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IPS wants to redress a huge imbalance that exists today: only 22% of the voices you hear and read in the news are women's. Elections, health, education, armed conflicts, corruption, laws, trade, climate change, the global financial and food crises, and natural disasters. IPS covers these frontline issues asking an often forgotten question: What does this mean for women and girls?
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POLITICS-INDIA: Criminalisation Deters Women Candidates
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI (IPS) - While India's major political parties are pledged to increase the space for women in the electoral process, a major deterrent to female participation is the steady criminalisation of politics in this country.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46750
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Q&A: "Politics Is the Key to All Doors to Equality" for Women in Latin America
Estrella Gutiérrez interviews GLADYS ACOSTA, UNIFEM chief for Latin America and the Caribbean
CARACAS (IPS) - "People have to imbibe with their mother's milk the idea that women have an equal right to participate in politics," says Gladys Acosta, UNIFEM head for Latin America and the Caribbean, who underscores that politics is the key that opens all doors to equality.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46771
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Q&A: African Women Worst Affected by Global Economic Crisis
Kudzai Makombe interviews MWILA CHIGAGA, ILO Regional Senior Gender Specialist
ADDIS ABABA (IPS) - The global financial crisis is on everyone's lips. With first hand reports of job losses, house foreclosures and citizens living on credit card debt, the impact of the crisis on the individual worker in the developed world is clear. In Africa, there have been threats of closures and retrenchments in the Zambian copper mines and Botswana's diamond mines, amongst others. But the impact on the individual citizen and African women in particular, given the existing gender inequalities, has not been well documented.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46746
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Q&A: 'Anti-Crisis Stimulus Packages Must Take Women into Account'
Gustavo Capdevila interviews BARBARA PRAMMER, president of Austrian parliament
GENEVA (IPS) - Progress has been made on gender issues in almost all countries, and everything possible must be done to keep the economic crisis from leading to a "backlash," warns Barbara Prammer, president of the Austrian parliament.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46783
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ARGENTINA: Hundreds of Thousands of Teenage Girls "in Limbo"
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES (IPS) - Cintia, 17, already has three children and is trying to go back to school, which she dropped out of several times because of the births and when her kids were sick. But the principal of her high school is not optimistic.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46732
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RIGHTS-US: Women Migrants Describe Abuse in County Jails
By Valeria Fernández
PHOENIX, Arizona (IPS) - Broken arms, dislocated jaws, intimidation and vulgarities are part of the daily routine immigrant woman experience in Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) jails, human and civil rights organisations charge.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46726
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Lethal Link Between Gender Violence and AIDS
By Valeria Vilardo
SANTO DOMINGO (IPS) - When she went to the doctor, 25-year-old Francisca Barros received two pieces of earthbreaking news. The welcome news was that she was pregnant. The terrifying news: that she was HIV-positive.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46748
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POLITICS-INDIA: A Fighter Without a Pause
By Monobina Gupta
KOLKATA (IPS) - Mamata Bannerjee, six-time member of Parliament from West Bengal, bucks the stereotype of women political leaders in India.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46753
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RIGHTS-COSTA RICA: Persons for Sale
By Daniel Zueras
SAN JOSÉ (IPS) - Global trafficking of persons continues apace and Costa Rica is not exempt from sexual exploitation and forced labour. Data compiled by the United Nations indicate that women and girls are most affected by human trafficking, making up 80 percent of victims worldwide.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46801
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INDONESIA: Using Religion to Strengthen Gender Equality
By Fabio Scarpello
DENPASAR, Indonesia (IPS) - 'My husband rapes me repeatedly. I asked the ulama (religious leader) for help, but he sided with him, saying that according to Islam, a woman has to obey her husband. I have nowhere else to go. I have no tears left to shed. I no longer scream.'
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46804
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KUWAIT: Election Promotes Democracy Amid Instability*
Analysis by N. Janardhan
DUBAI (IPS) - As Kuwaitis prepare to vote for a new parliament on May 16, trends suggest that while elections serve as a reminder of the Gulf country's democratic traditions, the exercise is unlikely to end the political chaos that it was meant to quell.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46814
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HEALTH-MEXICO: Training Professional Village Midwives
By Emilio Godoy
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Mexico (IPS) - Mexican communications specialist Marla Vargas had her baby in the bathtub at home, attended by a midwife, because, she says, "I wanted a different experience, and a better way for my child to come into the world."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46745
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AUSTRALIA: Plan to Tackle Domestic Violence Wins Support
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE (IPS) - Kelly Johnson was just 28 when she was murdered by a former boyfriend at her Adelaide home last year. The mother of one was hit on the head with a frying pan and stabbed repeatedly with "startling ferocity", according to Justice Trish Kelly, who handed down a mandatory life sentence to Johnson's killer, Daniel Hall, in February.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46825
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MORE IPS IN-DEPTH COVERAGE OF WOMEN IN THE NEWS.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/women/index.asp
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DON'T MISS IPS SPECIAL COVERAGE OF FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT.
Financing for development (FfD) is about how domestic and international resources contribute - or don't, in some cases - to ensure that all countries are able to meet the MDGs and eradicate poverty. As time runs out to meet the MDGs, IPS is reporting on aid, trade, debt relief, international and national finance, domestic budgeting and global governance from around the globe.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/ffd/index.asp
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