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                    [ArticleID] => 1431234
                    [Title] => Empowering women: More work to be done
                    [Summary] => 

This year is a milestone International Women’s Day and a special year for the international women’s movement.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor [SectionUrl] => letters-to-the-editor [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1431243 [Title] => Women’s rights: Significant progress made, but still slow [Summary] =>

While there have been “remarkable advances” in promoting the human rights of women and girls and their full participation in society in the past 20 years, the overall progress has been “unacceptably slow” and gender discrimination still persists across the globe, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20150308/women-rights-3.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 620581 [Title] => Periquet keynotes Shanghai summit on women's role in economic recovery [Summary] =>

SHANGHAI – Four outstanding women entrepreneurs delivered speeches on women leaders’ role in boosting economic recovery in post-crisis era and the importance of the Chinese market to world businesses at the Shanghai Expo.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 517320 [Title] => Women's rights advocates to raise $1 billion for UN agency [Summary] =>

Women’s rights advocates from Asia Pacific have pledged to initiate the fund raising is $1 billion to speed up the creation of an agency under the United Nations that is focused on the protection of women’s rights.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1673868 [AuthorName] => Reinir Padua [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 243636 [Title] => Pakistan on its 64th year [Summary] => The Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Iftikhar Hussain Kazmi greets the 64th national day of his country today with high spirits. The photo story that came out in the papers recently about a cricket team from India hopping over to Pakistan for a tournament is a good development in view of the bitter conflict between the two countries.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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