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Albany, NY – In America, we're proud of what we call our family values. But people around the country are often forced to choose between work and family: when family emergencies arise, it becomes clear that there's no room for family in the workplace. Author Sharon Lerner says it isn't like that in other developed countries - and she documents what she found in her new book, The War on Moms: Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation.
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Sharon Lerner's book is The War On Moms: Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation. It is published by Wiley Books.
During Liberia's brutal civil war in the 90s, soldiers used rape as a weapon. Almost 70% of Liberian women were sexually assaulted. The war is over, but rape continues to be rampant in Liberia. And it's a crime that usually goes unpunished. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Africa's first female president - has made it a top priority to stop the epidemic of rape in her country. One of the ways that's happening is through Court E. Jina Moore explains.
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Visiting Bangalah - a tiny village in the mountains of Bali, is an unusual experience. All 2,400 people in the village use sign language to communicate, even though not all of them are deaf. French journalist Dyssia Hayat takes us there in this reporter's notebook.
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Dyssia Hayat filed that story for the World Vision Report.