ADELE BUTLER - Women of Spirit China's Unwanted Girls Today marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day and this morning I heard on The Current that there has been some progress in women’s fight for equality but there is still much to be done. I just read the same thing on Yahoo News. "The last century has seen an unprecedented expansion of women's legal rights and entitlements," Bachelet said, pointing to virtually universal voting rights for women, major inroads for … [Read more...]
ADELE BUTLER – Women of Spirit: China's Unwanted Girls
June 19, 2012 by admin
Filed Under: ADELE BUTLER - Women of Spirit Tagged With: abandoned, abolish, adopt, adoption, adoption agencies, adults, apathy, babies, Bachelet, births, boardrooms, boys, business, century, childbirth, children, China, Chinese authorities, Chinese province, companies, complications, discrimination, domestic violence, educational programs, entitlements, equality, Executive Director, family, family planning, farmers, girl, girls, government., high-profile, home, HUMAN RIGHTS, humane, Hunan, illiterate, infant, International Women's Day, kids, knowledge, land, lawyers, legal rights, locals, love, men, money, nations, newborn, one-child policy, part-time, paternity leave, peace negotiators, population, practice, pregnancy, professions, progress, raise, rights, ruthless, school, sexual violence, society, state, struggles, The Current, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, UN Security Council, UN Women, unequal, universal, unwanted, victim, villagers, villages, voting rights, wage, war, woman, women., working, world, Yahoo News