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Ashcroft's Delay Makes Vote On Missouri's 8-Week Ban 'Impossible,' Abortion-Rights Group Says 0 Sherman A1 Aug 2019 Aug 2019 2 1723
Saudi woman activist rejects release deal tied to denying torture: family 0 Eugene Aug 2019 Aug 2019 2 1648
App that can remove women's clothes from images shut down 4 Eugene Jun 2019 Jul 2019 1 2322
NJ Supreme Court acts against judges for remarks in sex assault cases 0 Eugene Jul 2019 Jul 2019 3 1662
India arrests after women's heads shaved for resisting rape 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1854
Canada: man acquitted of rape as judge says accuser 'combative' in court 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1852
"Days of the Theocracy" Words and music by Kristin Lems 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1953
Spain women: Top court rules Wolf Pack gang were rapists 1 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 1797
Women outperform men after Japan medical school stops rigging exam scores 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 12 1956
Sharia court orders jail for rape victim unless kids handed to rapist. 2 Bayard Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 2509
Swiss women strike for more money, time and respect 1 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 5 1824
Kenya: male MP slaps female MP, gets arrested 1 shenmue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 0 1988
Outrage at acquittals in rape cases sparks calls to fix Japanese law 1 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1758
White Lies, a New Zealand period piece 2 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1959
Japan's labour minister says high heels at work are 'necessary' 4 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 2154
There's Nothing "Pro-Life" About Sweeping Abortion Bans ("arbitrary killing of women by gov't) 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 1468
Trump's anti-abortion global gag rule harming women in Africa and Asia, report says 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 3243
Canadian Inquiry Calls Killings of Indigenous Women Genocide 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 3317
Thousands back Japan high heels campaign 1 shenmue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1878
Latin American rape survivors who were denied abortions turn to UN 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 2 1760
Bangladesh to charge 16 with murder of woman, 19, burned to death 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 1 1583
States pushing abortion bans have higher infant and maternal mortality rates 3 Ohiogal May 2019 May 2019 9 2020
500 protests planned STOP THE ABORTION BANS! 0 BigmanPigman May 2019 May 2019 15 1919
Lengthy Webster U. Harassment Investigation Spurs Student Outcry, University Audit 1 Sherman A1 May 2019 May 2019 3 1682
UN Passes Anti-War Rape Resolution Despite US Opposition 4 niyad Apr 2019 May 2019 5 1850
300 protests planned STOP THE BAN (on abortion) 3 BigmanPigman May 2019 May 2019 8 2040
Some states seek to close loopholes in marital rape laws 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 3 1717
"At the Heart of Gold": how 'predatory' institutions protected Larry Nassar 0 niyad May 2019 May 2019 1 1730
Cyprus serial killer case exposes abuse of migrant women 0 shenmue May 2019 May 2019 2 1621
Women are disappearing and dying in Indian country. We must act. The epidemic of missing and murder 0 niyad May 2019 May 2019 3 1566

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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A Native American woman's brutal murder could lead to a life-saving law 0 niyad May 2019 May 2019 1 1516
Congress is Convening the First Official Hearing on the ERA in Three Decades 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1496
"Failure is Impossible" Kristin Lems 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1712
"We Will Never Give Up" Kristin Lems 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1708
"Ballad of teh ERA" Kristin Lems (in honour of the hearings today) 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1562
A Cafe Run by Acid Attack Survivors Attracts Visitors From Around the World 1 Cattledog Apr 2019 Apr 2019 8 1760
Yazidi leaders to allow Isis rape survivors to return with children 1 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1713
Women's Bodies Shouldn't Be Battlefields 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1553
No Compromises on Women's Rights 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1486
The UN Just Watered-Down Women's Rights Worldwide--and the U.S. Insisted on It (war on women) 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1400
Why gender pay-gap truthers are on the rise The evidence that men earn more than women is clear - 2 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1770
Bowing to U.S. demands, U.N. waters down resolution on sexual violence in conflict 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1484
The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret For thousands of women, working at the nat 1 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1664
Stephen Moore's Columns Deriding Women Raise New Questions for Trump Fed Pick 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1360
Planned Parenthood losing some big donors 1 Odoreida Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 2113
Traditional Marriage (something I just came across from a few years ago) 3 Odoreida Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1832
The misogynist trolls attacking Dr. Katie Bouman are the tip of the trashpile 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1535
Nusrat Jahan Rafi: Burned to death for reporting sexual harassment 3 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 9 2052
Hillary Clinton: 'Given the chance, many women will govern and lead differently' 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 7 1642
"Violence against women is normalized. And because it's normalized we don't see it as a crisis." 3 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 14 1890
This message was self-deleted by its author 2 shenmue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1449
Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding (very important, lengthy read) 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 11 1394
The Other Art History: The Forgotten Women of Bauhaus 2 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 3258
Marianne Brandt industiral designer of the Bauhaus movement 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1878
Women Workers RISING: BE HEARD in the Workplace Act Introduced Today 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1491
Trump Travel Ban Prohibits Dozens from Attending U.N. Women's Forum 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1475
Alfred University is Leading the Fight Against Campus Rape Culture--with a Public Reckoning 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1390
Feminists are Taking on the NRA in the Fight to End Violence Against Women 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1472
Upcoming Screenings for Roll Red Roll (teh Steubenville Rape case) 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1329
Roll Red Roll: behind the chilling documentary on high school rape The much-reported 2012 case of s 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1389

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Is Imprisoning Women the Latest Anti-Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Strategy? 2 Panich52 Feb 2019 Apr 2019 4 1739
google doodle honours Dr. Hedwig Kohn, German physicist who fled nazis. 2 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1667
Inside the Bookstore (The "Second Shelf"_ That Wants to Gender-Balance Our Bookshelves 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1316
Saudi women activists back in court as West watches 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1768
I cannot be in a relationship with a man, Jane Fonda 3 Beringia Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 3927
Which are the world's 10 most dangerous countries for women? US #10, only western country on list 5 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 6 1613
"Erin Brockovich of Slovakia" Elected Nation's First Female President 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1551
After Speech Goes Viral, Georgia Lawmaker Not Done Condemning Attack on Reproductive Rights: 'Women 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1355
NRA Wades Into Debate Over Violence Against Women Act A handful of disputes, including over VAWA, 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1404
Lion Mama: The woman who fought off her daughter's rapists 0 shenmue Mar 2019 Mar 2019 17 2182
Truth, Reconciliation and Reshaping Feminist History 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1364
When Joe Biden Voted to Let States Overturn Roe v. Wade 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1622
Eleven female Saudi activists appear in Riyadh court 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1353
Honoring Frances Perkins, the 'Mother' of Social Security 2 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1459
'Unethical, Dangerous, and Unacceptable': Trump-Pence Regime Broadens Attack on Women Across the Glo 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1210
list of victims of the Triangle Fire 4 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 8 1868
Remembering The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1328
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire March 25 1911 (THIS is what the admin wants for us!!) 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1215
A Feminist Defense of "Captain Marvel" 2 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 6 1516
Because Reproductive Rights are Human Rights 2 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1358
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