put breast cancer patients at risk' (The Guardian 1/4/2006)
• High Blood Pressure claiming mothers' lives (BBC Caribbean 31/3/2006)
• Vitamins 'may up pregnancy risk' (BBC Health 30/3/2006)
• New pill promises to reduce breast cancer risk (The Guardian 28/3/2006)
• Drug cuts chances of breast cancer returning, say scientists (The Guardian 24/3/2006)
• Breast cancer drug cocktail hope (BBC Health 23/3/2006)
• How foetal movements can help children with school work (BBC Health 22/3/2006)
• Study: Treating mom can prevent kids' depression (CNN 21/3/2006)
• Angina 'may be missed in women' (BBC 21/3/2006)
• Female hair loss treatment hope (BBC Health 21/3/2006)
• Menstrual problems are 1 of the 4 most common reasons why women of reproductive age see their GP (BBC 20/3/2006)
• Uneven breasts linked to cancer (BBC Health 19/3/2006)
• Women go private to get 'miracle' drug (The Observer 12/3/2006)
• Pregnant women should take more calcium, says study (The Guardian 10/3/2006)
• Breast milk 'won't halt obesity' (BBC Health 9/3/2006)
• Why mothers should be offered caesareans (The Observer 5/3/2006)
• Marital rows 'harm heart health' (BBC Health 4/3/2006)
• Breast screen treatment concerns (BBC Health 3/3/2006)
• Woman to renew Herceptin battle (BBC Health 3/3/2006)
• Hysterectomy inquiry reveals 25-year scandal of silence (The Guardian 1/3/2006)
• Birthing suit 'could save lives' (BBC Health 28/2/2006)
• Most cot deaths due to accidental suffocation, says US study (The Guardian 27/2/2006)
• Fertility fears: 'I thought my fibroids had cost me the chance of children' (BBC 26/2/2006)
• Temp work 'harms women's health' (BBC Health 25/2/2006)
• Breast screening 'a life-saver' (BBC Health 22/2/2006)
• Hormone may block premature birth (BBC Health 20/2/2006)
• Cancer vigil woman meets minister (BBC Health 20/2/2006)
• Herceptin maker asks for licence (BBC 17/2/2006)
• Women 'get more headache drugs' (BBC Health 16/2/2006)
• "Abortions at home are safe" (The Guardian 16/2/2006)
• Australia ends abortion drug 'ban' (BBC 16/2/2006)
• UK: Woman loses Herceptin court bid (BBC 15/2/2006)
• UK: Many student nurses quit courses (BBC Health 15/2/2006)
• Three shaken baby deaths to be reviewed (BBC 14/2/2006)
• Data say estrogen may not raise risk of heart disease (Boston Globe 14/2/2006)
• More contraceptive advice urged (BBC 13/2/2006)
• Fertility drug use booms in China (BBC 13/2/2006)
• Gasping cells theory of cot death (BBC 13/2/2006)
• Free testing kits for a variety of sexually-transmitted diseases could be made available on UK high streets (BBC 12/2/2006)
• Wales: Top midwife's natural births call (BBC 11/2/2006)
• One-hour breast implant operations raise concerns (The Guardian 11/2/2006)
• Serial snogging puts teens at deadly risk (The Guardian 10/2/2006)
• Obesity crisis prompts leading food firms to add health labels (The Guardian 9/2/2006)
• English sexual infection rates highest in UK (The Guardian 9/2/2006)
• Study: Male circumcision may protect women from AIDS (CNN 9/2/2006)
• Premature babies 'can defy odds' (BBC Health 8/2/2006)
• Canada: Hormone therapy gets limited nod for menopause (Globe & Mail 8/2/2006)
• Gene mutation test predicts likelihood of early menopause (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
• Concern over womb cancer increase (BBC Health 7/2/2006)
• Cash woe of breast cancer women (BBC Health 6/2/2006)
• Woman tells court Herceptin Drug refusal 'a death sentence' (BBC 6/2/2006)
• Legal battle for right to have cancer drug (The Observer 5/2/2006)
• Chocolate bars to carry 'health warnings' on wrapping (The Guardian 4/2/2006)
• Cuts and staff shortages put maternity care pledge at risk (The Guardian 3/2/2006)
• Dramatic fall in Zimbabwe HIV infections: About 49% fewer young women test positive (The Guardian 3/2/2006)
• UK Doctors 'prescribing Herceptin' (BBC 3/2/2006)
• UK childhood vaccination programme being extended to protect against disease which causes blood poisoning, meningitis & pneumonia (BBC 3/2/2006)
• Chlamydia texts 'speed up help' (BBC Health 2/2/2006)
• Sexual health clinics 'cannot meet demand' (The Guardian 2/2/2006)
• Babies given drugs untested on the young (The Guardian 2/2/2006)
• Herceptin campaigner in Welsh Assembly protest (The Guardian 1/2/2006)
• Women reveal concerns over HRT (BBC Health 1/2/2006)
• Hospital asks for external inquiry into childbirth deaths (The Guardian 31/1/2006)
• Cancer woman's Herceptin protest (BBC 29/1/2006)
• Anxious fathers increase the pain of caesareans (The Guardian 26/1/2006)
• Telling the time on a woman's body clock (The Guardian 26/1/2006)
• UK: Woman sues trust for cancer test blunder (The Guardian 25/1/2006)
• Heart disease & diabetes linked to stress in the office: Women five times more likely to have risk factors (The Guardian 20/1/2006)
• UK: Large rise in infant sofa deaths (BBC 18/1/2006)
• Africa: Vaginal Douching Increases HIV Risk (AllAfrica 16/1/2006)
• Health Trainers against health inequality succeed in Black and Ethnic Minority Communities (Black Britain 5/1/2006)
• Free treatment is the key to survival: Médecins Sans Frontières is running a campaigning clinic in Lagos, Nigeria (The Guardian 2/1/2006)
• UK agencies still hiring poorest nations' nurses: Loophole undermining Africa's fight against Aids (The Guardian 20/12/2005)
• Antiretroviral drug is helping prevent HIV-positive mothers in Africa transmitting virus to babies (BBC 10/12/2005)
• Africa's Condom Conundrum: Fighting HIV in Africa (AllAfrica 1/12/2005 - World AIDS Day)
• UNICEF urges big boost in services to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (UN News Centre 30/11/2005)
• UNICEF Releases Report on Female Genital Mutilation (Feminist Daily News Wire 29/11/2005)
• Contraception 'must widen' as figures of unplanned pregnancies in black women rise (Black Britain 31/10/2005)
• More research needed on breast cancer in black women (Black Britain 7/9/2005)
• Breast implants for 18-year-olds? Hymen reconstructions? Don't tell Sheila Jeffreys these are signs of female liberation (The Guardian 2/7/2005)

