By MAGGIE MICHAEL On her way back from her job as a lecturer at a university near Tripoli, Libyan poet Aicha Almagrabi was stopped by a group of bearded militiamen. They kicked her car, beat up her driver and threatened… Read More ›
Women
News relating to gender equality, women’s struggles, reproductive rights, and the fight against misogyny.
Arkansas adopts most restrictive abortion law in US
Women looking to procure an abortion in the state of Arkansas will no longer be able to do so after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The state has passed the most restrictive abortion law in the US, prompting opponents to threaten… Read More ›
Editorial: Hugo Chávez kept his promise to the people of Venezuela
By OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA He wrote, he read, and mostly he spoke. Hugo Chávez, whose death has been announced, was devoted to the word. He spoke publicly an average of 40 hours per week. As president, he didn’t hold regular cabinet meetings; he’d bring… Read More ›
“We Saw Your Boobs” celebrates rape on film
Seth MacFarlane during the Oscars on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Credit: AP/Chris Pizzello) Hey, Seth MacFarlane, did you know many of those “boob” scenes you sang about were depictions of sexual assault? BY KATIE MCDONOUGH Seth MacFarlane has made… Read More ›
Canadian police face multiple ‘sexual abuse’ accusations from aboriginal women – HRW
Photographs of a 17-year old girl’s injuries after a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police repeatedly punched herwhile she was handcuffed in British Columbia in 2011.(Photo from hrw.org) Canada’s national police force stands accused of raping and sexually… Read More ›
Reported Sex Assaults Spike At Military Academies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reported sexual assaults at the nation’s three military academies jumped by 23 percent overall this year, but the data signaled a continued reluctance by victims to seek criminal investigations. According to a report obtained by The Associated… Read More ›
Tunisia’s ‘unfinished revolution’ — interview with Workers’ Party militant
By Peter Boyle November 16, 2012 — Green Left Weekly — Abdel Jabbar Madouri (pictured above) has been a militant in Tunisia since his early secondary school days. He was jailed three times (in 1987,1993 and 2002) because of his political activism. After every arrest,… Read More ›
Israel’s Ethiopians suffer different ‘planned’ parenthood
The revelation that Israel is sterilizing Ethiopian women adds to a shameful history of abuse of powerless women and communities. It’s hard to believe, but in Israel, in 2012, Ethiopian women are forced to receive injections of the Depo-Provera contraceptive…. Read More ›
American Misogyny Peaks As 12 Year Old Sex Abuse Victim Is Blamed
We have heard a lot this year about the so-called “War On Women”. Conservatives on the one hand want to say there is no war, liberals strongly state the opposite. Personally, I find it incredible that anyone c0uld deny such a war… Read More ›
How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement
By Libby Anne The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later… Read More ›
Sexism and the New Atheism
The Atheistic Imperialists by JEFF SPARROW Slate recently published an important piece by Rebecca Watson, in which she describes the sexism she’s encountered during her career as a ‘skeptic’: that is, a member of the anti-faith, pro-science community that overlaps with… Read More ›
Richard Mourdock On Abortion: Pregnancy From Rape Is ‘Something God Intended’ [UPDATE]
by Michael McAuliff WASHINGTON — Indiana GOP U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock declared Tuesday night he opposes aborting pregnancies conceived in rape because “it is something that God intended to happen.” Debating Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) in their final Senate… Read More ›
Wisconsin Lawmaker Claims ‘Some Girls Rape Easy’
By Igor Volsky A Wisconsin state lawmaker endorsed by Paul Ryan has come under criticism for suggesting that “some girls rape easy.” While discussing a case in which “a 17-year-old high school senior was charged with sexual assault for having sex… Read More ›
Anti-abortion Tea Party congressman demands mistress get an abortion
BY: LOU COLAGIOVANNI Tea Party Congressman Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee is facing national scrutiny because damning evidence has surfaced which implicates him in adultery and shows him negotiating with his sexual partner outside of his marriage to have an abortion…. Read More ›
Walmart Black Friday Strike: Workers Threaten To ‘Take Action’ On Retailer’s Busiest Day
By Harry Bradford Employees at 28 Walmarts in 12 different cities walked out of work Tuesday, but things may get a whole lot worse for the biggest retailer in the U.S. come Black Friday. United Food and Commercial Workers’ Making… Read More ›
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