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The Courage of Human Rights Defenders: Women Protesting Violence Are Often Met With Violence

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by Karen Smith Rotabi

December 20, 2011 - 10:34pm (Print)

There are so many courageous women around the world engaged in peace work at all levels, including protest. But they are often met with violence, rape, or torture.

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"We Are Dancing:" Three Women Leaders Win Nobel Peace Prize

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

October 7, 2011 - 7:59am (Print)

Take note of this historic day: Three women leaders have won the Nobel peace prize. They include Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman elected president of a country in Africa, peace activist Leymah Gbowee, also of Liberia, and Tawakul Karman a pro-democracy campaigner from Yemen.

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Nobel Prize Winners Cite the Bush War on Science in Supporting Obama

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by Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 30, 2008 - 12:56pm (Print)

The far-right's religious ideology pushed the Bush Administration to wage a war on science. Now 76 American Nobel Prize winners are citing that as a reason to endorse Obama.
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Nobel Prize Awarded to Virologist Who Linked HPV to Cervical Cancer

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by Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check

October 21, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

German virologist Harold zur Hausen’s Nobel Prize is a reminder that there is overwhelming scientific consensus that HPV is the cause of cervical cancer.
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Roundup: Church and Politics, Future of Supreme Court

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by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 6, 2008 - 10:36am (Print)

Wading into the brackish waters of church and politcs; Election important to future of Supreme Court; Closer look at the 'rape exception' in South Dakota abortion ban; Services fall short for rape victims; Editorial boasts benefits of family planning; Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to discoverers of HIV and HPV; and more.
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