FEBRUARY ISSUE WOMEN'S NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Two Women Lead Chile Presidential Polls from sfgate.com Celebrating Women as Custodians of the Environment By Dr. Klaus Toepfer U.S. Engages in Tug-of-War at Beijing Plus 10 by Allison Stevens, Wenews correspondent Iranian women call for an end to Fundamentalist regime! FROM PRISON TO FIRE by Giuliana Sgrena The journalists first interview on her release So Much for Illusions Ordinary Iraqis Face a Daily Struggle to Survive Attacks, Kidnappings and Killings by Haifa Zangana Women Dying to Give Birth in Afghanistan By Angie Ramos Daily Times, Pakistan Women Support Chavez Egyptian Feminist Nawal El Saadawi running for President of Egypt from Democracy Now! U.S. Withdraws Destructive Amendment to UN Declaration Reaffirming UN Platform for Action for Women from Ms. Magazine MORE WOMEN'S NEWS Commission on Status of Women meets to evaluate women's progress since Beijing Snag arises at 49th Session on the Commission on Status of Women - US wants summit to state abortion is not a human right Participate in online discussions of the Status of Women here. Supreme Court declines to reconsider Roe V Wade! Women's Groups Ready for Budget Fight by Allison Stevens Wenews SGRENA RELEASED Sgrena, A Fighter Against War and Degradation of Women Thousands march in Rome to free Giulian Sgrena by Josephine Piccolo Two sisters: Giuliana and Mithal Words from Giuliana Sgrena What about the Iraqi children? by Charlotte Aldebron SUPPORT WOMEN'S INDEPENDENT MEDIA! INVEST in Awakened Woman! BUY YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS BY WOMEN AUTHORS AT the world's largest independent bookstore!                               SIGN OUR GUESTBOOK!

"For the foreseeable future"  APRIL 1, 2005    NO NUKES! Arkansas Arsenal Begins Destroying Weapons By David Hammer Poll: Most in US Oppose Nuclear Weapons By Will Lester SITUATION AFGHANISTAN Suraya Parlika Speaks for Afghan Women by Stephanie Hiller WHAT THE NEWS MEDIA DIDN'T TELL YOU ABOUT AFGHANISTAN from the Afghan Women's Mission Afghanistan is "one huge US jail" By Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark First Lady States Solidarity with Afghan Women Laura Bush spends five hours in Afghanistan Afghanistan celebrates hopeful New Year   women and the tsunami THE RECOVERY HAS JUST BEGUN: Report Shows Three Times More Women Killed Than Men in Tsunami-Hit Areas Healing Among Nations sponsors women's weaving enterprise for tsunami recovery Amma in India and Sri Lanka, slidehow women's perspectives Erring on the Side of Life The Debate about Terri Schiavo by Elaine Holtz The Veil of Freedom With Shiites victorious in the elections and a theocratic state a possibility, the future for Iraqi women looks bleak by Zelie Pollon, AlterNet Feminism is Dead and Women in Bosnia know it by Danica Anderson Economists as Advocates by hazel henderson You can get out of the military!     endangered planet, endangered health RADIATION: The invisible culprit in breast cancer by Stephanie Hiller Clan of the One Breasted Women from Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams World War II hasn't ended yet: A new biography of Rosalie Bertell reviewed by Theresa Wolfwood A Dangerous Gamble: Tsunamis, Earthquakes, and Nuclear Power by Janette Sherman, M.D. from the San Francisco Bay View   women's spirituality Who is the Goddess? by Laura Newberry Yellow Woman by Rochelle Bayless Simon Mae Posop: The Rice Goddess of Thailand Pairin Jotisakulratana women's story Sacred Wound by Margaret Wolff Sexism on the Sidewalk by Jade Angelica Fishing for a Better Life by Karolee Bulak   poetry Sisterhood by Sarojni Mehta-Lissak Dalit by Theresa Wolfwood Poems by Elliott Femynye batTzedek Rebekah's Song to Light Sarah's Tent Incest Dream #1 Havadalah at Women's Peace Land     AWAKENED WOMAN HONORED BY PROJECT CENSORED for our story: "Scientists Discover Radioactive Trail in Afghanistan" by Stephanie Hiller WWW "Awakened Woman" Welcome to Awakened Woman, celebrating the power of women to change the world. We invite your letters and stories. Please contact the editor. We publish an Events Calendar to help you promote your events. We will also post your notice in our newsletter. We also publish a free weekly e-newsletter. We are partnered with Women for a Better World to strengthen and support the global women's movement now emerging. Support Awakened Woman. Your contribution will help keep this women's channel open. CONTACT

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