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Malawi: Should there be a Sex Workers Bill

Posted by Ndesanjo Macha on 20/11/2009

Marshal discusses Sex Workers Bill in Malawi: “Recent media reports pointing that the government intends to come up with a Sex Workers Bill with an aim of protecting sex workers in the country, shocked quite a few of us.”

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Global Health: World Toilet Day Raises a Stink

Posted by Juhie Bhatia on 19/11/2009

While it may sound like a bad joke, today's World Toilet Day focuses on a not-so-funny issue impacting almost half the world's population -- a lack of toilets and sanitation.

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Macedonia must guarantee the right to freedom of peaceful assembly

Posted on 13/11/2009

Amnesty International has welcomed the commitment by the Macedonian authorities to ensure that the International Day for Tolerance march in Skopje goes ahead on 16 November without hindrance. The organisation also urged the Macedonian authorities to properly protect participants in the march from ...

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Morocco: Aicha Ech Chenna Wins Opus Prize

Posted by Jillian C. York on 13/11/2009

In Morocco, women who get pregnant out of wedlock are often shunned from their communities. Activist and social worker Aicha Ech Chenna has been working for almost 25 years to help such mothers and their children. Now, her efforts are being rewarded.

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Bahamas: Sister's Keeper

Posted by Janine Mendes-Franco on 12/11/2009

“We women survivors of violence of all kinds must break this collective silence…and we women who enjoy relative freedom and safety must extend our hands and voices to our sisters who do not, because we are not free until all are free”: The Bahamas' Womanish Words calls on women ...

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