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Secretary Clinton to Launch Women’s World Cup Initiative
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Pretty Smart! On Monday June 6, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will launch the Women’s World Cup Initiative: Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports. The event, which will be streamed live on www.state.gov. will take place 9:30 am...more
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Saudi Women Dare to Drive in Defiance of Law
There are a lot of rights that western women take for granted. One of them is the freedom to drive - an activity that helps women be independent. Not so in every country or culture.
Manal, a 32-year-old woman, is planning something she’s never done op...more
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Al Qaeda's Latest Jihadist Women's eMagazine
Tips on how to meet a terrorist husband? Ideas for keeping your skin beautiful underneath a niqab? Poetry about the Holy War? Enter the bizarre world of Al Qaeda's newest Cosmo-like magazine for women.
Al Shamikah--The Majestic, features stories on pleas...more
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Iranian President, clerics disagree over women’s sports
Iranian athletes had fine performances in China’s southern city of Guangzhou where the 16th edition of the Asian Games, Asiad, recently wrapped.
But a senior Muslim cleric has denounced the participation of Iranian women in the Asian Games, calling i...more
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Girl Up Pep Rally
More than 400 girls and (and some boys) from all over LA joined gathered at the Marlborough School in Hancock Park a few weeks ago to support the United Nations Girl Up campaign and learn about the lives of girls in Malawi, Liberia, Guatemala, and Ethio...more
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Run for Congo Women
This is pretty good.
A few weeks ago, the New York Times Magazine highlighted a number of individuals as part of a series about grassroots work being done worldwide to help others in need. One of the women profiled, along with her mission, caught our at...more
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Australians set record for fastest stiletto race
In the wake of last week’s LIVE’s High Heel-a-Thon to benefit the Heart Association, four Australian women have just nabbed the world record for the fastest relay race in stiletto heels.
The quartet from the Australian capital of Canberra complet...more
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Iranian woman chasing her racing dream
Noora Naraghi recently traveled 1500 miles from Iran all the way to Tallahassee, Florida to learn motocross from Stefy Bau, former two-time women world motocross champion and owner of 211 MX school, the elite world wide motocross academy for women.
Narag...more
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Lady Salamanders rep US at Homeless World Cup in Brazil
Eight women from homeless shelters across the country make up the Lady Salamanders, a street soccer soccer currently in Rio, Brazil for the 8th Annual Homeless World Cup competition which wraps Sunday Sept 26th.
Philanthropist and businesswoman Sheila Jo...more
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Nawal El Moutawakel on education of women and girls
LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications
TAMPA/NEW YORK, Sept 22: IOC Executive Board member Nawal El Moutawakel was speaking out at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit being held in New York to support of education for women.
The Olympian i...more
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Indian boxer Mary Kom wins World Championship
The only Indian woman boxer, M C Mary Kom, created history after winning her fifth successive World Championship title in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Sunday, Sep 19th.
Kom won the title after beating Steluta Duta of Romania 16-6 in the finale.
The Manipuri...more
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Photo exhibit displays violence against African women
UNIFEM and YOPS collaborated to present a gallery of photographs and displays to reveal many different forms of violence against women all over Africa- particularly in nations torn apart by war and poverty. From AllAfrica.com :
[The exhibit] comprised ...more
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Egyptian woman will make history at Youth Olympics
By MICHAEL CASEY (AP) –
SINGAPORE — When Jihan El Midany leads the Egyptian delegation into Saturday's opening ceremony of the inaugural Youth Olympics, it will be a historic moment for her country.
The 18-year-old pentathlete will become the first ...more
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Renting a Car Overseas - Great Tips from the Experts
For many of us, summer is synonymous with "road trip": The simple and joyful act of packing your family into your car and driving to new and exciting destinations.
It gets a little less simple when you plan a "fly and drive" excursion involving a rental...more
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Return to Afghanistan: What’s Next for Afghan Women?
Guest Post by Evin Maria Phoenix. Please check out all of her work at La Azote Negra .
Afghan School Girls, Creative Commons
Not that we ever left. Indeed, the United States has been entrenched in the brutal landscape of Afghanistan for nearly a...more
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Giving Victims a Voice: The Miss Landmine Pageant
Morten Traavik wasn’t expecting much from his trip to Angola in 2003, but what he found there would change the future for women across the world.
During his time in Angola with his then girlfriend, Traavik immediately recognized two very important thin...more
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KICK IT UP! launches at FIFA World Cup
Soccer (or football as it’s known around the globe) is the world’s most popular sport, and Global Girl Media is using the largest international soccer event to help young women find their voices. The non-profit org’s pilot project KICK IT UP! has ...more
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World Cup Song: Shakira ‘Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)’
We are just a few days away from the exciting beginning of the FIFA World Cup 2010 being held at South Africa and international superstar Shakira is scheduled to perform her new single, “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” during the opening ceremony ...more
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