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11/13/2009	Roeder's Lawyers Seek to Move Trial The lawyers of Scott Roeder, who allegedly murdered George Tiller, MD, in May, are seeking to relocate the trial so that it will take place outside of Sedgwick County, in Witchita, Kansas....
11/10/2009	Roeder Confesses to Tiller Killing Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, MD, confessed to the killing in an interview yesterday....
11/6/2009	Pakistan Passes Stronger Sexual Harassment Penalties Pakistan's National Assembly passed a law increasing the penalty for sexual harassment yesterday....
11/5/2009	Carly Fiorina to Challenge Senator Barbara Boxer Carly Fiorina, former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and a former spokeswoman for John McCain's 2008 campaign, officially announced that she will run against Senator Barbara Boxer, a fearless, dedicated champion for women's rights, in the 2010 election....
11/2/2009	Roeder Auction Briefly Posted on eBay Items planned to be sold in an online auction to support the legal defense of Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, MD, were posted briefly on eBay last night....
10/28/2009	Ebay Blocks Roeder Auction Ebay announced yesterday that it will block an online auction planned to support the legal defense of Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, MD....
10/27/2009	House Passes Act that Includes Coast Guard and Cruise Sexual Assault Provisions The House passed a Coast Guard Reauthorization Act Friday that requires annual reporting of the number of sexual assaults on and by members of the Coast Guard and establishes requirements for owners of cruise ships....
10/27/2009	Italian Feminists Outraged by Berlusconi's Sexist Remark Nearly 100,000 Italians have signed a petition entitled "Women Offended by the Premier" that went into circulation after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insulted rival leftist politician Rosy Bindi on live television three weeks ago....
10/26/2009	Auction Planned to Raise Roeder Defense Funds Associates of Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, MD, have announced plans to auction items online to support Roeder's legal defense....
10/26/2009	Pepsi Pulls Sexist iPhone App Last Thursday PepsiCo pulled a controversial iPhone application that was criticized for being sexist....
10/8/2009	Egyptian Cleric's Plan to Ban Veils Sparks Controversy The head of Egypt's top educational institution is facing criticism from fellow Islamic leaders after he declared his intention to bar women wearing face veils from attending class....
10/2/2009	Statement of Eleanor Smeal President, Feminist Majority Foundation On the Arrest of Roman Polanski The Feminist Majority Foundation joins our sister feminist organizations in working to ensure rape is prosecuted as the heinous crime that it is, especially against girls....
9/30/2009	Sudanese Refugees Face Rape, Violence Sudanese women refugees living in eastern Chad face a constant threat of rape and other violence against women....
9/28/2009	Navy seeks to Lift Ban on Women on Submarines Top military officials are calling to lift the military's ban on women serving on submarines....
9/21/2009	Roeder Trial Postponed The trial for Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, MD, has been postponed until January 2010....
9/16/2009	Australian Faces Up To Seven Years for Abortion Tegan Simone Leach, a nineteen-year-old Australian woman, faces up to seven years in prison for allegedly facilitating her own abortion....
9/16/2009	Uruguayan Law Potentially Expands Adoption to Gay Couples The legal community in Uruguay is now questioning whether a law passed in the nation's congress last week would make Uruguay, a predominantly Roman Catholic nation, the first country in Latin America to legalize gay adoption....
9/8/2009	Woman Jailed for Wearing Pants Released Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who was jailed in Sudan yesterday for wearing pants, was released today after the Sudanese Union of Journalists reportedly paid a fine to secure her release....
9/4/2009	Martha Coakley to Run for Kennedy Seat Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced yesterday that she will run for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat....
9/1/2009	Report Examines High Dropout Rate of Latina Students A report released last week by the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) examines the high dropout rate of Latina high school students....
8/27/2009	Suspect Indicted in Colorado Clinic Threat Donald Hertz, who allegedly made death threats against abortion provider Warren Hern and his family, was indicted yesterday by a Denver federal grand jury....
