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The Taliban use tasers, fire hoses and gunfire to break up Afghan women protesting beauty salon ban 2 Eugene Jul 2023 Aug 2023 5 1634
How a trial in Texas changed the story of abortion rights in America 2 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2023 Aug 2023 11 1334
Just came across this site. . . 5 Collimator Aug 2023 Aug 2023 10 1610
Idaho has quietly dissolved its committee tasked with understanding maternal deaths 4 Eugene Aug 2023 Aug 2023 7 1265
Who Do We Call To Solve Our Most Complex Problem? Vice President Harris. 2 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 1207
African female chief rises to power- annulled 2600 child marriages and sent the girls back to school 3 BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2023 Aug 2023 11 1577
The Glamorous, Sexist History of the Women's Restroom Lounge 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 787
In Bulgaria, A Loophole In The Law Is Killing Women 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 2 855
Thousands Rally In Bulgaria Against Domestic Violence After Shocking Case 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 5 902
Why We Need A Reproductive Justice Bill of Rights (Trigger warning for graphic violence) 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 3 925
Global Reproductive Justice Is What We Need Right Now 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 749
Rest in Power: Katie Early, Long-Time Champion for Reproductive Justice 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 849
Stop Gun Violence With a Reproductive Justice Approach 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 639
One Reason We All Want to Live in Barbieland? There Is No Gun Industry. 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 1033
Congrats and thanks to niyad for 20 years of fighting the good fight on DU! [View all] 75 quaint Jul 2023 Aug 2023 176 11764
Analytic women 0 Celerity Aug 2023 Aug 2023 3 988
The 'Barbie' Movie: "More Swipes at 'The Patriarchy' Than a Year's Worth of Ms. Magazine" 5 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1339
A New Alimony Law Makes Florida Even Less Safe for Women 1 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 716
'There's no other option but to fight': Iranian women defiant as 'morality police' return 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1025
'Gut-churning': anger as Hungarian president addresses major women's rights conference 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 700
The Taliban has reportedly agreed to relocate the TTP within its borders. Many fear a rise in ethni 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 886
Abortion Is Officially on the Ballot in Ohio's August and November Elections 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 601
Illinois Law Holds Anti-Abortion 'Crisis Pregnancy Centers' Accountable for Misinformation and Frau 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 742
U.S. Clinicians Can Now Mail Abortion Pills to States Banning Abortion, Thanks to Shield Laws in Fi 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 819
'Barbie' and the Women's World Cup: Cheering for Women in Spikes 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 640
'This Barbie Is a Feminist': Greta Gerwig's Barbie Reckons With Her Fraught Legacy 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 1377
Iranian Court Sparks Controversy By Diagnosing Hijab Protesters With Mental Illness 4 Eugene Jul 2023 Jul 2023 8 1322
Across the Desk - S8:E1 (19 (R) AG's See Women as State Property) 1 Across-the-Desk Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1278
Biden Administration Takes on Intimate Partner Violence, Releasing New Clinical Guidance 2 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1053
'Family Annihilators': When Conservative America's Fetish for Guns and Patriarchy Turns Deadly 2 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 1079

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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'Hidden Horrors': When it Comes to Domestic Violence, the Real Monsters Are Hiding in Plain Sight 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 1335
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments And Rights (of women) July 1848 (175th anniversary) 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 956
What Black Barbie Means to Black Women and Girls 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 826
'Social media': the harms to women and girls 3 Celerity Jul 2023 Jul 2023 7 1586
'Gut-churning': anger as Hungarian president addresses major women's rights conference 2 Eugene Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1071
Today's google doodle honours Eunice Newton Foote, discoverer of the greenhouse 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 823
Why Menopause Representation Matters: 'Women in Positions of Power Realize This Is Not Something to 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 1316
Indictments Seek to Hold Trump Accountable for Threatening U.S. Democracy and National Security 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 744
With increasing Taliban restrictions against Afghan women, the mental health crisis worsens. "I feel 4 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1634
US Republicans pass defence bill with anti-abortion, LGBT add-ons 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 689
Physicians Share Photos of Early Pregnancy Tissue: 'We Just Want People to Have Accurate Informati 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1266
Lawyers Say Catherine Kassenoff's Case--and Thousands of Others--Violate U.S. Constitutional Right to 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 967
Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data 3 BeckyDem Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1536
I Am Woman Helen Reddy official video graphic lyrics 6 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 1470
Remembering Catherine Kassenoff and Continuing the Fight for Fair U.S. Child Custody Outcomes 2 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1199
The Time Mother Jones (The Woman) Sent Maimed Children To Shame Teddy Roosevelt 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 1134
An ex-anti-abortion evangelist on life as a pro-choice 'traitor' 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 676
Celebrate the ERA's 100th Birthday in Seneca Falls, Where It Was Originally Unveiled 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 897
Experts Say Catherine Kassenoff's Family Court Case Should Alarm America 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 943
What Will Happen to Catherine Kassenoff's Children? 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 761
Afghan women barred from beauty salons in latest Taliban edict: "Don't we have the right to work or 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 968
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has challenged traditional perceptions of gender, while also exacerbat 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 782
There is a talk, again, about how social media, especially TikTok, harm young women 3 question everything Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 1040
POLITICS & HISTORY: Women Against Women's Suffrage 2 BeckyDem Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 1162
Morning-after pill vending machines gain popularity on college campuses post-Roe 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 10 1637
Casting menstruation as a taboo is dangerous 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 746
Congressional Resolution Condemns Criminalization of Abortion, Contraception and Gender-Affirming Ca 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 1004
ChatGPT: New Technology, Same Old Misogynoir 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 695
Amid the health and economic crisis in Afghanistan, the Taliban refuses to help. Instead, blames the 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 1106
Women of the World presents "Bread and Roses" 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 762

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Pushing Back Against the Pushback: How the Nordics Tackle Online Gender Violence 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1106
March of the Women 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 705
Supreme Court Decision on Reckless Speech Will Cost Victims of Stalking and Harassment 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 1000
For All Women In Struggle Kristin Lems 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 870
In the Out Door Kristin Lems 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 662
Days of the Theocracy Kristin Lems 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 753
Supreme Court Review: The Term That Ended Affirmative Action, Allowed LGBTQ Discrimination, and More 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 1035
The Hell of Providing Health Care in a Post-Dobbs America 1 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1063
A Year After Dobbs: Rights Have Been Lost, Lives Have Been Threatened--But Feminists Persist 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 1122
Anti-Abortion Terrorist Thinks Dobbs Ruling Should Set Him Free 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 823
'Not afraid': The Texas pilot flying patients to abortions 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 720
The Dark Money Fight Against Abortion Access: A Year in Review 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 825
Afghan lawyers and judges are being persecuted by the Taliban. It threatens Afghan women, the justi 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 949
State Abortion Laws Are a Deciding Factor for Students One Year Post-Roe, IWPR Poll Reveals 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 864
USOW Wants to Help You Organize for Abortion Access One-Year After the Fall of Roe 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 871
A Year of Dobbs: Anger, Heartbreak, Resistance and Resilience 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 685
The Ms. Q&A With U.S. Senator Patty Murray: 'Our Ultimate Goal Is to Put Roe Back Into Law' 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 776
The revival of the Comstock Act: "How the end of Roe turned into a threat to American democracy" 0 Hekate Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 1184
This Friday: Biden to sign executive order expanding access to contraception 5 NotHardly Jun 2023 Jun 2023 18 1241
In the service of justice 2 Celerity Jun 2023 Jun 2023 5 1037
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