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June 1, 2012 - 
Arizona Republic
Partnership provides aid for refugee moms


In the late 2000s, the International Rescue Committee's Phoenix chapter was seeing increased numbers of refugee families from around the world with babies on the way. Many of those babies were being born at low body weights and growing more slowly than their peers.

 

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June 1, 2012 - 
BBC
The rural women in DRC turning themselves into bankers

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a network of village savings and loans associations has been helping women start up their own businesses.

While the groups receive training and technical assistance from an international charity, all the money they work with comes from their own pockets.

 

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May 23, 2012 - 
BBC News
Domestic abuse acute in post-war West Africa, report says

The plight of wives who suffer abuse from soldiers returning home from conflict in West Africa has been highlighted in a new aid agency report.

 

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May 23, 2012 - 
Agence France Presse
NATO summit's forgotten people: Afghan civilians

Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape NATO's exit from Afghanistan, one of the war's victims, 12-year-old Aleema, sums up her life in three words: "It's the worst.

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May 22, 2012 - 
The Guardian
Domestic Violence is Biggest Threat to West Africa's Women

Husbands, not strangers or men with guns, are now the biggest threat to women in post-conflict west Africa, according to a report by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) released on Tuesday.

 

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May 22, 2012 - 
TrustLaw - Blogs
The Word on Women - End of war doesn’t spell peace for women in West Africa

By Emma Batha The photo shows a woman sprawled in the dirt, grimacing in pain. A man is lunging towards her. The image needs no caption – the man has obviously beaten the woman up and hurled her to the ground.

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May 21, 2012 - 
Voice of America
Report: Domestic Violence Rate 'Alarming' in West Africa

A new report says women are suffering domestic violence at “alarming levels and with shocking frequency” in post-conflict countries in West Africa.

 

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May 20, 2012 - 
La Informacion.com
Iraquíes refugiados en el país que invadió el suyo: huida a Estados Unidos

La guerra de Irak dejó atrás millones de refugiados y desplazados internos. Muchos acaban pidiendo asilo político en el país que se hizo con el suyo aún hoy.

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