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Was the average prison sentence of men who kill their female partners 2 to 6 years in 1989?
According to this Jan 12, 2019 article from the Guardian:
The average prison sentence for men who kill their female partners is
two to six years.
Such short sentencing sounds unrealistically short ...
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Were men in the USA, from Muslim countries, required to register with the federal goverment?
A Los Angles Times article INS Arrests 50 in Pre-Super Bowl Sweep 24 January 2003 refers to:
a new requirement that foreign men from a number of predominantly Muslim countries register with the ...
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Did US forces use tens of thousands of Japanese women as sex slaves after the WWII?
Alternet.org said in a report:
Examples are not hard to find. Before and during WWII, the Japanese enslaved as many as 200,000 "comfort" women, and after the defeat of the Japanese, the United ...
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Is the U.S. 90th in the world in terms of women in national legislatures?
The Miss Representation Extended Trailer makes the claim, at 6:03:
The U.S. is the 90th in the world in terms of women in national legislatures.
The voice-over adds:
If people knew that Cuba, ...
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