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NEWS & LETTERS,
January-February 2003
Women Wordwide
by Mary Jo Grey Over 2,000 foreign maids marched through downtown Hong
Kong, Dec. 15, protesting a proposed tax on their wages, which many use to
support families in their home countries. Many wearing aprons and brightly
colored hats, the women workers from the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka
chanted and disrupted traffic along the five-mile march. The planned tax would
take from $50-100 from their approximately $470 a month wages. Continued attacks on women's rights globally by the Bush
administration stalemated the 5th Asia and Pacific Population Conference in
Bangkok in December, preventing discussion of issues such as development of
health services for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS prevention. U.S.
representatives stood alone in threatening to withdraw their support for the
landmark family-planning agreement reached in Cairo in 1994, contending that it
promoted abortion. --Information from WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS ONLINE
BULLETIN The Feminist Peace Network will observe the second annual International Women's Day Global Peace Vigil, March 8, by joining hands around the world for peace. Women in more than 100 cities internationally participated last year. Women everywhere are invited to participate with their own events "saying no to the domination of violence and yes to peaceful partnership." |
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