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Protests and Pledges Mark International Women’s Day

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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on Thursday predicted a future with more female politicians in her country, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded more opportunities for European women across all professions.  Elsewhere in the world, nations celebrated International Women’s Day each in their own way.


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Others marked International Women’s Day by pledging to improve women’s status. In Bangladesh, male celebrities, athletes and students vowed to fight the disfiguring and often deadly practice of attacking women with acid as a means of punishment.

A company in Mumbai, India, launched a taxi service for women with female drivers, and in Vietnam, men bought their wives and girlfriends bouquets, turning Thursday into the communist nation’s version of Valentine’s Day.

However, in Iran, women released after being detained for holding a peaceful gathering earlier in the week were warned Thursday not to attend a women’s day protest outside parliament. Women in the Islamic republic have been pushing for equal rights and the nullification of a law allowing men in Iran to have four wives.

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By Jeff Badura, March 11, 2007 at 5:17 pm Link to this comment
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women are treated horrible in the middle east !!! but for some reason libs are more than happy to look the other way for a false temporary peace !!

51% of the unborn humans killed in abortions are female !! they are killed by what some call: womens rights !!! 

illgramaticus knee o’kaun

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By gryphyn, March 11, 2007 at 7:48 am Link to this comment
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The vast majority of politically involved women are in the habit of wearing their shirtts in mostly all places and at least half the time knee ka kahn.  It’seems to be that whenever anything relating to womenin reference to our growing empowerment is mentioned in the media, and now truthdig apparently, the picture of the six or seven semi-naked young goddesses gets printed.  It’s great to get out and in your face, and girls you are beautiful, but this is just getting so boring…

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By Spinoza, March 11, 2007 at 12:31 am Link to this comment
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It would be fair if all government posts represented the sexes according to their proportion in the population.

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By Frank Delgado, March 10, 2007 at 11:10 pm Link to this comment
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Comments fail to address the issues facing most women. Issues like poverty, enslavement , domestic abuse, whole sale killing, rape as a weapon of terrorism. These are issues that don’t have a main stream forum to be discussed.  I believe that what these women are tying to engage socity to do. Perhaps their antics will disspell male dominated percept of women so that they can be treated as human being which many women are not in the grand scale of society.

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By Crash, March 10, 2007 at 10:17 pm Link to this comment
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Hey Jeff Badura, did you say to your mother that she was shaming you when she fed you as a baby,like most republicans you get freaked out by seeing naked women, is this a Jerry Falwell thing or a Ted Haggard thing?
I hope you are proud of the hell and murder people like you bring to the world, I spit on your shadow.

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By Rosa Gomez, March 9, 2007 at 11:05 pm Link to this comment
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Yes! This shows women powers to the fullest hurry!

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By Jeff Badura, March 9, 2007 at 8:31 pm Link to this comment
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ladies please put a shirt on !!!

it just goes to show you !! protests are more like a circus then anything else  

remember the “No Bush” brigade marching in their panties with no Bush written on their ass in the 04 NY convention protests ???

these people are just plain stupid !!! it shows in two ways !!! 1)- acting like a fool in public in a circus-freak-show, enviroment, and 2)-by their political views !!

illgramaticus knee o’kaun

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By Quy Tran, March 9, 2007 at 7:25 pm Link to this comment
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Who made Adam eating forbidden fruit ?

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