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International Women's Day 2019 theme is #BalanceforBetter: 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1062
goodle doodle for today honours mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya on her 97th birthday 2 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 6 1389
Timeline of Women's Suffrage Worldwide-- fascinating graph 2 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1119
Italian far-right makes sexist International Women's Day flyer 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1266
It's Carnaval in Brazil--What 'Marielle Presente' Means for Women of Color Across the Globe 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1105
Alice Stokes Paul: the Women's Suffrage Movement 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1006
3 March 1913 -The historic women's suffrage march on Washington - Michelle Mehrtens 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1048
Mexico slashes funding for women's shelters 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1174
Saudi app used to track women 'not against' Google rules 3 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 8 1432
One Billion Rising Berlin 2019 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1025
One billion rising 2019 --some more videos 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 954
Clara Schumann - Piano Works 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1034
Rosario Marciano plays Piano Works by Women Composers 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1037
Saudi Arabia: detained women's rights activists to be put on trial 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1022
Women Who Worked for Peace Quiz 4 niyad Feb 2019 Mar 2019 4 1303
29 Quotes For Women's History Month 2019 To Lift You Up 1 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 6 1419
Women Hold Up Half the Sky-Happy Women's Herstory Month 2 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1537
History of Women's Herstory Month 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1049
Girl, 11, gives birth to rapist's child after Argentina refuses abortion 4 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 6 1341
The National Women's History Theme for 2019 Visionary Women: Champions of Peace & Nonviolence 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1173
Amid Trump-Kim Summit in Hanoi, Anti-War Women Offer Blueprint for Lasting Peace on Korean Peninsula 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 972
'Executing Babies': Here Are the Facts Behind Trump's Misleading Abortion Tweet 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1140
No Deal: Providers Sound Off on Trump's Domestic Gag Rule (the WAR ON WOMEN conctinues) 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 939
'Centuries of entitlement': Emma Thompson on why she quit Lasseter film 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1009
Trump administration changing definitions of domestic violence and sexual assault 9 Beringia Feb 2019 Feb 2019 10 1976
Malia Obama's rose-shaming is the latest in drinking double standards 1 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1285
sanders on women's reproductive rights (negotiable) 7 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 1494
Wisconsin school ends cheerleading awards for body parts 3 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 6 1480
Funding bill leaves out Violence Against Women Act extension 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1042
One Billion Rising 2019 #OneBillionRising 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1040

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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One Billion Rising for Justice in Stuart calls for end to violence against women and girls 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1007
Newly-weds join One Billion Rising 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 966
Susan B. Anthony Quotes 2 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 970
Women's Rights Music Video 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 974
Susan Brownwell Anthony February 15 1820 - 1906 "The Mother of Us All" 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1133
We Heart: SNL's Tribute to the Feisty and Fed-Up "Women of Congress" 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1043
Violence Against Native American Women 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 862
Mother Speaks Out About 12 Year Old Daughter's Strip-Search Experience 10 spicysista Feb 2019 Feb 2019 11 4323
One Billion Rising worldwide 1 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 999
The beginning of 2019's One Billion Rising 0 spicysista Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1797
February 14 is also V-Day, a worldwide initiative aimed at ending violence against women and girls, 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 896
Afua Hirsch: Nationalist strongmen are bent on controlling women's bodies 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 979
How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat everyone at Twitter in nine tweets (from the Guardian) 3 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1330
Sierra Leone's president declares rape a national emergency Statistics revealed the reported cases 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 879
Indonesia sexual violence bill sparks conservative opposition Proposed draft legislation aiming to 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 808
John Engler, Michigan State's Interim Leader, Says Some of Larry Nassar's Victims Enjoy Spotlight 2 niyad Jan 2019 Feb 2019 1 1260
Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar Draws Ire for 'Accurately Describing How the Israel Lobby Works' 2 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 18 1441
'Napalm girl' Kim Phuc receives German prize for peace work Activist honoured decades after she wa 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 4 1030
Three Michelin stars! Meet the first woman to smash America's boys' club 1 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 958
'A Woman, Just Not That Woman': How Sexism Plays Out on the Trail (lengthy, excellent read) 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 915
The Burning Times Charlie Murphy 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 916
MP Christopher Chope under fire for blocking anti-FGM bill 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1104
She's With Stupid Sure, AOC slips up sometimes-but have you listened to her Republican colleagues? 8 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 9 2193
One Billion Rising Break the Chain Dance Washington DC 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 912
"Love and Justice, Women's Anthem" 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1020
Tango della femminista 2 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 6 1399
One Billion Rising flash mob 2 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 7 1177
BHUTAN: We Are One - One Billion Rising 1 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 1045
Germany's cabinet approves revision to Nazi-era abortion law 1 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1055
"We Are All Bound Up Together"- May 1866 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1584

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Saudi Arabia to address abuse of male guardianship system: media reports 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 976
Nepal woman suffocates in banned 'menstruation hut' 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1101
Saudi female activists face jail conditions akin to torture, say UK MPs 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 992
Girls can join the Boy Scouts now 3 PoliticAverse Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1301
Will Someone Please Explain To Anti-Choice Idiots That Nobody's Killing Born Babies? 2 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1292
Mother of three-year-old is first person convicted of FGM in UK 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1405
Forget Trump's border distraction - the real threat is inside the house While the government was s 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1203
It is a scandal that working mothers are 40% more stressed than other people 5 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1439
The Real Cost of Stress and Ways To Ease The Pain 0 spicysista Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1744
Is the World's Most Powerful Woman Finally a Feminist? 2 elleng Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1348
Palestine, the Women's March, and imperial feminism Much effort is made in the US to maintain that 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 6 1020
My website got mentioned in an anti-feminist blog 0 Beringia Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1125
And she lived happily ever after 0 question everything Jan 2019 Jan 2019 12 1216
Revealed: 'dozens' of girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1659
Spain's far right hates not only immigrants, but also women 2 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1123
UAE's gender equality awards won entirely by men 0 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 5 1058
Violence Against Women Act extended in bill that reopened government 2 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 14 1340
Mexican woman jailed for miscarriage released after conviction is overturned 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1155
Women's March 2019: Thousands across the US march for third year Women and supporters across the US 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1081
Under Trump, states step up effort to restrict abortion access 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 947
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