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[01] Draft Law Abolishing Anonymity of Card Phones

The lifting of anonymity is already being implemented in other 11 European countries. The relative EU directive expires on 15 March. The 13.5 million card cell-phone owners will have to submit their personal data only to mobile phone companies, even if they had purchased their sim cards from kiosks.

Source: NET

News item: 23536

[02] Qadaffi: Women like Furniture

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, who came to Italy with a retinue of 40 female bodyguards and demanded to meet 700 of the country's most important women, called for a feminist uprising

European women are being forced to work like men, travel alone and sleep in hotels out of necessity rather than choice, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi lamented to an incredulous crowd of 1,000 Italian women on Friday.

The women in attendance, including ministers and prominent businesswomen, initially responded with boos but applauded when Qaddafi said he believed in equal rights for men and women, who should be free to marry and divorce at will.

"In the Arab and Muslim world the'' women's rights ''situation is terrible'', a situation that ''could lead to a revolution'' said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in the Music Park in Rome to an audience of Italian business women. ''Women are like furniture for them which you can change anytime'' said the colonel. He pointed out that in some Arab countries woman are not even allowed to drive.

But many criticize Gaddafi, like Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for using women to assert his own authority and influence.

Source: Reuters, BBC, Associated Press

News item: 23531

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