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	<title>Wide Angle &#187; women</title>
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		<title>Class of 2006: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/class-of-2006/introduction/961/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the Film

WIDE ANGLE cameras are on location in Morocco as history is made. In May 2006, an imam academy in the city of Rabat holds a graduation ceremony. But the class of 2006 is no ordinary group of students. Side by side with the male graduates are 50 women pioneers, among the first contemporary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pickles, Inc.: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
About the Film

In the Arab Israeli village of Tamra, in Galilee, widows lead a cloistered and restricted life, and often live below the poverty line, struggling to raise their children on a monthly social security allowance from the state. But in February 2003, eight widows of Tamra decided to challenge convention by starting up a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underground Zimbabwe: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time since independence in 1980, President Robert Mugabe is no longer the sole leader of Zimbabwe. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday morning as part of a power-sharing agreement between the ruling party, Zanu-PF, and the opposition, MDC. Tsvangirai won the most recent elections, held in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan Women Boycott Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenyan women are calling for a week-long sex boycott to protest a rift in the nation's coalition government -- and they've got the Prime Minister's wife on board. Ida Odinga, wife of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, said that she'd support the campaign "100 percent."

President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga have led a unity government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking Women Aim to End to the Age of Testosterone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iceland will be holding elections this Saturday, and women are poised to take charge.

Eager to bring an end to the "age of testosterone" that some Icelanders blame for their country's current financial woes, 60-70 percent of the population is expected to vote for interim Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardóttir, giving her a mandate to lead the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underground Zimbabwe: Demonstrating Under Dictatorship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe has been widely considered a repressive political regime. With the government violently cracking down on voices of dissent, human rights activists are a rarity. But since its founding in 2003, one organization has succeeded in gathering more than 40,000 members who believe in the prospects of peaceful political change: Women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi Women Campaign for Change</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/iraqi-women-campaign-for-change/4164/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/iraqi-women-campaign-for-change/4164/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Iraqi elections this Saturday, thousands of women will be asking their fellow citizens to vote for change. Of an estimated 14,400 candidates for provincial offices, nearly 4,000 are women. They're vying for an opportunity to participate in a political process that has been dominated by men and clouded by corruption, and they're risking their lives to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/women-war-peace-introduction/4093/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABOUT THE ISSUE
Women have become primary targets in today’s armed conflicts and are suffering unprecedented casualties. Simultaneously, they are emerging as necessary partners in brokering lasting peace and as leaders in forging new international laws governing conflict. Yet the image of war portrayed by the media covers very little of either end of this spectrum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Advisors</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/women-war-peace-project-advisors/4179/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathi Austin
Arms-Trafficking Expert

Kathi Austin is an internationally recognized expert on arms trafficking, peace and security, and human rights. For 18 years, she has carried out original and in-depth field investigations pertaining to the illegal trade in weapons, illicit trafficking operations, illegal resource exploitation, transnational crime and terrorism. She has documented conflicts spanning Africa, Latin America, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court Rules Virginity not an Essential Quality</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/court-rules-virginity-not-an-essential-quality/3514/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/court-rules-virginity-not-an-essential-quality/3514/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday an appeals court in northern France reinstated a marriage between two Muslims who split up on their wedding night back in July 2006. The husband had sought an annulment of the marriage after learning that his bride had lied about her virginity. A lower court had granted his wish back in April, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s First Women&#8217;s University</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/saudi-arabias-first-womens-university/3486/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rawan Jabaji

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has announced plans to build the first women-only university in the kingdom, and vows that it will be the largest women’s university in the world.

This is a bold move by the king, who has frequently struggled against Saudi Arabia's powerful religious establishment to educate women in the kingdom and integrate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda Elects World&#8217;s First Majority-Female Parliament</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/rwanda-elects-worlds-first-majority-female-parliament/3481/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/rwanda-elects-worlds-first-majority-female-parliament/3481/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think of bastions of women’s rights, Eastern  Africa does not immediately spring to mind. But this month Rwanda became the first country in the world to have a majority-female parliament.  
Today 56 percent of the Rwandan parliament comprises of women, including one-third of all cabinet positions and the chief of the Supreme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ladies First: Resources</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/ladies-first/resources/202/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/ladies-first/resources/202/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[






Rwandan woman carries yams.
Credit: Eugene Cornelius



CIA World Factbook: Rwanda
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/rw.html
Statistical data and general information on Rwanda.

Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/
A detailed account of the genocide, its history, and its fallout from Human Rights Watch.

"Ten years after genocide, Rwandan children suffer lasting impact"
http://www.unicefusa.org/
Article from UNICEF on the people of Rwanda, ten years after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Woman Among Warlords: Photo Essay: Portraits of Afghan Women</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/a-woman-among-warlords/photo-essay-portraits-of-afghan-women/597/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/a-woman-among-warlords/photo-essay-portraits-of-afghan-women/597/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The women featured in this slideshow are participants in the sponsorship program of Women for Women International. Their photos appear in a book by WIDE ANGLE interview guest Zainab Salbi entitled THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR: WOMEN'S STORIES OF SURVIVAL &#38; HOPE.

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