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How Mothers Are Using Social Games to Educate Children on Women's Rights
Forbes
It turns out that social games can be a learning tool for children of all ages. We spoke with three mothers about how they're using social games to teach their children — toddlers to teens, boys and girls — about women's rights issues. Their stories ...

Alabama hires Curry as women's basketball coach
Yahoo! Canada Sports
(AP) -- Alabama has hired former Texas Tech coach Kristy Curry as its new women's basketball coach. The university announced the hiring on Sunday. No details of the contract were released. Curry has spent the last seven years with the Lady Raiders.

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The Canberra Times
Murdoch press on equality - Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
It's great to see our national broadsheet is so concerned about the rights of women. Or, in this case, about a group of about 70 women of Muslim faith and/or heritage who attended a lecture on the Syrian conflict at Melbourne University. A reporter ...

DhakaTribune
Bangladeshi women, men protest against hardline group in Dhaka
Demotix
Women chant in favor of feminist policies in Dhaka. Bangladeshi women ... Press Club, Dhaka, Bangladesh: a worker dressed in the colors of the Bangladesh flag notes the names of women protesting in favor of women's rights in Dhaka. Bangladeshi women ...
'Banning women in public, a plot to financially disable Bangladesh'DhakaTribune

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The First Lady On Violence Against Women "Without Institutions or Rights Here ...
AllAfrica.com
She'was the founder of the Association for the salvation of Women and Children (SSWC) in 1992, at the height of the civil war, and in 2000 promoted the Sixth Clan Association, movement for the promotion of Somali women in the political life of the country.

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Frida Ghitis: For Mideast women, achieving equality won't be easy
Memphis Commercial Appeal
But the most striking of all was the section dealing with the rights of women. The results are profoundly disappointing news for women seeking equality and justice, and for the many men who would also like to see the emergence of more freedom ...

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Arab News
Call for setting up judicial body to protect female inheritance
Arab News
One of the participants emphasized “the protection of women's rights by educating men and women about the importance of conducting a speedy inheritance inventory and not delaying the matter for years and decades.” Aisha Al-Mana, a participant, said ...

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Rural Mexican women feel the push from the government to limit births and the pull of requests for sex from spouses who reject condoms and vasectomies, writes Vania Smith-Oka in this excerpt from "Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico."

The Perils of Toy Shopping With a Feminist Mom
TIME
A vision of Sheryl Sandberg's book, Lean In – a feminist manifesto still fueling debate about women's internal barriers to leadership – hovers before me. Sandberg argues that progress towards gender equality has stalled when it comes to heterosexual ...

Three women in Cleveland were found alive after being missing for over 10 years. This year, the U.S. dropped further in global ranking for maternal health by Save the Children.

Watch how this director documents her own efforts to find her biological father. Other films opening this upcoming week include the wickedly funny "Sightseers" and "Becoming Traviata," a must-see documentary about diva Natalie Dessay.

Only five of the 100 national teen teams competing at Saturday's Team America Rocketry Challenge are all-female. One contestant said that doesn't faze her--male competitors stopped intimidating her in grade school.

As president of American Jewish World Service, Ruth Messinger has found mothers in the developing world who represent the ideals of motherhood she holds dear: tenacity, strength and dignity.

Edmonton will house Canada's senior women's basketball team in 2013
Edmonton Journal (blog)
With a unanimous approval from Edmonton city council, Canada's senior women's basketball team is headed to Edmonton. The team will move from Etobicoke, Ont. to Edmonton in June and will train at the Saville Community Sports Centre, with dates being ...

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With millions of dollars at stake for Hobby Lobby, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which brought the first challenge to the contraceptive mandate, will represent the Oklahoma City concern before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on May 23.

Call it a holiday makeover. Mother's Day is starting to shine a spotlight on some lesser-known women's health issues and I'd like to flag CDIs, a seldom discussed intestinal condition.

Cleveland women's return gives hope to advocates for missing kids
Plain Dealer (blog)
Monday's discovery of three Cleveland women who were missing for more than a decade underscores that families should never give up hope they'll find missing loved ones, missing children's advocates said Tuesday. While speakers at the National Center ...

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Frida Ghitis: Achieving equality elusive for Mideast women
Victoria Times Colonist
But the most striking of all was the section dealing with the rights of women. The results are profoundly disappointing news for women seeking equality and justice, and for the many men who would also like to see the emergence of more freedom ...
How Do Muslims View Women's Rights?Co.Exist
Frida Ghitis: For Mideast women, achieving equality won't be easyFresno Bee

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Cuomo Continues Push for Women's Rights Agenda
WGRZ-TV
Cuomo presented in his State of the State address a 10-point "Women's Equality Act," which also includes measures to fight against domestic violence, human trafficking and pay inequity as well as housing, lending and pregnancy discrimination. At the ...
Women's Coalition ad has pointed fun with audioAlbany Times Union (blog)
Faith leaders apply pressure for 10-point Women's Equality AgendaLegislative Gazette
Television commercial pushes Cuomo's women's agendaPolitics on the Hudson (blog)

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BBC News
Frantic call leads police to three missing women
Cape Breton Post
Those words led police to a house near downtown Cleveland where Berry and two other women who vanished about a decade ago were found Monday, exhilarating law enforcement authorities, family members and friends who had longed to see them again.
Cleveland officials hail bravery of missing womenBBC News
Three US women missing for a decade found alivewww.worldbulletin.net
Unlikely hero in case of missing Cleveland women heads for viral statusWTOP
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