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Warriors Duty: The Maasai Cricket Warriors are fighting for women's rights, one wicket at a time. 0 shenmue Jun 2017 Jun 2017 2 3464
James Comey and the Predator-in-Chief--women say, "welcome to our world" 0 niyad Jun 2017 Jun 2017 3 3444
Delaware House votes to guarantee abortion rights, in stance against Trump 0 niyad Jun 2017 Jun 2017 1 1216
Solved: The 47-Year Mystery of a Murder Victims Many Identities 4 niyad Jun 2017 Jun 2017 4 5627
He will kill me if he sees me again': abused women seek refuge in Mexico (feminisation of migration) 0 niyad Jun 2017 Jun 2017 2 3922
Vladimir Putin: I don't have bad days because I'm not a woman 4 niyad Jun 2017 Jun 2017 2 4332
'I'm the victim and I'm in shackles': Edmonton woman jailed while testifying against her attacker 4 shenmue Jun 2017 Jun 2017 6 3637
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's rise: How one badass woman fought to keep going 0 shenmue Jun 2017 Jun 2017 3 2645
Mexico has its first indigenous woman candidate for president-maria de jesus patricio 0 niyad Jun 2017 Jun 2017 4 4849
The Manchester Bombing Was an Attack on Women and Girls 0 niyad May 2017 May 2017 2 1115
U.K.: Reality Check - The fight over women's state pensions 0 shenmue May 2017 May 2017 1 4774
Edmonton woman target of men drawn by online dating profile created by ex-boyfriend 2 shenmue May 2017 May 2017 3 4540
Judge sentences man who raped sister to probation, citing 'stigma' 3 shenmue May 2017 May 2017 3 2393
W.H.O. Elects Ethiopia's Tedros as First Director General From Africa (champion for women) 0 niyad May 2017 May 2017 1 2191
DU link: Trump's Abortion Policy Isn't About Morality It's Coercion 0 Panich52 May 2017 May 2017 1 4411
Commission on missing, murdered Indigenous women has become a fortress of bureaucratic incompetence 5 shenmue May 2017 May 2017 4 1242
Romania criticised over domestic violence 'failures' 1 shenmue May 2017 May 2017 1 4509
South African men march against abuse of women and children 0 shenmue May 2017 May 2017 4 1208
Women's servitude blights Philippine society 1 shenmue May 2017 May 2017 3 4413
Nearly 90 per cent of young women in US have experienced sexual harassment, report finds 7 niyad May 2017 May 2017 6 5041
Brooke Medicine Eagle with comments about our current times and the feminine rising 5 Beringia May 2017 May 2017 4 3734
Macron cabinet: Women are half of France's new ministers 0 shenmue May 2017 May 2017 2 1238
Trump to expand anti-abortion policy (and the war on women escalates daily) 0 niyad May 2017 May 2017 1 1119
Karabo Mokoena murder: Suspect appears in South Africa court 0 shenmue May 2017 May 2017 1 1274
The Anti-War Origins of Mother's Day (and ask our reps why they are killing our mothers) 2 niyad May 2017 May 2017 4 3039
The alt-right hates women as much as it hates people of colour 1 niyad May 2017 May 2017 6 1286
Planned Parenthood head: 'Being a woman is now a pre-existing condition' 0 niyad May 2017 May 2017 1 1083
Mexico's lost generation of young girls robbed of innocence and education 0 niyad May 2017 May 2017 2 2468
from our beloved Molly Ivins: 8 niyad May 2017 May 2017 24 4854
Republican state rep says women 'excited' to get pregnant for free trip to travel to get abortion 3 Panich52 May 2017 May 2017 2 4115

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Grassley to Trumps DOJ: Prosecute Planned Parenthood 4 Panich52 May 2017 May 2017 10 4794
Saudi council rejects proposal for female sports colleges 0 shenmue Apr 2017 Apr 2017 1 2700
Why Abortion IS a Progressive Economic Issue 0 niyad Apr 2017 Apr 2017 3 2766
'I want someone to take my pain': Woman set on fire by husband denied home insurance payout 0 shenmue Apr 2017 Apr 2017 5 3641
Ivanka Trump can't be whitewashed with 'women's empowerment' talk 6 niyad Apr 2017 Apr 2017 14 4374
How the Murdochs took a multimillion-dollar gamble on Bill O'Reilly--and lost (time to go, murdochs) 0 niyad Apr 2017 Apr 2017 2 2162
Article 308: Jordan scraps marriage loophole for rapists 4 Eugene Apr 2017 Apr 2017 5 3932
Colorado marks 50th anniversary of historic law that significantly loosened abortion restrictions. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2017 Apr 2017 1 1104
Hillary Rodham Clinton full interview with Kristoff at Women in the World Summit 0 niyad Apr 2017 Apr 2017 8 4530
Shes Back: Hillary Clintons Last 100 Days (oh my, what a contrast to the orange madman) 0 niyad Apr 2017 Apr 2017 7 4054
Top (MN) DFL lawmaker's 'white male' comments set off spat on Minnesota House floor 0 question everything Apr 2017 Apr 2017 2 3575
