Voice of America
Bust of Sojourner Truth, Former Slave, Unveiled at US Capitol
Voice of America
Truth, considered a crusader for women's rights as well, is the first black woman to be honored with a bust at the US Capitol. Performing artists and politicians paid a rousing tribute to abolitionist Sojourner Truth, whose bust was unveiled Tuesday. ...
la artist's 'Truth' to be unveiled Los Angeles Times
Stabenow hails dedication of Sojourner Truth sculpture Battle Creek Enquirer
First lady honors abolitionist Sojourner Truth The Associated Press
Wheeling Intelligencer - Livesteez
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CBC.ca
Alberta hostage set free
Calgary Herald,  Canada
Asked if there was anything she wanted to tell people back in Canada, she said: "I want to come home." The four other women on the exchange were flown home after Mulligan was abducted. They are: Erin Hampson, an Edmonton architectural technologist from ...
Kidnapped Alberta woman free Whitecourt Star
Drayton Valley mom found confused at side of road: Report Edmonton Sun
No news on kidnapped woman Drayton Valley Western Review
National Post - Canada.com
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Native women die, vanish amid social apathy: report
The Canadian Press, OTTAWA
OTTAWA — Police and public safety officials are failing native women who vanish or are murdered at startling rates amid public indifference, says a new report. The Native Women's Association of Canada says 520 girls and women have disappeared or been ...

Daily Nation
Kenyan Women Use Sex To Turn The Political Tide
ChattahBox, MA
Kenya (ChattahBox) – The women's rights organization G-10 have organized a campaign aimed at protesting the current form and function of the post-election Kenyan government. And they ask only that women refuse to give it up for a week. ...
Kenyan women plan sex strike WA today
Kenyan women ban sex over political reform CNN International
Kenyan women's group tells men: Make war? No love The Associated Press
The Times - Standard
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Women's rights in Turkey: attitudes must change
Parlamento Europeo (Comunicado de prensa), Belgium
Progress has been made on women's rights in Turkey in recent years but much remains to be done, according to the speakers at a public hearing held by the EP Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee on Thursday. Constitutional and legislative ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Kenyan women plan sex strike
WA today, Australia
Thousands of Kenyan women vowed to begin a week-long sex strike to protest their country's bickering leadership, which they say threatens to revive the bloody chaos of last year. Leaders from Kenya's largest and oldest group dedicated to women's rights ...
Kenyan women ban sex over political reform CNN International
Sex strike against Kenya chaos The Times
The Cutting Edge Daily Nation
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Malawi: Women's group sues government over abortion rights
Afrika, Norway
White says refusing women the right to abort is discrimination. "Access to legal and safe abortion services is essential to the protection of women's rights to non-discrimination and equality. Where women are compelled to continue unwanted pregnancies, ...

CTV Montreal
Kidnappers release Canadian aid worker in Darfur
Globe and Mail, Canada
Their kidnappers handed the two women into the care of a leader of the Beni Helba tribe in southern Darfur, said a United Nations official contacted last night in Khartoum. A senior official in the Sudanese foreign ministry told the AFP news agency ...
Kidnappers release Canadian aid worker, Sudan says Toronto Star
French, Canadian aid workers freed in Darfur The Associated Press
Sudanese abductors free Canadian, French aid workers CBC.ca
CTV.ca - AFP
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Telegraph.co.uk
Erin Pizzey: Feminist fight has been won, but women 'exhausted'
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Erin Pizzey, the pioneering women's rights activist, has said that women have won the war for equality but it has left many of them "imprisoned" and "exhausted". Ms Pizzey, who founded the world's first refuge for battered women in 1971, ...
Women 'exhausted' by fight for equality, claims feminist icon Daily Mail
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Iran jails women's rights campaigner: report
Hürriyet, Turkey
TEHRAN - Iran has sentenced a women's rights activist to one year in jail over her involvement with a signature campaign to change laws for women, media reports said yesterday. "Women's movement activist Parastoo Allahyari was sentenced to one year in ...

