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31 October 2017- NPWJ News Digest on FGM & women's rights
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Saudi Arabia to allow women to attend sports stadiums in latest rights reform
The Independent , 31 Oct 2017
Saudi Arabia will allow women into three sports stadiums for the first time, the latest step in attempts to transform one of the world’s most conservative societies.
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Men still killing women for ‘honour’, despite new law
Pakistan Today, 31 Oct 2017
A year since new laws came into force aimed at stemming the flow of “honour killings”, scores of young women in Pakistan are still being murdered by relatives for bringing shame on their family.
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Time to Hear Survivors of Rape in Central African Republic Conflict
Human Rights Watch , 31 Oct 2017
When an armed group attacked “Irène’s” home in the Central African Republic, fighters shot her husband in both legs as he tried to flee, and tied their five-year-old daughter to a post when she began to cry. “Irène,” 36, held her palms over her eyes as she told me of the brutal assault by the Seleka UPC, a main party to the country’s ongoing conflict, during a May attack on Alindao, in the southeast.
US groups pour millions into anti-abortion campaign in Latin America and Caribbean
By The Guardian, 31 Oct 2017
US anti-choice groups are coordinating and financing a campaign to restrict access to abortion across Latin America and the Caribbean. A Guardian investigation has found that organisations have poured millions of dollars into the region, which has some of the most draconian abortion laws, to combat efforts to decriminalise the termination of pregnancies and to obstruct access to clinics providing services. In July, the Guardian reported that Human Life International (HLI), a Catholic not-for-profit group from Virginia, had given more than $600,000 (£450,000) to support its work in Central America between 2008 and 2014, and that one group in El Salvador, Fundación Sí a la Vida, had received more than $47,000 over a seven-year period.
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