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This message was self-deleted by its author 9 WhiteTara Nov 15 Nov 16 11 704
United Nations Condemns U.S. Failure to Address Discrimination Against Women, Directs U.S. to Ratify ERA and CEDAW 2 niyad Nov 10 Nov 15 5 345
On This Day: Nellie Bly starts trip Around the World in 72 days - Nov. 14, 1889 0 jgo Nov 14 Nov 14 9 412
Republican AG Sued For Threatening To Criminalize Out Of State Abortions (Alabama) - Rodecast 0 TexasTowelie Nov 13 Nov 13 8 706
South Africa to introduce shared parental leave after landmark judgment 0 niyad Nov 10 Nov 10 3 285
Keeping Score: Georgia Upholds Six-Week Abortion Ban; Republicans Aim to Eliminate Women's Bureau at Labor Department; 0 niyad Nov 10 Nov 10 11 645
ACLU Brings Legal Challenge to Tennessee's Discriminatory Aggravated Prostitution Law 0 niyad Nov 10 Nov 10 4 315
The Hyde Amendment Continues to Be a Barrier for Accessing Abortion Care 0 niyad Nov 10 Nov 10 1 356
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How the World Is Letting Girls Fall Behind 0 niyad Nov 10 Nov 10 2 286
No More Child Brides 0 niyad Nov 10 Nov 10 4 156
'I felt safe and taken care of': can midwifery startups change our broken maternity care? 2 Jilly_in_VA Nov 8 Nov 8 13 473
I never thought, 30 years after I fled Rwanda, life would be worse for female refugees 1 niyad Nov 4 Nov 7 7 555
Political Violence Threatens Our Democracy. How Do We Keep Candidates Safe? 2 niyad Nov 4 Nov 5 3 361
Rest in Power: Lois Galgay Reckitt, Trailblazing Feminist Activist 1 niyad Nov 4 Nov 5 3 237
Domestic Violence Calls About 'Reproductive Coercion' Doubled After the Overturn of Roe 1 niyad Nov 4 Nov 5 7 635

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The Republican Crusade Against Issue 1: Ohio's Reproductive Freedom Amendment 0 niyad Nov 4 Nov 4 1 468
Who Pays the Price for Men's Wars? 1 niyad Nov 4 Nov 4 2 174
Why Are Women Experts Still Excluded From Peace Talks Across the Globe? 0 niyad Nov 4 Nov 4 2 361
The MAGA movement would be nothing without misogyny. 1 kpete Nov 4 Nov 4 8 365
In 'Nyad,' Annette Bening and Jodie Foster shatter the limits of age 5 question everything Nov 3 Nov 4 22 917
On This Day: Playwright, journalist, feminist Olympe de Gouges guillotined - Nov. 3, 1793 3 jgo Nov 3 Nov 3 12 623
National Museum of Women in the Arts Reopening - Major Renovation, Bold Exhibitions, Public Programs 1 niyad Oct 28 Oct 31 4 442
Faced with abortion bans, doctors beg hospitals for help with key decisions 5 Nevilledog Oct 28 Oct 29 6 517
'Why must we be silent?': horrific attack in Kyrgyzstan puts focus on violence against women 0 niyad Oct 28 Oct 28 4 607
Why are women in 'feminist paradise' Iceland striking? 0 niyad Oct 28 Oct 28 7 356
The Wonderful Karma of Black Women Saving American Democracy 0 niyad Oct 28 Oct 28 3 423
'Comstocked': How Extremists Are Exploiting a Victorian-Era Law To Deny Abortion Access 2 niyad Oct 28 Oct 28 3 374
A Freelance War Correspondent Covers Ethnic Cleansing of Her Indigenous Nation 0 niyad Oct 28 Oct 28 0 237
Women Speak Out for Pathway to Peace 0 niyad Oct 28 Oct 28 2 209
Five Moons Indigenous Ballerinas 0 niyad Oct 28 Oct 28 1 178
Free Public Event Celebrates Maria Tallchief Quarter, Unveiling of New Statue Honoring Marjorie Tallchief 0 niyad Oct 28 Oct 28 3 263
