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Corruption level has increased significantly as well as the number of government interventions in the work of journalists, arrests have become more frequent and the situation with women’s rights has not improved, despite attempts by the authorities to improve their status in social and political life. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 11:23 am
Takeo Horiguchi, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Public Policy (Japan), ‘The Influence of Sustainable Development on the Proceduralization of International Watercourse Law’ Discussant: Klaus Blank, European Commission (Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development) INTEREST GROUP ON FEMINISM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW “Regionalism and Feminism: How regionalism impacts on women’s lives” Enzamaria Tramontana, University of Palermo,… [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 1:25 pm by davidferriero
This fuller retelling of the struggle for women’s voting rights uses our records to illustrate the dynamic involvement of American women across the spectrum of race, ethnicity, and class to reveal what it really took to win the vote for one half of the people. [read post]
10 Jun 2015, 1:58 pm
"Abortion rights groups file motion to halt key provisions in Texas law": Reuters has a report that begins, "Several women's health providers filed a motion on Wednesday seeking to halt a U.S. appeals court decision a day earlier allowing Texas to impose restrictions on abortions, and said they plan to take the case to the U.S. [read post]
31 May 2023, 12:46 pm by Michael Ehline
Bud Light came under from women’s rights groups after running a series of transgender T.V. ads. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 9:03 am by Dan Taglioli
The decision prompted the challengers, 10 voters and several rights groups including the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [advocacy websites], to... [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 7:51 am
[JURIST] Many female human rights activists in Zimbabwe [JURIST news archive] have been repeatedly arrested, unlawfully detained, and subjected to beatings at the hands of police, according to the preliminary results of surveys conducted by the advocacy group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) [advocacy website]. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 11:00 pm
This is why it has been banned," women's rights advocate Dania al-Sharif said.Read the article: The Washington Post [read post]
23 Aug 2014, 8:56 am by Kimberly Bennett
[JURIST] Louisiana abortion clinic Hope Medical Group for Women [clinic website] and the Center for Reproductive Rights [advocacy website] on Friday filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana [official website] to block a law [HB 388, text] that requires doctors to have hospital admitting privileges, which would likely force clinics to shut down. [read post]
2 Sep 2007, 1:31 pm
I spent my early evening sitting at the café discussing politics, socioeconomics, religion, and women's rights with a group of friends. [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 7:40 am
1-4-2009 MichiganFirst of five partsFor years, rights groups warned that male guards were sexually assaulting female inmates in Michigan prisons. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 8:44 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
[JURIST] Six South Carolina civil rights groups on Friday urged the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] to block the state from implementing a new law [R54 materials] that would require voters to present photo ID in order to cast their ballots. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 9:37 am by Jamie Reese
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] expressed concern [press release] Friday over aging men and women becoming the most rapidly growing group in US prisons and the ability of officials to provide appropriate housing and medical care to these individuals. [read post]
12 Aug 2008, 8:24 pm
I'm always amazed at the hatred the Religious Right aims at America's public school system. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 8:23 am by Jenna Decker
The 79- page report describes how migrant workers, particularly women from Asia and Africa, are enticed to take jobs as domestic employees in UAE by labor... [read post]
20 Sep 2005, 6:52 am
[JURIST] Several rights groups and two African-American registered Georgia voters have filed a lawsuit [PDF complaint; ACLU press release] challenging a Georgia law [PDF text; ACLU fact sheet, DOC] that requires voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 5:26 am
Group Rights and International Law: Case Study of the Sahrawi Refugees in Algeria (University Center for Legal Studies & the Moroccan American Center for Policy, Sept. 2009) [text via Refugee Research Network]Life in the Promised Land: Resettled Refugee Youth Struggle in the U.S. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 1:20 am
Lebanon's Daily Star today carries a lengthy report on Lebanese laws that impact women's rights. [read post]
29 Jan 2017, 8:06 am by Ruben Sindahl
The lawsuit [text] was filed by abortion rights groups who argued that the new regulation "unfairly burdens women seeking pregnancy-related medical... [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 3:00 pm by Steve Lash
But women’s- and civil-rights groups, though voicing sympathy for the parents’ losses, ... [read post]