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Alexander Graham Bell and his descendants would have no difficulty in answering this question. Born in an age when letter writing was commonplace with most people, Aleck and his family were copious writers who held that their epistles to each other should not be discarded. As a result, their story can be told, today, through thousands of letters dating as early as 1862, when the inventor was only fifteen years old.  

In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce. "I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced," was released in English in the United States this month and is due to be published shortly in Arabic, allowing the now 12-year-old schoolgirl to finally read the story that drew international attention. "I do not know what is in it, except what I have been told about. I am  

Linda Matar, one of Lebanon's most influential women, was honored for her career of service in Lebanon and the Arab world, in a ceremony held by the League of Lebanese Women's Rights. Matar has been president of the LLWR since 1953, the year Lebanese women finally obtained the right to vote. She has fought for women's rights in Lebanon and the Arab world for the past half century, dedicating her life to this uneasy struggle.  

In honor of Women's History Month, the seventh article in our series on the Communist Party's 90th Anniversary will survey a few documents written by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, one of the most prominent women Communists in U.S. history. Flynn was a labor leader, activists and feminist. At 16, she gave her first speech, "What Socialism Will Do for Women."  

Celebrities Jennifer Lee and Maui Taylor pledged to continue to support women's causes when they participated in Friday's 10th Women's Congress organized by the Provincial Women's Commission (PWC) at Cebu International Convention Center. Lee said this is to compensate for the things she and Taylor did before, but have stopped doing now, like posing provocatively in magazines and accepting sexy roles. The two stars gave the same assurance during a case mediation at the Palace of Justice Friday afternoo

Now, I’ve become more mature, made more mature decisions and choices in my life. And this is one big step, supporting the Cebu Provincial Women’s Commission is one big step for me as a woman and as a person   -Jennifer Lee

 

Sultanate's women have taken up all challenges confidently, forging ahead thanks to sound development policy. The Sultanate joined the rest of the world on the 8th of March in marking the International Women's Day 2010. This year's theme is "Equal rights, equal opportunities, progress for all."  

Anti-abortion group Personhood USA has submitted 46,671 new petition signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State's office in a second attempt to land an initiative on the November ballot that would grant fertilized human eggs the full spectrum of legal rights. "Over the past few days, the massive quantities of signatures that poured in just amazed us," said Gualberto Garcia-Jones, co-sponsor of the initiative. "That means that we collected over 2,600 signatures each day, about 2 signatures per minute.  

FRANCE must bring back the brothel to protect its prostitutes from exploitation, trafficking and aggression in the street, according to an MP from Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing party. Chantal Brunel, a member of the ruling UMP, called on French authorities to study the possibility of legalising centres where sex workers could serve clients within a regulated and protected framework. It was time, she said, to move away from attempts to stamp out prostitution and instead focus on making the sex trade mor

Prostitutes are finding themselves even more badly treated and damaged than before   -Chantal Brunel

 

A message to all those confident young American women from pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem: For all the advances in women's rights in the past 40 years, equality remains a distant hope. As she turns 76 next week, the woman who walked the front lines of American feminism in the 1960s and 1970s - often in a miniskirt, big glasses and buttons with colourful expletives - celebrates her good health and "huge, huge leaps forward." But Steinem has plenty of bones to pick with government and society when i

I thought if we got majority support around issues, that we would succeed, and that is not necessarily the case   -Gloria Steinem