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'We Have Not Come Here to Beg World Leaders to Care,' 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Tells COP24. 'We H 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 7 1473
Patriarchy in Palestine--In Palestine, women have to struggle against gendered violence by their ow 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 943
Australia apologises for barring female journalist over attire 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1092
Torture, reform and women's rights in Saudi Arabia Women are being tortured for demanding basic ri 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1062
The Saudi women detained for demanding basic human rights (yes, these woman are still in prison) 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1073
Common Performs A FLOTUS-Inspired Medley "The Day Women Took Over" 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 981
One Billion Rising flash mob "Break the Chain" 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1142
Flash mob: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 948
How Spain is leading the fight against domestic violence 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 922
Protestors prepare to march to end sexual violence against women #TheCube 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 965
3,000 women march against gender-based violence in Madrid 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 962
Margaret Atwood announces The Handmaid's Tale sequel, The Testaments 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 4 1121
U.N. Report Spotlights Amount Of Women Killed Globally By 'Intimate Partners' And Family 0 appalachiablue Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1368
One Billion Rising 2019--Rising--From A Campaign to a Way of Life Manifesta 3 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1266
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 959
My Revolution Starts in My body-Eve Ensler-- One Billion Rising 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1003
Olympic Committee Alerted to Sex Abuse in Gymnastics Years Ago, Court Filing Says 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1105
Let Women Be Warriors It's time to stop questioning whether women should be in combat units. 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1031
Reminder: She Doesn't Owe Anyone a Hug. Not Even at the Holidays. 3 littlemissmartypants Nov 2018 Nov 2018 6 1911
And yet, about Mira Ricardel 3 question everything Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1606
Why women's clothes have no pockets 9 WhiteTara Nov 2018 Nov 2018 48 4709
Indonesia jails teacher who documented sexual harassment 1 Eugene Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1280
Celebrating the Feminist Victories of the 2018 Midterm Elections 2 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1117
Not every religion, but always religion. 0 Odoreida Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1154
100 Years On, Posters Offer Window Into Struggles of U.K. Suffragists 2 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 10 1082
U.K. Women Celebrate 100 Years of Voting Rights 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1011
Female MPs gather in UK to celebrate a century of suffrage 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 963
A Japanese medical school does an about-face after lowering women's test scores to help men 2 Eugene Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1545
Half of white women continue to vote Republican. What's wrong with them? 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1235
Review of "Women on the Move; the Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing" X-Pst History of Feminism 1 TexasProgresive Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1026

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Eleanor Roosevelt's Election Day Advice for Women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 6 1157
'It's like a cult': how sexual misconduct permeates the world of ballet 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 5 1070
We Must End Trump's War on Migrant Women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1152
Will Nevada elect the US's first female-majority legislature? 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1000
Google staff walk out in protest over treatment of women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1091
'Idaho's hope': could Paulette Jordan be the first Native American governor in the US? 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1098
24 Years Later, Woman Who Was Maligned After Rape Gets Apology From Police Commissioner 1 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1118
Invisibility Isn't a Super Power--It's Time for Visible Woman to Take Over 1 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1077
London's King of Retail Fashion, Brought Low by #MeToo 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 996
50 Years Later, a Victim of Ireland's 'Laundries' Fights for Answers 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1049
A Woman Can Never Be Likable Enough From an early age, we're taught to please men. What if we got an 2 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1452
Ethiopia: Women occupy 50 percent of new cabinet 3 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1370
Why the US is behind when it comes to women in politics 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1175
Sex and World Peace 2 littlemissmartypants Oct 2018 Oct 2018 9 1705
On the Trail of Missing American Indian Women 1 douglas9 Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1309
What is behind the plight of Iraqi women? 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1119
'It was a spectacle': the forgotten era of women's bicycle racing 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 997
Monsoon Wedding 3 question everything Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1348
The power of language: 3 CrispyQ Oct 2018 Oct 2018 9 1198
India: Mob attacks schoolgirls for confronting sexual harassers 3 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1246
How will Nobel Peace Prize affect fight against sexual violence? (trigger warning) 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1027
Journalist Viktoria Marinova raped and murdered in Bulgaria 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1100
Feminist author Rebecca Traister talks 'female rage' 4 question everything Oct 2018 Oct 2018 15 1478
Bureau of Sex Slavery For Yanar and my sisters in Iraq and Syria. (gop rape culture, anyone) 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1090
Congratulations to Dr. Denis Mukwege & Nadia Murad - Winners of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize! 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 947
"Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger" by Rebecca Traister - Excerpt 1 question everything Oct 2018 Oct 2018 8 1730
Make a video to send to the GOP... 1 BigmanPigman Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1293
Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg to make TV series on women's suffrage 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1069
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote " Elaine Weiss (rec'd by HRC) 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 916
"Ancient Mother" by Sacred Earth (because we need a few minutes of beauty and peace!!!) 5 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1509

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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"Women's Honoring Song"-Joan Henry 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1175
"Mother I Feel You" 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1305
"Earth is our Mother" chant by Libana 3 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1400
It's time to speak about the economic cost of sexual assault 2 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1053
It's Time to Call #TimesUp on Standing Alone 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 4 1124
"Burning Times "- Charlie Murphy 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1269
Kavanaugh clerk hire casts light on link to judge forced to quit in #MeToo era 3 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 10 1570
Dear Christine Blasey Ford: you are a welcome earthquake Rebecca Solnit 1 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1038
What the Midterms Could Mean for Survivors of Rape, Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 929
WOMEN'S MARCH 2019 announced. 2 BigmanPigman Sep 2018 Oct 2018 8 1584
CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 0 niyad Sep 2018 Sep 2018 2 1131
Bill Cosby convicted for sexual assault 2 Beringia Sep 2018 Sep 2018 3 1240
The Female Face of Men's Misogyny 0 niyad Sep 2018 Sep 2018 3 1021
some words of encouragement 5 niyad Sep 2018 Sep 2018 5 1465
Denying Justice to Campus Sexual Assault Survivors Saves Colleges Money 2 niyad Sep 2018 Sep 2018 1 1126
Pregnancy Crisis Center 1 murielm99 Sep 2018 Sep 2018 4 1198
1:00 NATIONAL WALKOUT STOP KAVANAUGH 1 BigmanPigman Sep 2018 Sep 2018 3 1463
87% of the calls made to senators this week were made by women. 5 BigmanPigman Sep 2018 Sep 2018 7 1605
"Break the Chain" One Billion Rising flash mob 2 niyad Sep 2018 Sep 2018 14 2462
"Throw it Away" Natalie Douglas 4 Women at Birdland Jazz Club Sept 2014 1 niyad Sep 2018 Sep 2018 3 1407
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