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Raped during Ethiopia's war, survivors now rejected by their families 3 redqueen Nov 2023 Nov 2023 8 1353
Italy is outraged by the death of a young woman in the latest suspected case of gender violence 5 Eugene Nov 2023 Nov 2023 5 1868
The obscene betrayal of Israelis who survived - and didn't survive - rape 11 question everything Nov 2023 Nov 2023 24 2232
Abortion's Old Craft Can Still Be Cultivated 6 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 1655
Bank cut my bonus because I had a baby, says MP leading City sexism inquiry 2 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 5 2346
Eyes on Everywhere Else: Sudan, Pakistan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Eastern Congo 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 1752
Resisting Climate Patriarchy 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 3 693
Creating Careers Based on Uplifting Women's Voices 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 827
The Missing Perspectives of Women in the News 2 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 3 1178
Israel-Gaza War: Threats and Attacks Against Women Journalists Covering the Conflict (Trigger Warning) 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 3 1011
On This Day: 15 women arrested for voting, landmark trial follows - November 18, 1872 2 jgo Nov 2023 Nov 2023 7 1215
This message was self-deleted by its author 9 WhiteTara Nov 2023 Nov 2023 11 1408
United Nations Condemns U.S. Failure to Address Discrimination Against Women, Directs U.S. to Ratify ERA and CEDAW 2 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 5 1035
On This Day: Nellie Bly starts trip Around the World in 72 days - Nov. 14, 1889 0 jgo Nov 2023 Nov 2023 9 1082
Republican AG Sued For Threatening To Criminalize Out Of State Abortions (Alabama) - Rodecast 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2023 Nov 2023 8 1190
South Africa to introduce shared parental leave after landmark judgment 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 3 751
Keeping Score: Georgia Upholds Six-Week Abortion Ban; Republicans Aim to Eliminate Women's Bureau at Labor Department; 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 11 1301
ACLU Brings Legal Challenge to Tennessee's Discriminatory Aggravated Prostitution Law 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 790
The Hyde Amendment Continues to Be a Barrier for Accessing Abortion Care 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1003
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 576
Allowing Domestic Violence Perpetrators to Carry Guns Will Worsen the U.S. Maternal Health Crisis 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 822
How the World Is Letting Girls Fall Behind 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 773
No More Child Brides 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 540
'I felt safe and taken care of': can midwifery startups change our broken maternity care? 2 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2023 Nov 2023 13 1080
I never thought, 30 years after I fled Rwanda, life would be worse for female refugees 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 7 1210
Political Violence Threatens Our Democracy. How Do We Keep Candidates Safe? 2 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 3 906
Rest in Power: Lois Galgay Reckitt, Trailblazing Feminist Activist 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 3 781
Domestic Violence Calls About 'Reproductive Coercion' Doubled After the Overturn of Roe 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 7 1220
The Last Salem Witch Has Been Exonerated 2 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 6 710
The Republican Crusade Against Issue 1: Ohio's Reproductive Freedom Amendment 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 909

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Who Pays the Price for Men's Wars? 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 693
Why Are Women Experts Still Excluded From Peace Talks Across the Globe? 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 1551
The MAGA movement would be nothing without misogyny. 1 kpete Nov 2023 Nov 2023 8 1027
In 'Nyad,' Annette Bening and Jodie Foster shatter the limits of age 5 question everything Nov 2023 Nov 2023 22 1849
On This Day: Playwright, journalist, feminist Olympe de Gouges guillotined - Nov. 3, 1793 3 jgo Nov 2023 Nov 2023 12 1409
National Museum of Women in the Arts Reopening - Major Renovation, Bold Exhibitions, Public Programs 1 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 960
Faced with abortion bans, doctors beg hospitals for help with key decisions 5 Nevilledog Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 1143
'Why must we be silent?': horrific attack in Kyrgyzstan puts focus on violence against women 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 1332
Why are women in 'feminist paradise' Iceland striking? 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 7 823
The Wonderful Karma of Black Women Saving American Democracy 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 871
'Comstocked': How Extremists Are Exploiting a Victorian-Era Law To Deny Abortion Access 2 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 887
A Freelance War Correspondent Covers Ethnic Cleansing of Her Indigenous Nation 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 648
Women Speak Out for Pathway to Peace 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 617
Five Moons Indigenous Ballerinas 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 563
Free Public Event Celebrates Maria Tallchief Quarter, Unveiling of New Statue Honoring Marjorie Tallchief 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 656
Is owning automatic weapons a testosterone thing? 10 BigmanPigman Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 1300
Peru's Govt Forcibly Sterilized 200,000 Indigenous Women, 1996 - 2001, Why? WaPo 2 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 1116
Former MSU football coach Mel Tucker uses toxic tactic to defend himself 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 9 1401
Mahsa Amini honoured with EU's top human rights prize 1 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 856
BBC Presenter told to suck it up over extreme menstrual problems 8 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 10 1770
Women behind the lens: the female beekeepers who hold 'the keys to a better world' 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 7 1165
The Secret History of the Vulva 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 7 765
At the National Mall, Artist Tiffany Shlain Is Rewriting Women into U.S. History 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 702
To Fight the 'War on Woke,' We Need Poetry and Poets 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 558
Devastation from Earthquakes in Afghanistan Strikes an Already-Shaky Foundation 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 2871
Why Sororities Should Admit Nonbinary Members 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 543
Reporting Under Fire: Honoring the Journalists Covering the Israeli-Gaza War 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 530
Today's google doodle honours Adelaide Hall, jazz singer who introduced scat 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 735
Fears rise as three Alabama hospitals prepare to stop delivering babies 14 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 40 2948
Across the Desk - S8:E13 (The GOP - Making Pregnancy Dangerous for Women) 1 Across-the-Desk Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 954

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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An Alabama woman was imprisoned for 'endangering' her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 1204
The Biden Administration's Investment in Internet Will Reduce Barriers to Abortion 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 816
They're Coming for Birth Control (BE VERY AFRAID) 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 714
Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi? 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 549
We've Gone Over the Childcare Cliff. Now What? 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 542
FGM ban in the Gambia under threat as calls grow to repeal law 2 Eugene Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 710
'No matter what I do, I'm not in control': what happens when the state takes your child 1 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 986
A Woman Was Denied Medication for Being of 'Childbearing Age.' She Just Sued the Hospital 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 1241
2023 Nobel Prize for Economics by Claudia Goldin for Womens Labor Market outcomes 1 irisblue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 607
We Heart: The Women Who Gave Us the COVID Vaccine 2 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 1071
Dr. Katalin Karik's Hope in Messenger RNA Helped the World Recover from COVID-19 2 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 1393
Biden Challenges Congress to Take Action on the ERA 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 505
How Religious Hospitals Block Access to Reproductive Care--Even in 'Safe Haven' States 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 577
'Hysterical' Women Out for Revenge: Family Court's Misogynistic Tropes Traumatize Women and Childre 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 716
The Supreme Court's Blindness to Gender Violence 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 564
Judge James Ho's Connections to the Anti-Abortion Movement 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 706
about heartbeats--life and death 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 479
From the Frontlines in Iran: Our Fight for Human Rights and Gender Equality 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 671
Canada Police Won't Investigate Dr, Sterilized Inuit Woman w/o Consent, Acted In Her 'Best Interest' 7 appalachiablue Sep 2023 Sep 2023 12 1428
Man Accused Of Dismembering Girlfriend Was Posterboy For Betsy DeVos' War On #MeToo 1 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 5 899
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