| Empowering Women:
Economic Necessity.
[Asia] It's a
question officials in Asia often hear: what makes your economies so
vibrant? Answers include young and
swelling populations,
decreased debt, growing cities, emerging middle-class consumer sectors,
evolving markets
and, of course, China's rise. |
| A
Fund Reserved for
Women. [Japan]
In Japan, one of
the latest buzz phrases to arrive is "women
only." |
| “Comfort
Women” Removed from Textbooks. [Japan] Japan's top government
spokesman played
down the education minister's recent remarks praising the removal of
references to
"comfort women" from the revised history textbooks and
reiterated Tokyo's
apology to the victims. |
| Awareness Raising
Programs.
[Nepal] Jhuwani
Community Library organizes frequent awareness raising programs for
women, and organizes
interaction programs promoting dialogue and discussion around women's
rights. |
| Sex-Slave Trade
Flourishes.
[Thailand] For Mylee,
life — as it is for so many Thai women — is anything but a
fairytale, yet her
lot is better than many of the women and children caught in the no-man's
land of Southeast
Asia's human-flesh trade. |
| Domestic Violence. [India] At least 21 per cent of
upper-class women
face domestic violence in some form, be it physical harassment, marital
rape or
psychological persecution. |
| Clinical
Trial of the World's First Contraceptive Spray for
Women. [Australia] The
Population Council Inc, an international research organization based in
New York, and
Acrux Limited (ASX: ACR), the Australian pharmaceutical company which
specializes in
administering drugs through the skin, today announced positive results
from the first
clinical study of a novel contraceptive spray for women. |