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Published: 10/19/09

Women's Rights and the New U.S. Sudan Policy

By  Alex Wagner - Politics Daily
Women's Rights and the New U.S. Sudan Policy

More power to Christine in her rallying cry to make women's rights THE issue of the 21st Century. It couldn't come at a better time. The Prez and Secretary of State today unveiled the new US policy on Sudan, a country with some hefty and heinous women's rights violations to its name. Somali author Ayaan Hirsi Ali mentions the Sudanese woman who wore trousers -- Lubna Hussein -- and her courageous stand against a Sudanese court bent on lashing her for the indiscretion. But what of the thousands (some say, hundreds of thousands) of women raped during what the US describes as a genocide in ...

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