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  • 20
    Apr
    2013
    7:34pm, EDT

    Protests build in New Delhi after child rape

    Manish Bhandari / AP

    Young Buddhist monks pray on Saturday for the speedy recovery of a 5-year-old girl who was raped and tortured in Delhi, India. Officials say the child is in serious condition after a man held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days. Police say the girl went missing Monday and was found Wednesday by neighbors who heard her crying in a room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her parents.

    By Devidutta Tripathy and Frank Jack Daniel, Reuters

    NEW DELHI - Angry crowds demonstrated in India's capital on Saturday after a 5-year-old girl was allegedly raped, tortured and kept in captivity for 40 hours, reviving memories of last December's brutal assault that shook the country.

    Police arrested a man they accuse of the attack from the eastern state of Bihar, and brought him back to New Delhi for interrogation. Doctors say the girl suffered severe injuries and bruising, including to her neck and genitalia.

    Read the full story.

    Adnan Abidi / Reuters

    Demonstrators shout slogans as they try to cross a police barricade during a protest outside police headquarters in New Delhi, April 20. Hundreds of angry protesters gathered after a five year-old girl was allegedly raped and tortured, reviving memories of a brutal December assault on a woman that shook the country.

    AP

    A 5-year-old girl, according to police, is wheeled into a hospital for treatment, Friday, April 19, after she was raped and tortured in New Delhi, India.

    4 comments

    It stuns the senses to perceive the evil that humans are capable of inflicting on each other.

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  • 2
    Mar
    2013
    6:52pm, EST

    Celebrations honor women in Romania at the start of spring

    Bogdan Cristel / Reuters

    A man performs during a male striptease show held in celebration of International Women's Day at a club in Bucharest, March 2.

    Romanians dedicate both March 1, which is traditionally Romania's first day of spring, and March 8 to honor women and their contribution to society. International Women's Day is March 8.

    Bogdan Cristel / Reuters

    Women watch a male striptease show.

     

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    this is some bull***

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  • 25
    Feb
    2013
    11:24pm, EST

    Female Marines shoot rifles and swim in uniform at boot camp

    Scott Olson / Getty Images

    Female Marine recruits prepare to fire on the rifle range during boot camp February 25 at MCRD Parris Island, South Carolina. All female enlisted Marines and male Marines who were living east of the Mississippi River when they were recruited attend boot camp at Parris Island. About six percent of enlisted Marines are female.

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    Female Marine recruits fire on the rifle range during boot camp.

    Scott Olson / Getty Images

    Female Marine recruits march during boot camp.

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    Female and male Marine recruits listen to instructions as they prepare for a swimming test during boot camp.

    Scott Olson / Getty Images

    Marine recruit Chelsey Courtney of Coon Rapids, Minnesota hauls a backpack while swimming in her uniform as she is tested to determine her swimming skills during boot camp. Male and female recruits are expected to meet the same standards during their swim qualification test.

    Scott Olson / Getty Images

    Sgt. Gustavo Ramos of Pomona, California teaches female Marine recruits to remove body armor while under water during boot camp.

    See more images of Marines in PhotoBlog. 

    30 comments

    There are no female marines just as there are no officers and men, no black marines, nor hispanic marines, nor anything else marine. They are just Marines. Period. Marines, nothing before, nothing after. Just Marines.

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  • 14
    Feb
    2013
    12:51am, EST

    'One Billion Rising': Campaign to eliminate violence against women and girls

    Bullit Marquez / AP

    Filipino theater artist Monique Wilson flashes the No.1 sign with students from St. Scholastica's College, an all-girls' school,  as they dance at their campus as part of a global campaign dubbed One Billion Rising, to end violence against women and children on Valentine's Day Thursday Feb. 14, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. Thousands of women and children in various cities in the country danced in the streets, in malls and other places to express support for the One Billion Rising Campaign which also counts Australia and New Zealand as the first countries "to rise" for the campaign.

    Bullit Marquez / AP

    Students from St. Scholastica's College, an all-girls' school, flash the No.1 sign as they dance at their campus in a global kickoff campaign dubbed One Billion Rising, to end violence against women and children on Valentine's Day Thursday Feb. 14, 2013 in Manila, Philippines.

    Women in Afghanistan marked Valentine's Day by holding a march as part of a global campaign to end violence against women. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

     

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  • 14
    Nov
    2012
    12:36am, EST

    Afghan women learn literacy through mobile phones

    Jawad Jalali / AFP - Getty Images

    Afghan women sit in a class and study using a mobile phone in Kabul on November 3, 2012. Afghanistan has launched a new literacy program that enables Afghan women mostly deprived from basic education during decades of war to learn to read and write using a mobile phone. The phone is called Ustad Mobile (Mobile Teacher) and provides courses in both national languages, Dari and Pashtu, as well as mathematics. Read the full story.

