MAN ARRESTED AFTER WOMAN ESCAPES HIS "BASEMENT TORTURE ROOM"

It starts off like a tasteless joke, but a 26-year-old Israeli woman living in Hamburg, Germany was held hostage in what she called a homemade "torture chamber" booby-trapped with fire extinguishers filled with explosives. Detectives think that Fischer, who is 30,...

Empowering Rural Women

A Regional Women Leaders' Convention is being held on 24-25 March 2011, in Mau, UP, as part of the Empowering Rural Women (ERW)programme, which has been operating in 253 Gram Panchayats (village councils) of 10 districts of UP, since December 2007. This is a unique...

'Be The Change' in tuberculosis control among women

Although women get diagnosed for tuberculosis (TB) later than men, treatment outcomes among women are better than men with higher TB treatment success rate and lower default (drop-out) rate in the female patients. Among the unreached people who need TB care, a significant...

Tuberculosis treatment outcomes are better among women

Tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes are better among women as compared to those in men, said Dr KS Sachdeva, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) of the Government of India. According to the RNTCP data, among new sputum positive cases of...

Women with tuberculosis (TB) could lose their home

According to the study done by Tuberculosis Research Centre in India alarming numbers of women with tuberculosis (TB) become homeless once diagnosed with TB. At a meeting on importance of addressing TB in context of women’s health organized by Global Health Advocates (GHA)...

"Corrective" Rape: Fighting a South Africa Scourge

" It was around 11pm on a Friday night in Gugulethu — a township on the edge of Cape Town — and Millicent Gaika, 30, was almost home when a man she recognized stopped her and asked for a cigarette. Gaika obliged. The man then pushed her into a nearby shack, and beat and...

A Toast To Hundred Years Old Struggle

The 8th of March 2011 marks the centenary of the very firstInternational Women's Day which was celebrated in 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, when more than one million women and men attended International Women's Day rallies campaigning for...

the art of making love with a woman

This is not the best or only way of approaching the topic, but i've found it works consistently .. There are many components to the technique but central to it is keeping the idea of pleasing her in your heart. Then comes mutual arousal - everything you do must not only...

God as Woman; co-ops: the only sustainable model; good parenting

God as Woman; co-ops: the only sustainable model; balanced child-rearingWho are generally more nurturing, accepting, forgiving, open, welcoming,.. men or women? One way of looking at the cosmos is as a giant womb. Who has wombs? Men or women? Who are generally more mentally...