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Reproductive Justice and Gender

The Terrifying Normalcy of Assaulting Women

By Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com. Posted May 14, 2008.


In West Africa, the war against women doesn't end just because grim wars between men finally do.
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Writer/photographer Ann Jones is working as a volunteer with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) on a special project for their Gender-Based Violence (read: Violence Against Women) unit called "A Global Crescendo: Women's Voices from Conflict Zones." Her blogs about the project can be found by clicking here. She is the author, most recently, of Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan (Metropolitan Books), a report from another war that's not over.

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