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NEWS & LETTERS, January-February 2005Women World Wideby Mary Jo Grey A study by THE WASHINGTON POST revealed that since 1990 at least 1,367 pregnant and post-partum women in 37 states had been violently murdered--nearly always by a husband or boyfriend. Their children often have lasting effects from the violence. In seeking to prevent such horror, the National Organization for Women is calling for laws with teeth, stay-away orders that are actually enforced, and the continuation of the Violence Against Women Act, up for reauthorization by Bush's Republican Congress. For more information contact: www.now.org/issues/violence/122904pregnancy.html --Information from NOW * * * Afsaneh Nowrouzi, who has spent the last seven years on death row in Iran, will not be executed after an international campaign to spare her life. She was jailed after killing and castrating Police Chief Behzad Moghaddam who had attacked and attempted to rape her. In January, his family accepted $62,500 instead of her execution. |
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