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Jing Zhang, National Review • Thu 2012 May 3, 12:59pm

The blind Chinese human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who escaped from house arrest on April 22 and may be under the protection of the U.S. Embassy, was initially detained for exposing the massive abuse of Chinese women under China’s one-child policy. His documentation of forced sterilizations and abortions landed him in jail for four years, followed by a year and a half of house arrest. His daring escape has now triggered renewed attacks on organizations engaged in helping Chinese women keep and feed their infants.

ajc.com • Wed 2009 Jun 17, 4:16pm

Beneath the surface of news blasts covering Iran's tainted elections, riots, protester deaths and government crackdowns, a subtext of women's rights is emerging. It is a subtext only to the extent that women's oppression isn't often acknowledged directly —- not even by the leader of the free world. But human rights are at the core of what is occurring now.

guardian.co.uk • Sat 2009 Jun 13, 9:10pm

Self-styled 'emancipator of women' baffles audience with his views towards opposite sex... to hundreds of baffled Italian women gathered for a rare audience with Muammar Gaddafi, if this was the king of women's rights then the movement still has a long way to go.... "with all these women working for him as semi slaves it seems a bit of a contradiction to call himself a liberator of women." [DUH]

guardian.co.uk • Wed 2009 Jun 10, 7:31pm

The highlight of Gaddafi's trip to Rome is a meeting, personally requested by the Libyan leader, with 700 women from the worlds of "politics, industry and culture". So Berlusconi got down his Bumper Catalogue of Hot Stuff, got rid of any that were over 25, discarded those with a loud voice or body hair, and whittled down the rest by ballot until he got to 1,000, whereupon the disappointed remainder that didn't get to meet Muammar were given a senior post in his cabinet or a mini-break in his fancy villa with the pools and the elephants.