women's rights

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10486452/Child-taken-from-womb-by-social-services.html I guess the U.S. isn't the only first world country that still has issues with women's reproductive rights.

Today, March 8, is International Women's Day. In honor of this year's theme of "A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women", here is a tiny, tiny handful of the many groups that working towards this goal and towards achieving equality for women worldwide, not just...

No, really. Okay, so it's mostly an article about the long struggle that female athletes (including martial artists who have competed in the Olympics) have faced in the oppressive Islamic Republic of Iran, and some of their hard-fought victories. Still, as the article notes, "There are...

... in 2015. But it's a start. I believe it's inevitable that liberalization of women's roles will occur in Islamic Arab countries. It's just a matter of time.

Not all feminists are against pornography, but many of the more radical feminists believe pornography should be outlawed because it is "demeaning" to women. It is "exploitation" and "denigrating", they claim. Some even claim that men who enjoy pornography on a regular basis are much more likely...

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/04/house-gop-hr3/ I just have to ask...do Republicans just hate women?! I mean, redefining rape?!

Great to see the newly-created free and open society in Afghanistan - coming at the cost of billions of dollars and thousands of lives - continuing on its merry way, just as if those thousands of lives and billions of dollars hadn't been spent. QED

Saipan, Marianas Islands, USA Territory If you recall, this is where Chinese and other poor women are being lured with the promise of a job in the US. Instead the women end up in sweat shops under the worst of conditions. All the while the sweatshop owners rake in the millions using the slave...

I'm reading two books that seem to point to the tie in between spiritualism and womens rights. Certainly, there were a lot of believers among the early advocates of womens rights. And being a "mentalist" or "healer" was one of the few professions open to women. But I'm wondering if...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11435567/site/newsweek/ Some snippets: The article goes into detail about the imbalances and mentions efforts to correct them as well: I thought the article was interesting, but, as an American who's never worked in Europe, I don't really have much of a basis...

Kuwait: Demands for votes for women In an overview of the current state of affairs for women in Kuwait, Rola Dashti, chairperson and chief executive officer (CEO) of FARO International, a Kuwaiti financial-services consulting, says that, unlike women in all but two other Arab states, Kuwaiti...