8/27/2009	Reconsideration of Asylum Petition Granted in FGM Case The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week in favor of a family seeking asylum in the US on the grounds that their daughter may face female genital mutilation (FGM) if they return to their home country of Indonesia....
8/26/2009	Feminist Movement Loses Champion for Women's Rights Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) died late last night at his Massachusetts home after a lengthy battle with brain cancer....
8/21/2009	Women Face Obstacles to Vote in Afghan Election Afghan women faced a number of obstacles to voting yesterday in Afghanistan's presidential election....
8/19/2009	Denmark Debates Burqa Ban The Danish Conservative Party is proposing to ban burqa and niqab attire as part of an integration initiative....
8/18/2009	Women's Vote Threatened in Afghanistan The participation of many Afghan women in Thursday's elections is threatened by strict polling regulations and fraud....
8/5/2009	Protesters Beaten at Flogging Trial in Sudan Police clashed with a group of 100 women protestors outside a courthouse where Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein's trial for wearing pants commenced yesterday....
8/3/2009	Medical Abortion Pill Mifepristone Approved in Italy The Italian Pharmaceuticals Agency (AIFA) has approved mifepristone, also known as RU-486, for use through the seventh week of pregnancy....
7/28/2009	Proposal to Ban Federal Funding for Planned Parenthood Defeated An amendment to the Labor, Health, and Human Services bill that sought to ban all federal funding for Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) was defeated last week in the House by a vote of 247 to 183....
7/28/2009	Women on Waves to Permanently Dock Abortion Boat The Dutch organization Women on Waves (WoW) cancelled all upcoming trips of its so-called floating abortion clinic....
7/27/2009	Roeder Hearings Begin This Week Preliminary hearings for Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, MD, are set to begin Tuesday....
7/24/2009	150 Maldivian Women Sentenced to Public Flogging The Muslim conservative court of the Republic of Maldives sentenced nearly 150 women to public flogging for having extra-marital relationships....
7/23/2009	Court Rules NYC Fire Department Uses Discriminatory Hiring Practices The Federal District Court in Brooklyn ruled Wednesday that the New York City Fire Department uses discriminatory hiring practices against black and Hispanic applicants....
7/20/2009	Former Police Officer Walks to Fight Sex Bias Former police officer Debra Hartley will arrive in Washington, DC today after walking 225 miles from Effort, Pennsylvania in a mission to raise awareness on sex bias that impacts women in law enforcement....
7/15/2009	Illinois Court Upholds Parental Notification before Abortion A federal appeals court in Chicago ruled on Tuesday that an Illinois law requiring parental notification before abortions for teenage girls is constitutional....
7/13/2009	Abstinence-Only Funding Removed from Appropriations Bill On Friday, the House Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor HHS) eliminated traditional sources of funding for abstinence-only programs by passing an appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2010....
7/13/2009	Appeals Court Rules Pharmacists Can't Refuse Plan B The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that pharmacists in Washington State must dispense Emergency Contraception (EC), also known as Plan B, even if they have personal religious objections to the medication....
7/13/2009	Law Protecting Clinic Buffer Zone Upheld The US 1st Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Massachusetts law on Friday, allowing a 35-foot safety buffer zone between protestors and abortion clinic entrances....
7/9/2009	UN Envoy Calls on Afghanistan to Fight Violence Against Women Kai Eide, the United Nations Special Envoy to Afghanistan, urged Afghan leaders to fight violence against women at a meeting in Kabul where he announced a new UN report on the subject....
7/8/2009	House Appropriations Committee Rejects Abortion Ban Amendment The House Appropriations Committee rejected an amendment yesterday to the federal appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2010 that would have enabled the continuance of a ban on using local funds to help low-income women in Washington, DC access abortion services....
7/6/2009	Appropriations Bill Could Eliminate DC Funding Bans The federal appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2010 includes several items that would end funding bans affecting several different issues in Washington, DC....
6/26/2009	Attorney General Testifies on Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill at Senate Hearing Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday urging passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009....