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Peru's Govt Forcibly Sterilized 200,000 Indigenous Women, 1996 - 2001, Why? WaPo 2 appalachiablue Oct 26 Oct 26 3 531
Former MSU football coach Mel Tucker uses toxic tactic to defend himself 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 14 Oct 26 9 857
Mahsa Amini honoured with EU's top human rights prize 1 niyad Oct 20 Oct 21 5 377
BBC Presenter told to suck it up over extreme menstrual problems 8 Jilly_in_VA Oct 19 Oct 20 10 986
Women behind the lens: the female beekeepers who hold 'the keys to a better world' 0 niyad Oct 20 Oct 20 7 699
The Secret History of the Vulva 0 niyad Oct 20 Oct 20 7 404
At the National Mall, Artist Tiffany Shlain Is Rewriting Women into U.S. History 0 niyad Oct 20 Oct 20 4 355
To Fight the 'War on Woke,' We Need Poetry and Poets 0 niyad Oct 20 Oct 20 1 198
Devastation from Earthquakes in Afghanistan Strikes an Already-Shaky Foundation 0 niyad Oct 20 Oct 20 1 865
Why Sororities Should Admit Nonbinary Members 0 niyad Oct 20 Oct 20 2 183
Reporting Under Fire: Honoring the Journalists Covering the Israeli-Gaza War 0 niyad Oct 20 Oct 20 2 168
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Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Fears rise as three Alabama hospitals prepare to stop delivering babies 14 Jilly_in_VA Oct 15 Oct 15 40 1997
Across the Desk - S8:E13 (The GOP - Making Pregnancy Dangerous for Women) 1 Across-the-Desk Oct 15 Oct 15 3 432
An Alabama woman was imprisoned for 'endangering' her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 13 Oct 13 5 716
The Biden Administration's Investment in Internet Will Reduce Barriers to Abortion 0 niyad Oct 13 Oct 13 1 328
They're Coming for Birth Control (BE VERY AFRAID) 0 niyad Oct 13 Oct 13 1 384
Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi? 0 niyad Oct 13 Oct 13 0 267
We've Gone Over the Childcare Cliff. Now What? 0 niyad Oct 13 Oct 13 1 215
FGM ban in the Gambia under threat as calls grow to repeal law 2 Eugene Oct 12 Oct 12 1 362
'No matter what I do, I'm not in control': what happens when the state takes your child 1 Jilly_in_VA Oct 11 Oct 11 8 596
A Woman Was Denied Medication for Being of 'Childbearing Age.' She Just Sued the Hospital 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 9 Oct 9 6 678
2023 Nobel Prize for Economics by Claudia Goldin for Womens Labor Market outcomes 1 irisblue Oct 9 Oct 9 2 287
We Heart: The Women Who Gave Us the COVID Vaccine 2 niyad Oct 7 Oct 7 6 603
Dr. Katalin Karik's Hope in Messenger RNA Helped the World Recover from COVID-19 2 niyad Oct 7 Oct 7 3 474
Biden Challenges Congress to Take Action on the ERA 0 niyad Oct 7 Oct 7 7 222
How Religious Hospitals Block Access to Reproductive Care--Even in 'Safe Haven' States 0 niyad Oct 7 Oct 7 2 288
'Hysterical' Women Out for Revenge: Family Court's Misogynistic Tropes Traumatize Women and Childre 0 niyad Oct 7 Oct 7 3 384
The Supreme Court's Blindness to Gender Violence 0 niyad Oct 7 Oct 7 2 286
Judge James Ho's Connections to the Anti-Abortion Movement 0 niyad Oct 7 Oct 7 2 397
about heartbeats--life and death 0 niyad Oct 7 Oct 7 3 208
From the Frontlines in Iran: Our Fight for Human Rights and Gender Equality 0 niyad Oct 7 Oct 7 0 405
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