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MALAYSIA:NAWEM AND PAN OUT TO HELP WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
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13 October 2011
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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 (NNN-Bernama):The National Association of Women
Entrepreneurs Malaysia (NAWEM) and the Penang Affiliates of NAWEM (PAN), want to help broadcast the numerous private and public grants and business funding as well as opportunities available in Malaysia for entrepreneurs, especially women.
PAN is organising the "Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs" event
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MALAYSIA:2,680 WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS CREATED SINCE JAN 2010
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13 October 2011
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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 (NNN-Bernama):Some 2,680 women entrepreneurs have been
created from January last year to August this year which Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Heng Seai Kie attributed to the success of the government's capacity-building programme for women.
Heng told the Dewan Rakyat that the ministry was well
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MINISTER SAYS ANGOLAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW AN IMPORTANT TOOL FOR FAMILY STABILITY
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13 October 2011
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BENGUELA, ANGOLA, Oct 6 (NNN-ANGOP) -- Angola's law on domestic violence, which came into force in July this year, is an important tool to combat practices which adversely affect family stability, says Minister of Family and Women's Promotion Genoveva Lino.
Speaking at a national campaign aimed at presenting the law in
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GHANA:COUPLES ADVISED TO ADOPT FAMILY PLANNING METHODS
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13 October 2011
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ASUBONE RAIL, Oct. 8 (NNN-GNA): Deputy Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Ms Theresa Dakora, has appealed to couples to adopt family planning methods to enhance the country’s health delivery system.
She said the high rate of unsafe abortion resulting in the death of women, diseases, unwanted pregnancies and the
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UN HAILS ELLEN JOHNSON-SIRLEAF, 2 OTHERS FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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13 October 2011
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 (NNN-PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has hailed Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian peace activist, and Tawakkul Karman, a pro-democracy activist from Yemen, for jointly winning the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.
Ban, in a statement on Saturday in New York, commended the three
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GHANA'S EMPLOYMENT MINISTER LAUDS EFFORTS TO REIN IN CHILD LABOUR
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02 March 2011
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AKYAWKROM, GHANA, March 1 (NNN-GNA) -- Employment and Social Welfare Minister Enoch Teye Mensah has given high marks to focal persons in cocoa-growing districts in Ghana for the significant inroads being made in the fight to rein in child labour.
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U.S. PROGRAMME TO SUPPORT WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES IN PERU
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28 February 2011
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LIMA, Feb. 26 (NNN-ANDINA): The U.S. Department of State launched the Pathways Access Initiative (PAI) in Peru Friday.
The program is part of Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas and its goal is to help connect U.S. businesses with women-owned businesses (WOBs) in Peru.
Qualified women entrepreneurs will be recruited, trained
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ANGOLA:DEPUTY FAMILY MINISTER HIGHLIGHTS SOCIAL INTEGRATION PROJECTS
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28 February 2011
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NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (NNN-ANGOP):The Angolan deputy minister of Family and Women Promotion, Ana Paula Sacramento Neto, said her Government projects sought to facilitate the access of women to education, training, science and technologies.
She was addressing the plenary session on “Women Access to education, training, science and Technologies”,
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ANGOLAN MPS AT UN MEETING ON WOMEN ACCESS TO EDUCATION
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28 February 2011
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NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (NNN-ANGOP): An Angolan parliamentary delegation attended on Wednesday, in New York, the debates on the role of MP's in the access of women to education, training and technologies, Angop learnt.
Sponsored by the Inter-parliamentary Union and the UN Woman, on the occasion of the 55th annual
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INCREASES IN HONDURAS
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24 February 2011
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TEGUCIGALPA, Feb 23 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) - At least 100 Honduran children have been left motherless so far this year in the wake of an escalation of gender violence.
With 50 murders registered so far against women, many children were left vulnerable because their mothers were single and headed the family, according
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