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Education News

• Goodbye to an all-girls institution (BBC 9/6/2006)
• Women-only college could admit men (The Observer 4/6/2006)
• UK Teen mums spurred on to exam success (The Observer 28/5/2006)
• Unequal opportunities: Do faith schools teach girls and boys in the same way? (The Guardian 9/5/2006)
• UN-sponsored Arab regional forum focuses on supporting girls’ education (UN News Centre 3/5/2006)
• UN launches new programme for girls’ education in West and Central Africa (UN News Centre 17/4/2006)
• Women Key to Literacy in the Home (IPS 4/4/2006)
• Close to 50 Million Children in Africa With No Access for School (AllAfrica 16/1/2006)
• Nanny state: Why Chinese-speaking childminders are all the rage in New York (BBC 16/1/2006)
• UK: Too few' school psychologists (BBC 16/1/2006)
• Afghan Man Killed by Taliban for Teaching Girls (Feminist Daily News Wire 19/12/2005)
• 90 Million Girls Worldwide Lack Primary School Education (Feminist Daily News Wire 30/11/2005)
• Girls around the world still face challenges of inequality, UNICEF says (UN News Centre 24/8/2005)

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Sports News

• Iran's female football fans yet to win equality (BBC 6/6/2006)
• Stage set for Arab Women's Clubs basketball championships (Gulf News 23/5/2006)
• First woman to sail 'wrong way' round world returns (The Guardian 19/5/2006)
• Iran women sports ruling vetoed (BBC 8/5/2006)
• Golf: Wie will attempt to qualify for men's US Open (ESPN 2/5/2006)
• Iran clergy angry over women fans (BBC 26/4/2006)
• Equal-pay dispute puts Wimbledon under intense fire (The Times 26/4/2006)
• Sporting chance for women as Iran ends spectating ban (BBC 24/4/2006)
• First woman referee for Welsh cup final (BBC 16/4/2006)
• China: Women emerge as major consumer force in sports (China Economic Net 20/3/2006)
• Ice Hockey: Martin to break gender barrier in Sweden (Globe & Mail 7/3/2006)
• Baseball Hall of Fame Elects First Woman (Yahoo! News 27/2/2006)
• Women battle for sumo recognition (BBC 23/2/2006)
• Iranian Film Director Mixes Soccer With Women's Rights (Yahoo! News 17/2/2006)
• Women Still Can't Jump in Winter Olympics (Village Voice 10/2/2006)
• Girl first to win state prep wrestling title over boys (ESPN 5/2/2006)
• Islamic activists arrested at protests against plans to allow women to run alongside men in Lahore marathon (BBC 27/1/2006)
• Tennis: Venus slumps to shock early exit in Oz Open (BBC Sport 16/1/2006)
• Sport and the scarf - Islamic Women (BBC 9/12/2005)
• Athletics: Hero Holmes announces retirement (BBC Sport 6/12/2005)
• Wimbledon: Venus Williams title fulfills 'destiny' (BBC 2/7/2005)
• Double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes has been made a Dame in the New Year Honours List (BBC 31/12/2004)

