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Dr. Joe Wenke: Getting to the Bottom of Bigotry

2013-06-18T17:10:55Z

What exactly is it about a human being's sexual orientation that triggers such hate? What's it to them -- the haters of gay, lesbian and bisexual people -- whom other people are sexually attracted to and love? Why are transgender people so hated, so marginalized?

Read more: Anti-Semitism, Religious Bigotry, Women's Rights, Religious Intolerance, Women's Issues, Bigotry, Gay Issues, Anti-Gay Bigotry, Gay Voices News

Yen To: Girls! Girls! Girls!

2013-06-18T11:01:41Z

A woman's position within Kenyan society is quickly revealed on street level, in the boardroom and at home.

Read more: Eastlands-Nairobi, Microloans, Women's Rights, Kuwinda Settlement, Microfinance, Women's Issues, Nairobi-Slums, Microlending, Eastlands Slums, Kuwinda Slum, Nairobi-Kenya, Girls-Rights, Girls-Health, Nairobi, Women's Empowerment Africa, Impact News

Diana Jenkins: Rape as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

2013-06-17T17:24:21Z

Today, I'm horrified to say, rape is being used as more than a sick prize for the victor. In rural villages of the Fizi Territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rape has been reinvented as a primary weapon of war.

Read more: Drc, Women's Rights, Human Rights, Africa, Congo Rape, War, DRC Violence, Congo Mass Rape, Mass Rape, Congo, World News

Margaret A. Hacskaylo: Kabul Cough

2013-06-17T16:38:12Z

I think we owe it to them, to survivors of violence -- really, to ourselves and our country -- to make it easier to breathe knowing that we can justifiably expect safety, resources and the right to live freely and independently. Everyone deserves that much.

Read more: Women's Rights, Afghanistan, Violence Against Women, District Alliance for Safe Housing, Impact News, Domestic Violence, Impact News

Tracy Fehr: Waiting for Truth and Justice in Nepal

2013-06-17T14:42:47Z

For the thousands of conflict-affected widows -- such as Sita and Radha -- and their families, amnesty is not an option. The Supreme Court must end the culture of impunity that has so far defined Nepal's post-conflict transition.

Read more: Women's Rights, Transitional-Justice, Civil War, Human Rights, Conflict, Nepal, Peacebuilding, Widow, Justice, Kathmandu, World News

Fiona Citkin, Ph.D.: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: What Do Immigrant Women Bring to the Table?

2013-06-17T12:55:47Z

The USA is recovering from its economic downturn faster than other rich countries. To speed up this recovery, we need to choose our meals wisely and embrace the healthy menu of jobs, global mindset, and true grit that many immigrant women bring to our table so generously.

Read more: Women Entrepreneurs, Women's Rights, Immigrants, Women Leaders, Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Immigrant, Politics News

Brent Budowsky: Wendy Davis for Texas

2013-06-17T10:03:25Z

The future of Texas will not be found in voices who prefer a Texas in which Hispanics are second-class citizens when they seek to vote and women are second class citizens when they seek to live their lives as they choose and seek a good job and a fair wage.

Read more: Abortion, Women's Rights, Economic Opportunity, Lloyd Bentsen, Abortion Rights, Crony Capitalism, Voting Rights, Consumers Rights, Pay Equity, Ted Sorensen, Wendy Davis, Voter Turnout, Rick Perry, Veterans, Texas, Senior Citizens, Voter Registration, Julian Castro, John F. Kennedy, Far Right, Farmers, Consumers, Ann Richards, Teachers, Schoolchildren, Disenfranchisement, Greg Abbott, Politics News

Lilia Luciano: The Fathers of Women

2013-06-15T11:16:28Z

Issues affecting women and girls impact everyone. When half the population of a country, and half of a potential workforce, isn't entitled to an education, the effects are monumental.

Read more: Women Leadership, Womens Rights, Girl Rising, Fathers Day, Girl Power, Fathers Day 2013, Impact News

Frank Jannuzi: What Happens in Moscow Doesn't Stay in Moscow: Crackdowns on Basic Freedoms in Russia - And Why the U.S. Should Care

2013-06-14T15:37:32Z

Since President Putin's election, Russian authorities have intensified their assault on basic freedoms and undermined rule of law. This crackdown should be a matter of grave concern to the United States.

