Female parliamentarians calls for global network to combat issues like online abuse from public, threats to safety and discrimination by male colleagues.
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Amnesty International Launches World’s Biggest Human Rights Campaign
In launching its global Write for Rights campaign, Amnesty International brings a spotlight on brave women harassed and jailed for their human rights work.
Political Author Ntozake Shange of ‘For Colored Girls’ Fame Dies
Ntozake Shange who wrote the 1975 Tony Award-nominated play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” died Saturday.
Women Take Top Posts As Ethiopian Politics Evolve
Ethiopian lawmakers have appointed the country’s first female president, Sahle-Work Zewde. The position is ceremonial in Ethiopia.
President For A Day: Paraguay Schoolgirl is Example for Others
Nara, 11-year-old Paraguayan schoolgirl will serve as the country’s symbolic president on Thursday, part of campaign for UN’ International Day of the Girl.
World Leaders Stress Need To Educate Girls
Leaders of France, Canada and Britain says failure to provide good quality schooling can be “catastrophic” as they call on their peers to educate girls.
Vietnam Has First Female President, But Activists Unimpressed
Little will be done to improve women’s rights in Vietnam a communist country as Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh a female has been appointed president.
New Center Documents History of Global Women’s Movement
Resource for human rights activists includes training manuals, documentary films, event archives, legal reform research, and more in 20 languages.
New Furor Over Increasingly Controversial Miss America Contest
The reigning Miss America says she has been bullied, manipulated and silenced by the pageant’s current leadership, including Gretchen Carlson.
Abortion Vote is a Set-Back for Argentina and Progress
If we move forward, informed by science and medicine and real facts, our species prospers and needless suffering is reduced. If we move backwards, as Argentina just did, we’ll keep walking blindly into hard objects.