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NEWS & LETTERS, April-May 2006Women World Wideby Mary Jo Grey On International Women's Day, March 8, hundreds of Women in Black, Code Pink, and others gathered at a military recruiting station in Oakland, Cal., to "Say No To War." The march concluded at a Women of Color Resource Center's event, "Breaking Rank: Women of Color Soldiers Speak Out." * * * Amnesty International held an online discussion on International Women's Day, concerning the state of women's rights in Darfur, with Gloria E. White-Hammond, national chairperson of the Million Voices for Darfur campaign. Since 2001, she has been involved in obtaining the freedom of 10,000 women and children enslaved during the two-decade civil war. This conflict has resulted in abductions and sexual slavery, rape, torture, and forced displacement against women and girls. |
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