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Bovine women and lawless Palestine
Sep 7 2008, Sunit

‘Honor killings’, mostly targeting Palestinian women, are on the rise across Palestine and prove that women all over the civilized world are vulnerable to social injustice irrespective of religion and caste. The senseless violence against women has...

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