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    Slideshow: Afghanistan: Nation at a crossroads

    Aref Karimi / AFP - Getty Images

    More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.

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  • 17
    Apr
    2012
    8:22am, EDT

    Moroccan parliament debates controversial marriage law after rape victim's suicide

    Abdelhak Senna / AFP - Getty Images

    Morocco's Solidarity, Women and Family minister Bassima Hakkaoui, the only woman in the new Islamist-led government, speaks during a debate about underage marriage in parliament in Rabat on April 16, 2012, next to Justice minister Mustafa Ramid.

    Abdelhak Senna / AFP - Getty Images

    Hamida, the sister of Amina Al Filali, holds a poster of her sister during a sit-in protest outside the local court in Larache that had approved the marriage on March 15, 2012.

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    Morocco's parliament has been debating a controversial law that allows rapists to marry their underage victims after the suicide of a teenage girl last month raised doubts about the effectiveness of reforms to women's rights brought in by King Mohammed VI. 

    The North African country's Islamist-led government has been urged by human rights groups to amend article 475 of the penal code, which allows a rapist to marry his victim if she is a minor as a way of avoiding prosecution. 

    Sixteen-year-old Amina El-Filali killed herself by swallowing rat poison on March 10 after being severely beaten during a six-month forced marriage to the man who raped her.

    --Reuters contributed to this report

    • Read more about Amina el-Filali and the demands for a change in the law in Edward Cody's report for the Washington Post

    2 comments

    Haha Morocco, what a backwards country. They accept rapists into their society and let them get away with their crimes, even if those rapists were to rape their own daughters. Women in Islam take the most brutality that most men couldn't fathom. For some of them to still continue to live is beyond m …

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  • 20
    Mar
    2012
    5:50am, EDT

    Oded Balilty / AP

    A man walks past an advertisement displayed on a main street in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 19, 2012.

    New Israeli law bans underweight models in ads

    The Associated Press reports — A new Israeli law is trying to fight the spread of eating disorders by banning underweight models from local advertising and requiring publications to disclose when they use altered images to make women and men appear thinner.

    • Touchy subject: UK bans Julia Roberts ad over airbrushing

    The law, passed late Monday, appears to be the first attempt by any government to use legislation to take on a fashion industry accused of abetting eating disorders by idealizing extreme thinness. Read the full story.

    67 comments

    Great! Now maybe they should ban anyone who looks attractive (because it'll make ugly people feel bad about themselves), anyone with muscle tone (because it'll make couch potatoes feel bad about themselves), or anyone who looks like are desirable to be around (because it'll make introverts feel bad …

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  • 9
    Mar
    2012
    2:40pm, EST

    First women's internet cafe opens in Kabul

    Jawad Jalali / EPA

    Afghan women use the internet after the opening of the first women's internet cafe in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday. Afghan Women For Change Group opened a net cafe naming it after Afghan woman Sahargul, who was subject to severe domestic violence by her husband in Baghlan province and made news. According to a UN figure, about one-third of Afghan women are exposed to physical or psychological violence.

    Jawad Jalali / EPA

    Another view of the cafe's interior.

    From a story on the Voice of America, reporting that YoungWomen4Change run the cafe as a safe place to exchange information without unwanted attention from men:

    "We are very pleased that we are inaugurating this cafe, which is located in a safe location and safe environment," said Eqlima Muradi. "This paves the way for women to come to our cafe and use our facilities."

    The brightly-painted cafe is named after Sahar Gul, a teenaged girl who gained international attention after police found her severely beaten in her husband's house in northern Baghlan province.  Gul accused her husband and in-laws of torturing her.

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    I expect progress will be a slow, long slog. I wish the women well.

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  • 7
    Mar
    2012
    9:02pm, EST

    Sudanese woman builds a life without hands

    Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters

    Hokom Al, a disabled woman, uses her foot to pour coffee which she prepared for neighbours at her home in a rural area near Khartoum, Sudan, on March 7, 2012. The 45 year old was born without hands.

    Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters

    Hokom Al, a disabled woman, uses her foot to hold a spoon of sugar as she makes coffee for neighbors.

    Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters

    Hokom Al, a disabled woman, uses her mouth to hang clothes to dry in a rural area in Khartoum on March 7.

    Slideshow: International Women’s Day

    Oswaldo Rivas / Reuters

    Observed since the early 1900s, International Women's Day is used to celebrate the progress of women, or to point out inequalities that still exist throughout the world.

