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9 Jun 2010, 10:28 am
The Women’s Court featured presentations from women's rights and peace activists from Uganda, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sudan, who spoke about the impact of these conflicts on women, the targeting of women by armed forces and militia groups for crimes of sexual violence and their work for justice, accountability and peace. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 2:29 pm
Good luck with that.The misogyny coming out of the White House and the Republican Party's unrelenting efforts to defund Planned Parenthood should be huge red flags that women's rights are under attack. [read post]
18 Apr 2010, 7:11 am
NPR: Health Law Rolls Back Abortion Rights, Groups Say, by Julie Rovner: Recent fights between anti-abortion groups could leave people with the impression that the new health overhaul law expands women's access to abortion. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 2:43 pm
The Salinlahi Alliance for Children's Concerns and the Gabriela Women's Party [advocacy website] criticized Philippine President Gloria [read post]
27 Jun 2016, 8:16 am
Abortion rights groups had argued that the real purpose of the law was to shut down clinics, making it very difficult if not impossible for women in Texas to obtain an abortion"That is, Scalia's vote would not have made a difference. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 5:16 am
New Philadelphia Group Focuses on Lawyers Who are Mothers Percentage of Women, Minority Attorneys at Texas Firms Holds Steady Law Professor Catharine MacKinnon Discusses Women's Rights Women a Big Force in Business, Study Finds Lawyer Suaad Allami Spearheads Program to Aid Iraqi Women read more [read post]
16 Nov 2006, 9:34 pm
The Women's Protection Bill... [read post]
27 Apr 2008, 7:59 am
A women's rights group is organizing... [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 11:40 am
A bill pending in the Tennessee legislature to mandate equal sharing of a child's time with each parent (with few exceptions) is sparking serious debate between women's advocacy groups and fathers' rights groups. [read post]
28 Jul 2009, 7:11 am
[JURIST] Amnesty International [advocacy website] on Monday called on Nicaragua to end its total ban on abortions [report, PDF; press release], saying that the lack of an exception for the mother's health has caused numerous deaths. [read post]
9 Jun 2022, 2:56 pm
Here's the abstract:This thought-provoking book conceptualizes femicide as a multifaceted human rights violation and proposes state responsibility for group-related risks of violence against women and girls. [read post]
1 May 2012, 2:08 pm
So let's celebrate — we've protected women and families, and we should be proud. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 2:30 am
(credit for May 19, 2010, photo, © UNICEF/NYHQ2010-0779/LeMoyne, of mother who's just had her daughter vaccinated at health centre in Haiti) The lack of security on Port-au-Prince's streets and temporary camps, all of which host thousands who have been rendered homeless, has catapulted the rate of violence against women in Haiti. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 5:52 am
This week, 90 religious, educational, civil rights, labor, LGBT, women’s, and health groups signed a joint letter (full text) to Attorney General Eric Holder asking that the Office of Legal Counsel withdraw the Bush Administration's June 29, 2007 memo allowing faith-based organization that receive federal grant funds to give a preference to co-religionists in hiring. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 7:34 am
Medea Benjamin [Wikipedia profile] and Tighe Barry are members of the US-based human rights group Global Exchange and the women's peace group CODEPINK [advocacy websites] and were protesting emergency rule, the dismissal of the [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 4:05 am
The bill is strongly opposed by women's rights and other civil society organizations. [read post]
15 Apr 2009, 7:04 am
Concurring Opinions is hosting an online symposium discussing my colleague Danielle Citron's article Cyber Civil Rights. [read post]
23 Sep 2009, 12:20 am
According to today's Toronto Globe & Mail, the Court of Appeal for Ontario this week reversed a decision of a Canadian trial judge and has permitted two religious groups and a conservative women's group to intervene in a case challenging the constitutionality of several of Ontario's anti-prostitution laws. [read post]
29 Jul 2009, 8:15 am
It also reaches laws that have the purpose or effect of creating or maintaining socially subordinate groups, whether they are racial minorities or women. [read post]
18 Mar 2004, 12:24 pm
In Thursday's rights and liberties news, AP reports that the National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union have rallied to the defense of Utah mother Melissa Ann Rowland, charged with murdering her unborn child by refusing a C-section. [read post]
