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      Japan looks to calm sex slave row

      Posted by Shemuses from Al Jazeera

      Abe's refusal to apologise over the issue has sparked protests in several Asian countries [Reuters] The Japanese government has sought to calm a growing international row over wartime sex slaves, saying it still honours a 1993 apology over the issue. The statement follows criticism of the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who said last week there was no proof Asian women were forced to work in military brothels during World War II.

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    • A Problem From Hell

      Posted by Shemuses from The Tyee

      What do you do with rapists who have served their time? Controversy continues to swirl in greater Vancouver over the so-called "balcony rapist," a convicted sex-offender who relocated to the GVRD after serving a 20-year prison sentence in Ontario for multiple violent rapes committed in Toronto in the mid 1980s.

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      Wimbledon Agrees to Even Out Its Prize Money

      Posted by Shemuses from New York Times

      When the gates of the All England Club open for Wimbledon this summer, there will still be tentacles of ivy crawling up its stadium walls and players dressed pristinely in white. But, as club executives announced yesterday, at least one thing will change: The tournament will award equal prize money to men and women for the first time.

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    • Ethiopia: Surviving Forced Marriage

      Posted by Shemuses from All Africa

      Standing at the front of her classroom, Mulu Melka reads out of her English book in a shy voice like any other 13-year-old schoolgirl; betraying nothing of the fact that twice within two years, she has been abducted and forced into marriage.

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    ap101 comments on:

    Blogging Connects Women Across the World

    Read and comment on the Advocacy Project Peace Fellows’ blogs at http://advocacynet.org/blogs

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    11:16 am 10/22/08
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    ecom123 comments on:

    Women accountants: still a long way to the top

    Our community encourages women to get great jobs as accountants.So if you are looking to talk with others or you just want to search for a job you should join us.Come to: http:/ www.bigfour.com and see for yourself what we can do for you.

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    7:52 am 10/14/08
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    thaimat comments on:

    The MILFy Way

    Her politics of racism, hate, support for Big Oil, the Alaskan Independence Party, all make her as un-MILFY as is possible, for me. Add to that her bizarre religious practises, her lying at will, even her backstabbing of her Republican patron in Alaska, all make her so repulsive as a human being, she’s the quintessential MI (would never, ever, even if she was the last woman on earth)LF.

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    7:42 pm 10/12/08
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    papadavid comments on:

    The MILFy Way

    jeff, you dirty old man….............

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    4:54 pm 10/12/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    The MILFy Way

    She had me at hello.

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    12:19 pm 10/08/08
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    PeggySalwen comments on:

    HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

     The media keeps referring to Bush as a ‘Lame Duck President’, but this is just the sort of damage to freedom that people can expect from the Bush/Cheney White House before a new president is sworn into office in January.  They are expecting us to let down our guard.

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    7:05 am 7/20/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

    I think we can expect an acceleration of unfathomable, unreasonable, unstomachable executive orders and administrative rulings in the final days of the Bush administration.

    The Democratic Congress, elected to a majority in ‘06 to end the Iraq war, has taken a huge bet in not impeaching and not confronting Bush and the GOP agenda in order to keep approval numbers low enough for a sweep in November. It’s a huge doubling down – gambling with nothing less than our democracy.

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    11:51 am 7/16/08
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    Shemuses

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    Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.

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    oneohone

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    I am independent in all things. I think for myself.

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    ap101

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    The Advocacy Project is a Washington, DC-based NGO. We seek to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice. AP works directly with a selected number of partner organizations and offer them services aimed at strengthening their information and advocacy.

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    srebrenicagenocideinfo

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    Srebrenica genocide historian.

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