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• Elizabeth Gudrais: Unequal America

  When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, “I think of an epidemic like HIV, or I think of the collapse of a social system, like in the former Soviet Union.” But such a decline is happening right now in some parts of the United States. Between 1983 and 1999, men’s life expectancy [...]

  Posted on Jun 29.08 to Belarus, California, Denmark, Economic Inequality, Ethiopia, European Union, Finland, Great Britain, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Laos, Mali, Moldova, Namibia, Russia, Social Welfare, Soviet Union, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Wealth Redistribution   

• Olivia Ward: Ten Worst Countries For Women

  The image of the 21st century woman is confident, prosperous, glowing with health and beauty. But for many of the 3.3 billion female occupants of our planet, the perks of the cyber age never arrived. As International Women’s Day is celebrated today, they continue to feel the age-old lash of violence, repression, isolation, enforced ignorance [...]

  Posted on Mar 09.08 to D.R. Congo, Development, Feminism, Gender, Guatemala, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Iraq, Mali, Nepal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sex, Somalia, Sudan