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Almost two weeks after Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence – in the end of a process that started in 1991 with Croatian war and led to the disintegration of former Yugoslavia – the Serbian branch of an international female organization against war published [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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