A group of women’s rights activists will head to North Korea later this month to hold a peace rally and then walk across the Demilitarized Zone that has divided the Korean peninsula for more than 60 years. They will then hold peace-related events in Seoul, South Korea.
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A century ago, the suffragist Jane Addams boarded a ship with other American women peace activists to participate in a Congress of Women in The Hague.
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Global media remain fascinated with North Korea’s supposed weirdness. Yet on the face of it, the North Korean government is neither uniquely authoritarian nor the population uniquely economically badly off.
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Gloria Steinem on Friday described demands that organizers of an upcoming DMZ crossing bring up North Korean human rights violations as “bananas.”
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Organizers of a women’s international peace walk across the Korean Peninsula’s heavily mined Demilitarized Zone next month said Friday that the governments of both North and South Korea had given their conditional approval for the event, which is meant to create new pressure for a formal end to the Korean War.
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