6/25/2009	L'Oreal Loses Discrimination Suit L'Oreal was found guilty this week of racial discrimination in hiring by France's highest court this week in a suit brought by SOS Racisme, a French anti-racism group....
6/24/2009	Iranian Women a Major Force in Election Protests As protests continue over Iran's presidential election results, women are playing a major role in the public uprising....
6/19/2009	Murder of Dr. George Tiller - Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President The Feminist Majority Foundation is deeply saddened and outraged by the assassination of Dr....
6/17/2009	US Human Trafficking Watchlist Grows to Include 52 Countries After the State Department issued the 2009 Human Trafficking Report yesterday, the Obama administration also released a watchlist of countries that are not taking appropriate measures to reduce and end human trafficking....
6/15/2009	VA Prison Allegedly Segregated Women on Basis of Sexual Orientation Virginia's largest women's correctional facility allegedly segregated inmates on the basis of actual or assumed sexual orientation over the past year....
6/15/2009	Title IX Lawsuit Likely Against Florida High School Athletic Association The Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) may face a Title IX lawsuit in response to its plan to save school districts money by reducing the number of scheduled games....
6/10/2009	Pro-Choice Candidates Nominated in Virginia Virginia's Democratic primary election yesterday resulted in the nomination of two pro-choice candidates, Creigh Deeds for governor and Jody Wagner for lieutenant governor....
6/4/2009	Senate Hearing Held on Uniting American Families Act The US Senate Judiciary Committee held the first-ever congressional hearing yesterday on immigration rights for gay and lesbian couples....
6/3/2009	Murder Charge Filed in Death of George Tiller Scott Roeder, who allegedly fatally shot George Tiller, MD on Sunday, was formally charged with first degree murder yesterday....
6/1/2009	George Tiller, MD, Murdered George Tiller, MD, was assassinated yesterday at his church in Wichita, Kansas....
5/15/2009	Tiller's Wichita Clinic Vandalized The Women's Health Care Services clinic in Wichita, Kansas, was severely vandalized earlier this month....
5/11/2009	Saudi Arabian Judge Makes Domestic Violence Comments Hamad Al-Razine, a Saudi Arabian Judge, made statements indicating that men can hit their wives as punishment for overspending during a recent seminar on domestic violence....
4/30/2009	Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act Passed in House The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed in the US House yesterday on a 249 to 175 bipartisan vote....
4/29/2009	Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act Introduced in Senate The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act was reintroduced in the US Senate yesterday by a bi-partisan coalition....
3/30/2009	Tiller Vindicated, New Complaint Filed A Wichita jury ruled Friday that George Tiller, MD is not guilty of illegal abortion on all 19 criminal charges brought against him....
3/27/2009	Feminists Announce New Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls Dr....
3/27/2009	Representative Wasserman Schultz Launches Breast Cancer Prevention Bill Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) announced legislation that aims to promote early detection and education of breast cancer this week after disclosing that she privately battled breast cancer last year. According to a press release from Wasserman Schultz's office, the Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act (EARLY Act) "directs the Centers for Disease Control to develop and implement a national education campaign to increase awareness of the threats posed by breast cancer in young women of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and the particular heightened risks faced by certain groups....
3/27/2009	Dr. Tiller Vindicated! A Wichita jury has just ruled that Dr....
3/26/2009	Tiller Testifies in his Own Defense Doctor George Tiller testified in his own defense yesterday in his criminal trial....
3/16/2009	Tiller Trial Jury Selection Begins Today Jury selection in the criminal trial of Dr George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, begins today....
3/9/2009	Leaders Call for Women's Advancement on International Women's Day A celebration of International Women's Day took place in Liberia this weekend, with a number of the world's key women leaders present....
2/24/2009	Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe Signs Late-Term Abortion Ban Bill Democratic Governor Mike Beebe signed a bill on Friday that would ban so-called partial birth abortions in Arkansas....
2/20/2009	Arkansas State Senate Approves Late-Term Abortion Ban A bill that would ban so-called partial birth abortions in Arkansas passed in the state Senate yesterday in a 30 to 3 vote....
