FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — In an election where the future of reproductive rights is on the ballot in Maryland and elsewhere across the country, the state’s all-male congressional…
Read more As women seek open congressional seats in Maryland, reproductive rights are front and centerBINMAR, Chad — When Milla Nemoudji, a 28-year-old from a village in southern Chad, divorced her husband following years of physical abuse, she found herself without means for…
Read more Women in Chad defy discrimination and violence to assert their rights to own and control landIn recent years, the philanthropic world has increasingly recognized that investing in women and girls is essential for humanity to progress. Governments including Sweden, Canada, France, and Wales…
Read more The Growing Movement to Make Global Philanthropy FeministPARIS — The far-right National Rally leaped into a strong lead Sunday in France’s first round of legislative elections, polling agencies projected, bringing the party closer to being…
Read more French voters propel far-right National Rally to strong lead in 1st-round electionsKamala Harris toured a Planned Parenthood that offers abortion services, the first vice president to do so, where she delivered a speech defending reproductive rights. What do you…
Read more Kamala Harris Tours Abortion ClinicPARIS — France’s leadership will use a Napoleon-era press to seal the right to abortion into the country’s constitution in a historic ceremony on Friday that’s open to…
Read more France to seal the right to abortion in its constitution as world marks International Women’s DayBISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota judge said Wednesday he will decide soon whether to temporarily block a part of the state’s revised abortion laws so doctors can…
Read more North Dakota judge to decide whether to temporarily block part of abortion law that limits doctorsThe Supreme Court announced this morning that it would take up a pair of cases concerning access to mifepristone, the first pill in a two-pill regimen commonly used…
Read more What's at stake in the Supreme Court's abortion pill caseTexas’ medical exemption law gets tested: Kate Cox is a 31-year-old mother of two who is 20 weeks pregnant with her third child and seeking an abortion. The…
Read more Texas’ abortion law testLOUISVILLE, Ky. — A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit Friday demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans…
Read more Pregnant woman in Kentucky sues for the right to get an abortionISLAMABAD — Online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active women in Afghanistan has significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country in Aug. 2021, according to…
Read more Online abuse of politically active Afghan women tripled after Taliban takeover, rights group reportsIn the early 1900s, New York City witnessed the introduction of the Sullivan Act, a law that targeted women smoking in public. Named after its proponent, Alderman Timothy…
Read more WTF Fun Fact 13621 – The Sullivan ActFootball Australia says it won’t bid for the 2034 World Cup, clearing the way for Saudi Arabia to host the marquee men’s tournament ByThe Associated Press October 31,…
Read more Australia says it won’t bid for the 2034 World Cup, Saudi Arabia likely to hostA former nurse convicted of sexually abusing women in custody at an Oregon prison has been sentenced to 30 years in prison ByThe Associated Press October 17, 2023,…
Read more Ex-Oregon prison nurse convicted of sexually assaulting women in custody gets 30 yearsWASHINGTON — A few years back, Joseph Stramondo was a last-minute replacement as a conference speaker in Salt Lake City. He went online and made a reservation for…
Read more A test case of another kind for the Supreme Court: Who can sue hotels over disability accessWASHINGTON — Actor and disability rights advocate Selma Blair on Monday helped President Joe Biden mark the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act,…
Read more Selma Blair helps White House salute landmark disability legislationUNITED NATIONS — The U.N.’s most powerful body must support governments seeking to legally declare the intensifying crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid,”…
Read more As mental health worsens among Afghanistan’s women, the UN is asked to declare ‘gender apartheid’NEW YORK — The Clinton Global Initiative added gender equity as a pillar of the nonprofit’s work to sound the alarm about the increasing challenges women and girls…
Read more Chelsea Clinton hopes new donations and ideas can help women and girls face increasing challengesIn 2019, a mnemonic began to circulate on the internet: “If the Naomi be Klein / you’re doing just fine / If the Naomi be Wolf / Oh,…
Read more From Feminist to Right-Wing ConspiracistMEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights…
Read more Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide
