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Aid Effectiveness

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  • Get out of the “woods”!
  • ‘No Aid Effectiveness without Gender Equality’
  • Women's organisations in Accra
  • Development Financing Still Gender-Blind

Civil and Political Rights

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  • Doctor freed after court forbids forced marriage
  • Nobel Laureates Condemn Harassment of Human Rights Defenders in Iran
  • Vatican stands up against further UN resolutions
  • Pope likens "saving" gays to saving the rainforest
  • UN split over homosexuality laws

Democracy

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  • NGOs against book-banning say it with postcards
  • Gender-friendly Rwanda names woman parliament speaker
  • Religious leaders condemned for fatwas declared against journalists
  • Six-month prison sentences for four cyber-feminists
  • Rwanda sets world record for women in parliament

Disability

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  • AFRICA: Ignoring the facts on AIDS and disability
  • Self-immolation on the rise among women in Afghanistan

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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  • Doctor freed after court forbids forced marriage
  • Vatican stands up against further UN resolutions
  • Pope likens "saving" gays to saving the rainforest
  • UN split over homosexuality laws
  • NGOs against book-banning say it with postcards

Education

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  • 10 Taliban arrested in school girl acid attack
  • Acid attack blinds Afghan student: Eight schoolgirls are targeted; teachers and residents rattled
  • Girls being "raped for grades"
  • Pregnant teenagers crucifixion sculptures at European Social Forum
  • Iran: End discrimination against the Kurdish minority
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