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Stopping All Violence

03.13.13 -  Last week, President Obama signed the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which funds support groups for and prosecution of violent crimes against women…

Christian Science Monitor: Campaign against female genital mutilation gaining ground support, results

02.06.13 - "In many parts of the Kween District of eastern Uganda, women are divided into two distinct categories 'There are the uncircumcised and the circumcised.'

That division is not merely physical, but has social and economic consequences as well.
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Zambia Accepts Several Universal Periodic Review Recommendations Sourced to Input from the Center for Reproductive Rights

01.29.13 -  In November 2012, the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Working Group  released its recommendations on Zambia…

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Legal Grounds: Reproductive and Sexual Rights in African Commonwealth Courts
Reproductive and sexual rights, which are guaranteed in international and regional human rights treaties, mean nothing if they are not recognized and enforced by national-level courts…

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