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Education Report - Women Inmates Train to Start Businesses After Prison 教育报道 - 美慈组织帮助服刑妇女出狱后开创自己的事业 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 Get
Program - I'm Worth Defending - teaches girls and women how to defend themselves Rape is a constant threat for girls and women living in the crime-ridden slums of Kenya's capital, Nairobi. It is estimated that one out of five women are raped in the s
By Cathy Majtenyi Kigali, Rwanda 16 July 2007 Rwanda's Parliament in session Women hold nearly half the seats in Rwanda's parliament, the highest percentage of women lawmakers in the world. One result is legislation that increases the rights of women
Women Raise Profile in American Folk Music When people think of musicians in the American roots genre, Allison Krauss is one of the few female stars who comes to mind. For the most part, history remembers the men in old-time country, blues and folk m
Women are joining together all over the world to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day on March 8. Women poured through London's streets on Tuesday singing loudly for women's rights. The banners they carried trained a spotlight on t
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The flu can be especially dangerous for women who are pregnant. NPR's Rebecca Hersher reports that researchers have been studying the flu vaccine in pregnant women and recently they published some unexpected findings. REBECCA HERS
Nina McLemore's Clothes Are A 'Weapon' Of Powerful Women play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0004:54repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: While abortion is legal in the United States, for some, it is not very accessible. A new study finds that many women face legal barriers and long distances to get the procedure. NPR's Sarah McCammon reports. SARAH MCCAMMON, BYLIN
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to politics across the Pacific, where the minority party in Japan's parliament is also led by a woman. NPR's Elise Hu in Tokyo reports on the political rise of women in Japan. ELISE HU, BYLINE: At this monthly Tokyo networkin
Gloria Naylor, 'The Women Of Brewster Place' Author, Dies At 66 play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0000:00repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash
By Melinda Smith Washington, D.C. 19 February 2008 Congestive heart failure is diagnosed when a weakened heart fails to pump blood adequately and fluid builds up in the lungs and elsewhere in the body. But a diagnosis of congestive heart failure doe
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 05 April 2007 More than 100 women led a protest rally against a radical mosque in central Islamabad. VOA Correspondent Benjamin Sand reports from Islamabad the Lal Masjid mosque is at the center of a growing controversy, af
By Navbahor Imamova Washington 16 November 2007 In most of Central Asia women are still struggling to find their place in the political arena. Despite the Soviet legacy of gender equality, women are still underrepresented in the highest levels of gov
By Jim Stevenson Shanghai 10 September 2007 The fifth FIFA Women's World Cup is under way in China. VOA's Jim Stevenson was at the opening game in Shanghai Monday where defending champion Germany made a bold statement. Fireworks burst over Hongkou St
By Jessica Berman Washington 04 March 2008 According to the results of a large U.S. study, older women who used hormone therapy to ease the symptoms of menopause and then discontinued it remain at increased risk of cancer. Researchers voiced surprise
Around the world, women are far more likely than men to be poor, ill-housed, under-educated and victimized by war and discrimination. To help women help themselves and their communities, the Global Fund for Women, or GFW, a San Francisco-based organ
The U.S. Women's Soccer team has won a medal at every Olympic game since women's soccer was introduced at the Atlanta games in 1996. The Americans won the gold in Atlanta, silver at the 2000 Sydney games, and reclaimed the gold in the 2004 Athens Ol
By Margaret Besheer Washington 05 March 2007 International Women's Day Thursday highlights women's struggle for equality, justice, peace and development. For many it is a day to celebrate progress. For others, it is a reminder of just how far they s
By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 11 October 2007 A group of 12 Zimbabwe women who say they regularly have been mistreated in police custody have produced an interim report they say documents shocking statistics of violence against members of their
It turns out the best looking thing on a man may be a good-looking woman. Researchers report that women find a man they see with an attractive woman more desirable than unattached men. Thats according to a study in the journal Evolutionary Psychology