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Chinese film star Yunxiang Gao, laughed and slapped a woman as a film producer raped her 5 Beringia Nov 2019 Nov 2019 6 2955
Planned Parenthood's Chief Doctor Testifies Abortions At St. Louis Clinic Are Safe 0 Sherman A1 Nov 2019 Nov 2019 5 1555
Women working in Conservation and Sexist barriers 0 Beringia Oct 2019 Oct 2019 0 1697
Women At Ernst & Young Instructed On How To Dress, Act Nicely Around Men 7 Eugene Oct 2019 Oct 2019 3 2755
Women's March 2020 will be Sat., Jan. 18th. 2 BigmanPigman Oct 2019 Oct 2019 7 1641
Jordan urged to stop imprisoning women for defying the wishes of men 0 Eugene Oct 2019 Oct 2019 2 1557
More women, particularly in restrictive states, go online for abortion pills 2 Ohiogal Oct 2019 Oct 2019 5 1425
On Chess: Not Particularly Beautiful 0 Sherman A1 Oct 2019 Oct 2019 3 1505
Saudi Arabia women's rights reforms may still be thwarted by custom 1 Eugene Aug 2019 Oct 2019 1 1835
Pet-Friendly Domestic Violence Shelters Help Abuse Victims Stay Safe 0 Sherman A1 Oct 2019 Oct 2019 7 1443
New Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic In Fairview Heights Was Built In Secret 1 Sherman A1 Oct 2019 Oct 2019 9 1631
Judge Blocks Missouri From Enforcing Its 'Down Syndrome Abortion' Ban 2 Sherman A1 Sep 2019 Sep 2019 6 1991
Trump's anti-woman push puts America in the pantheon of human rights offenders 0 Eugene Sep 2019 Sep 2019 2 1552
Federal Judge Denies Missouri's Request To Let Abortion Ban Take Effect 0 Sherman A1 Sep 2019 Sep 2019 2 1618
South Korean politician scolds female professor for not having child 0 Eugene Sep 2019 Sep 2019 3 1719
Palestinian women demand legal protection after suspected 'honor killing' 1 Eugene Sep 2019 Sep 2019 3 1614
Macron hears police officer refuse to help woman in danger 0 Eugene Sep 2019 Sep 2019 13 1772
#MeToo In A Culture Of Good Old Boys, (In the Forest Service) 1 Beringia Aug 2019 Aug 2019 5 1845
And they wonder why we say that they hate women 0 Ohiogal Aug 2019 Aug 2019 4 1738
Ashcroft's Delay Makes Vote On Missouri's 8-Week Ban 'Impossible,' Abortion-Rights Group Says 0 Sherman A1 Aug 2019 Aug 2019 2 1667
Saudi woman activist rejects release deal tied to denying torture: family 0 Eugene Aug 2019 Aug 2019 2 1576
App that can remove women's clothes from images shut down 4 Eugene Jun 2019 Jul 2019 1 2196
NJ Supreme Court acts against judges for remarks in sex assault cases 0 Eugene Jul 2019 Jul 2019 3 1605
India arrests after women's heads shaved for resisting rape 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1794
Canada: man acquitted of rape as judge says accuser 'combative' in court 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1790
"Days of the Theocracy" Words and music by Kristin Lems 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1857
Spain women: Top court rules Wolf Pack gang were rapists 1 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 1722
Women outperform men after Japan medical school stops rigging exam scores 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 12 1890
Sharia court orders jail for rape victim unless kids handed to rapist. 2 Bayard Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 2345
Swiss women strike for more money, time and respect 1 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 5 1743

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Kenya: male MP slaps female MP, gets arrested 1 shenmue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 0 1915
Outrage at acquittals in rape cases sparks calls to fix Japanese law 1 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1660
White Lies, a New Zealand period piece 2 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1846
Japan's labour minister says high heels at work are 'necessary' 4 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 2042
There's Nothing "Pro-Life" About Sweeping Abortion Bans ("arbitrary killing of women by gov't) 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 1403
Trump's anti-abortion global gag rule harming women in Africa and Asia, report says 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 3188
Canadian Inquiry Calls Killings of Indigenous Women Genocide 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 3257
Thousands back Japan high heels campaign 1 shenmue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1812
Latin American rape survivors who were denied abortions turn to UN 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 2 1693
Bangladesh to charge 16 with murder of woman, 19, burned to death 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 1 1492
States pushing abortion bans have higher infant and maternal mortality rates 3 Ohiogal May 2019 May 2019 9 1909
500 protests planned STOP THE ABORTION BANS! 0 BigmanPigman May 2019 May 2019 15 1867
