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Q&A: Equality Is Feminism
Sabina Zaccaro interviews Nobel Peace Laureate SHIRIN EBADI*
UNITED NATIONS - "I think that Islam has been misinterpreted. No Islamic law says violate women's rights and repress women," says Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. "Democracy, human rights and women leadership are absolutely not hostile to the Islamic doctrine." And women in Iran are well aware of that, she says.
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Q&A: 'Israeli Siege Causing De-development of Gaza'
David Cronin interviews MAHMOUD ABU RAHMA, Gazan human rights worker
BRUSSELS - For the first time since September 2006, Mahmoud Abu Rahma, a leading figure in the Palestinian human rights group Al Mezan, has been granted permission to travel outside Gaza.
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Q&A: Qualified Women Have Better Chance in Top Jobs
Thalif Deen interviews UNESCO Director-General IRINA BOKOVA*
UNITED NATIONS - Irina Bokova, who was elected director-general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) last September, heads the Paris-based agency at a time when the world body has placed a high priority on gender empowerment.
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Q&A: 11.8 Seconds That Broke Taboos for Women
Zofeen Ebrahim interviews NASEEM HAMEED, the Pakistani sprinter who is South Asia’s fastest woman.
KARACHI - Dressed in an abaya (long, loose gown worn by women to cover their dress) and a headscarf, Naseem Hameed cannot be recognised as she alights from a crowded, rickety public bus to reach her destination – the sports stadium.
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Q&A: More Women Journalists Doesn’t Mean More Gender Awareness
Ranjit Devraj interviews AMMU JOSEPH, Indian journalist, author and media watcher.
NEW DELHI - Young Indian women are taking to journalism in droves, but Ammu Joseph, author of several authoritative books on women in media, believes that these numbers do not necessarily translate into gender awareness.
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Q&A: "We Can't Continue to Pay Lip Service to Gender Equality"
Thalif Deen interviews UNFPA Executive Director THORAYA OBAID
UNITED NATIONS - During consultations of the 45-member U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) here, one of the lingering issues that is surfacing is the success - or failure - in the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action on gender empowerment.
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Q&A: Brazil Leans on South America to Adopt Its Digital TV Standard
Darío Montero interviews Brazilian Communications Minister HELIO COSTA
MONTEVIDEO - Brazil is lobbying hard to get the rest of Latin America to adopt the Brazilian version of the Japanese digital television standard, as Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela have already done.
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Q&A: ‘Our Movement is Unique for Women from Burma’
Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews HSENG NOUNG, women’s right activist from Burma
CHIANG MAI, Thailand - Women who fled conflict and oppression in military-ruled Burma have become a potent political force during their lives in exile, says a leading women’s rights activist from the South-east Asian country’s Shan ethnic minority.
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Q&A: "We Have a Take-Make-Waste Economy"
Liza Jansen interviews Dutch ecologist LOUISE VET
UNITED NATIONS - To halt the planet's declining biodiversity and loss of critical natural resources, both the economy we live in and communication about science needs to be changed profoundly, says a prominent Dutch ecologist.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Preparing for Flood Season
Ignatius Banda interviews FARID ABDULKADIR, Red Cross disaster management coordinator
BULAWAYO - Southern Africa is entering flood season. Governments and policy makers have been challenged to adopt a more preventive approach to disaster management by the Red Cross - what measures are in place?
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