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• Saudi women activists furious at gang-rape ruling

  - 2007-11-22

  DUBAI AFP — A recent Saudi court ruling sentencing a woman to six months in jail and 200 lashes despite being gang-raped highlights the injustice faced by women in the ultra-conservative kingdom, women rights activists said. "Sure, there is injustice against women in courts. It is a bitter situation...

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• Cuban dissidents denounce break-up of protest

  - 2007-09-28

  HAVANA AFP — Cuban dissident leaders denounced Friday the police detention of 47 activists attempting to hold a street protest in Havana on behalf of political prisoners. But prominent dissident Martha Beatriz Roque told AFP the government had detained and then released the activists to "minimize the international political...

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• Naked activists march against Burberry use of fur in fashion

  - 2007-06-14

  TOKYO AFP — Animal rights activists strutted naked through Tokyo's glitzy Ginza district Friday as they urged a boycott of fashion giant Burberry for using fur. Walking arm-in-arm, three women walked up to the Burberry store on the Ginza strip of high-end boutiques wearing nothing but a banner reading:...

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• Six North Korean refugees taken to US: report

  - 2006-05-07

  LOS ANGELES AFP — The United States has quietly granted refugee status to six North Koreans, the first to be admitted to this country under a 2004 US law, a US newspaper said. The refugees, four women and two men who had been living clandestinely in China, arrived late...

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• South African ex-deputy head Zuma goes on trial for rape

  - 2006-02-13

  JOHANNESBURG AFP — Once destined for the presidency, former deputy president Jacob Zuma has gone on trial for rape in a case that could bury the career of one of South Africa's most popular politicians. Dressed in a charcoal suit and blue shirt, Zuma and his entourage slid into...

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• Pakistan's Musharraf under fire for 'shocking' rape comments

  - 2005-09-16

  ISLAMABAD AFP — Pakistani activists, politicians and protesters condemned President Pervez Musharraf after he told a US newspaper that some women viewed being raped as a way to acquire a foreign visa. Musharraf told the Washington Post that rape in Pakistan was a "money-making concern" with some seeing it...

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• Egyptian women demand Mubarak apology over vote violence

  - 2005-05-30

  CAIRO AFP — Egyptian women have launched two separate initiatives, one calling on citizens to wear black clothes and the other a white ribbon, to protest the assault of several women during last week's referendum. Female activists protesting against the nature of the constitutional referendum submitted to Egyptians on...

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• Sultry activists bare their skin in freezing weather to protest wearing fur

  - 2005-01-07

  SEOUL AFP — Sultry animal rights activists stripped down in the freezing weather to bear their skin to try to save the hides of millions of animals slaughtered for fur garments. Wearing nothing more than flimsy underwear, painted-on leopard spots, cat's ears and carrying a banner reading "Only Animals...

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• Abortion rights advocates, foes face off ahead of US vote

  - 2004-04-24

  WASHINGTON AFP ? Hundreds of thousands of abortion rights activists have converged on the US capital for what they believe will be an unprecedented celebrity-studded show of force designed to stave off any election-year assault on women's right to choose. The March for Women's Lives was expected to attract...

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• Anti-globalisation movement rallies after alleged rape

  - 2004-01-20

  BOMBAY AFP ? Activists at a huge anti-globalisation meeting protested against the alleged rape of a South African delegate and said the annual forum should make combating violence against women a priority. Chanting "Women's bodies aren't just for pleasure!", some 200 members of women's groups and the forum's organising...

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