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 Today I write to you to tell you a sad story. The story of women spanked, violated, harassed or killed by their husbands or boyfriends. Statistics tell us that one in every three women suffer some kind of abuse during their lives, but the annual reports still surprises me.
Today, all Portuguese national newspapers write about […]

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After several days away for vacations, I’m back and want to share with you some pictures of the beautiful province of Trás-os-Montes (literally, behind the hills), in northeast Portugal.
Away from the big cities, difficult to access due to curling roads, the region has been quite forgotten by the central government and younger generations are leaving […]

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A report published today by European Commission shows women work more than men, are better educated, but their labour situation is worse.
They have a bigger risk to get unemployed and their average salary is lower than their male colleges! A concerning scenario that should concerns us all. Are we doomed to become the first victims […]

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Since the beginning of 2008 Portugal seems crazy about the new anti-tobacco’s law, that forbids smoking inside public buildings, hospitals, schools, work places.
In restaurants and bars is up to the owners: they could decide if people are allowed to smoke inside or not. But for the ones that decide to allow tobacco, they need to install […]

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One of the most interesting stories of the day. It´s not about Bush´s visit to Middle East, nor the comeback of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire primary elections. It tells the story of a protest over disputed land in Halkidiki province, in Greece, during which a dozen women entered Mount Athos, home of 20 monasteries. […]

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In the second day of 2008, a woman blew herself in Baquba, in one of the most violent Iraqi provinces, stronghold of Al Qaeda. She disguised the vest of explosives in her clothes and detonated it near a checkpoint of civil patrol, killing ten people and wounding other 28, Reuters news agency wrote.
Although female suicide […]

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There are no restrictions or laws blocking women’s access to any profession in Portugal. But if there are jobs mainly done by women – nurses, kindergarten teachers – others didn’t seem very feminine. But the exceptions are becoming less unusual, as showed a recent article published in my newspaper, called “women who drive us”.
Female pilots, […]

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“Do you want a boy or a girl”? That’s a question women often hear during pregnancy in many countries. But if you put that question in India people may look at you in disbelief.
“Girls are a curse”, said a mother of three daughters in a poor village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh to […]

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Violence against women seems a never ending story! Little girls abused, women beaten by their husbands or boyfriends, human trafficking for prostitution, slavery… Crime, violence, discrimination go hand by hand worldwide, but some countries are a complete nightmare for women and Iraq is starting to get included in this list.
According to news agency Reuters “more […]

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Still recovering from a sleepless night and 14 hours of travel, I fell today at my newsroom and immediately discovered that the next weeks won’t be easy. And now I can’t complaint, because they worked for me these last (and unforgettable) 10 days.
Hoping that in the next days I can find time to write a […]

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