Who will be our Lieberman? Who will be our Nelson? There has to be someone who will stand for us because when one woman is demeaned in the name of the greater good, that's not progress, that's a sign of a country in deep crisis.
As development agencies integrate their efforts to reduce the massive inequalities plaguing women and girls worldwide, we must never forget the value of human dignity, and the power of education to dignify.
Today, the United Nations and the world celebrate 30 years of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), ...
The path to ratifying CEDAW would be much easier if our Senate, like those of 23 other countries including Rwanda, Argentina, Angola, Costa Rica and much of Europe, had 30 percent women.
Why hasn't the US ratified CEDAW? It's the same reason we're behind on health care reform: there are very powerful lobbies that see CEDAW as a tool for picking their deep pockets.
Sexual harassment at the workplace is, to date, not recognized as a punishable offense in Pakistan. In fact, in many situations, a complaint can create more problems for the woman being harassed.
The epic fight over carbon emissions is barely the tip of how we survive. Mother Earth demands that fossil/nukes be transcended. This green-powered leap defines our technological, economic and ecological survival.
The experience of running convinced me that women have a tremendous natural ability for politics. We just have to get over our fear of it and go for the brass ring.
The United States is one of seven countries that have yet to ratify The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
While driving on the New York State Thruway last week, I passed a car with a bumper sticker that said, "I Vote Pro-Life." Always on the lookout for s...
To compensate for what men cannot do, they tell women that they may not do other things. Much of history has been shaped by male insecurities, and such insecurities grow in hard times.
Nike, 20 percent of whose sales are to women athletes, supposedly supports women and is against sexism. And yet they're continuing to give the ultimate misogynist their full, continued support?
In accepting the Nobel, Obama must spearhead a bold and unprecedented initiative aimed at one of the most pervasive human rights violations of the 21st century: violence against women and girls worldwide.
Those who reject violence within their own families are human rights activists Note: This post is a mirror of my column in today's Pasadena Weekly, ...
The Stupak-Pitts amendment that replaced my amendment goes well beyond the status quo. It would result in a major step backwards for women's control over their reproductive lives.
Seven months ago, the US issued a list of human rights commitments and pledges in support of U.S. candidacy for membership in the U.N. Human Rights Council. The decision to join the was the right thing to do.
To all of you who assume that the Democrats are the savior of women's rights or even of the right to choice, think again.
This historic health care plan designed to improve Americans' lives and make them healthier and safer could, for women facing an unintended or dangerous pregnancy, deny them access to the care they need.
Comparing abortion clinics to concentration camps diminishes the memory of those who perished, using their suffering for an unrelated political purpose, while generating a rationale for the murder of abortion providers.
You can tell the sun is setting on a once-great political party when it starts issuing angry, demonizing mission statements that seem deliberately devised to alienate as many moderate voters as possible.
There's an old adage: you roll with dogs, you get fleas. Well President Obama must be pretty darn itchy right about now.