The famous and the unknown
FFWD, Canada
It was a landmark case that had enormous ramifications for women's rights... and hardly anyone remembered it. The Russian Play, the second in the double-bill, features Julie Orton as a young, innocent flower-shop girl who, because of a Russian love ...
Plays cast spotlight on feminism Calgary Herald
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Katie Visco is trying to become the youngest female runner to cross the United States. As the 23-year-old tackles the 3,200-mile route she says she's taking it step by step, emphasizing healthy tactics and looking forward to her next meal.

BBC News
'All humanity' urged to fight imminent swine flu pandemic
Globe and Mail, Canada
In one of the Ontario cases it was unclear whether the person had travelled outside Canada. In one BC case, it was confirmed the young woman had not been to Mexico but had been around people who had, raising the spectre of human-to-human transmission. ...
Video: In-Depth Look - Preparing For Pandemic Alert - Bloomberg Bloomberg
13 swine flu cases confirmed in Canada Canada.com
WHO boosts pandemic alert level to 5 CBC.ca
Hamilton Spectator - News1130
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Telegraph.co.uk
Lives For Sale
Forbes, NY
Chronically threatened with being sent back to harsh punishment in North Korea, widely abused, they are given no protections whatsoever, no refugee status, no legal rights … nothing. To compile this report, HRNK sent a South Korean woman, Hae-young Lee ...
NKoreans treated as 'livestock,' women tell US AFP
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Women's rights activist bemoans low appointment of women as MMDCE
Ghana Dot, Ghana
By Abdul Salam Sule, Ghanadot Accra, April, Ghanadot - Nana Oye Lithur,a women's rights activist has expressed her displeasure about the low number of women appointed by the President to the position of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief ...

Reuters South Africa
Kidnapped Alberta woman free
Whitecourt Star, Canada
The Canadian high commissioner in Nigeria had also been told of the situation and requested to speak to the women, said Jobin. The women were taken to the country's capital of Abuja where the commissioner recommended they return to Canada. ...
Abductee closer to freedom: officials Calgary Herald
Canadian hostages in Africa reported freed National Post
Two Canadian hostages freed in two cases Canada.com
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CTV.ca
2 Canadian hostages reported freed in Africa: Officials
Calgary Herald,  Canada
She was in Nigeria with four other women from Alberta. She and her host were driving to his home from a meeting when they were robbed at gunpoint and Mulligan was abducted. There were, however, conflicting media reports on Mulligan's status. ...
No news on kidnapped woman Drayton Valley Western Review
Julie Mulligan released in Nigeria Edmonton Journal
‘Abducted Canadian Excited About First Visit to Nigeria' THISDAY
Calgary Herald - Calgary Herald
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HEALTH-MALAWI: Women's Group Sues Govt Over Abortion Rights
Inter Press Service, Italy
White says refusing women the right to abort is discrimination. "Access to legal and safe abortion services is essential to the protection of women's rights to non-discrimination and equality. Where women are compelled to continue unwanted pregnancies, ...

Afghan women campaigners risk death to show world their plight
Times Online, UK
Campaigning for women's rights in Afghanistan, let alone organising a public march for them, carries very great risk. An increasing number of women holding public positions have been killed in the past two years. Sitara Achikzai, a woman's rights ...
Afghan women march forward The New Nation
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Alta. woman held hostage in Nigeria freed: Report
Calgary Herald,  Canada
The kidnappers had been seeking $166000 Cdn. Mulligan was in Nigeria with four other women from Alberta. She and her host were driving to his home from a meeting when they were robbed at gunpoint and Mulligan was abducted. The other women were then ...
No news on kidnapped woman Drayton Valley Western Review
‘Abducted Canadian Excited About First Visit to Nigeria' THISDAY
Abductee closer to freedom: officials Calgary Herald
Calgary Herald
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