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Society & Culture News tagged with women's rights

Women! Look How Far We'Ve Come and How Far There Is to Go!
Society & Culture  (tags: Women, Women's Equality Day, earned privileges, job equality, women's rights, women's jobs, millions of women, law, medical, graduate students, Bella Abzug, Hillary Clinton, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nancy Pelosi, women leaders )

ON VACATI
- 89 days ago - orlandosentinel.com
Every woman today who has in her own name a job, a bank account, a credit card, a lease, a car, a mortgage, a diploma or a pension has these because she is standing on the shoulders of millions of women who fought for those privileges.
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NOW Launches Action-Oriented Blog on Women's Equality Day
Society & Culture  (tags: US, women, women's rights, NOW.org, National Oganization for Women, Women's blogs, blog, women's rights, feminism, activism, feminist, Women's Equality Day, 2009, equal rights, 19th Amendment, Constitution )

ON VACATI
- 90 days ago - now.org
is proud to celebrate Women's Equality Day this year by launching Say It, Sister! -- a new blog designed to inform, inspire and instigate feminist activism.
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Woman From Mali Who Underwent FGM Fights for Asylum
Society & Culture  (tags: FGM, Female Genital Mutilation, Female Genital Cutting, female circumcision, women's rights, women's health, civil rights, asylum, abuse, culture, ethics, rights, safety, society, violence, women )

Teri
- 559 days ago - ap.google.com
Alima Traore doesn't remember when part of her genitals was removed as a young child in her native Mali. But even at 29, she still lives with the consequences. There's the pain, the fear of future medical problems...
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Pregnancy Discrimination Reports at Record High
Society & Culture  (tags: USA, women's rights, discrimination, women's health, workplace rights, pregnancy, work-related discrimination, US Census Bureau study )

ON VACATI
- 605 days ago - feminist.org
Employers cannot fire women based on stereotypes like "now that you're pregnant, the best thing for you to do is raise your kid." Daily Women's Health Policy Report states that women are often unaware of what rights they have under the Pregnancy....
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Britain : Wall of Silence Around Victims of Forced Marriages - At Least 3,000 Each Year Unreported
Society & Culture  (tags: UK, young women, forced marriage, victims, "honour" crimes, women's rights, human rights, researcher Nazia Khanum, wall of silence )

Alba
- 625 days ago - guardian.co.uk
1st UK study ever conducted into prevalence of custom shows far more victims, spread across different ethnic minorities, than official figures suggest. Govt orders national count of missing schoolgirls amid fears 100s living in fear of "honour" violence
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Vaginas & "Violence Against Women" Activism: No, We Won't Go Away!
Society & Culture  (tags: US, women, vagina monologues, vaginas, activism, women's rights, violence against women, campus activism, feminist awareness, women's rights )

ON VACATI
- 642 days ago - alternet.org
Democratic legislators in the state are using women's basic rights as a political football to score points against Republicans in a gamble that might not win for them and certainly not for women. Are social conservatives afraid women have genitals??
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Washington Judge Rules Against Access to Emergency Contraception
Society & Culture  (tags: US, Washington state, teens, young women, women, emergency contraception, emergency medicine, lawsuit, NARAL Pro-Choice, Feminist Majority, women's news, women's rights )

ON VACATI
- 642 days ago - feminist.org
Pharmacists/pharmacies can continue to refuse to sell EC because of so-called "religious objections." Some still refer to EC as an "abortive agent" even though research shows it will not affect a woman who is already pregnant. "should not be undermined.."
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Deterioration of Iraqi Women's Rights and Living Conditions Under Occupation
Society & Culture  (tags: women, women's rights, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', freedoms, middle-east, iraq, society, rights, culture, education )

Madalena
- 660 days ago - globalresearch.ca
Deterioration of women's rights in Iraq began during the US-UN comprehensive economical sanctions imposed on Iraqi during the nineties. In 2003, the invasion of Iraq by the USA and its allies resulted in the descent of the rights of women just like other
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ARE WOMEN HUMAN?
Society & Culture  (tags: NOW, women, women's rights, feminism, human rights, US Senate, World Women's Conference, Seoul, CEDAW, South Korea )

ON VACATI
- 801 days ago - now.org
Do women deserve full "human rights"? The U.S. Senate isn't sure. That's why I'm writing to you from the World Women's Conference in Seoul, where I have been meeting and collaborating with women's rights activists around the globe.
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YouTube - Execution of a Teenage Girl in Iran_pieces05/05(BBCdcmentry)   video
Society & Culture  (tags: Human Rights, iran, iranian courts governement, women's rights, men's rights, childrens rights, government, corruption, murder )

Cheryl Su
- 871 days ago - youtube.com
Hanging of a 16 old girl, the Irianian Judicial System marked as 22, and more on the Irianian Government and who is in charge. Please sign all petitions, and do emails, faxes for those in IRAN, AND GET THIS OUT TO THE MAIN MEIDA IN NORTH AMERICA PLEASE.
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17 ROSES FOR DU'A: A SILENT CEREMONY IN HER MEMORY
Society & Culture  (tags: honor killings, du'a khalil, iraq, women's rights, children's rights, kurds, murder of a child, mass stoning )


- 898 days ago - stophonourkillings.com
Kurdish and Iraqi activists paid tribute to Du'a Khalil, Kurdish teenager murdered by public stoning in the city of Bashiqa in Northern Iraq.
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Thousands of Women Killed for Family
Society & Culture  (tags: women, crime, honor killings, Women's Rights, Females )

Madalena
- 921 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Hundreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family "honor." It's difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon of honor killing; the murders frequently go unreported, the perpetrators unpunished, and t
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DELARA'S DARABI'S DEATH SENTENCE HAS BEEN APPROVED
Society & Culture  (tags: children, iran. execution, human rights, crc, crime, women's rights, violations of the conventionsabuse, violence )


- 945 days ago - savedelara.com
Go to the site and click on "News". Read the recent update that has us all deeply concerned for Delara's life.
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