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  • 6
    Mar
    2012
    6:21am, EST

    Afghan artists use graffiti to depict violence and injustice of women's lives

    Mohammad Ismail / Reuters

    A graffiti piece by Shamsia Hassani and Qasem Foushanji on a wall in Kabul, March 5, 2012.

    Reuters reports from Kabul — Encased in a head-to-toe burqa, the image depicts a distraught woman slumped on a cement stairwell, the work of Afghanistan's first street artists who use graffiti to chronicle violence and oppression.

    The female-male duo surreptitiously spray-paint the crumbling and dilapidated walls of buildings in the capital city, abandoned and destroyed during 30 years of war that still rages today.

    Talking of her woman on the steps, Shamsia Hassani, 24, said: "She is wondering if she can get up, or if she will fall down. Women in Afghanistan need to be careful with every step they take."

    Omar Sobhani / Reuters, file

    Shamsia Hassani signs one of her works in Kabul on Dec. 19, 2010. A group of women in burqas rises from the sea to symbolise cleanliness, while further down the factory wall a bus with no wheels and crammed with passengers is a stark comment on war-torn Kabul's appalling public transport.

    The somber depictions of Afghan women on Kabul's rutted streets offer rare public insight into their lives, still marred by violence and injustice despite progress in women's rights since the Taliban was toppled over a decade ago.

    In an abandoned textile factory, Hassani spray-painted a wall with six willowy figures in sky-blue burqas, who rise out of the ground like ghosts.

    "In three decades of war, women have had to carry the greatest burdens on their shoulders," Hassani, who also works in the faculty of fine arts at Kabul University, told Reuters. Read the full story.

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    11 comments

    It's a start I suppose. I can't imagine the prison they live in. I suppose they are so sheltered from the world that most women in Afghanistan do not know there is a different way. The women who I find most annoying are the ones from the oil rich nations that come to the west to enjoy the hard fough …

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  • 2
    Mar
    2012
    2:24pm, EST

    Makeup artists and hairdressers teach Ukrainian border police

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    Ukrainian border guards take part in a master class in the Borispol airport near Kiev on Friday. Hairdressers and make-up artists conducted master classes for Ukrainian border guards who will meet tourists at Ukraine's main air hub during the Euro 2012 football championship.

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    A Ukrainian border guard takes part in a master class in the Borispol airport near Kiev.

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    A Ukrainian border guard looks at her reflection in a mirror.

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    Ukrainian border guards chat as they take part in a master class in the Borispol airport.

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    Ukrainian border guard working at the Borispol airport near Kiev.

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    Ukrainian border guards and a sniffer dog are seen in the Borispol airport near Kiev.

    More pictures from the Ukraine in PhotoBlog, as well as posts featuring women.

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    4 comments

    OK, let's have the men's turn

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  • 17
    Feb
    2012
    3:13pm, EST

    American and British activists join all-female protest in Bahrain

    Hasan Jamali / AP

    Bahraini anti-government protesters, accompanied by two Western activists, sit in a street and gesture toward riot police blocking their way in Qadam, Bahrain, on Friday. The Westerners in front - U.S. activist Medea Benjamin, center right, and Briton Elaine Martha, center left - were arrested along with at least one Bahraini woman during the march, one of several efforts Friday to walk toward the main site of last spring's pro-democracy protests, now a revamped but sealed-off traffic junction in the capital.

    Hasan Jamali / AP

    A Bahraini anti-government protester gestures at riot police in Qadam, Bahrain, on Friday. Two Western activists were arrested along with at least one Bahraini woman during the march, one of several efforts Friday to walk toward the main site of last spring's pro-democracy protests, now a revamped but sealed-off traffic junction in the capital.

    Hamad I Mohammed / Reuters

    British activist Elaine Martha forms a victory sign with her fingers while showing her British passport, next to U.S. activist Medea Benjamin (L), as they sit in a police car after being arrested by women riot police for participating in a march to Al Farook Junction, formerly known as Pearl Square, in Budaiya, west of Manama on Friday. Bahrain authorities deported four more foreign activists in the past 24 hours, saying that all four obtained tourism visas but participated in illegal demonstrations, according to the Information Ministry.

    Reuters reports:  "These women are protesting peacefully," shouted a woman identified by protesters as U.S. activist Medea Benjamin, wearing a T-shirt that read "Unarmed civilian," as she was dragged away by women police.

    A Bahraini woman choking from teargas was also dragged away.

    Protesters identified the second detained foreign activist as Briton Elaine Martha. Bahrain has already arrested and deported around eight foreign activists in the past few days.

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    John from EA has covered the same topic and he further interviewed the Irish deported detainee.

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