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International Women's Day marked with pleas and protests across globe from Haiti and Bangladesh to Turkey and New Zealand.

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| March 09, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Byline: EDITH M. LEDERER

In Haiti, mothers clutched photographs of their dead sons. In Washington, U.S. first lady Laura Bush promoted women's rights in the Middle East. In Bangladesh, hundreds of men joined protests against acid attacks that disfigure scores of women every year.

Across the globe, women and men marked International Women's Day, which fell during a two-week U.N. meeting to give new momentum to a blueprint adopted 10 years ago to achieve equality for women.

"Despite tragedy and hardship, despite conflict, exclusion, economic exploitation, violence and the ravages of HIV/AIDS which increasingly is acquiring a female face, women's issues have made progress over the last…

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