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Increased Attacks against Hazaras in Afghanistan; Mostly Girls and Women Killed and Wounded 2 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 933
With SisterMentors, Dr. Shireen Lewis Is Building a Fierce Future for Women and Girls of Color in Ed 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 819
How Do We Build a World Where Every Girl Can Thrive? 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 1008
Black Women Lead: From the Stage to the Streets 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 763
The Anti-Abortion Movement's Attempt to Criminalize Abortion Speech 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 847
CVS is helping women fight the Pink Tax 2 BigmanPigman Oct 2022 Oct 2022 3 1286
Drugging Iranian girls into submission 2 cbabe Oct 2022 Oct 2022 5 1330
Why childbirth is so dangerous for many young teens 1 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2022 Oct 2022 14 1194
Christian college coach created a culture of doping and sexual abuse, star runners allege 1 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2022 Oct 2022 5 1648
Tackling the roots of gender-based violence 1 Celerity Oct 2022 Oct 2022 5 1118
Switchblade Goddess 2 orangecrush Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 1345
Get up and march October 7-9, 2022 to protest Dobbs and protect our rights! 4 Timeflyer Oct 2022 Oct 2022 6 1302
Women's Bodies Are Bearing the Brunt of Purity Culture 3 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 1463
From Iran, Solidarity With American Women 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 3 1126
The Desperate Effort to Silence Iranian Feminists 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 961
Who Are We Forcing To Give Birth Today? (Everybody, Basically) 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 826
It is great that little girls now have role models so they, too, can grow up to be crazed world lead 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 924
A letter to ... my immigrant mother, a girl in Vietnam 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 3 895
Are women's rights used as a smokescreen in Tunisia? 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 788
All women have right to safe, legal abortion: India's top court 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 828
Women's Rights and Legal Advocates Continue Push for Recognition of Equal Rights Amendment 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 778
Ms. Global: Scotland Eliminates Period Product Fees; Poland's Pride March; Nonbinary Joan of Arc De 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 994
A Nation Without the Hyde Amendment Will Be Safer and More Humane for All of Us 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 814
Goodbye 'pink tax': California prohibits charging premiums for women's products 0 BigmanPigman Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 1100
Woman With Severe Chronic Pain Was Denied Medication for Being 'Childbearing Age' 7 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 19 2380
Cross post from GD...no more tubal ligations for you at SW Colorado hospital. 3 likesmountains 52 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 1340
Re-victimization - Rape victims can face huge hospital bills if they seek help 5 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 8 1394
'Catholics for Life' Ask Supreme Court for Nationwide Abortion Ban and Full Constitutional Rights f 3 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 1322
Fury in Iran as young woman dies following morality police arrest 4 Eugene Sep 2022 Sep 2022 15 1649
'The People's Lawyers': Attorneys General Letitia James and Dana Nessel on Reclaiming and Rebuildin 6 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 1048

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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In view of the increasingly insane calls from the reichwing to repeal the 19thA, a bit of history: 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 7 1061
US relaxes internet sanctions on Iran in support of protesters 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 783
Qatar fund launches initiative to support conflict-affected women 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 737
Abortion Access Restored in Indiana in Response to Lawsuit Filed by Providers and ACLU 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 786
'Guardians of Democracy': Women Secretaries of State Defend Voting Rights and Election Security at t 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 710
Women Saving Democracy: An Attorneys General Explainer 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 818
With U.S. Democracy Under Attack, Women Election Officials Hold the Front Lines 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 727
Harnessing the Power of Women Voters 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 754
Iran president says death in custody of Mahsa Amini must be investigated 1 Eugene Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 1255
UN alarm as Iran cracks down on anti-hijab protests sparked by woman's death 0 Eugene Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 940
Terri Lyne Carrington on her mission to correct jazz history: 'Women don't get called geniuses enoug 2 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 7 1192
(Iran) Mahsa Amini: Women take headscarves off in protest at funeral 1 Eugene Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 1523
Bodies of teenage Dalit sisters found hanging from tree in India (Severe trigger warning) 2 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 981
Iran is urging people to have babies -- and making life hard for those who don't want to 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 839
Sister Nations Native American Women Writers on Community 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 721
More than Pocahontas and Squaws: Indigenous Women Coming into Visibility with Dr. Laura Tohe 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 773
Sex slaves, forced labour: Why S Korea, Japan ties remain tense 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 1138
New California Law Protects Digital Privacy of Abortion Seekers Nationwide 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 803
Trigger warning: Why do police rarely chase down 5 cbabe Sep 2022 Sep 2022 9 1715
Family Research Council actively advocates for women to die. 11 babylonsister Sep 2022 Sep 2022 65 3772
'Grandmothers are our weather app': new maps and local knowledge power Chad's climate fightback 4 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 1188
'Magic in her hands.' The woman bringing India's forests back to life 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 4 996
Battling violence & censors: Women in China become 'invisible & absent' 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 4 769
Iranian authorities plan to use facial recognition to enforce new hijab law 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 805
Moving Beyond the 'Pink High Heels' Defense Shaming of Survivors 1 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 782
'Four Winters' Reveals Jewish Women's Armed Resistance to Nazis During World War II 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 798
Abortion Rights Could Hang in the Balance in State Judge Races This November 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 822
The Case for Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 792
As San Antonio Abortion Clinic Closes, Its Director Worries About Who Is Left Behind 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 833
Top Indiana Employers Voice Concern Over State's New Near-Total Abortion Ban 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 795

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Medical Care and Civil Rights Organizations File Lawsuits Against Indiana Abortion Ban 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 788
CROSSPOSTED FROM GD: Pregnant women held in AL jail to "Protect fetuses" 4 Bettie Sep 2022 Sep 2022 9 1389
Moira Donegan: Jane's World 2 Nevilledog Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 984
Cross-post: Ms. Muse: Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller's Lost Poems 0 discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2022 Sep 2022 4 997
COVID Revealed the U.S.'s Long-Time Misogyny and Lack of Respect for Teachers 1 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 966
White House vows to tackle sexual assault in military amid rise 1 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 915
Ms. Muse: Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller's Lost Poems 3 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 990
ICYMI: Women Just Took Another Hit By vetoing investment in the care economy, Republicans once aga 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 806
The Pornification of War in Ukraine ****Trigger warning*** 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 873
When Women Were King A new film starring Viola Davis reclaims the narrative of the fiercely resist 2 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 1002
Ukrainian Women on the Front Lines 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 709
'Chaos, Confusion and Crisis': Marking a Full Year of Texas' Six-Week Abortion Ban 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 709
Internet Reacts To TV Anchor's Firing After She Let Her Hair Go Gray 3 catbyte Sep 2022 Sep 2022 15 1688
"Is the GOP now promoting the business of tracking women?" 2 Timeflyer Sep 2022 Sep 2022 7 1760
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 Mosby Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1065
'Wrong' and 'Backwards': Texas Judge Rules Against Biden Administration's Fight for Emergency Abort 2 niyad Aug 2022 Aug 2022 1 1108
Who Run the World? Girls! 100 Women's Equality Day Quotes 2 niyad Aug 2022 Aug 2022 4 1021
9 Inspiring Quotes for Women's Equality Day 2 niyad Aug 2022 Aug 2022 0 1230
'Women's Equality Day' at White House focuses on abortion rights 2 niyad Aug 2022 Aug 2022 1 915
Happy Women's Equality Day 2022: Theme, Quotes, Wishes, Images, and Messages 0 niyad Aug 2022 Aug 2022 3 840
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