UN calls contraception access a “universal human right”
CBS News, November 14 Access to contraception is a universal human right that could dramatically improve the lives of women and children in poor countries, the United Nations announced Wednesday in a...
View ArticleViolence against women in Latin America: Is it getting worse?
CSM, by Sara Miller Llana and Cybilla Brodzinsky Across Latin America, women are confronting a rise in brutal attacks – as advocates struggle to sustain the progress that’s been made in curbing...
View ArticleEve Ensler Rising: One of America’s Most Amazing Activists Is About to Pull...
On February 14, 2013, Ensler says One Billion women will rise. I believe her. The Nation, By Laura Flanders, November 21 I have known Eve Ensler for almost thirty years, and I have never talked to her...
View ArticleFile This Under “Why Is This News?”
There was a featured story on The Today Show this morning. I’m going to embed the video and then we’ll talk on the flip: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...
View ArticleCatholic newspaper calls for ordination of women
AFP, December 3 An independent Roman Catholic newspaper in the United States called Monday for a campaign to reverse the Vatican’s refusal to allow women to become priests. “Barring women from...
View ArticleAfghanistan Horror: A 14-Year-Old Girl Is Beheaded
Daily Beast, By Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau In Afghanistan last week, two brothers slit the throat of Gastina, a seventh-grade girl, for refusing a marriage proposal. It wasn’t an isolated incident....
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The gender politics of funding women human rights defenders
by Alice Welbourn (Originally posted by openDemocracy, republished under a Creative Commons license) I have emerged from three inspiring days volunteering at a workshop discussing how to advance gender...
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Germaine Greer: on self esteem, womens achievements, Dove campaign and Welsh...
(c) Michael Leunig 2012. Germaine writes: “AFTER all these years of theorising and hypothesising, we have finally found out what women want. It’s not a penis that women lack, but self-confidence....
View ArticleThe Violence Against Women Act is no more.
For the first time since 1994. House Republicans out themselves as lovers of wife-beaters and abusers, or just playing politics with people’s lives – take your pick. H/t Echidne and Melissa. The post...
View ArticleWhen Is A Rape Not a Rape? In California…
Words fail me. A California appeals court overturned the rape conviction of a man accused of pretending to be a woman’s boyfriend when he snuck into her bedroom and had sex with her, concluding that...
View ArticleFrom Delhi to Steubenville (and Beyond): Rape Culture Is Still Firmly Entrenched
Jessica Valenti: We live in a country where politicians call rape a “gift from God” and suggest that women regularly lie about being raped. Where a group of young men in high school think so little of...
View ArticleOld buffalos fade away.
One of the worst things of working as a carer is that people you become close to over several years finally succumb to illness or the vagaries of old age. One of my most gorgeous clients passed last...
View ArticleSunday Suffrage
In 1756 Lydia Taft was the first woman known to have voting rights in the USA. Fast forward to 1913 when 8,000 marchers called for a constitutional amendment for women’s voting rights The Atlantic has...
View ArticleEgypt’s Islamists warn giving women some rights could destroy society
(Reuters) – Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood warns that a U.N. declaration on women’s rights could destroy society by allowing a woman to travel, work and use contraception without her husband’s...
View ArticleActivists welcome hard-fought UN agreement on women’s rights
(The Guardian) – Negotiations end with agreement on ending violence against women at the Commission on the Status of Women, but civil society groups express concerns UN officials and activists...
View ArticlePope Upholds Reprimand of American Nuns’ Group
Laurie Goodstein | April 15 NYT- Pope Francis has reaffirmed the reprimand of American nuns issued by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, and endorsed the plan to have three bishops supervise an...
View ArticleKelly Ayotte: The personification of everything that’s wrong with today’s...
To say that Kelly Ayotte has had a very, very bad couple of weeks would be an understatement. It wasn’t bad enough that she voted against a universal background check bill favored by 91% of Americans...
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Out of My Comfort Zone
Well, writing about boobies is not out of my comfort zone, but writing about celebrities is: Angelina Jolie has made a tough decision that will forever change her life. The 37-year-old actress reveals...
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Is There Something You’re Not Telling Us, Mike?
You may recall the kerfuffle a few weeks ago over Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy to minimize her chances of getting breast cancer. Not to be outdone, Michael Douglas has, well, made his own...
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This is what happens when the GOP sets up a satellite office in your uterus
(More at What Would Jack Do?) The post This is what happens when the GOP sets up a satellite office in your uterus appeared first on The Agonist.
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