Conflicts / Tags / Women

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- A group of Liberian women refugees who have held naked protests by the roadside are to be deported from Ghana, a minister has told the BBC. Hundreds of the women were arrested on Monday and taken away from a refugee camp in 10 buses, witnesses say... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- Private security guards from an Australian-run firm opened fire on a white sedan in downtown Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, killing two Iraqi Christian women who were driving home from work. The killings came at a time of unprecedented scrutiny into the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 3:43pm neoform

Reuters -- Myanmar's junta released 80 monks and 149 women believed to be nuns rounded up last week in a crackdown on the biggest anti-government protests in nearly 20 years, one of those freed and relatives said on Wednesday. Five local journalists, one of whom.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Aug 13, 2007 @ 4:44pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- The women were brought to the arranged meeting point on the side of a road in rural Ghazni province by Haji Zahir, an Afghan man, who also got into the Red Cross vehicle with the freed hostages. Breakthrough The handover is the first significant b.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

CNN -- Two American women have been released from a Moscow clinic after they were hospitalized with possible thallium poisoning, a hospital official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Marina Kovalevsky, 42, and her daughter Yana, 26.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jan 11, 2007 @ 10:47am mrmdc

TheSun.co.uk -- FIFTEEN women suicide bombers have been sent to murder British troops in Afghanistan... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Oct 20, 2007 @ 12:15pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Women in several countries have begun sending their panties to Myanmar embassies in a culturally insulting gesture of protest against the recent brutal crackdown there, a campaign supporter said Friday. "It's an extremely strong message in Burmese and.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

USA Today -- Taliban militants released eight South Korean hostages on Wednesday, the first of 19 captives scheduled to be freed under a deal struck between the insurgents and the South Korean government. The hostages were released into the care of officials of the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Aug 28, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Send us your viewsTwo male hostages were killed in late July and two women were released earlier this month. Another 14 women and five men are still being held captive. Yousuf Ahmadi, speaking by telephone from an unknown location, gave no further.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Aug 14, 2007 @ 8:05am neoform

USA Today -- Two women freed by Taliban kidnappers left a U.S. base to await a flight home, while South Korean and militant officials negotiated by telephone Tuesday over the 19 remaining hostages. The women's release Monday was the first breakthrough in a drama th.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jul 2, 2007 @ 11:06pm neoform

BBC News -- There are not enough servicemen and women to meet the demands placed on the UK armed forces by the situations in Afghanistan and Iraq, MPs have said. The Commons public accounts committee said the overall shortfall in personnel stood at 5,850, or 3.2%,.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Sun Jun 10, 2007 @ 10:10am neoform

Alter Net -- Rana Husseini, an award-winning Jordanian journalist, is leading the cause to expose and fight honor killings of women in the Middle East. Dua Khalil is stoned to death in Iraq for being seen with a man of another religion. A woman is shot dead in Jord.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu May 10, 2007 @ 9:42am neoform

SF Gate -- The State Department Wednesday condemned Iran's detention of Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari and journalist Parnaz Azima and acknowledged a growing problem with Tehran over its actions against U.S. and dual U.S.-Iranian citizens. "We want to see th.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 28, 2007 @ 2:00pm neoform

USA Today -- In this forgotten corner of Africa devastated by a forgotten conflict, no men work, no women cook, no children attend school. Here, there is not a soul in sight. Here, empty homes stand silently side by side: straw roofs burned away, dry mud walls s.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 28, 2007 @ 2:00pm neoform

USA Today -- Iranian police shoved and kicked them, loaded them into a curtained minibus and drove them away. Hours later, at the gates of Evin prison, they were blindfolded and forced to wear all-enveloping chadors, and then were interrogated through the night. Al.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 2:10pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- In war it is the quiet, hidden stories that reveal the depth of disruption. It is how ordinary people find ways to cope. How women and children live their lives, ignored by the noisy clamour of the news agenda. Like six-year-old Dima, who lives through th.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 9:30am mrmdc

ABC News -- One woman committed suicide by setting herself ablaze after her father-in-law tried to rape her. Another set herself on fire because her brothers would not let her marry, preferring that she remain their servant at home. Yet another told her mother before.. Read More