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Ukraine's Frontline Mothers 0 niyad May 2023 May 2023 1 657
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Medical Racism's Role in the Recent Spike in Maternal Mortality 0 niyad May 2023 May 2023 1 1118
Let's Save the Maternity Units Like We Do the Banks 0 niyad May 2023 May 2023 0 677
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'Vicious circle': Femicides in Peru reveal 'crisis' of violence (trigger warning for graphic violenc 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 1244
The Road to May 3: How a Growing Coalition of Feminists and Activists Are Fighting the Right's Anti 2 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1318
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Don't talk to pupils about misogynist Andrew Tate, government urges teachers in England 7 Eugene Apr 2023 Apr 2023 12 1906
The Senate Must Recognize the ERA to Protect Survivors of Gender-Based Violence 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1028
The Dobbs Decision Could Erode Other Women's Rights--Making the ERA More Important Than Ever 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 1159
S7:E15 (The GOP; Losing Women Over Abortion Policy) 0 Across-the-Desk Apr 2023 Apr 2023 4 900
'A gamechanger': this simple device could help fight the war on abortion rights in the US 1 littlemissmartypants Apr 2023 Apr 2023 4 1774
Why Molly Ringwald translated an infamous story of film exploitation 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2023 11 1370
The Legal System Continues to Fail Pieper Lewis, a Survivor of Sex Trafficking 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 1268
The Same Groups That Helped Overturn Roe and Attack Abortion Pills Are Also Lobbying Against the ER 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 1221
Amid Contradicting Orders, the Supreme Court Protects Abortion Pill Access--for Now 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 925
The google doodle today honours Justine Siegemund, midwife, whose self- 6 niyad Mar 2023 Apr 2023 5 1847
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One Liberal Senator Fights Back Against Judicial Tyranny 0 BeckyDem Apr 2023 Apr 2023 6 1730
Afghan religious scholars criticize girls' education ban 0 Eugene Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 908
ACROSS 92 COUNTRIES, ACTIVISTS RISE FOR FREEDOM & CREATE THE NEW CULTURE FOR ONE BILLION RISING 2023 1 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 4 1910
Standing Together for Freedom: A Commitment to 14 Democratic Principles 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 840
'I Oppose the Mandatory Hijab' Button Campaign Puts Iranian Women's Rights Front and Center 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 1404
UN chief demands Taliban revoke ban on women staff 1 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1032
Why the Wage Gap Differs Among Asian American Women 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1037
"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 2107
Two Iranian women arrested for not covering hair after man attacks them with yoghurt 2 Eugene Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 1177
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 1619
Still Waiting for U.S. Constitutional Equality? 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 719
Reps. Cori Bush and Ayanna Pressley Launch Congressional ERA Caucus--'Because Equality Is Overdue' 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1348
How Feminists and Academics Are Fighting the Right's 'Anti-Woke' Agenda 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1042
The 'Anti-Life' Implications of State Abortion Bans 2 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 825
Lucia Perez: Argentina court convicts two in femicide case 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 947
Russia's war in Ukraine exacts heavy toll on women, says UNFPA (trigger warning) 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1480
How an interview with a rapist fired up Serbia's feminists (trigger warning: graphic) 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1396
Taliban Arrests Prominent Education Activist 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 759
War on Women Report: World Athletics Bans Trans Women; Maternal Mortality on the Rise; E. Jean Carr 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1344
We All Deserve the Freedom to Control Our Bodies 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 730
Across the Desk - S7:E11 (OK Supreme Court & Protecting the Lives of Women) 0 Across-the-Desk Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1552
The Matilda Effect 4 ancianita Mar 2023 Mar 2023 17 1351
Abortion Wins Elections The fight to make reproductive rights the centerpiece of the Democratic Part 0 Novara Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1813
Rep. Pat Schroeder to be honoured in the House of Representatives today with a 6 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1559
US Supreme Court honours former justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 954
What Stands in the Way for Equal Pay for Women? 6 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1608
Why Women Are More Likely to Be 'Citizens of Nowhere' 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1254
If Period Discussions In Health Class Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will ... What The HELL FLORIDA? 2 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1501
Campaign calls for gender apartheid to be crime under international law 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 846
What Clinicians Want You to Know About Getting Abortion Pills in Anti-Abortion States 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1149

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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In Absence of Roe, Healthcare Providers Have a Professional and Ethical Duty to Step Up 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1377
'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 1391
Arizona 'Medical Students for Life' Chapter Threatens Patient Health: 'This Contradicts What We Are 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1212
S. Carolina repukes introducing bill to make abortion punishable by death. 10 Laffy Kat Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1714
Separate and unequal: gender segregation at work 0 Celerity Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1180
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 1273
Herbs & tinctures "to regulate the menses" were advertised in Colonial newspapers. Every time I hear 7 Hekate Mar 2023 Mar 2023 9 1824
Polish court convicts activist of providing abortion pills in landmark case 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1235
Women Hold Up Half the Sky 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1187
Happy International Women's Day? 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 785
This Women's Day, there is little to celebrate in South Korea 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1479
Chile's abortion rights movement faces uphill battle 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 725
On Women's Day, watch these five unsung heroes changing the world 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1433
International Women's Day protesters demand gender equality 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 947
A Letter from an Afghan Educator: Optimism in the Face of Agony 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1047
'I Am Erased!': Afghan Women Leaders Urge International Community to Take Action 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1225
International Women's Day 2023: An update on reproductive freedom 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 667
Happy International Women's Day (IWD), observed as an actual holiday in many 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1323
The google doodle today honours International Women's Day with an amazing 4 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1485
For some Chinese women it 'doesn't make sense' to have babies 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 860
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