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Govt Urged to Make Flood Relief Work Women-Friendly
Daily Times, 8/24/2010
Highlighting gender, social, economic, political and cultural inequalities and discrimination against women, speakers urged the government and other relief and humanitarian service providers to make their relief operations women-friendly and give top priority to provision of enough food to women and children during ongoing rescue and relief operations in flood-hit areas.
Delusions of Gender takes on that tricky question, ‘Why exactly are men from Mars and women from Venus?’ and eviscerates both the neuroscientists who claim to have found the answers and the popularizers who take their findings and run with them.
The initiative for the State to pay for deliveries stems from recent cases of poor women being forced to sell their newborns to pay their hospital bills, or hospitals holding newborns as collateral until payment is made.
12,000 foreign `sex slaves` work in British brothels
Deccan Herald, 8/20/2010
The two-year study, dubbed Project Acumen, revealed that prostitutes live and work in appalling conditions and suffer rape and imprisonment.
Most of the trafficked women were from Eastern Europe, China and Southeast Asia. They were under thousands of pounds of debt and controlled by threats of violence to family members back home
Chinese parents paying to get help with sex education
The China Post, 8/19/2010
When is the right time to talk to your children about sex? An increasing number of Chinese parents, most of who belong to the post-80s generation, choose to pay for a professional answer.