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New Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic In Fairview Heights Was Built In Secret 1 Sherman A1 Oct 2019 Oct 2019 9 1698
Judge Blocks Missouri From Enforcing Its 'Down Syndrome Abortion' Ban 2 Sherman A1 Sep 2019 Sep 2019 6 2100
Trump's anti-woman push puts America in the pantheon of human rights offenders 0 Eugene Sep 2019 Sep 2019 2 1617
Federal Judge Denies Missouri's Request To Let Abortion Ban Take Effect 0 Sherman A1 Sep 2019 Sep 2019 2 1691
South Korean politician scolds female professor for not having child 0 Eugene Sep 2019 Sep 2019 3 1783
Palestinian women demand legal protection after suspected 'honor killing' 1 Eugene Sep 2019 Sep 2019 3 1684
Macron hears police officer refuse to help woman in danger 0 Eugene Sep 2019 Sep 2019 13 1838
#MeToo In A Culture Of Good Old Boys, (In the Forest Service) 1 Beringia Aug 2019 Aug 2019 5 1930
And they wonder why we say that they hate women 0 Ohiogal Aug 2019 Aug 2019 4 1787
Ashcroft's Delay Makes Vote On Missouri's 8-Week Ban 'Impossible,' Abortion-Rights Group Says 0 Sherman A1 Aug 2019 Aug 2019 2 1727
Saudi woman activist rejects release deal tied to denying torture: family 0 Eugene Aug 2019 Aug 2019 2 1651
App that can remove women's clothes from images shut down 4 Eugene Jun 2019 Jul 2019 1 2334
NJ Supreme Court acts against judges for remarks in sex assault cases 0 Eugene Jul 2019 Jul 2019 3 1667
India arrests after women's heads shaved for resisting rape 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1857
Canada: man acquitted of rape as judge says accuser 'combative' in court 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1857
"Days of the Theocracy" Words and music by Kristin Lems 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1960
Spain women: Top court rules Wolf Pack gang were rapists 1 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 1801
Women outperform men after Japan medical school stops rigging exam scores 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 12 1963
Sharia court orders jail for rape victim unless kids handed to rapist. 2 Bayard Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 2522
Swiss women strike for more money, time and respect 1 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 5 1830
Kenya: male MP slaps female MP, gets arrested 1 shenmue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 0 1994
Outrage at acquittals in rape cases sparks calls to fix Japanese law 1 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1763
White Lies, a New Zealand period piece 2 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1971
Japan's labour minister says high heels at work are 'necessary' 4 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 2161
There's Nothing "Pro-Life" About Sweeping Abortion Bans ("arbitrary killing of women by gov't) 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 1473
Trump's anti-abortion global gag rule harming women in Africa and Asia, report says 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 3246
Canadian Inquiry Calls Killings of Indigenous Women Genocide 0 niyad Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 3320
Thousands back Japan high heels campaign 1 shenmue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1885
Latin American rape survivors who were denied abortions turn to UN 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 2 1763
Bangladesh to charge 16 with murder of woman, 19, burned to death 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 1 1587

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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States pushing abortion bans have higher infant and maternal mortality rates 3 Ohiogal May 2019 May 2019 9 2032
500 protests planned STOP THE ABORTION BANS! 0 BigmanPigman May 2019 May 2019 15 1923
Lengthy Webster U. Harassment Investigation Spurs Student Outcry, University Audit 1 Sherman A1 May 2019 May 2019 3 1686
UN Passes Anti-War Rape Resolution Despite US Opposition 4 niyad Apr 2019 May 2019 5 1860
300 protests planned STOP THE BAN (on abortion) 3 BigmanPigman May 2019 May 2019 8 2050
Some states seek to close loopholes in marital rape laws 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 3 1719
"At the Heart of Gold": how 'predatory' institutions protected Larry Nassar 0 niyad May 2019 May 2019 1 1735
Cyprus serial killer case exposes abuse of migrant women 0 shenmue May 2019 May 2019 2 1625
Women are disappearing and dying in Indian country. We must act. The epidemic of missing and murder 0 niyad May 2019 May 2019 3 1571
A Native American woman's brutal murder could lead to a life-saving law 0 niyad May 2019 May 2019 1 1520
Congress is Convening the First Official Hearing on the ERA in Three Decades 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1499
"Failure is Impossible" Kristin Lems 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1719
"We Will Never Give Up" Kristin Lems 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1712
"Ballad of teh ERA" Kristin Lems (in honour of the hearings today) 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1570
A Cafe Run by Acid Attack Survivors Attracts Visitors From Around the World 1 Cattledog Apr 2019 Apr 2019 8 1766
Yazidi leaders to allow Isis rape survivors to return with children 1 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1719
Women's Bodies Shouldn't Be Battlefields 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1555
No Compromises on Women's Rights 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1492
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 1402
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 1778
Bowing to U.S. demands, U.N. waters down resolution on sexual violence in conflict 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1487
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 1666
Stephen Moore's Columns Deriding Women Raise New Questions for Trump Fed Pick 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1364
Planned Parenthood losing some big donors 1 Odoreida Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 2117
Traditional Marriage (something I just came across from a few years ago) 3 Odoreida Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1839
The misogynist trolls attacking Dr. Katie Bouman are the tip of the trashpile 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1537
Nusrat Jahan Rafi: Burned to death for reporting sexual harassment 3 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 9 2063
Hillary Clinton: 'Given the chance, many women will govern and lead differently' 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 7 1646
"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 1897
This message was self-deleted by its author 2 shenmue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1456

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding (very important, lengthy read) 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 11 1398
The Other Art History: The Forgotten Women of Bauhaus 2 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 3264
Marianne Brandt industiral designer of the Bauhaus movement 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1882
Women Workers RISING: BE HEARD in the Workplace Act Introduced Today 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1493
Trump Travel Ban Prohibits Dozens from Attending U.N. Women's Forum 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1479
Alfred University is Leading the Fight Against Campus Rape Culture--with a Public Reckoning 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1397
Feminists are Taking on the NRA in the Fight to End Violence Against Women 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1477
Upcoming Screenings for Roll Red Roll (teh Steubenville Rape case) 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1332
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 1393
Is Imprisoning Women the Latest Anti-Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Strategy? 2 Panich52 Feb 2019 Apr 2019 4 1750
google doodle honours Dr. Hedwig Kohn, German physicist who fled nazis. 2 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1675
Inside the Bookstore (The "Second Shelf"_ That Wants to Gender-Balance Our Bookshelves 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1320
Saudi women activists back in court as West watches 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1775
I cannot be in a relationship with a man, Jane Fonda 3 Beringia Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 3938
Which are the world's 10 most dangerous countries for women? US #10, only western country on list 5 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 6 1621
"Erin Brockovich of Slovakia" Elected Nation's First Female President 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1555
After Speech Goes Viral, Georgia Lawmaker Not Done Condemning Attack on Reproductive Rights: 'Women 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1360
NRA Wades Into Debate Over Violence Against Women Act A handful of disputes, including over VAWA, 0 niyad Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1407
Lion Mama: The woman who fought off her daughter's rapists 0 shenmue Mar 2019 Mar 2019 17 2186
Truth, Reconciliation and Reshaping Feminist History 0 niyad Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1368
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