Women Rights stories:
Gadhafi hires 200 Italian women as 'models,' tries to convert them
Nov 16th, 2009 - The Seattle Times
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has hosted a soiree in Rome for some 200 young Italian women, but instead of the party they expected the women were given a lecture on Islam and copies of the Quran...Abortion Rights Activists Say Stupak-Pitts Amendment Would Hurt Women's Rights
Nov 9th, 2009 - ABC News
An amendment included in the House health care bill passed this weekend promising to restrict federal funding for abortions has reignited a fiery debate on one of the most controversial issues in the country. The Stupak-Pitts amendment...
"Allison Kilkenny: House Representatives Vote No on Women's Rights, Yes on War" and related posts
Nov 9th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
The House voted yesterday and the anti-women's health Stupak amendment passed 240 to 194, with one member voting present. Sixty four Democrats voted yes on the Stupak amendment...
On another planet: how Italy's women saw Colonel Gaddafi
Jun 12th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
He came as the self-styled "emancipator of women", the world's longest-serving leader who makes much of his all-female bodyguard squad and favourable views towards the opposite sex.
Moussavi: Painter, architect and possibly Iran's next president
Jun 11th, 2009 - CNN
Mir Hossein Moussavi supporters rally in Tehran this week. They are relatively young compared to his rival's. A painter and architect who withdrew from the political front for two decades, Moussavi has emerged with a platter of promises...



