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		<title>Female Iraqi cops: more good news from a troubled land</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Iraq, there is a piece of news that’s more exhilarating than Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds ‘trying to resolve tough procedural issues over oil rights and shares of seats in parliament’ and preparations for a landmark democratic election proceeding full speed ahead towards its January schedule. The other good news, eclipsing the otherwise bleak news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women in the Congo</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/hillary-clinton-and-the-epidemic-of-violence-against-women-in-the-congo/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/hillary-clinton-and-the-epidemic-of-violence-against-women-in-the-congo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[US funding to combat violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vaginal mutilation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violation of women’s rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=21535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During her official trip to Africa, Hillary Clinton had planned to impress upon her interlocutors the need to fight against corruption. The head of American diplomacy even insinuated that people take to the streets to protest against their corrupt governments. Among the themes that the US Secretary of State had chosen for this trip is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: impending law to finally criminalize violence against women</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/afghanistan-impending-law-to-finally-criminalize-violence-against-women/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/afghanistan-impending-law-to-finally-criminalize-violence-against-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghan President Hamid Karzai]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[childbirth deaths]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gender bias]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[violation of human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violation of women’s rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women as second-class citizens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=20258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the countries known to be notorious in violating women’s rights is finally making into law a measure that makes violence against women a criminal offense. At least, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is about to sign the bill into law. If the law, indeed, gets passed, ‘men who bar women from getting an education, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homophobia: “The Last Permissible Prejudice”</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/homophobia-%e2%80%9cthe-last-permissible-prejudice%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/homophobia-%e2%80%9cthe-last-permissible-prejudice%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[religious fundamentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexist stereotypes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tunnel vision]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=11704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes called “the last permissible prejudice,” homophobia reifies social ideas of gender, and ultimately reinforces inequality in society. Homophobia is an even worse and extreme case of sexism. If sexism is imprisoned in the strict confines of sex and gender stereotypes, homophobia sees these already warped stereotypes in an acute and even more distorted way. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Women Are Created Equal</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/all-women-are-created-equal/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/all-women-are-created-equal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=11700</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Discrimination based on gender, especially discrimination against women has led to attitudes, conditions, or behaviors that promote stereotyping. More often, this stereotype is comparatively considered ‘less,’ ’weak,’ and ‘inferior.’ At times, the attitude towards the disadvantaged sex is contempt, disregard, or hatred. Sexism occurs when men are viewed to be superior to women. When men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstreaming Gender and Development (GAD) is an Obligation of the State</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/mainstreaming-gender-and-development-gad-is-not-an-option-but-an-obligation-of-the-state/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/mainstreaming-gender-and-development-gad-is-not-an-option-but-an-obligation-of-the-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[GAD]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gender sensitivity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=9927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Incorporating a gender-sensitive perspective is not an option but an obligation of the State for all persons, men and women. The imperative nature of the changes in the service of fairness and equal treatment is not based only on the fact that there are international instruments of human rights protection and in particular the rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animalistic Men and the Helplessness of Females</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/animalistic-men-and-the-helplessness-of-females/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/animalistic-men-and-the-helplessness-of-females/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books &amp; Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pablo Neruda]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=9550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the ‘Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks,’ Pablo Neruda takes a fantastic and fictional object such as a mermaid and personifies it at the level of human beings to analyze how man is no higher than the level of animals. A mermaid, fish by nature, is on the same level as man who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unfeeling and Lifeless Doll: Women Anti-Abuse ad</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-unfeeling-and-lifeless-doll-women-anti-abuse-ad/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/the-unfeeling-and-lifeless-doll-women-anti-abuse-ad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Counseling Services for Abused Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dar Al Amal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=6408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The advertiser Dar Al Amal has recently come up with a social advertising print campaign about the women anti-abuse crusade, executed by Memac Ogilvy &#38; Mather Dubai, UAE. The public awareness campaign is for the brand name Counseling Services for Abused Women. The advertiser shows exactly its full understanding of the plight of abused women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Convenience of Using Female Suicide Bombers</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-convenience-of-using-female-suicide-bombers/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/the-convenience-of-using-female-suicide-bombers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[female suicide bombers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=5515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another female suicide bomber has caused yet another human casualty count in Iraq. This happened after the US has agreed to relinquish its overt participation in the security matters of the country. Radical Islamists know too well that they can exploit women to carry out suicide bombing forays because gender issues make women less vulnerable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feminists are Men in Drag</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/feminists-are-men-in-drag/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/feminists-are-men-in-drag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate ladder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=1442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Feminists promote the thought that there are gender-biased objective realities that bar women from advancing in their careers. They call these, in one collective term, as ‘glass ceiling,’ a metaphor that represents the barrier to women’s advancement and promotion. For feminists, the workplace has always been conducive to males and unwelcoming to females. The underpinning [...]]]></description>
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