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'Napalm girl' Kim Phuc receives German prize for peace work Activist honoured decades after she wa 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 4 1206
Three Michelin stars! Meet the first woman to smash America's boys' club 1 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1156
'A Woman, Just Not That Woman': How Sexism Plays Out on the Trail (lengthy, excellent read) 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1089
The Burning Times Charlie Murphy 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1071
MP Christopher Chope under fire for blocking anti-FGM bill 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1282
She's With Stupid Sure, AOC slips up sometimes-but have you listened to her Republican colleagues? 8 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 9 2535
One Billion Rising Break the Chain Dance Washington DC 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1075
"Love and Justice, Women's Anthem" 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1209
Tango della femminista 2 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 6 1594
One Billion Rising flash mob 2 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 7 1379
BHUTAN: We Are One - One Billion Rising 1 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 1246
Germany's cabinet approves revision to Nazi-era abortion law 1 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1263
"We Are All Bound Up Together"- May 1866 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1859
Saudi Arabia to address abuse of male guardianship system: media reports 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1132
Nepal woman suffocates in banned 'menstruation hut' 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1271
Saudi female activists face jail conditions akin to torture, say UK MPs 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1168
Girls can join the Boy Scouts now 3 PoliticAverse Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1551
Will Someone Please Explain To Anti-Choice Idiots That Nobody's Killing Born Babies? 2 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1543
Mother of three-year-old is first person convicted of FGM in UK 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1570
Forget Trump's border distraction - the real threat is inside the house While the government was s 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1393
It is a scandal that working mothers are 40% more stressed than other people 5 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1790
The Real Cost of Stress and Ways To Ease The Pain 0 spicysista Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1984
Is the World's Most Powerful Woman Finally a Feminist? 2 elleng Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1607
Palestine, the Women's March, and imperial feminism Much effort is made in the US to maintain that 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 6 1208
My website got mentioned in an anti-feminist blog 0 Beringia Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1371
And she lived happily ever after 0 question everything Jan 2019 Jan 2019 12 1362
Revealed: 'dozens' of girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1859
Spain's far right hates not only immigrants, but also women 2 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1373
UAE's gender equality awards won entirely by men 0 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 5 1227
Violence Against Women Act extended in bill that reopened government 2 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 14 1556

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Mexican woman jailed for miscarriage released after conviction is overturned 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1362
Women's March 2019: Thousands across the US march for third year Women and supporters across the US 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1260
Under Trump, states step up effort to restrict abortion access 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1119
How Polish Women are Pushing Back on Anti-Abortion Policies 1 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1285
The woman who was assaulted at a home care 6 question everything Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1731
Samantha Bee Full Frontal-- "Women Running for President" 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1147
A Bollywood icon was accused of sexual assault. The response was chilling. 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1731
"Women of the House" S01E10 "Women in Film" one of the best commentaries on that subject I have seen 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1222
Reading a novel about the ice age, more patriarchy 6 Beringia Jan 2019 Jan 2019 5 1925
Virginia Senate Passes ERA 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 12 1344
The feminist knitting circle in India upending patriarchal norms 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1102
The women fighting a pipeline that could destroy precious wildlife Activists fight to stop constru 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1118
Virginia ERA Update 0 Dave in VA Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1722
Theater project lets women who accused Trump tell their stories The Pussy Grabber Plays - eight sh 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1282
The Late-Term Abortion I Didn't Want 8 question everything Nov 2018 Jan 2019 19 2683
Tara Murtha & Susan Frietsche: Nothing 'pro-life' about overturning Roe v. Wade 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1644
Nepal: Woman, sons suffocate to death in banned 'menstrual hut' 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1293
Brooke Medicine Eagle newsletter January 2019 3 Beringia Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1629
Virginia General Assembly ERA Updated 0 Dave in VA Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1758
Why a Saudi woman can be arrested for disobeying her father 3 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 6 1536
Bernice Sandler, 'godmother of Title IX' who championed women's rights on campus, dies at 90 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1362
Would Peace in Afghanistan Be Possible Without Women's Rights and Participation? 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1141
My Feminist New Year's Resolution 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1117
"Coming out of the broom closet:" Denver witches report a vibrant, growing community as witchcraft c 9 niyad Dec 2018 Jan 2019 4 2943
Saudi women to get divorce confirmation by text message 3 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1641
Surviving R. Kelly-anyone watching? 2 Lotusflower70 Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1657
India's hidden years of nuns sexually abused by priests AP investigation uncovers decades-long hist 3 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1424
Marriage licence from 1915 4 Beringia Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 2120
City of Women (renaming NYC subway stops for women) 1 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1242
Across America, racist and sexist monuments give way to a new future 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1131

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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V-Day 2019 One Billion Rising to End Violence Against Women 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1463
Women forced into marriage overseas asked to repay cost of return to UK 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1342
Sabarimala temple: Indian women form '620km human chain' for equality 0 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1286
New brew: the Native American women upending craft beer_and a haven for the local LGBTQ and indigeno 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 15 1745
'Shame on this President:' With Shutdown, Trump Cuts Off Funds for 'Vital Services and Protections' 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1342
Swedish women-only music festival found guilty of discrimination 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 1485
U.S. alone in its opposition to parts of a U.N. draft resolution addressing violence against girls 2 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 7 1425
Japan medical schools 'rigged women's results' 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1256
Two more Japanese medical schools admit discriminating against women 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1189
The Sisterhood Is Global Institute The Think Tank of International Feminism 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1329
Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Persistence of the Bad Male Apology 9 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 5 2034
Remebering the 14 women victims of the Montreal Massacre 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1476
Sisterhood, Herstory and Talking Circles: Inside Gloria's Life 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1099
Not Much Has Changed Since The Ecole Polytechnique Massacre 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1133
Ecole Polytechnique (Montreal) massacre 6 December 1989 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1233
"The Land Where Women Rule" China's Lugu Lake--last matriarchy. (thank you, Kind of Blue) 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 4 1475
Equal Rights Amendment 2 Dave in VA Dec 2018 Dec 2018 9 2145
Dr. Olivia J. Hooker: Oldest Survivor Of Black Wall Street & Tulsa Race Massacre 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1295
Dr. Olivia Hooker, Coast Guard pioneer, race riot survivor laid to rest 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1189
'We Have Not Come Here to Beg World Leaders to Care,' 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Tells COP24. 'We H 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 7 1601
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