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06.11.2003 Some of the laws governing women in Pakistan have made life difficult for them. When the National Commission on the Status of Women proposed the repeal of certain anti-women laws, the parliament of the North West Frontier Province was outraged.

28.10.2003 Reporting from a tiny northern Indian village this investigative story by Panos Features shows that some ‘health camps’ for women and children are, in reality, places where women are brought in for sterilisation. Local midwives are given specific targets and the project is funded by the US.

20.10.2003 The Bellagio Symposium on Media, Freedom and Poverty, which came together recently, has expressed concern that in the World Summit on the Information Society some of the measures being considered run counter to freedom of expression and that there is inadequate mapping of development objectives against the proposed actions.

24.09.2003 Reforms in the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka have ensured that the country's economy remains bright despite the two-decade-old conflict. The country now only has to bring development to the Tamil dominated areas which have suffered due to the conflict.

22.09.2003 This report from Panos, focuses on the problem of sexual violence in educational institutions all over the world. This ranges from grouping students in the cafeteria queue to rape. It is an abuse of rights, a serious obstacle to educational efforts to promote safe, healthy and equitable relationships, an impediment to equal access to education – and a catalyst for a lifetime of gender violence in the home and sexual harassment in the workplace.