Civil Rights | Women's Rights

2010-03-18: Headlines

  • New Statesman: Weekly Briefing 2010-03-18
    This may sound unconvincing; women's rights campaigners are also unimpressed. Then again, as one legal expert told the newspaper Aksam, the law cannot ...
  • AlterNet: Rehabilitating Feminism as a Concept 2010-03-18
    I find this quite sad, given that the feminist movement – which dates from Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women – is over 200 year ...
  • Metro Weekly: Vatican's Past Imperfect 2010-03-18
    Church leaders often blame their priests' transgressions on modern sexual liberties, women's rights and gay rights. Actually, the sexual-abuse scandals stem ...
  • Daily Caller: American Jew: A dilemma? 2010-03-18
    We are, as a group, passionate about women's rights, gay rights, meritocracy, economic liberties, racial discrimination, etc. But these issues have never ...
  • RH Reality Check: Youth Lead Advocacy For Sexual and Reproductive Health 2010-03-18
    It was pointed out that one international human rights treaty in Africa guarantees a right to abortion – the Protocol on the Rights of Women.
  • NorthJersey.com: Epilepsy research fund-raiser planned at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church 2010-03-18
    Also scheduled to speak is Sister Zelda Bethea of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, an Englewood resident and regular volunteer at Englewood's Women's Right ...
  • Augusta Chronicle: Rants & Raves 2010-03-18
    Obama and Hillary are pushing a "women's rights" scheme of family planning that "also aims to reduce maternal and child deaths and HIV infections.
  • European Voice: Parliament postpones debate on paid maternity leave 2010-03-18
    The political groups in the Parliament are split over the legislation, and the women's rights committee approved it by only a narrow margin (19 votes ...
  • Jakarta Post: Comments: A law violates women's rights 2010-03-18
    The law on blasphemy tramples on the rights of women, the National Commission on Violence Against Women testified Friday in the judicial review of the 1965 ...
  • Legalbrief: Sloppy law may provide ammunition for Malema acquittal 2010-03-18
    While he acknowledges this is not to endorse Malema's disregard of women's rights and the plight of abused people in general, he says it does point to ...
  • The Brown Daily Herald: Races underway for both RI House seats 2010-03-18
    “Representative Langevin is not the advocate we feel is going to protect women's rights in Rhode Island and around the country,” Mark said.
  • MU The Parthenon: WVFREE documents reproductive rights movement 2010-03-18
    WVFREE will feature a documentary of the women's rights movement in West Virginia. Margaret Chapman Pomponio, executive director of WVFREE ...
  • CQPolitics.com: Rose Rambles Off Hayworth Campaign 2010-03-18
    Susan B. Anthony List Communications Director Joy Yearout has left the conservative anti-abortion group to join a gubernatorial campaign in Michigan.
  • Associated News Today: News: At 76, Steinem complained elusive equality for women 2010-03-18
    A message to all those confident young American women from pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem: For all the advances in women's rights in the past 40 year ...
  • Solomon Star: Diplomat's sexual advances 2010-03-18
    But when a foreigner attacked the sacred marriage of one of us, there was great silence, even from those who claimed to stand for women's rights.
  • Daily 49er: Chicana Feminism Conference to host workshops for both women, men 2010-03-18
    Although the conference is primarily about women's rights and Chicana empowerment, Zepeda emphasized that this event is open to everyone.
  • AFP: Technology, tradition combine in Asian 'gendercide' 2010-03-18
    "Tricks like coloured folders are absolutely common," Pinki Virani, a leading women's rights campaigner in India, told AFP. "So-called 'gendercide' is ...
  • The Chosun Ilbo: Adultery Law Upheld by Slimmest Margin 2010-03-18
    Women's rights groups such as Korean Women's Association United and Korean Womenlink view the adultery law as failing to protect the rights of women.
  • Journal: Students travel to UN women's conference 2010-03-18
    "I was inspired not only by the amazing women who have already accomplished so much but by the many young women out there who stand for women's rights.
  • PR Leap: Observe National Awakening Day in Bali - AsiaRooms.com 2010-03-18
    Kartini was a pioneer of women's rights for native Indonesians and one of the figures who helped to promote ideas of national independence.
  • GSU Signal: France's ban on Muslim burqa is discriminatory and unwise 2010-03-18
    The justifications of the ban range from preserving the French culture to women's rights, and national security. The proposed ban further accentuates ...
  • Dispatch Online: Traditional Bill 'will hurt rural women more' 2010-03-18
    ... and tradition to justify patriarchal practice and to realise that custom must and can be compatible with the freedom and rights of women and men”.
  • Campaign India: Leo Burnett supports women's helpline with new campaign 2010-03-18
    The helpline which is a collaborative effort between the Mumbai Police and Akshara, a NGO working for women's rights has been active for over two years ...
  • Stockton Record: Irish Day tied to history of Murphy sons 2010-03-18
    William Sherman, writers Mark Twain and Bret Harte, and women's rights activists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Charles Bolton, the poet ...

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