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Violence Against Women News

• UK: Too many have for too long been getting away with rape (The Guardian Comment 12/6/2006)
• Guatemala Pressed to Investigate Surge in Killings 0f Women (Women's eNews 12/6/2006)
• Sentences for rapes after 'intimacy' cut (The Times 8/6/2006)
• Iraq Women's Report Calls Violence Enemy No. 1 (Women's eNews 8/6/2006)
• Forced marriages, domestic violence contribute to female suicide in Turkey (UN News Centre 1/6/2006)
• Outrage over Irish rape loophole (BBC 31/5/2006)
• Film based on British woman's story of domestic violence and prison is riddled with inaccuracies (The Observer 21/5/2006)
• "If victim cries ‘rape’, it’s evidence enough" (Express India 17/5/2006)
• Women claim Mexico police rapes (BBC 10/5/2006)
• Evidence-gathering in rape cases in crisis, doctors warn (The Guardian 8/5/2006)
• Tanzania: Domestic Violence a Serious Concern - WHO (AllAfrica 20/4/2006)
• Working together against Gender-Based Violence (Asian Tribune 19/4/2006)
• Zimbabwe: Domestic Violence: More Radical Approach Needed (AllAfrica 19/4/2006)
• Report Shows Continued Violence and Discrimination Against Afghan Women (Feminist Daily News Wire 17/4/2006)
• South African Trial Brings Rape into Public View (IWPR 14/4/2006)
• Anger at no jail plan for abusers (BBC 12/4/2006)
• One in Four Married Syrian Women Has Been Abused (Feminist Daily News Wire 12/4/2006)
• Zimbabwe: Rape Cases On Rise Countrywide (AllAfrica 11/4/2006)
• Newcastle Study highlights family violence (BBC 10/4/2006)
• Rape cautions double over decade (BBC 10/4/2006)
• Domestic violence-related homicides remain major challenge for Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean Net News 5/4/2006)
• The price of being a woman: Slavery in modern India (The Independent 3/4/2006)
• How safe is Mumbai for women? (BBC 3/4/2006)
• Attitudes, not rules, need changing in rape cases (The Guardian 3/4/2006)
• Postcode lottery in rape convictions (The Guardian 30/3/2006)
• Government plans trials shake-up to boost rape convictions (The Guardian 29/3/2006)
• Kenyan schoolgirls raped on march (BBC 28/3/2006)
• Abusive relationships - Why do men abuse women? (Jamaica Gleaner 22/3/2006)
• Anti-rape ads mean well, but making men entirely responsible for sex implies that women are incompetent (The Guardian 16/3/2006)
• Mexico Compensates Rape Victim for Denying Her Right to an Abortion (Feminist Daily News Wire 15/3/2006)
• Sex consent campaign targets men (BBC 14/3/2006)
• Tackling domestic violence - at work (BBC 14/3/2006)
• Sex violence policy has failed - minister (The Guardian 13/3/2006)
• Judges told: slash jail terms for rapists (The Observer 12/3/2006)
• UK Government plans anti-rape campaign (The Guardian 8/3/2006)
• Drunken sex can be rape (The Sun 8/3/2006)
• Mexican rape women 'denied help' (BBC 8/3/2006)
• Zuma South African rape trial reveals a culture of silence (Black Britain 8/3/2006)
• Ensure consent for sex, men told (BBC 7/3/2006)
• SA: Zuma's 'rape' accuser questioned (BBC 7/3/2006)
• SA court hears of 'rape' by Zuma (BBC 6/3/2006)
• South Africa: Sexual Assault Hidden in Culture of Silence (AllAfrica 2/3/2006)
• Councils fund 'panic rooms' for domestic violence victims (The Guardian 22/2/2006)
