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12 Jul 2009, 6:10 am
Police put them in a Riyadh women's shelter. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 11:10 am
[JURIST] Ireland's restrictive abortion laws [advocacy backgrounder] increase health risks to women and expose them to deliberate misinformation about abortion procedures, according to a report [text; press release] released on Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website]. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 5:50 am
[JURIST] The UN Working Group on discrimination against women in law and practice [official website] released a report [text, PDF] Monday calling for a focus on advancing women's rights during political transitions. [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 3:00 am
Please join me as I welcome Attorney Shari Rendall, Director of Legislation and Public Policy for Concerned Women for America and Attorney Gretchen Borchelt, Senior Counsel for Health and Reproductive Rights for the National Women's Law Center, to discuss current legislation aimed at women's issues, reaction from women's groups and the present state of… [read post]
27 Aug 2009, 2:37 am
[JURIST] Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure [BBC profile] announced Wednesday that he will not sign a controversial law expanding women's rights, after objections by the country's High Islamic Council. [read post]
5 May 2008, 6:29 pm
The Washington, DC non-profit group Women's Voices, Women Vote says that more than half of the North Carolinians it helped to register to vote in the presidential primary between February and April this year were African American. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 7:32 am
It was filed by four women who are members of the split -off "Original Women of the Wall" who want egalitarian prayer in the women's section of the Wall rather than a separate mixed prayer space for men and women that was negotiated by the larger "Women of the Wall" group. [read post]
21 Oct 2015, 5:33 am
From HuffPost: Around the world, women in 155 countries face legal restrictions on the economic opportunities available to them, according to the recent World Bank Group's reportWomen, Business and the Law 2016, which highlights the challenges women face in the... [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 7:40 am
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of three Arizona obstetricians, argues that Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks violates women's constitutional rights and requests that the US District Court for the District of... [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 8:27 am
Ireland's abortion law currently allows abortion only when a woman's physical or mental health is threatened, but NIHRC asserts that the current law is a violation of human rights, as the legislation allows for criminal penalties for women who undergo unlawful abortions or for doctors and hospitals that perform them. [read post]
23 May 2017, 9:47 am
The High-Level Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents [WHO statement] released a report [text, PDF] Tuesday imploring world leaders to allocate 5 percent of their country's GDP in "public health spending," according [press release] to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website]. [read post]
23 Feb 2022, 6:00 am
Recently, Iraq's top court rejected a plea by a women's rights group to end... [read post]
27 Jul 2009, 1:37 am
The Global Day of Action [official website] was organized by United for Iran, a coalition made up of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Nobel Women's [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 4:10 am
Women of the Wall organizes women's prayer groups at the Wall each month on Rosh Hodesh (the beginning of the new month). [read post]
8 Jan 2020, 6:30 am
Angus McClellan, Claremont Graduate University, has posted Early Women's Rights Activists and the Meaning of the 14th Amendment:The purpose of this paper is to consider the meaning of the 14th Amendment as it applies to women in the United States through the perspective of the women’s rights litigants, advocates, and their allies in the 1860s and 1870s. [read post]
18 Jun 2016, 7:36 am
[JURIST] The UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law [official website] called on [press release] the world's governments to take quick, effective steps towards ensuring women are granted equal rights to health, including reproductive and sexual health. [read post]
19 Jul 2021, 7:53 am
On Tuesday July 19, 2021, join the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, ASIL's Women in International Law Interest Group, GQUAL, and the Institute for African Women in Law for a virtual event discussing the recently-published report of the... [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 11:12 am
The suit was filed 10 years ago by a group of female employees claiming systemic discrimination against the company's female associates across the country. [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]
23 Oct 2008, 7:51 pm
-based National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) joined with scores of organizations from around the world, representing migrant rights, women's, labor, domestic workers and human rights groups to open the international gathering, "People's Global Action on Migration,... [read post]
