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From the Executive Director: Why Aren’t Men Mentioned?
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Immigrants Who Charged Sex Abuse Fight Deportation
Women Wish to Stay to Testify Against Former Guards The women argue that they are entitled to a specific type of visa under the Violence Against Women Act of 2000, permitting them to remain in the ...
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Sweden Pushed Gender Equality to Boost Birth Rates
Credit: sean dreilinger on Flickr, under Creative Commons (WOMENSENEWS)– In a 2002 article, “Gender Equality: A Key to Our Future?,” Lena Sommestad, a women’s historian and then Swedish Social ...
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A Tale of Three Universities: Accessibility in Higher Education
Thriving in college is hard. The US News and World Report reports that only 62% of American college students graduate from a university within six years’ time. The reasons range from academic to ...
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Turn Off the Cameras: End Inhumane Treatment of Women in Michigan Prisons
It is the height of irony. In the same month officially proclaiming March as Women’s History Month, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called on the legacy of women from Michigan “who have continued to provide ...
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Women as Weapons of War: A Spectrum of Sexual Violence in Ukraine and Beyond – Women's eNews
In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...
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‘My Passion, My Philanthropy’: Loreen Arbus’ Work Defined By Marginalization - Women's eNews
(WOMENSENEWS)—If there is a single through-line in my life and in my philanthropy, it is marginalization. It has been with me from my earliest memory, and it has defined the many causes to which I ...
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Zan Times* interview: The UN’s Richard Bennett on human rights abuses, gender apartheid, and the Taliban’s quest for recognition - Women's eNews
Eight months after the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett was appointed to be the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan. The New Zealander has a ...
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Hawaiian Law Now Permits Parents to Keep Placentas
HONOLULU (WOMENSENEWS)–To some, it’s simply a byproduct of childbirth, a biological waste. To others, it’s even a possible source of biological material for genetic research. But to those of ...
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Prescription or Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids: Which is Better?
“And then (blank) said (blank)!! Isn’t that funny?” What if you couldn’t fill in the blanks? What if sentences like these were perpetually incomplete, leaving you confused and excluded from ...
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Mexican Transgender Women Deported to Life of Peril
Bocanos Flores in Puebla, Mexico. Credit: Amy Lieberman MEXICO CITY (WOMENSENEWS)–The second time Deborah Alvarez was deported from the United States in 2005, after she was detained for prostitution ...