Read more: Legislative and Policy Reform, Women's Rights, Europe, Press Freedom, Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Right to Organize, Accountability for Torture, Humanr Giths Defenders, Prisoners and People at Risk, Communities at Risk, Decriminalizing Homosexuality, International Justice, Russia, LGBT Rights, Vladimir Putin, Detention and Imprisonment, Fair Trials, Military Police and Arms, Internet Censorship, Torture, Censorship and Free Speech, Pride Month, Prisoners of Conscience, World News

Stacy Parker Le Melle: She Was a Child Bride and She Has Something to Tell Us

2013-06-13T16:20:36Z

I know I'm supposed to forgive my trespassers. But when called upon to actually forgive, I may be good at "letting go" and "moving on" but does anyone's name ever leave that ledger inside my mind, the one that keeps track of those who have hurt me?

Read more: Girls, Women's Rights, Women, Afghanistan, Child Brides, Afghan Women, Forgiveness, Fetzer Institute, Afghan Women's Writing Project, Global Motherhood, Impact News

Suzanne Ehlers: A Woman's Worth

2013-06-13T14:28:48Z

There's not just one woman, or 10, or 1,000. There's already 222 million women who want to access contraception, but can't.

Read more: Population, Women's Rights, Contraception, Family Planning, Women's Issues, Video, Global Motherhood, Impact News

Sarah Costa: An Urgent Need: Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Refugee Adolescents

2013-06-13T13:20:22Z

The disintegration of community and family structures weakens traditional protection mechanisms and alters behavioral patterns. As a result, child-bearing risks are extremely high, sexual violence and exploitation is pervasive and forced or early marriage is not uncommon.

Read more: Women's Rights, Family Planning, Sexual Health, International-Family-Planning, Adolescents, Reproductive Health, Womens Health, Save the Children, Refugees, International, Teenagers, Impact News

Romanna Bint-Abubaker: This Women's Ventures Fund Is Helping the Islamic Fashion Industry Grow

2013-06-11T17:44:51Z

The billion dollar Muslim fashion industry today may be one of the most talked about subjects but what commercial activity is really happening?

Read more: Women's Rights, Queen Rania, Women Entrepreneurship, Saudi, Women Empowerment, Working Women, Texas Women Ventures, Qatar, Business, Chanel, Sheikha Moza, Couture, Princess Ameerah, Arabia, American Muslims, Hijab Fashionw Eek, Muslims, Womens-Venture-Fund, Fashion, Muslim Hijab, Kuwait, Haute Designs, Women, Haute Arabia, Hijab, Women Entrepreneurs, Valentino, Women in Business, Dubai, Princess-Ameerah-Al-Taweel, Dina Takuri, Haute, Arabian Designs, Muslim, Entrepreneurship, Fashion Blogger, Muna Abusulayman, Small Business News

John Feffer: Women Against Nationalism

2013-06-12T14:30:17Z

Militant nationalism is not an exclusively male enterprise. But a principal fuel that keeps the enterprise going is high-octane testosterone.

Read more: Nationalism, Women's Rights, Kosovo, War, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Women's Movement, Slovenia, Feminism, World News, World News

Taina Bien-Aime: The Women's Equality Act: A No Brainer for New York

2013-06-12T07:15:30Z

The legislation is testament that we cannot parse out women's rights, drop by drop. It is recognition that if New York doesn't legislate against discrimination, it in effect condones inequality.

Read more: Safe Harbor Act, Tvpja, Naral, Women's Equality, Pregnancy Discrimination, Tvpa, NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, New York Senate, Gloria Steinem, Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, Reproductive Rights, Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act, Ppnyc, Abortion Rights, Women's Rights, Empire State, Andrew Cuomo, Abortion, Domestic Violence, Violence Against Women, Ywca, Sex Trafficking, WEA Coalition, New York Assembly, Assembly Codes Committee, Equal Pay, Human Rights, Equal Pay Act, #NY4Women, Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell, NY Governor Cuomo, Discrimination in Housing, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vaw, Dv, New York Legislature, Planned Parenthood, Covenant House, Sexual Harassment, Women's Equality Act, Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, Family Planning Advocates, A Better Balance, Reproductive Justice, Human Trafficking Act, Albany Politics, Wea, New York News

David Orr: 100 Years Later, Legacy Endures for Suffragists

2013-06-11T17:46:10Z

We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to the legions of women who led the fight, many of whom were considered extreme radicals at the time. Most suffragists first fought on behalf of other causes.

