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FGM: Outrage as baby dies after genital mutilation in The Gambia 1 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 883
US Seeks to Rename (and defund) UN Aviation Program Over Term 'Gender' 1 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 888
DEI's Collapse and the Cost to Black Women 1 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 837
Bipartisan Group of Congresswomen Call for Funding of American Women's History Museum 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 769
'The matter is in his hands alone': president of Sierra Leone urged to ban FGM as court rules it tantamount to torture 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 720
Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity - report 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 815
Pregnant and Unmarried? In Tennessee, That's Now Grounds for Denial of Care. 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 777
US judge blocks Trump's effort to defund reproductive health organisation 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 709
T####'s Support Erodes as Women, Workers and Even Republicans Push Back 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 748
Poverty is a Policy Choice--and Women Deserve More 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 736
Nature didn't forget. 13 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 54 2410
Happy Anniversary Of The First Women's Rights Convention! 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 970
How the global trade in donkey skins threatens the lives of women and girls 3 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1174
Declaration of Sentiments---Seneca Falls, July 19-20 1848 Women's Rights 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 933
Feminist icon Gisele Pelicot awarded France's top civic honour: Report 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 914
Attacks on Abortion Access Are as Old as White Supremacist Patriarchy Itself. Here's How We Fight Back. 2 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1002
'Misogyny Is a System': Julie Suk Wants to Reimagine U.S. Institutions--and Build a Democracy of Equality 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 962
The Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the National Stage for Women's Suffrage 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 891
African manhood is broken - and it's costing women their lives( Urgent Trigger warning!!) 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 1571
An Open Letter to Rep. Kat Cammack From a Medical Doctor: It's Abortion Bans That Make Doctors Afraid to Act, Not 'the 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1222
Anne Marie Allen tells The Women's Podcast about her gruelling life within Opus Dei 10 bucolic_frolic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 37 2627
Inside Liberty University's Secret Maternity Home 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1273
Invisible victims How Colombia plans to support children orphaned by femicide 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1177
'We Need to Shift Who Has Power in This Country': Cynthia Richie Terrell Knows How We Can Cultivate Gender Balance in P 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1093
The U.N. Should Condemn the U.S.' Human Rights Record on Abortion 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 837
The wage gap, explained. 5 eppur_se_muova Jun 2025 Jun 2025 27 2065
Inequalities across the continent: research, women and health. 0 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1226
New head of MI6 will be a woman for first time in British spy history 2 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 7 1408
Now Public!! Yay! Here's the video from my local No Kings Rally 1 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 1473
The women at the centre of Somalia's construction boom 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 1117

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Southern Baptist Convention Calls to Ban Same-Sex Marriage 3 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 1356
Pregnant in Power: U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen Confronts a System Built for Men 0 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 1228
House Judiciary Committee Advances Bill to Repeal FACE Act 0 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 1145
Plan C's Road Trip Takes Abortion Access to the People 0 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1061
Trump's Cartoonish Performance of Masculine Strength, from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1309
What Comes After Roe? Fear, Surveillance and Felony Charges 0 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1101
Entrepreneur 'humiliated' after London Tech Week turns her and baby away 3 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1591
'Remember the Ladies': Attacks on Gender Equity Remain a Core Feature of Surging Authoritarianism 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1293
In Canada, A Daughter's Fight To Bring Her Murdered Indigenous Mother Home (Trigger Warning) 4 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1585
'One-Two Punch': Trump Administration Blocks Lifesaving Abortion Care and Announces Mifepristone Safety 'Review'--All in 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1261
"I Ain't Afraid" Holly Near 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1505
Lawsuit Challenges Kansas Law That Voids Living Wills for Pregnant Women 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1233
The Maternal Mental Health Crisis: How America Is Failing Its Mothers 0 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 1016
Still Naming the Problem: A New Film Premiering at Tribeca, Then Heading to HBO, Celebrates ...Ms. Magazine 1 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1417
So true 8 Demovictory9 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1685
Myth and misogyny: how male representations of the female form have changed the way women are viewed 6 littlemissmartypants May 2025 May 2025 13 1713
Astronaut Sally Ride's BD is today. Reading about her, found this site which was surprised that hadn't found erst now. 1 SorellaLaBefana May 2025 May 2025 11 1448
Susan Brownmiller, author of landmark book on sexual assault, dies at 90 5 littlemissmartypants May 2025 May 2025 13 1755
Her Voice, Her Power: The Story of Hira Anwar Generation Girl Code 1 YoshidaYui May 2025 May 2025 3 1561
Passengers come to aid of woman breasfeeding on bus when man videotapes 2 Demovictory9 May 2025 May 2025 7 1563
I post this here because it's hitting women 8 slightlv May 2025 May 2025 41 2971
It really should have been a deal breaker for everyone. . . 1 Stargleamer May 2025 May 2025 18 1641
sometimes the word "oppression" seems to have fallen by the wayside. . . 0 Stargleamer May 2025 May 2025 3 1093
Our Periods Are Not Your Population Solution 2 niyad May 2025 May 2025 4 1493
Faux feminism has left the planet 2 niyad May 2025 May 2025 6 1374
'We Need a Gentle Anger': The Triangle's Raging Grannies are Protesting Injustice through Music 1 niyad May 2025 May 2025 3 1259
How Trump's America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women (trigger warning) 0 niyad May 2025 May 2025 3 1247
Profiles in Courage: Danielle Sassoon, a Prosecutor of Principle, Quits After Rejecting Trump-Appointed AG's Order to Sh 0 niyad May 2025 May 2025 4 1133
American women and children are in crisis. Republicans are about to make it worse 1 littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 Apr 2025 15 1502
Advancing global development by empowering women 0 Celerity Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1203

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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The Perception Paradox: Men Who Hate Feminists Think Feminists Hate Men 3 niyad Mar 2025 Apr 2025 4 1716
'It means death': Afghan women's rights activists face deportation from Pakistan 0 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1413
Four Afghan girl guitarists escaped the Taliban. Will they be forced back? 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1637
The SAVE Act's Impact on Women Voters Isn't a Coincidence. It's Voter Suppression. 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1314
Twenty-Nine States Have a Not-So-Secret Weapon to Fight for Democracy 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1435
Trump Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence, Citing 'DEI' 12 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 2712
The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1799
The GOP's Next Target? No-Fault Divorce and Women's Right to Leave 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1696
Missing Native women erased: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1409
A Challenge to the Health of Pregnant Workers--and the Health of Our Constitutional Democracy 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1503
'Money, Lies, and God': The Rise of Christian Nationalism and the Battle for American Democracy 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1722
Education Is a Right 3 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1379
Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners - report 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1338
Israel's attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza 'genocidal': UN probe 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1505
" Days of the Theocracy"-- Kristin Lems 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1149
Paris Paloma, Labour with lyrics 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 1119
Convention of the Cayuga County (NY) Political Equality Club program, 1914 0 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1126
International Women's Day 1 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1746
Secretary of State Marco Rubio Will Be a Disaster for Women 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1536
Women's HERstory Month 2025--Moving Forward Together 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1343
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