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By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyMore 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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By Alex Wagner - Politics Daily"I saw a woman who was stripped naked . . . They tore off her clothes. They surrounded her. They made her lie down. They lifted up her feet, and one of the soldiers advanced. They took turns." This unfortunate and latest chapter of Rape As A Weapon of War finds the women of Guinea the latest victims -- a cruel echo of similar cases around the world. ...
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