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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]
1 May 2012, 2:08 pm
So let's celebrate — we've protected women and families, and we should be proud. [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]
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]
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]
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]
30 Oct 2014, 4:05 am
The bill is strongly opposed by women's rights and other civil society organizations. [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
13 Aug 2010, 2:14 pm
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]
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]