General election 2017: Women's Equality Party leader to challenge MP Philip Davies 1 shenmue Apr 2017 Apr 2017 2 1229
Lebanon rape law: Wedding dresses hang in Beirut sea front protest 5 shenmue Apr 2017 Apr 2017 6 1929
Not Christmas and kind of long but I think we all can relate 0 Kath2 Apr 2017 Apr 2017 2 4600
What I have learned from five years of Everyday Sexism 0 niyad Apr 2017 Apr 2017 8 4488
Fearless Girl brings women visibility in a city full of statues of men 4 niyad Apr 2017 Apr 2017 6 5142
When a Boton Marathon organizer was enraged by a woman participant.. 50 years ago 5 question everything Apr 2017 Apr 2017 13 4746
have you seen the google doodle today-honouring Esther Afua Ocloo ghana entrepeneur microlending 1 niyad Apr 2017 Apr 2017 5 4660
ResistanceRecess is Now! 4 Kath2 Apr 2017 Apr 2017 3 5031
Anti-abortion group in the U.K. gets 'tampon tax' money 0 shenmue Apr 2017 Apr 2017 1 4298
This Missouri town evicted a woman for calling police on her abusive ex 1 shenmue Apr 2017 Apr 2017 3 1423
Utah forces Drs to lie about "reversible abortions" 2 Panich52 Mar 2017 Apr 2017 2 2900
Rape victims can have a good life if they marry their rapists -Tasek Gelugor MP 14 JHan Apr 2017 Apr 2017 2 2561
Domestic violence and guns: the hidden American crisis ending women's lives (re: san bernadino) 3 niyad Apr 2017 Apr 2017 8 1462
Saffiyah Khan: Iconic photos of defiance from women in protests 6 shenmue Apr 2017 Apr 2017 7 4861
More names added to CBC missing and murdered Indigenous women database 1 shenmue Apr 2017 Apr 2017 11 4485
US withdraws funding for United Nations Population Fund 2 shenmue Apr 2017 Apr 2017 3 5605
A tampon tax is bad enough. Using it to fund anti-abortionists is a disgrace (The Guardian) 2 Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 Apr 2017 7 4213
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, British suffragist, will be honored with a statue in London: 0 femmocrat Apr 2017 Apr 2017 0 2412
Man accused of groping woman at Walmart turns himself in 2 Permanut Apr 2017 Apr 2017 2 2409

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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The Afghan restaurant run by domestic abuse survivors 0 shenmue Apr 2017 Apr 2017 4 1406
Ontario Sunshine List sharpens call for equal pay for women 0 shenmue Apr 2017 Apr 2017 1 3431
The "feminists should be nice to men" trope is back. So is "The Handmaid's Tale" 0 niyad Mar 2017 Mar 2017 7 4514
New Arkansas Law Requires Doctors to Investigate Women Seeking Abortions 0 Panich52 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 0 2330
Hillary Clinton: "There's no place I'd rather be . . . other than the White House" 2 niyad Mar 2017 Mar 2017 4 3565
When men write op-eds abt how pols should abandon reproductive justice to win elec 7 Panich52 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 1 3058
Senate is moving quickly to dismantle Title X preventive health care protections 0 Panich52 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 12 3684
17 Times Your Favorite Movies Brainwashed Women Into Devaluing Their Self-Worth 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2017 Mar 2017 4 4736
Mom described her stretch marks as glitter stripes, 3 LakeArenal Mar 2017 Mar 2017 8 4100
NYT: Irish Catholic straight man tells Dems to "stop being the abortion party" to "win again" 8 ehrnst Mar 2017 Mar 2017 3 4196
Trump did to Merkel what men do to women all the time 8 niyad Mar 2017 Mar 2017 4 4377
Mobilize for Reproductive Justice 0 Kath2 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 3 1982
Show you stand with Planned Parenthood on Pink Out Day. 3 Kath2 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 13 3447
Love this photo from the Women's March 0 Kath2 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 17 4540
The Women of Standing Rock 0 niyad Mar 2017 Mar 2017 2 2244
What's wrong with this picture? 7 Panich52 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 8 3575
 Can a Feminist Be Pro-Life? Without abortion rights, there isn't a lot left to the fundamental ide 3 niyad Mar 2017 Mar 2017 4 3223
DU link: Conservative women's group knocked for giving 'Working for Women' award to Pence 0 Panich52 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 2 1993
blessed ostara, happy vernal equinox, happy spring! 4 niyad Mar 2017 Mar 2017 7 6030
Lingerie Company Asked to Remove Ads Featuring Curvy & Disabled Models 4 LakeArenal Mar 2017 Mar 2017 7 2125
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