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11 May 2012, 6:29 am by Tyra N. Read
GAW is a component of the Cape Coral Community Foundation, consisting of a group of women involved with philanthropy in the Cape Coral community. [read post]
9 Jul 2014, 11:33 am by Sital Kalantry
” In other words, if some women wore a full veil, it would breach the rights of others to live in a space, which made socialization easier. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 8:23 am by Tracy Thomas
US States Manipulating Covid-19 Pandemic to Restrict Abortion Access, Rights Experts Charge Members of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls issued a statement on Wednesday expressing regret that states such as Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Iowa, Ohio,... [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 10:39 am
[JURIST] A UK-based women's rights group filed suit [press release] Friday against the new coalition government over its 2010 budget, claiming the drastic spending cuts in it will have a disproportionately negative impact on women. [read post]
1 May 2011, 12:57 pm
The Boston Principles include specific provisions on the rights of racial, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and other minority groups, indigenous peoples, women, children, and persons with disabilities.Interdependence. [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 2:56 am by Liz Dunshee
In this 12-minute episode of the “Women Governance Trailblazers” podcast, Courtney Kamlet & I interviewed Locke Lord’s Allison O’Neil, who co-chairs the firm’s White-Collar Defense & Investigations Practice Group. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 6:42 am by Kate Barth
As the United Nations has increasingly emphasized in recent years, even among activists, journalists and politicians generally, Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) face heightened danger; they are “subject to the same types of risks as any human rights defender, but as women, they are also targeted for or exposed to gender-specific threats and gender-specific violence. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 12:07 pm by Juliette Rousselot
This post is part of our Write for Rights Series Yesterday, the UN Group of Experts on the DRC just released their newest report. [read post]
21 Sep 2017, 10:12 am by Tom Smith
Leaders of the student newspaper at Princeton University have disbanded the publication’s independent editorial board, a move that comes after the group put forth a string of right-leaning opinions, including denouncing the women’s center for its radical feminist agenda and arguing in favor of due process. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 1:00 pm by Sean Patrick Donlan
Also there are confusions over jurisdictional boundaries, and under-resourced justice systems present barriers to justice for women, especially for those from excluded groups. [read post]
11 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
The appeal to feminist history by pro-life advocates offers a counter narrative in which women dedicated to improving the economic and educational rights of women reject abortion as a gender-based right. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 11:30 am by EEM
A/HRC/29/27 (UN Human Rights Council, June 2015) [text via Refworld]Sexual and Gender-based Violence: Refugees in Jordan (Sexual and Gender-based Violence Sub-working Group, June 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]"To Protect Her Honour": Child Marriage in Emergencies – The Fatal Confusion between Protecting Girls and Sexual Violence (CARE, May 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Refugee Children in Sweden: An Outlook on Demography,… [read post]
After hearing from doctors and reproductive rights activists, the governor did the right thing. [read post]
29 May 2014, 6:35 am
Papers may consider (but are not limited to) the following subjects: representation of women in international organisations; women as state representatives; dramatic and visual representations of women in situations such as armed conflict; stereotypes in representations of women, such as human rights victims; representations of ‘the other woman’ in international law; literary accounts of women in international law. [read post]
8 Feb 2013, 6:56 pm by Reproductive Rights
Politico: President Obama sends support to abortion rights group, by Kathryn Smith: Days after proposing a compromise on his contraceptive coverage policy, President Barack Obama sent a strong video message of support for women's right to make their own reproductive... [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
 Judge David Gidoni wrote:The signs were designed to restrict women from using public spaces simply because they were women... and constitute a severe injury to the rights of women to equality and respect.... [read post]
29 Aug 2007, 11:02 pm
Victoria OcampoVictoria Ocampo (right) was an Argentine intellectual and ally of Gabriela Mistral, namesake of an IntLawGrrl. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The Working Group gathered together federal EEO Directors, federal “affinity” groups like Federally Employed Women (FEW), non-federal advocacy groups, and a social scientist from Harvard. [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 7:00 am by Jenny Gesley
On November 30, 1918—100 years ago today—women in Germany gained the right to vote and stand for election. [read post]