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		<title>1 million Pakistani women abused during pregnancy: expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: Annually an estimated one million pregnant Pakistani women are physically abused at least once during pregnancy by their partners.
This was said by Prof Unaiza Niaz, the president of the Women Section of World Psychiatric Association and director of the Institute of Psycho-Trauma Pakistan, while delivering a lecture on Gender issues and Womenâ€™s Mental Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranâ€™s Women Fight for Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By NAZILA FATHI
Womenâ€™s rights advocates say Iranian women are displaying a growing determination to achieve equal status in this conservative Muslim theocracy, where male supremacy is still enscribed in the legal code. One in five marriages now end in divorce, according to government data, a fourfold increase in the past 15 years.
And it is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shahadat law against Quran, Sunnah: FSC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE, 12 FebruaryA FULL bench of the Federal Shariat Court has held that sub-article 4 of article 151 of Qanun-e-Shahadat is repugnant to Quran and Sunnah and asked President of Pakistan to take appropriate steps for repeal of sub-article 4 within six months failing which the said provision would cease to have effect.
Under sub-article 4 [...]]]></description>
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