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19 Mar 2004, 3:16 pm
In Friday's rights and liberties news, the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a federal complaint today against Los Angeles talk radio station KFI-AM and Clear Channel Communications after the station aired a skit portraying the new Iraqi Constitution as anti-Semitic and promoting injustice and the subjugation of women. [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 12:35 am
Yesterday's Jerusalem Post reports that several women's rights groups along with a group of progressive Orthodox rabbis have filed suit in the High Court of Justice challenging the recent appointment of 19 new judges to the Rabbinic courts. [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 5:35 pm
Just before his confirmation hearing Thursday in San Francisco, attorney Mona Lisa Wallace, president of the San Francisco chapter of the National Organization for Women, was handing out a letter from California NOW strongly opposing the former state senator's nomination to Fresno's Fifth District Court of Appeal. [read post]
21 Mar 2023, 1:49 am
,Bringing Family Values Back into the Gender Equality Laws: 中华人民共和国妇女权益保障法 [Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests]). [read post]
Burton's appeal, we argued to the Court of Appeals that women don't lose their right to make their own medical decisions simply because they are pregnant. [read post]
29 Jun 2005, 2:49 pm
[JURIST] A group of Iraqi women attending an international meeting of women's rights activists in Amman, Jordan, called Wednesday for a 40 percent representation quota in the Iraqi National Assembly. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 8:08 am by Aliya Hussain, Women's Rights Project
During the winter of 1916–1917, suffragists took their long-fought battle for women's right to vote to the nation's capital. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 8:14 pm
Writes Meade, in the comments over at an Isthmus article about the women's rights groups that held a rally against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser (who has been accused of choking a fellow justice). [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 8:14 am
Here's the call: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS:WILIG’s Prominent Women in International Law Award, 2018The Women in International Law Interest Group of ASIL invites nominations for the Prominent Women in International Law Award. 2018 marks the 25th year that the award is being given, and in honor of this milestone, WILIG has determined to formalize the nomination process through this call for nominees.The WILIG Prominent Women… [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 12:00 pm by Jacqueline Jones
[JURIST] The Egyptian government is failing to protect women's rights and end violence against women, Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] reported [press release] Wednesday. [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 11:32 am by Reproductive Rights
Reuters: Church-backed abortion bill sparks protest in Russia, by Alissa de Carbonnel: MOSCOW, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Women of all ages used to fill gynecologist Lyubov Yerofeyeva's Soviet state clinic, lined up by the dozen for back-to-back abortions. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 8:04 am by Irina Tarsis
George Clooney's new directorial project is based on Robert M Edsel's The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. [read post]
23 Jun 2009, 11:30 am
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Antiabortion Group's National Convention Focuses on 'Common Ground' in Abortion-Rights Debate: The National Right to Life Committee last week held its national convention in Charlotte, N.C., attracting as many as 1,300 antiabortion-rights advocates from around... [read post]
15 May 2008, 3:20 am
As Co-Chair of ASIL's Women in International Law Interest Group (WILIG), I am very much looking forward to Lucy's tenure as President of ASIL, as she has been very clear from the start that one of her key initiatives as President will be to "mainstream" women's rights issues into ASIL's programs and pursue specific women's… [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 6:24 am by Jonathan Niznansky
Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other women's groups filed suits Wednesday challenging abortion laws in Alaska [complaint], Missouri and North Carolina [complaints, PDF]. [read post]
As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the March for Women's Lives, it's fitting to reflect on our successes that show how our activism does pay off and that we can hold accountable those who let politics trump women's health. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 2:06 pm by Mie Lewis, Women's Rights Project
Learn more about women's rights: Subscribe to our newsletter, follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook. [read post]