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Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's new book should be of particular concern to anyone familiar with Millennium Development Goal number five: reducing maternal mortality.
Posted 11.08.2009 | Los Angeles
A 15-year-old girl who was raped, robbed and beaten by multiple attackers outside of her high school homecoming dance was found by police after 18-yea...
New York Times | IAN URBINA | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home
A neighbor of the convicted rapist in Cleveland who was arrested Saturday night after six decomposed bodies were found in his house said Monday that t...
AP | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — A group that monitors violence in prime-time television says it's concerned about women being more frequent targets. The Parents Tel...
The New York Review of Books | Sue M. Halpern | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence Sue Halpern The New York Review of Books Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by N...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
As it now stands, the Afghan women are worse off today than they were when the Taliban reigned. We cannot leave it at that, or Afghanistan will become even more of a corrupt mess.
AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.01.2009 | Home
RICHMOND, Calif. -- Police believe as many as a dozen people watched a 15-year-old girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming d...
Zainab Salbi | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
Violence against women is a global epidemic affecting millions of women daily that presents debilitating obstacles to the development of women, their families and communities, and even their national economies.
Trish Kinney | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
Sexual assault and abuse victims deserve our support, encouragement, validation and dignity. In fact, it seems we could learn a lot from our friends in Australia.
Steven W. Barnes | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
The recent passage of UN Resolution 1888 shows not just the increasing commitment of the US to multilateralism, but also to its resolve to end the major global crisis of violence towards women.
Ellen Snortland | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment
Why don't you help me and my colleagues in the personal safety community get the word out about a person's human right to protect themselves from emotional and physical harm?
Reuters | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline Islamist group al Shabaab has publicly whipped women for wearing bras they say violate Islam by constituting ...
Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
Canada is a model for the world on immigration, diversity and pluralism. Now is the time to reignite Canada's commitment to gender equality and the advancement of women's rights internationally.
Ritu Sharma | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
Violence against women is one of the most compelling causes of our time. New legislation in Congress could make battling that violence a U.S. foreign policy priority.
Katherine Gustafson | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
A case is building that women are a major key to our world's economic stability, and momentum is growing for profound and lasting progress on boosting the fortunes of the female half.
Esta Soler | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
The International Violence Against Women Act was introduced in the last Congress, with bipartisan support. Following today's hearing, we expect it to be introduced again. This time, it must not languish.
Eve Ensler | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment
No one is arguing the genius of Roman Polanski, or even the pain and tragedy of his difficult life. But in the end, that has nothing to do with the crime he committed.
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Following growing public criticism, the Financial Times magazine fDi has withdrawn its recent "Asian Personality of the Year" award to Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat.
Maria Rodale | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
When Hollywood finally learns how to make good romance movies, we might just finally free women around the world, and create the kind of world where peace is a possibility.
Irasema Garza | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
In a five year study, women whose male partners experience two or more periods of unemployment are almost three times as likely to be victims of intimate partner violence.
Nancy Snow | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media
The latest macabre example of domestic violence began as a lady-stuffed-in-suitcase whodunit this weekend in my hometown of eight years, Buena Park, California.
Eve Ensler | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
Schwarzenegger has always had contempt for the vulnerable, or maybe it's just his own inner girlie man he despises. But now he has gone too far.
Naveen Naqvi | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
In third world countries such as Pakistan, domestic violence is a huge problem. At the moment, however, Pakistani humanitarian agencies and women's rights groups are cautiously celebrating.
Daily Times | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
The National Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill on protection against domestic violence covering all types of repressive and abusive behavior against v...
Paul Helmke | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
It's obviously too easy for dangerous people to get dangerous weapons in this country.
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Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books