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NEWS & LETTERS, June -July 2007Women World Wideby Mary Jo Grey The National Organization for Women, the National Congress of Black Women, and the Coalition of Labor Union Women were among the 14 women’s groups, representing over ten million women, who joined with WakeUpWalMart.com on Mothers Day to demand that Wal-Mart end exploitation of its women workers and improve their lives by providing a living wage and benefits, and a workplace free of gender discrimination. * * * Women and other villagers in southwestern China protested for four days in May against a recent crackdown on violations of the government’s one-child policy—limiting families to one child, unless the first child is a girl! Women were forced to undergo mandatory health checks, abortions, and fined up to $9,000. Demonstrators burned government offices and records, overturned police cars and clashed with riot police. |
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