One Billion Rising aims to end violence against women
Women and girls from more than 190 countries and territories will join together on Feb. 14 as part of the global activist movement One Billion Rising. They're calling for an end to violence against...
View ArticleOne Billion Rising participants take opportunity to be heard, start dialogue...
It is a 15-year-old tradition on Valentine's Day for women's right activists to commemorate love by denouncing violence against women.Eve Ensler, the author of The Vagina Monologues and creator of the...
View ArticleNew contraception law in the Philippines indicative of decline of Catholic...
The Roman Catholic Church is a powerhouse in the Philippines, but the recent passage of a controversial law that provides free contraception has called into question the church’s social and political...
View Article'Girl Rising' documentary highlights importance of girls' education in the...
There are 66 million girls worldwide who are out of school, excluded from education and left to join the developing world's most vulnerable group.In a new documentary, "Girl Rising," the stories of...
View ArticleCongress holds hearing on changing how military handles sexual assault cases
The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing Wednesday to examine the ongoing problem of sexual assaults in the military.The hearing comes soon after a number of sexual assault reports at...
View ArticleSome immigrant women, victims of domestic violence, afraid to seek help
Most of the women who come to Casa de Misericordia, or House of Mercy, in Laredo, Texas, are undocumented immigrants.For many who arrive at the shelter, it’s hard to see a way out of an abusive...
View ArticleOutspoken 12-year-old in India shows country's shift role for women
By Rhitu Chatterjee The recent gang rape of a female student in New Delhi brought to light the violence women there can face.But at the same time, a growing number of Indian women are enjoying...
View ArticleIn Sudan, women moving to shed pounds as ideal body image changes
About 20 women are taking an aerobics class at the Sama Style health club in the upscale Khartoum neighborhood of Riyadh.It’s a weekday morning so these are mostly Khartoum housewives. Many are clearly...
View ArticlePakistani women have new tools to fight disfiguring acid attacks
It’s a shocking crime, no matter where it’s committed.Acid thrown in someone’s face, leaving the victim burned, maimed and disfigured.Sadly, it happens more often around the globe than you think, and...
View ArticleJudge rules Plan B must be available to all without a prescription
A federal judge Friday ruled that the morning after pill must be made available over the counter to women and girls of all ages — overturning a federal decision to limit it to women 17 and over.Girls...
View ArticleAround the world, people remember Britain's Margaret Thatcher, dead at 87
Conservative icon Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to be prime minister of the United Kingdom and the British counterpart to U.S. President Ronald Reagan, died on Monday.She was 87.Thatcher led the...
View ArticleUkraine’s Asgarda martial arts program recasts Amazon warrior women
A few years ago, a series of photos by the French photographer Guillaume Herbaut were widely posted on blogs and feminist news-sites on the internet.In the photos, a group of young women pose with...
View ArticleN.Y. senator leads call to reform sexual assault procedures in U.S. military
A recent Pentagon report demonstrates the severity of the problem: based on anonymous surveys, the Defense Department estimates 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted in fiscal year...
View ArticleStates consider reforms to help domestic workers move out of shadows
Myrla Baldonado left the Philippines for Chicago six years ago.Most of her time here, she cared for elderly people in their homes, attending to their round-the-clock needs. She made their beds, fixed...
View ArticleBarbie Berlin Dreamhouse draws protests, hand-wringing over opening
Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel has been called the most powerful woman in the world.But this week, another polarizing female figure has attracted attention in Berlin.Global icon and plastic...
View ArticleNew report finds women make up increasing portion of family bread-winners
A new report from the Pew Research Center finds that 40 percent of households with children under the age of 18 include mothers who provide the sole or primary source of income for the family.In 1960,...
View ArticleTurkey's Creationist TV channel uses women described as 'Barbie-like' to...
Turkey’s Islamic creationist guru Adnan Oktar is a regular fixture on his TV channel A9 — for hours and hours, day after day.On one recent day, as he often does, Oktar was talking about one of his many...
View ArticleSupreme Court rules human genes can't be patented
Companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes, the Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision Thursday. The high court’s unanimous judgment reverses three decades of patent awards...
View ArticleMarathon filibuster kills abortion bill, puts Texas Senator into national...
Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis has found herself thrust into the national spotlight after completing a nearly 13-hour filibuster of a bill that would have imposed heavy restrictions on abortion in the...
View ArticleTexas abortion bill enters round two as special session begins
Senator Wendy Davis last week filibustered her way into the national spotlight after spending nearly 13 hours speaking in order to block Senate Bill 5 from passing in the Texas legislature.The...
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