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“Body as Battleground,” by Tommy Ross, 2002

Governments Need to Ensure Women Do Not Bear the Brunt of the Economic Crisis June 26, 2009
Governments need to provide social protection and promote green jobs for women through alternative investments that provide decent employment, such as public-private and community-related partnerships, according to representatives from governments, the United Nations, civil society and academia, who met in New York today to discuss how to respond to the impa […]
In wake of recent rapes, UN helps reform DR Congo prisons June 26, 2009
The United Nations is helping to restructure the prison system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on the heels of the rapes of nearly two dozen female inmates during an attempted prison break earlier this week in the country’s far east.
Preventing Wartime Rape from Becoming a Peacetime Reality June 24, 2009
"If sexual violence is not fully addressed in ceasefires and peace processes, there will be no peace for women," said former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland at a United Nations high-level meeting on peace negotiations that convened this week in New York.
Migiro urges greater efforts to end violence against women June 19, 2009
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has pledged the support of the United Nations in ending violence against women, which she said will require adopting new laws, enforcing the ones that exist and working to change the backward mindsets that contribute to this scourge.

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