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4 Nov 2008, 5:16 pm
If you're like 99.9 percent of women, the war you wage with yourself over your body image begins at the ripe age of eight, and the skirmishes are fought for the next eight decades. [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 1:49 am
Contents include:Letetia Van der Poll, Emerging jurisprudence on sexual violence perpetrated against women during armed conflictShaun A. de Freitas, Humanity, the unborn and the intersection of international humanitarian law and human rights lawMarion Harroff-Tavel, Cultural diversity and the challenges it poses for humanitarian practitionersCephas Lumina, Child soldiers: war criminals or pawns in a deadly game? [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 7:17 am
I have mentioned before the remarkable bravery of our young men and women who continue to volunteer in a time of war. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 1:04 am
Josephine Butler (right) had been a feminist since her 20s, and she and her husband were radicals for their times, opposing slavery and supporting the Union during America's Civil War. [read post]
21 Aug 2008, 10:02 am
Four weeks after the the 500th U.S. servicemember was killed in Afghanistan, and 3 days after 10 French soldiers were killed in an ambush there, here is the casualty count for that conflict and for the war in Iraq: According to Iraq Body Count, between 86,661 and 94,557 Iraqi women, children, and men have died in the conflict. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 12:00 am
A Quaker, she embraced pacifism in horror at the violence wrought during World War II, and met her husband at a peace meeting. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 8:35 am
The Delegation’s intent was to pay public tribute to the thousands of men and women who have suffered as prisoners of war or who remain missing in action. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 4:00 am
If the PA approves it, there will likely be criticism from Hamas that controls the West Bank and has pushed through legislation forcing women to wear modest dress in public. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 8:56 am
Immigrants make up about 5 percent of the total 1.4 million men and women on active duty. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 12:04 am
On this day in ...... 1961 (50 years ago today), tens of thousands of women, children, and men of Algerian ancestry demonstrated in the streets of Paris. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 6:55 am
Instead of galloping off to fight holy wars, they stay at home, meaning, often as not, in their parents' houses, and clatter about computer keyboards. [read post]
14 May 2009, 5:19 am
Garett Reppenhagen, a past chairman of the local chapter of Iraq Veterans against the War, said he saw Strandlof collecting money for CVA during an antiwar poetry reading at Poor Richard’s Bookstore in downtown Colorado Springs, telling donors it would be used for shipping care packages to men and women serving abroad. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 8:36 am
Illinois, the lamentable 1873 Supreme Court decision upholding the right of Illinois to exclude women from the Bar because admitting them to practice would surely destroy their "femininity. [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 10:30 am
Also IMHO Kiev had a lot more beautiful women than Warsaw. [read post]
13 Jul 2009, 7:24 am
In the Sotomayor hearings, I will be watching for two things - (1) will Democratic Senators try to fight and win the framing wars on right wing judicial activism? [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 5:59 am
The world is experiencing the most dramatic antisemitic upsurge since the Third Reich was reduced to rubble at the end of World War II. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 10:30 am
But readers of IntLawGrrls may not know how actively and directly she influenced women’s rights issues in the international legal context as well.Appalled by televised reports about the use of rape as a weapon of war by Serbs in the Bosnian conflict, Gerry contacted Madeleine Albright to ask what the new Clinton Administration was doing about it. [read post]
24 Jan 2022, 1:49 pm
Here’s a look at what has been accomplished, and the many asks from our list that remain unanswered:Criminal Justice | Disability Rights | Freedom of Religion and Belief | Immigration | LGBT & HIV | National Security | Racial Justice | Reproductive Freedom | Speech, Privacy, and Technology | Voting | Women’s Rights Criminal JusticeEnd the drug war and grant mass clemency The war on drugs has done nothing to reduce drug use rates. [read post]
23 Feb 2022, 11:36 am
Here’s a look at the most popular Archives GIFs from 2021 and some of the reasons they were trending: RankThumbnailTitleBackground1Iwo Jima Flag Raising52.4 Million Views in 2021One of the most iconic scenes in American history, this footage of the flag raising during the Battle of Iwo Jima is often associated with trends around the American Flag, the Marine Corps, and World War II.2Backcountry Skiers46.7 Million Views in 2021A popular winter-themed GIF, these intrepid… [read post]
9 Mar 2024, 6:50 am
As of November 2023, more than 5,000 women were actively serving in frontline combat zones. [read post]
