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Pregnant women in Peru are dying at scandalous rates, according to the author of an Amnesty International report into maternal mortality in the South American country.
Peru has one of the highest maternal death rates in the Americas due to limited access to emergency care and shortage of health staff who speak indigenous languages, Amnesty International said Thursday.
Afghanistan's government has revised a law that stirred an international outcry because it essentially legalized marital rape, officials said Thursday. The new version no longer requires a woman submit to sex with her husband, only that she do certain housework.
In many cases it's a woman that grips the blade -- maybe clean, maybe dirty -- that cuts a girl's path to womanhood.
Afghanistan's government has revised a marriage law that sparked an international outcry over sections that appeared to legalize marital rape, Justice Ministry officials said Thursday.
Afghanistan's government has revised a marriage law that sparked an international outcry over sections that appeared to legalize marital rape, Justice Ministry officials say.
FILE - This April 15, 2009, file photos shows Afghan Shiite women carrying banners during a march against a new conservative marriage law in Kabul, Afghanistan .
By Brian Evans, Death Penalty Abolition Campaigner at Amnesty International USA Last month, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani became the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be brought...
Richard Goldstone, who is leading the inquiry by war crimes investigators, said he expected to submit a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council next month.
Thank God I was born in the good old USA !! The media is often full of stories about what is wrong with our country, and I'm not saying that the good old USA couldn't use improvement; … read more but I thank God that I was born here and have all the rights and priveleges we take for granted.
Peerception Is Reality
The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recommended last week that Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf should be banned from government for 30 years for her previous support of former President Charles Taylor. Taylor is currently on trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone for his role in the civil war there, where tens of [...]
The National Right to Life Committee (NRTL) put out a press release today stating that the health care reform bills congress is currently considering “contain provisions that would vastly expand access to abortion on demand, override state abortion laws, and establish federal funding of abortion.” NRTL warns that bill could “mandate access to abortion for [...]
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's government doesn't provide adequate care for pregnant women in the impoverished highlands and jungle, a failure reflected in one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the hemisphere, a human rights group said Thursday.
Widespread violence against women in Afghanistan is being ignored in a culture of impunity that neither challenges nor condemns this violence, says the United Nations in a new report calling for an end to the prevailing abuse.
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