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We applaud the 1st District Court of Appeal's decision affirming the fundamental right of pregnant women to make their own medical decisions. [read post]
16 Nov 2014, 12:46 pm by Karen Hoffmann
Following the broadcast, the video link will be available on the Front Line Defenders website (www.frontlinedefenders.org).Filed under: International Human Rights Law, Women's Rights Law Tagged: Arab, Human Rights, human rights defenders, women human rights defenders, women's rights [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 10:27 am by Miracle Jones
In an open letter [text] released Thursday, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International [advocacy websites], along with five other advocacy groups, urged Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma [official website] to sign a bill that would increase women's access to safe and legal abortion. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 12:08 pm by Ashley Hogan
The report [text, PDF] released by the human rights group describes how the parties to the conflict, "killed and injured civilians in displaced persons camps with indiscriminate gun and artillery fire, committed widespread sexual violence against women who left those camps in search... [read post]
22 Mar 2014, 2:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Alice Paul Toasting Tennessee’s Ratification of the 19th Amendment, August 1920 Women’s groups are still working on eventual passage of the E.R.A. [read post]
20 Mar 2014, 1:35 am by Cecilia Marcela Bailliet
, International Human Rights Law, Women's Rights Law Tagged: feminization of poverty [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 6:13 am
This issue is often described as the problem of ‘minorities within minorities,’ but it can also be a problem of majorities (e.g. women) within minorities. [read post]
9 Jun 2017, 5:59 am by Nani Jansen Reventlow
This includes the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council, a group of individual human rights experts or groups of experts, who examine and report on human rights. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 12:32 pm by Brenda Fulmer
“The group was made up of local and state groups throughout the United States,” states a page on the National Women’s History Museum Web site. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 12:32 pm by Brenda Fulmer
“The group was made up of local and state groups throughout the United States,” states a page on the National Women’s History Museum Web site. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 12:40 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
To continue reading Lenora's insights into women's rights and the work the ACLU Women's Rights Project has done to advance equality visit Trustlaw. [read post]
12 Oct 2013, 8:18 pm by Howard Friedman
 The dissenters insist that the group pursue its original goal of equal rights to pray in the original women's section at the Wall. [read post]
21 Mar 2023, 1:49 am
Prior to the changes made to the legislation, activists expressed their concerns about increasing government rhetoric on the value of traditional women’s roles, and what some see as setbacks for women’s rights.China´s official news agency Xinhua has stated that the new law “strengthens the protection of the rights and interests of disadvantaged groups such as poor women, elderly women, and disabled… [read post]
In 2017, a women’s rights watchdog group reported that 25 women were killed for their human rights work, a decrease from the 37 women human rights defenders (WHRDs) killed in 2016. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 2:06 pm by Mie Lewis, Women's Rights Project
Today, an appeals court in New Jersey handed down a major win for the ACLU and its clients — a group of women prisoners who stood up against cruel and discriminatory prison conditions. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 12:30 pm by Judicial Watch Blog
Ironically, Judge Miles-LaGrange is a renowned women’s rights advocate who is particularly proud of sponsoring laws to help women and children as an Oklahoma state senator from 1986 to 1993. [read post]