List of Women’s Rights articles
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Demonstrators protest in Amsterdam in front of the US Consulate on January 20, 2017 after the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, DC. Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday -- capping his improbable journey to the White House and beginning a four-year term that promises to shake up Washington and the world. / AFP / ANP / Olaf KRAAK / Netherlands OUT (Photo credit should read OLAF KRAAK/AFP/Getty Images) If Trump Wants to End Legal Abortion, He’s Going to Have to Go Through Holland First
Lilianne Ploumen’s bold, brave act could be the start of a concerted backlash against Washington.
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Peep_Show_by_David_Shankbone The Marine scandal confirms the need to address the U.S. military’s porn addiction
How can the men of the Marines United Facebook group, who all pledged an oath to serve and protect their country and their fellow Marines, violate their own female comrades by illegally consuming and sharing nude photos and videos of them?
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People hold signs during a demonstration for International Women's Day in Paris on March 8, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images) The Enduring Darkness of International Women’s Day
Women have gotten screwed for millennia, and that’s not a legacy that can be shaken off in a few short decades.
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ladies On International Women’s Day, Women Fought Back
International Women’s Day gets back to its political roots.
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iraqkenner The Women Who Could Save Mosul
A group of female parliamentarians have developed a plan to mend the post-ISIS fabric of Iraq's second-largest city.
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AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 21: Demonstrators make their way from the iamsterdam statue in front of the Rijksmuseum towards US Consulate during the Women's March held at Museumplein on January 21, 2017 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Women's March originated in Washington DC but soon spread to be a global march calling on all concerned citizens to stand up for equality, diversity and inclusion and for women's rights to be recognised around the world as human rights. Global marches are now being held, on the same day, across seven continents. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) After Trump Bans Abortion Funding, Dutch to Help Plug the Gap
If America reels back global support for women’s healthcare, can other countries pick up the slack?
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unsc As January’s UNSC President, Sweden Sought to Focus on Women and Peace. How’d It Go?
“There’s not been one meeting where we’ve not raised this issue in one way or another,” says Sweden's spokesperson.
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women The Women’s March Heard Round the World
A round-up of marches and reactions from Women’s March events around the world.
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duma Russian Lawmakers Come Closer to Decriminalizing Domestic Violence
The Russian Orthodox Church believes corporal punishment can be "an essential right given by God." Soon it may be given by the Russian government.
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People gather outside the National Maternity Hospital in El Salvador on May 30, 2013. (Jose Cabezas/AFP/Getty Images) On the Front Lines of El Salvador’s Underground Abortion Economy
Amid an indifferent state and an activist Church, a defiant network of health workers struggle to offer a reprieve from the world’s most restrictive abortion laws.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Romania Likely to Have First Female Prime Minister
But there would be another power behind her throne.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can António Guterres Finally Break the U.N.’s Glass Ceiling?
The U.N. struggles to practice what it preaches on women's empowerment. Can the new secretary-general break the institution's glass ceiling?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The United Nations Just Fired Wonder Woman
The U.N. caught itself in a not very wonderful PR battle as it slips on institutional gender parity.
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schlaffer Global Thinkers: The Founder of Women Without Borders Edit Schlaffer
For betting on maternal instincts.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rethinking the Army’s ‘Wife School’: Maybe time to move it out of the 1950s
Before my husband took battalion command, the spouses of all the battalion commanders in the soon-to-be brigade team were encouraged to attend a week of the Pre-Command Course (PCC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