• Victims of domestic abuse helped to stay in their homes by creation of a reinforced 'sanctuary' (The Guardian 22/2/2006)
• Italy rape ruling draws criticism (BBC 17/2/2006)
• South African women demand reform of outdated rape laws (BBC 15/2/2006)
• A lawyer who stabbed his wife to death has been cleared of murder (BBC 10/2/2006)
• India rape girl accuses teachers (BBC 10/2/2006)
• Former swimming coach admits carrying out sexual assaults on young children over a 50-year period (BBC 10/2/2006)
• DRC: Rape On the Rise in North Kivu, As Fighting Displaces 70,000 (AllAfrica 10/2/2006)
• Treat Rape As Crime Against Humanity, Women Urge (AllAfrica 9/2/2006)
• USA: Young women form anti-abuse group (CNN 9/2/2006)
• Sharp rise in number of deaths of young women in Botswana (BBC 6/2/2006)
• Boy, 14, admits raping four girls in park (The Guardian 31/1/2006)
• Scotland: Rape law change plan put forward (BBC 30/1/2006)
• Albania: a step forward for justice for women (Amnesty International 26/1/2006)
• New centre to fight family violence opens in Afghanistan with UN help (UN News Centre 25/1/2006)
• Famed Italy priest held for rape (BBC 24/1/2006)
• UK: Judges uphold five-year jail term for wife killer (The Guardian 20/1/2006)
• Abducted girl repeatedly attacked (BBC 17/1/2006)
• USA: Federal Law Protects Battered Women From Housing Discrimination, Court Rules (ACLU 4/1/2006)
• Russian Federation: Nowhere to turn to - Violence against women in the family (Amnesty International 14/12/2006)
• WHO Releases First Global Study of Domestic Violence (Feminist Daily News Wire 8/12/2005)
• Sudan: Gender-Based Violence Still Rampant in Darfur, Say Aid Agencies (AllAfrica 5/12/2005)
• Women are being blamed for rape attacks (Black Britain 22/11/2005)
• Black domestic violence victims made aware of support (Black Britain 21/11/2005)
• UN Peacekeepers Still Abusing Women, Says Report (Feminist Daily News Wire 20/10/2005)
• Burmese Women Expose Rapes by Military Regime (Women's eNews 26/9/2005)
• My story: Supporting the victims of sex trafficking (BBC Action Network 31/8/2005)

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Lesbian News

• From dysfunctional dyke to designer doll - Lesbians on TV (The Guardian 12/6/2006)
• High court reserves judgment over a lesbian couple seeking British recognition of their marriage (The Guardian 10/6/2006)
• Lesbian couple battle to have marriage recognised (The Independent 7/6/2006)
• Bush calls for gay marriage ban (BBC 3/6/2006)
• A history of lesbian superheroes (The Guardian 31/5/2006)
• Lesbian was victim of gay estate agency's discrimination (The Independent 21/5/2006)
• Court rules mother must give children to lesbian ex-partner (The Guardian 7/4/2006)
• South Africa’s black gay community fearful after lesbian murdered (Black Britain 2/3/2006)
• SA couple look forward to gay wedding (BBC 27/2/2006)
• Drives to ban gay adoption heat up in 16 US states (USA Today 20/2/2006)
• Jamaica reassures same-sex marriages will remain illegal (Black Britain 17/2/2006)
• Dean considers blessing gay couples in civil partnerships (The Guardian 16/2/2006)
• Portugal blocks lesbian marriage (BBC 2/2/2006)
• Nigeria to outlaw same-sex unions (BBC 19/1/2006)
• South Africa to have gay weddings (BBC 1/12/2005)

