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UN chief unveils role models scheme to help end violence against women
25/11/2009 - HUMAN RIGHTS

UN chief unveils role models scheme to help end violence against women

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday announced the creation of a network of male role models to encourage men to stand up against violence against women.
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A phone to save battered women
25/11/2009 - SOCIETY

A phone to save battered women

To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Nov. 25, a new initiative in a Paris suburb has been set up to give battered women mobile phones to alarm police in case of emergency.
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GUINEA
Amid the bloodbath, harrowing tales of rape
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SUDAN
‘Trouser indecency’ journalist freed after one day in jail
Female journalist Lubna Ahmed Hussein was freed on Tuesday after being jailed for one day for refusing to pay a fine for wearing "indecent" trousers, the head of the Sudanese Union of Journalists reported.
SUDAN
Journalist in trousers 'indecency' case chooses jail
Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein (pictured) has been jailed after refusing to pay a fine imposed on her at a trial on Monday for wearing trousers deemed "indecent", one of her lawyers has reported.
SUDAN
Journalist guilty of trousers 'indecency', spared lashes
Sudanese journalist Lubna al-Hussein, arrested for wearing trousers in July, was fined 200 dollars but spared a maximum sentence of forty lashes at a high-profile trial in Khartoum on Monday. Al-Hussein says she would prefer prison to paying up.
SUDAN
Journalist risks forty lashes for wearing trousers
The notorious trial of Sudanese journalist Lubna al-Hussein, who is charged with public indecency for wearing trousers, is expected to resume on Monday in Khartoum. Al-Hussein, who wants to fight the law, faces a sentence of up to forty lashes.
13/08/2009 - THE INTERVIEW

Lubna Ahmed Al-Hussein, Sudanese journalist

Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed Al-Hussain was arrested for wearing trousers, an outift considered indecent by the authorities in Khartoum. If convicted by a Sudanese court, Lubna faces 40 lashes with a whip. She spoke of her ordeal on FRANCE 24.
SUDAN
Female journalist faces 40 lashes for 'indecent' trousers
Journalist and UN employee Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein said she was one of 13 women who were rounded up and accused of wearing “indecent” clothes in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. If convicted, al-Hussein faces 40 lashes.
FRANCE
Cheb Mami gets five years jail in forced abortion case
A French court has sentenced Algerian-born rai singer Cheb Mami, also known as the "Prince of Rai", to five years in jail for attempting to force his ex-girlfriend to have an abortion in Algeria in 2005.
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