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Charter of rights of working women
March 7, 2009Women work every day. No matter where they live, their economic activity is vital to the economy and society at large, their communities, their families and their personal autonomy and growth as human beings.
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LETTERS
March 6, 2009Prevent SS meeting in Latvia The boss’ Armageddon Landmines and cluster weapons Dental care crisis Crooks Spanish Civil War vet dies
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More reading suggestions for Womens History Month: Women workers, and writers
March 6, 2009Women’s History Month fittingly opens with International Women’s Day, March 8.
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WORLDNOTES
March 6, 2009Somalia: New president raises peace hopes War and crisis may be easing somewhat in Somalia. The U.S.-backed Ethiopian army withdrew recently. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, called by Al Jazeera an impediment to peace, resigned as president. In...
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UK honors Claudia Jones with stamp
March 6, 2009Britain’s Royal Mail issued a stamp last October honoring six “Women of Distinction” in the UK, among them Claudia Jones, a leader of the Communist Party USA who was deported from the United States in 1955,...
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