2/17/2009	Saudi Arabia Names First Woman Minister King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia named Norah Al-Fayez to be the new Deputy Minister for Women's Education and replaced a number of high-ranking government officials last week....
2/17/2009	Arkansas State House of Representatives Approves Late-Term Abortion Ban The Arkansas House of Representatives passed a bill late last week that would ban so-called partial birth abortions in an 84 to 6 vote after no debate....
2/13/2009	Florida Atlantic University Faces Attack on Women's Studies Program Florida Atlantic University officials have proposed a suspension of their Women, Gender and Sexuality department and their master's degree program in women’s studies for fiscal reasons....
2/10/2009	Iraq's Minister of Women's Affairs Resigns after Budget Cuts Nawal al-Samarraie, the Iraqi Minister of Women's Affairs, resigned from her post last week largely due to lack of funds for her office....
2/4/2009	Lawsuit Filed by ACLU Regarding Transgender Identification Rights Two transgender women filed lawsuits against the state of Illinois last week after its Department of Vital Records refused to change their birth certificates following sex reassignment surgery....
2/2/2009	Federal Grand Jury Probes LA Archdiocese about Sex Abuse US Attorney Thomas P O'Brien has launched a federal investigation into the way the Los Angeles archdiocese, led by Cardinal Roger M Mahony, dealt with priests accused of sexual abuse....
1/30/2009	New Study Find Girls More Confident After Election A new study shows that the 2008 presidential election resulted in an increased interest in political and civic participation among American youth....
1/12/2009	Hilda Solis Sails Through Confirmation Hearing The confirmation hearing for President-elect Barack Obama's Labor Secretary nominee Representative Hilda Solis (D-CA), a leader and fighter for women and people of color, ran smoothly Friday....
1/6/2009	Nobel Laureate and Activist Dr. Shirin Ebadi's Safety Threatened Dr....
12/11/2008	Abortion Opponents Lobby to Remove Planned Parenthood Funding Anti-choice forces are aiming to end government subsidies received by Planned Parenthood that total $335 million a year....
12/8/2008	Mary Jo Kilroy Wins Close Ohio House Race Mary Jo Kilroy won a tight race for Ohio's 15th congressional district by a 2,311 vote margin and officially declared victory last night....
12/4/2008	Two Women Sentenced to Death in Iran Two Iranian women have been sentenced to death in the past week, one by stoning....
12/3/2008	Arrests Made in Acid Attack on Afghan Schoolgirls Ten Taliban insurgents have been arrested in the case of an acid attack against schoolgirls that took place in November outside of the Mirwais Nika Girls High School in the southern city of Kandahar....
11/26/2008	Czech Republic Proposes Bill to Extend Abortion Serves to EU Citizens A new bill was just approved unanimously by the Czech Republic cabinet that would extend abortion privileges and other health services to all European Union (EU) citizens....
11/20/2008	Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance Honors Those Lost to Violence Today is the tenth annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors those of the transgender community lost to violence....
11/17/2008	Forced Abortion Planned by Chinese Officials Arzigul Tursun, pregnant with her third child, is hospitalized under orders by Chinese officials who plan to forcibly terminate her pregnancy....
11/13/2008	Afghan Schoolgirls Targeted in Acid Attack A group of Afghan girls walking to school were sprayed with battery acid by two men on motorcycles Wednesday....
11/12/2008	Feminist Activist Released from Iranian Prison Esha Momeni, a feminist activist, was released from Evin prison in Iran Monday where she had been held since October 15....
10/21/2008	Graduate Student Arrested in Iran over One Million Signatures Campaign Esha Momeni was arrested in Tehran last week for reportedly conducting unauthorized video interviews with Iranian women activists....
10/21/2008	Graduate Student Arrested in Iran over One Million Signatures Campaign Esha Momeni was arrested in Tehran last week for reportedly conducting unauthorized video interviews with Iranian women activists....