Read more: Women's Rights, Suffragettes, Frances-Willard, Jane Adams, Illinois Politics, Women's Suffrage, League of Women Voters, Lucretia Mott, Voting Rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Women's Movement, Illinois, Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, Voting, Chicago News

Ida Lichter, M.D.: Iranian Women's Movement Strangled By Restrictions

2013-06-11T15:28:49Z

What has happened to the courageous Iranian women's movement of dissent that gave inspiration to the protests of the Arab Spring uprisings?

Read more: Green Movement, Iranian Constitution, Women?S Society Basij Organization, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Gender and Religion, Women's Rights, Women in Iran, Iranian Women, Religion News

Deb Hauser: 1 in 3: Beatriz, Mounting Barriers to Abortion and the American Experience

2013-06-11T13:42:59Z

For months Beatriz's government turned a blind eye to the advice of her doctors. Never mind that she would die without the opportunity to end her pregnancy, or that the fetus she carried was unviable. Never mind that she was already the mother of a young child.

Read more: Women's Health, Abortion, Women's Rights, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Abortion Ban, Abortion 20 Weeks, Politics News

Lenora M. Lapidus: Happy 50th Birthday, Equal Pay Act!

2013-06-11T13:17:24Z

June 10th is the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act. On June 10, 1963, Congress enacted the first law to require employers to pay women the same sa...

Read more: Women's Rights, Employee Rights, Equal Pay Today, Paycheck Fairness Act, Equal Pay, Paycheck Fairness, Politics News

C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: Women - Part 2

2013-06-10T08:19:48Z

Thanks to technology, millions of voices that once could not be heard now have access to the global community. Never in the history of the world has the opportunity to accelerate the process for the empowerment of girls and women been greater.

Read more: Women's Rights, World Bank World Development Report, Green Templeton College Emerging Markets Symposium, Gender Inequality, Suman Bery, Emerging Markets Human Rights, The Global Search for Education, United Nations Gender Inequality Report, The Gender Gap, World Economic Forum Gender Equality Rankings, Ian Scott, Jeni Klugman, C.M. Rubin, Impact News

Bus 52: A Cause Worth Supporting: Girls At Work (VIDEO)

2013-06-09T04:51:36Z

Do you ever come across such an amazing person who is doing so much good that you want to share their story with anyone who will listen, but can't put...

Read more: Women's Empowerment, Girls, Women's Rights, Women, Inspiring, Violence Against Women, Women's Issues, Women Entrepreneurs, Construction, Inspiring Women, Video, Good News News

Sarah Costa: No Country, No Rights: Gender Discrimination and Statelessness

2013-06-07T13:21:25Z

An estimated 12 million people worldwide are stateless, with no country to call home. This occurs when nationality legislation prevents women from acquiring, changing, retaining or passing on their nationality to their children and/or their spouses on an equal basis with men.

Read more: Womens-Refugee-Commission, Women's Rights, Statelessness, Human Rights, Morocco, Egypt, Nationality, World News

Kate Jenkins: The Adorable Feminist

2013-06-06T16:53:52Z

Feminists still have important work to do. There are still unfair stigmas about our sexual choices, and we are still considered formidable bitches when we get ahead at work. Our strength and our intelligence do not receive the recognition they deserve.

Read more: Feminism, Women's Rights, Women's Rights Movement, DC News

Margie Omero: Breadwinner Moms and Gaffe-Prone Men

2013-06-06T15:44:58Z

it's not just Republican leaders who have more traditional views toward gender equality -- it may be men as a whole. As families and the workforce change, many men's views are not changing in kind.

Read more: Politics News, Politics, Women's Rights, Women, Pollster Analysis, Women's Issues, Working Mothers, Pew Research Center, Megyn Kelly, Saxby Chambliss, Moms, Gallup, Military Sexual Assault, Pollster, Gender, Politics News

Kristen Houghton: New Jersey's Antiquated Alimony Laws

2013-06-06T15:47:31Z

Her ex may not have been able to physically and emotionally abuse her but he found another way to hurt her and, surprisingly, it is all legal. Since her salary as a nurse was significantly higher than what he made, she was ordered to pay him alimony.

Read more: Women's Rights, Alimony Reform, More-Women-Paying-Alimony, Divorce, Unfair Laws, Divorce News