Back in October 2001, the US-led invasion of Afghanistan adopted an humanitarian face, professing that the defeat of the Taliban would rid girls and women of an infamously cruel brand of misogyny.
But the Taliban’s violent oppression was not alone in denying the country’s females of their basic right to education, health, inheritance, and physical and emotional safety inside and outside of their homes.
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Man-made Creutzfeldt-Jakob and mad cow disease By Lynette J. Dumble Revelations in Britain have brought a new dimension to the incurable brain infections, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in
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By Lynette J. Dumble The Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill of 1996 claims to be about protecting women from harmful drugs, but the rhetoric that ushered the bill through both houses demonstrates that this legislation was more specifically about
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By Lynette J. Dumble The overwhelming majority of print and electronic media conveyed a message of consensus from last month's International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo. Similar messages appeared even within