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Saudi to champion press freedom and women's rights
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AT FIRST glance, the proposition seems absurd. A Saudi diplomat
and politician is a leading contender to become the next director-
general of Unesco, the UN agency which promotes, among other things,
women's equality, press freedom and democracy.
Ghazi Algosaibi - Saudi ambassador to London since 1992, poet,
author, and as liberal minded a politician as his country has ever
produced - sees no objection to his appointment as the world's
spokesman for education, culture, science and free...
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NO FREEDOM FOR US WOMEN ON SAUDI SOIL
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Military rules in Saudi Arabia undermine women
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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From Burqas To Abayas
The Washington Post
; BOSTON -- In the end, the most powerful images of freedom in Afghanistan have been the faces of its women. One by one, as the Taliban are defeated ... their oppressors. And they smile. Americans have come to see this emancipation of women as a freedom worth fighting for. The way we treat women makes us different ...
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THE FIGHT NOT OVER FOR WOMEN.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Byline: Ellen Goodman BOSTON -- In the end, the most powerful images of freedom in Afghanistan have been the faces of its women. One by one, as the Taliban are defeated ... their oppressors. And they smile. Americans have come to see this emancipation of women as a freedom worth fighting for. The way we treat women ...
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Straight Talk
The Washington Post
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