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30 Aug 2006, 7:12 pm
[JURIST] A district court in Tokyo Wednesday dismissed an action filed on behalf of eight Chinese women who claim they were forced to act as sex slaves, or "comfort women" [SFCU backgrounder; JURIST report], for Japanese soldiers during World War II. [read post]
18 Aug 2006, 11:47 am
It's the least we can do for the men and women who have put their lives on the line. [read post]
12 Aug 2006, 4:01 am
"The war of words is more than semantics, say researchers who study such matters. [read post]
11 Aug 2006, 5:49 am
Use women and children? [read post]
9 Aug 2006, 5:27 am
(I assume here the concept of just war -- not everyone would admit to such a possibility, one thinks.) [read post]
5 Aug 2006, 4:19 am
The laws of war may no longer become effective by that time. [read post]
30 Jul 2006, 1:20 pm
[JURIST] Arab leaders have denounced as criminal and a breach of international law an Israeli air strike on the Lebanese village of Qana Sunday that killed over 60 civilians - mostly women and children - as the Middle East conflict [JURIST news archive] entered its nineteenth day. [read post]
28 Jul 2006, 11:36 am
According to a study in 1998, 1 in 4 women in the BVI (!!!!!) [read post]
30 Jun 2006, 5:32 am
Todd Hollis of Pittsburgh is suing Tasha Josephs for defamation after several women posted comments about him on a website called Dontdatehimgirl.com according to this article on Wired News.Hollis, an attorney himself, says the website does not have safeguards to ensure the truthfulness of the items posted.Josephs says it is a cost-effective weapon in the war on cheating men. [read post]
26 Jun 2006, 3:49 pm
Fairstein, the author of Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape, says, "there are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. [read post]
21 Jun 2006, 8:19 am
The Washington Post featured an essay by Linda Hirshman, author of Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World, that, um, tells women to get to work. [read post]
28 May 2006, 5:00 pm
However, I'd still like to join the chorus of voices calling for a simple act of remembrance this Memorial Day for the hundreds of thousands of America's men and women who have given their lives in uniformed service since the holiday was created after the Civil War. [read post]
10 May 2006, 11:12 am
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Merck, already in a long fight against thousands of Vioxx lawsuits, will soon face a two-front war, as plaintiffs begin to file suit over a different drug: Fosamax. [read post]
20 Mar 2006, 10:20 pm
"We spent $50 billion in efforts that produced the turnaround for poor women," Mr. [read post]
6 Mar 2006, 10:59 am
Regev served on boards, consulted with the African American Museum, Marin Museum Association on a Mobile Museum and was president of the Northern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. [read post]
29 Jan 2006, 12:48 pm
Regev served on boards, consulted with the African American Museum, Marin Museum Association on a Mobile Museum and was president of the Northern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. [read post]
13 Jan 2006, 12:29 pm
Many women, emotionally and financially drained from a custody battle over children, will not put up a fight over finances, said Vasileff. [read post]
23 Oct 2005, 11:43 am
Sima Samar [BBC profile 2003] said that organized sexual violence against women is continuing and the government is doing nothing to prevent it. [read post]
17 Jul 2005, 4:04 am
[JURIST] A Serbian war crimes court Friday convicted and sentenced four former members of the Avengers parliamentary group to prison terms of fifteen to twenty years for their involvement in the 1992 abduction and murder of 16 Muslim men and women. [read post]
28 Jun 2005, 9:05 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Tuesday rejected a lawsuit [PDF text] against the Japanese government filed by 15 Asian women who claim Japanese soldiers forced them to act as "comfort women" [Wikipedia backgrounder], or sex slaves, during World War II. [read post]
