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Home > Journalism > Women's Issues Women's Issues:Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores 'corrective' attacksThe Guardian - March 09 Women live in fear of brutal assaults by male gangs and the country's 'macho politics' has lead to a lack of action. Battle cry for a system in crisis The Guardian - September 08 Many women's services, established after decades of struggles, are being dismantled due to lack of secure funding. But the woman representing them, Vivienne Hayes, is not giving up... Charm offensive The Guardian In June, the first Miss Deaf UK will pack her tiara and head off to Prague to compete in the international Miss Deaf World 2007, leaving a trail of acrimony in her wake.... Depleted women's groups send SOS The Guardian As more women's charities face closure, a new campaign is calling for the government to help support groups that, for many abuse victims, are the only place they can turn to... A tiny step for womankind The New Statesman Argentina is fighting the fashionistas with a law against micro-sized clothing. The road to physical perfection leads to Argentina, a country that takes its beautiful people very seriously - so seriously that, in a startling feat of political intervention, one regional government has implemented a law that is forcing the fashion industry to acknowledge that you can be too thin. I was an ugly sister - in a city of Cinderellas The Telegraph 'Arriba chicas! Vamos, vamos arriba! It's shortly past 8pm when the opening bars of a techno cover of Blondie's Heart of Glass ring out through the balmy Buenos Aires night... Parent trap The Guardian Teenage mothers are often vilified by the press and politicians as 'slags' or benefit scroungers... |