NEWS BRIEF: Despite King’s Edict, Saudi Woman Sentenced to 10 Lashings for Driving

International outcry arose this September when, just a day after Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah announced a commitment to women’s rights and granted women voting rights in 2015, a woman ...Read More

NEWS BRIEF: Mississippi Voters Get One Right, One Wrong

Yesterday, voters in Mississippi overwhelmingly rejected a personhood amendment that would have defined fertilized eggs as people and given them the full legal rights and protections of real humans. ...Read More

NEWS BRIEF: Mississippi Personhood Amendment Might Really Pass

Tomorrow, Mississippi will vote on a personhood amendment that would declare fertilized eggs to be “people.” Frighteningly, a Public Policy poll conducted over the weekend shows that this ...Read More

UPDATE: Business As Usual in Kansas City and at the Vatican

After becoming the highest-ranking official of the Roman Catholic Church to be charged in the priest abuse scandals, Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic diocese has no intentions ...Read More

Finally! Bishop Charged With Sheltering Abusive Priest

After 25 years of publicly known Catholic priest abuse scandals in the U.S., a bishop has finally been called to the legal carpet for harboring an abusive clergyman. Bishop Robert Finn of the Kansas ...Read More

And the Nobel Goes To … Women’s Rights

When it comes to honoring women, the Nobel Peace Prize committee has some catching up to do. Since 1901 when the first Peace Prize was given, only 12 of the 121 awardees have been female. But today, ...Read More

BREAKING NEWS FROM SAUDI ARABIA

Women in Saudi Arabia live under some of the world’s harshest restrictions on basic freedoms, including a de facto driving ban. But the 2011 Arab Spring and an accompanying campaign for driving ...Read More

Newsflash: King Abdullah Grants Saudi Women the Right to Vote–In 2015

On Sunday, 87-year-old King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced plans to allow women to vote, run for office in local elections and serve on the Shura Council, the 150-member king’s advisory ...Read More

Gagging the Gag Rule for Good

In three years, one of the most volatile on-and-off-again relationships in American history will celebrate its 30th anniversary: that of the Global Gag Rule and U.S. global policy. But if Sen. Barbara ...Read More

Newsflash: Single Mom Granted Clemency in Ohio

Kelley Williams-Bolar, the Ohio single mother of two who was convicted of a felony for using her father’s address instead of her own in order to get her children into what she felt would be ...Read More

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