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NEWS & LETTERS, March 2003
Women Worldwide
by Mary Jo Grey Republicans ensured House of Representatives' passage of
a welfare "reform" bill, Feb. 13, putting stricter limits on education
and training time while requiring more women to work, and to work longer hours,
and providing hundreds of millions of dollars to promote marriage! The bill
renewed Clinton's 1996 welfare cutbacks. Legal immigrants continue to be denied
aid. The Republican Senate will likely follow suit since they already named as
two of their priorities: enacting stricter welfare work requirements, and
banning late-term abortions. * * * Uttar Pradesh, India--Activists from human rights
organizations, Vanangana and Gudiya, are facing death threats for defending a
physically and sexually battered woman and her 11-year-old daughter. When Ela
Panday and her daughter were finally able to escape from her abusive husband,
Jagdish Chand Panday filed kidnapping charges against three members of the
organizations, threatening their lives and the lives of their children. Police
would not investigate these threats, and even the High Court judge made
derogatory remarks about the organizations and the woman's lawyers. --Information from Women's Human Rights Online Bulletin |
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