Lengthy Webster U. Harassment Investigation Spurs Student Outcry, University Audit 1 Sherman A1 May 2019 May 2019 3 1608
UN Passes Anti-War Rape Resolution Despite US Opposition 4 niyad Apr 2019 May 2019 5 1752
300 protests planned STOP THE BAN (on abortion) 3 BigmanPigman May 2019 May 2019 8 1953
Some states seek to close loopholes in marital rape laws 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 3 1659
"At the Heart of Gold": how 'predatory' institutions protected Larry Nassar 0 niyad May 2019 May 2019 1 1648
Cyprus serial killer case exposes abuse of migrant women 0 shenmue May 2019 May 2019 2 1539
Women are disappearing and dying in Indian country. We must act. The epidemic of missing and murder 0 niyad May 2019 May 2019 3 1517
A Native American woman's brutal murder could lead to a life-saving law 0 niyad May 2019 May 2019 1 1434
Congress is Convening the First Official Hearing on the ERA in Three Decades 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1435
"Failure is Impossible" Kristin Lems 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1644
"We Will Never Give Up" Kristin Lems 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1588
"Ballad of teh ERA" Kristin Lems (in honour of the hearings today) 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1494
A Cafe Run by Acid Attack Survivors Attracts Visitors From Around the World 1 Cattledog Apr 2019 Apr 2019 8 1678
Yazidi leaders to allow Isis rape survivors to return with children 1 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1648
Women's Bodies Shouldn't Be Battlefields 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1486
No Compromises on Women's Rights 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1434
The UN Just Watered-Down Women's Rights Worldwide--and the U.S. Insisted on It (war on women) 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1345
Why gender pay-gap truthers are on the rise The evidence that men earn more than women is clear - 2 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1707

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Bowing to U.S. demands, U.N. waters down resolution on sexual violence in conflict 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1424
The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret For thousands of women, working at the nat 1 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1615
Stephen Moore's Columns Deriding Women Raise New Questions for Trump Fed Pick 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1324
Planned Parenthood losing some big donors 1 Odoreida Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 2043
Traditional Marriage (something I just came across from a few years ago) 3 Odoreida Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1748
The misogynist trolls attacking Dr. Katie Bouman are the tip of the trashpile 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1484
Nusrat Jahan Rafi: Burned to death for reporting sexual harassment 3 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 9 1920
Hillary Clinton: 'Given the chance, many women will govern and lead differently' 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 7 1571
"Violence against women is normalized. And because it's normalized we don't see it as a crisis." 3 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 14 1760
This message was self-deleted by its author 2 shenmue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1394
Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding (very important, lengthy read) 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 11 1318
The Other Art History: The Forgotten Women of Bauhaus 2 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 3117
Marianne Brandt industiral designer of the Bauhaus movement 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1802
Women Workers RISING: BE HEARD in the Workplace Act Introduced Today 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1433
Trump Travel Ban Prohibits Dozens from Attending U.N. Women's Forum 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1415
Alfred University is Leading the Fight Against Campus Rape Culture--with a Public Reckoning 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1336
Feminists are Taking on the NRA in the Fight to End Violence Against Women 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1399
Upcoming Screenings for Roll Red Roll (teh Steubenville Rape case) 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1284
Roll Red Roll: behind the chilling documentary on high school rape The much-reported 2012 case of s 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1327
Is Imprisoning Women the Latest Anti-Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Strategy? 2 Panich52 Feb 2019 Apr 2019 4 1602
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