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- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Not Welcome at Salvadoran Summit, Say Women Advocates
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  October 9, 2008, San Salvador, El Salvador: Advocates for women's rights in El Salvador are calling on their government to bar the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, from attending an upcoming presidential summit because of his attempts to repress and intimidate women in his country.
  
  Mr Ortega is accused of threatening women leaders, and of sexually abusing his stepdaughter during the 1980s.
  
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- Disemboweled, Then Torn Apart: The Price of Daring to Teach Girls
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  The 46-year-old schoolteacher tried to reassure his family that he would return safely. But his life was over, he was part-disembowelled and then torn apart with his arms and legs tied to motorbikes, the remains put on display as a warning to others against defying Taliban orders to stop educating girls.
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- Poll claims support for allowing women to drive
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  A newspaper poll claims that 60% of Saudis believe that women should be allowed to drive.
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Not Welcome at Salvadoran Summit, Say Women Advocates

For more information about Ortega’s human and women’s rights record, read the press release written by CEMUJER, a Salvadoran human rights organization, here: http://www.advocacynet.org/page/cemujerpr.

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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Not Welcome at Salvadoran Summit, Say Women Advocates

Disemboweled, Then Torn Apart: The Price of Daring to Teach Girls

Poll claims support for allowing women to drive

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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Not Welcome at Salvadoran Summit, Say Women Advocates

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