News Round Up: October 1, 2009
Health
WIC nutrition program expands to cover fruits and vegetables (LA Times)
Yahoo puts breast cancer awareness front and center (Tonic)
Middle East
Palestinian women prisoners return to a new world (AP)
Economy
Washington Post article suggests that the new census data debunks the “opt-out revolution”
New York Times blog has a different read on the same census data
The gender wage gap, state-by-state (New York Times)
Violence
It’s about time: The UN says rape is a weapon of war (Huffington Post)
Eve Ensler on Roman Polanski and accountability (Huffington Post)
Afghanistan
Afghan legislation nudges women’s rights forward (AP)
Philanthropy
'Causemopolitan' talks up tech-aided philanthropy (Tonic)
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