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Egypt’s Scourge Of “Honor Killings” Relies On Leniency — From Both Courts And Families

Reducing sentences in family violence cases isn’t uncommon in Egypt. So women struggle from both: their families and the courts.

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Society Women Worldwide

“Honor” Killings In Egypt Get Leniency From The Courts — And Victims’ Families

Reducing sentences in family violence cases isn’t uncommon in Egypt. So women struggle from both: their families and the courts.

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Military Ceremony — Video Quote Of The Day

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Society

Why It Took Chile So Long To Honor Isabel Allende

The best-selling novelist is adored by ordinary Chileans (and millions of readers worldwide) but has been shunned by the cultural elite of her native country. She is not the first successful person to get such treatment.

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Food / Travel

Women And Children First? Fat Chance, Says Shipwreck Study

A shockwave, an explosion, a fire. The boat lets in water and topples over, passengers hang on to life boats or jump into the waves. Few circumstances have the tragic intensity of a shipwreck, which takes mere seconds to throw human beings into life-threatening situations, where the cruelest of decisions have to be made: who […]

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