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Obituaries etc

• Obituary: Enid Mumford: Sociologist devoted to making computers work for people (The Guardian 3/5/2006)
• Obituary: Ellen Kuzwayo:Tireless campaigner for women's rights in apartheid South Africa (The Guardian 24/4/2006)
• Author Muriel Spark dies aged 88 (BBC 15/4/2006)
• Comedian Linda Smith dies of cancer, aged 48 (The Guardian 1/3/2006)
• Octavia Butler, prominent science fiction author, dies at 58 (AP 27/2/2006)
• Obituary: Betty Heathfield - Miners' heroine who organised women's support groups to sustain the strikers (The Guardian 22/2/2006)
• Bollywood veteran, Nadira, dies (BBC 9/2/2006)
• Obituary: Judith Hubback, Coming to Jungian clarity through a feminist experience (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
• 'Every wife's silent question - Is this all?' Extract from Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
• 'I felt like falling to my knees and thanking her ghost for all she did,' Feminist writers pay tribute to Betty Friedan (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
• The Betty I knew by Germaine Greer (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
• Obituaries: Betty Friedan - American feminist who defined the women's struggle in political terms (The Times 6/2/2006)
• US feminist Betty Friedan dies aged 85 (BBC 4/2/2006)
• Mourners honour Luther King wife (BBC 4/2/2006)
• Obituary: Wendy Wasserstein: Playwright who put women's life choices under the lens (The Guardian 1/2/2006)
• Ballet dancer Moira Shearer, who starred in movie The Red Shoes, has died aged 80 (BBC 1/2/2006)
• Obituary: Coretta Scott King (BBC 31/1/2006)
• Coretta Scott King, widow of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, has died aged 78 (BBC 31/1/2006)
• Playwright Wendy Wasserstein dies (BBC 31/1/2006)
• Obituary: Shelley Winters, Hollywood Actress (Daily Telegraph 16/1/2006)
• Obituary: Barbara Gill - Women's Institute activist who pursued its social justice goals (The Guardian 22/11/2005)
• Thousands of people have attended the funeral of US civil rights icon Rosa Parks (BBC 03/11/2005)
• Rosa Parks: Civil rights movement loses a heroine (Blink 25/10/2005)
• Obituary: Rosa Parks: Activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat ignited the US civil rights movement (The Guardian 25/10/2005)
• Obituary: Shirley Horn: Mesmerizing Jazz Singer and Pianist (Washington Post 22/10/2005)
• US Feminist Leader Molly Yard Dies (Feminist Daily News Wire 21/9/2005)
• Dominica 'Iron Lady' Eugenia Charles dies aged 86 (BBC 7/9/2005)
• Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper dies in her sleep aged 115 (The Guardian 31/8/2005)
• England's oldest woman dies (The Guardian 31/8/2005)
• Obituary: Mo Mowlam, MP (BBC 19/8/2005)
• Obituary: Melita Norwood - Seemingly innocuous south London clerk who spied for the Soviet Union for more than 40 years (The Guardian 28/6/2005)
• Obituary: Helen Denniston by Mike Phillips (The Guardian 27/6/2005)
• Graduate star Anne Bancroft dies (BBC 8/6/2005)
• Radical Feminist Writer Andrea Dworkin Dies (Washington Post 12/4/2005)
• Obituary: Pearl Connor-Mogotsi - Influential figure in black British and Caribbean theatre and the arts (The Guardian 2/3/2005)
• Actress Sandra Dee dies aged 62 (BBC 21/2/2005)
• Obituary: Shirley Chisholm - The first black woman elected to Congress, she was an outspoken advocate against discrimination (The Guardian 4/1/2005)
• Shirley Chisholm: First black US Congresswoman dies (BBC 3/1/2005)

 

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