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Aid Effectiveness Browse the latest news items Will Women Be an Afterthought at U.N. Crisis Meet? Getting Personal: Women Take Philanthropic Reins A call for structural, sustainable, gender equitable and rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis Obama Lifts One of Bush's Most Damaging Policies for Developing Nations	Civil and Political Rights Browse the latest news items Iran: Stoning to be omitted from penal laws Iran's Guards to 'crush' protests France: Move to ban the wearing of the burqa Malaysia: Public support growing for Sisters in Islam Iran: Election dispute fans unrest
Democracy Browse the latest news items Iran's Guards to 'crush' protests Iran: Election dispute fans unrest India: Anti-gay protesters pitch to Pope, Imam and Shankaracharya Iran: 'Mrs Mousavi': the artist who could be first lady Suu Kyi trial begins in Myanmar	Disability Browse the latest news items MALAWI: Hilda Malikebu, "Disability is not inability" AFRICA: Ignoring the facts on AIDS and disability Self-immolation on the rise among women in Afghanistan
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Browse the latest news items Iran's Guards to 'crush' protests France: Move to ban the wearing of the burqa Malaysia: Public support growing for Sisters in Islam India: Anti-gay protesters pitch to Pope, Imam and Shankaracharya Israel: Rabbinical Court's Exit Ban Forces US Man to Divorce Wife	Education Browse the latest news items Pakistan: Back to School in Swat, But for How Long? Pakistan: Fears over Swat sharia deal Pakistan: Taliban enforces Sharia ruthlessly - Report Pakistan’s sharia deal to embolden Taliban Fresh attacks on Pakistan schools

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