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'A gamechanger': this simple device could help fight the war on abortion rights in the US 1 littlemissmartypants Apr 2023 Apr 2023 4 1884
Why Molly Ringwald translated an infamous story of film exploitation 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2023 11 1472
The Legal System Continues to Fail Pieper Lewis, a Survivor of Sex Trafficking 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 1371
The Same Groups That Helped Overturn Roe and Attack Abortion Pills Are Also Lobbying Against the ER 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 1320
Amid Contradicting Orders, the Supreme Court Protects Abortion Pill Access--for Now 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1022
The google doodle today honours Justine Siegemund, midwife, whose self- 6 niyad Mar 2023 Apr 2023 5 2055
Young People Don't Know Their Emergency Contraception Options 4 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 4 1712
One Liberal Senator Fights Back Against Judicial Tyranny 0 BeckyDem Apr 2023 Apr 2023 6 1861
Afghan religious scholars criticize girls' education ban 0 Eugene Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 1010
ACROSS 92 COUNTRIES, ACTIVISTS RISE FOR FREEDOM & CREATE THE NEW CULTURE FOR ONE BILLION RISING 2023 1 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 4 2027
Standing Together for Freedom: A Commitment to 14 Democratic Principles 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 934
'I Oppose the Mandatory Hijab' Button Campaign Puts Iranian Women's Rights Front and Center 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 1503
UN chief demands Taliban revoke ban on women staff 1 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1151
Why the Wage Gap Differs Among Asian American Women 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1148
"How the LAPD abortion squad went after women and doctors in pre-Roe era" Front page, LA Times 2 Hekate Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 2253
Two Iranian women arrested for not covering hair after man attacks them with yoghurt 2 Eugene Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 1312
Women Displaced by Climate Change Are Telling Us What They Need. It's Past Time for Us To Listen. 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1717
Still Waiting for U.S. Constitutional Equality? 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 820
Reps. Cori Bush and Ayanna Pressley Launch Congressional ERA Caucus--'Because Equality Is Overdue' 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1442
How Feminists and Academics Are Fighting the Right's 'Anti-Woke' Agenda 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1145
The 'Anti-Life' Implications of State Abortion Bans 2 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 965
Lucia Perez: Argentina court convicts two in femicide case 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1065
Russia's war in Ukraine exacts heavy toll on women, says UNFPA (trigger warning) 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1581
How an interview with a rapist fired up Serbia's feminists (trigger warning: graphic) 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1499
Taliban Arrests Prominent Education Activist 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 857
War on Women Report: World Athletics Bans Trans Women; Maternal Mortality on the Rise; E. Jean Carr 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1477
We All Deserve the Freedom to Control Our Bodies 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 830
Across the Desk - S7:E11 (OK Supreme Court & Protecting the Lives of Women) 0 Across-the-Desk Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1677
The Matilda Effect 4 ancianita Mar 2023 Mar 2023 17 1578
Abortion Wins Elections The fight to make reproductive rights the centerpiece of the Democratic Part 0 Novara Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1952

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Rep. Pat Schroeder to be honoured in the House of Representatives today with a 6 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1767
US Supreme Court honours former justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1088
What Stands in the Way for Equal Pay for Women? 6 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1800
Why Women Are More Likely to Be 'Citizens of Nowhere' 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1369
If Period Discussions In Health Class Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will ... What The HELL FLORIDA? 2 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1643
Campaign calls for gender apartheid to be crime under international law 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 959
What Clinicians Want You to Know About Getting Abortion Pills in Anti-Abortion States 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1249
In Absence of Roe, Healthcare Providers Have a Professional and Ethical Duty to Step Up 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1493
'A Whole Generation of People Who Don't Know How To Take Care of People': Training Ob-Gyn Medical R 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1500
Arizona 'Medical Students for Life' Chapter Threatens Patient Health: 'This Contradicts What We Are 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1307
S. Carolina repukes introducing bill to make abortion punishable by death. 10 Laffy Kat Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1958
Separate and unequal: gender segregation at work 0 Celerity Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1284
Don't Want to Be Pregnant? Here's What Abortion Opponents Can Do to You in Texas (W) 0 appalachiablue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1390
Herbs & tinctures "to regulate the menses" were advertised in Colonial newspapers. Every time I hear 7 Hekate Mar 2023 Mar 2023 9 2007
Polish court convicts activist of providing abortion pills in landmark case 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1342
Women Hold Up Half the Sky 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1287
Happy International Women's Day? 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 878
This Women's Day, there is little to celebrate in South Korea 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1572
Chile's abortion rights movement faces uphill battle 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 821
On Women's Day, watch these five unsung heroes changing the world 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1526
International Women's Day protesters demand gender equality 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1059
A Letter from an Afghan Educator: Optimism in the Face of Agony 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1142
'I Am Erased!': Afghan Women Leaders Urge International Community to Take Action 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1317
International Women's Day 2023: An update on reproductive freedom 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 761
Happy International Women's Day (IWD), observed as an actual holiday in many 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1413
The google doodle today honours International Women's Day with an amazing 4 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1607
For some Chinese women it 'doesn't make sense' to have babies 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 966
Recognizing the Role of Women in Fighting for Peace in Ukraine 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1212
Texas Judge Doesn't Have Power to Ban Abortion Pills Nationwide, Say Legal Experts 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1497
New Report: Violence Against Women and Girls Needs New Global Policy 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 961

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Almost All Domestic Violence Is Preceded by Coercive Control. Proposed Massachusetts Laws Aim to Ad 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1488
Populism and Women's Lives 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 838
Why money will not be enough to address Japan's baby crisis 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1207
Could You Detect a Coercive Controller Like Simon in 'Alice, Darling'? I Didn't--Until It Was Too La 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1452
Only When the Government Truly Represents Women Will the U.S. Have a Real Democracy 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1049
Pain and Prejudice (from 2018 about misnamed "chronic fatigue syndrome) 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1146
71. Cheated: Every Woman's Story (with Tracey Meares) 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 849
When Women Are Safe, We Will Finally Be Free 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1210
History Is Incomplete Without Black Women 6 niyad Feb 2023 Mar 2023 4 1622
women's soccer team ditches white shorts...so women can feel confident playing while menstruating 2 BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1725
Dossier: ♀️What does feminist foreign policy mean for progressives? 2 Celerity Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1204
The One Million Moms Have A Not-So-Fresh Feeling About Menstruating Ladies 8 niyad Feb 2023 Mar 2023 1 1708
The Toronto Raptors issue an apology for posting this video for Women History Month: 0 BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1612
Happy Women's HERSTORY Month, that 1/12th of the year when a bit more atrention 2 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1193
Saudi Arabia sends first female team to global tennis event 2 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 3 1151
The Forgotten Reproductive Justice Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 1253
'Why We Still Love Zora': Irma McClaurin on PBS Documentary 'Claiming a Space' and Zora Neale Hurst 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 1199
Taliban Bans the Selling of Contraceptives in Afghanistan 2 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 903
Sugar and Spice and Not So Nice: The Roar for Little Girls 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 1269
Repro Roundup: Forced Birthers Not So 'Pro-Life' After All, Part 4,252,337 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 1231
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