10/17/2008	South Dakota Abortion Ban Memo Leaked An internal memo from Sanford Health System lawyers indicating that the proposed abortion ban in South Dakota could have serious legal implications for hospitals was leaked on Wednesday....
10/6/2008	Anti-Abortion Poster Case Rejected by Supreme Court The Supreme Court rejected an appeal in the case of American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA) v....
9/18/2008	Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Becomes New Leader of Israel's Governing Party Tzipi Livni won the election in Israel to replace Prime Minister Elmud Olmert Thursday as head of the Kadima Party....
9/18/2008	Kentucky Court Bans Gay Stepparents from Adopting A recent ruling by a Kentucky Court of Appeals bans gay couples from step-parent adoption unless the stepparent and the child’s biological parent are married, effectively banning second parent adoption by same sex couples....
8/27/2008	Unmarried Adoption Ban Approved for Arkansas Ballot A ballot measure that would ban unmarried couples from fostering or adopting children has been approved for the November ballot in Arkansas....
8/11/2008	Constituents Protest Mark Kirk's Vote on Paycheck Fairness Act A group of Congressman Mark Kirk's (R-IL) constituents are protesting his July 31 vote against the Paycheck Fairness Act....
8/11/2008	Women Hit by Faltering Economy Women are more likely to be affected by the economy than men, according to a National Women's Law Center poll released last week....
8/5/2008	Jailed Afghan Mothers Allowed to Live With Their Children in Prison A policy intended to fight child poverty and ensure child safety allows incarcerated Afghan women to live with their children while in prison....
8/5/2008	Indian Court Rejects Couple's Plea for Abortion An Indian Court rejected a couple's petition on Monday for an abortion of a 25-week-old-fetus with a congenital heart problem....
8/1/2008	House Passes Paycheck Fairness Act The House of Representatives passed the Paycheck Fairness Act Thursday with a 247 to 178 vote....
7/24/2008	House Passes Grant for Processing Untested Rape Kits The House of Representatives passed the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2008 last week, which will help process a backlog of rape kits across the country....
7/21/2008	Need for Survival Fuels Sex Work, High Birth Rate Kills Mothers in Afghanistan Women and young girls are being pushed to commercial sex work due to high food prices and widespread unemployment in Afghanistan....
7/21/2008	South Dakota Abortion Law Takes Effect South Dakota abortion providers are now required to recite a script telling patients that the procedure will "terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being." They must then warn the woman of a supposed increased risk of suicide....
6/23/2008	36th Anniversary of Title IX June 23rd, marks the 36th anniversary of Title IX, the revolutionary federal law that outlaws sex-discrimination in education....
6/16/2008	Cruel Facts of Afghan Redevelopment A meeting of international donors in Paris last week revealed many disconcerting facts related to the redevelopment in Afghanistan, after the Bush Administration promised a Marshall Plan for the country....
6/13/2008	Feder Wins VA 10th District Judy Feder won the Democratic primary for Virginia’s 10th district Tuesday night....
6/12/2008	Pingree Wins Maine Primary Nomination Chellie Pingree won the Democratic nomination to fill the Congressional seat of Maine's 1st District on Tuesday....
6/12/2008	Equal Pay Act Reaches 45th Anniversary This week marks the 45th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act....
6/6/2008	Anti-Contraceptive Extremists Protest Clinics The anti-contraception group American Life League (ALL) plans to protest clinics across the country on Saturday, June 7th....
6/4/2008	Insurance Denied to Women With C-Section History Women who have had a Caesarean birth face higher insurance premiums, and have even been denied insurance all together....
6/2/2008	Vatican Decrees Excommunication for Ordained Women The Vatican last week reaffirmed its stance against allowing women to be ordained as priests....
5/21/2008	Maternal Mortality and Obstetric Fistula Addressed at Press Conference and Hill Briefing The Congressional Democratic Women's Working Group hosted a press conference and rally followed by a Congressional briefing yesterday focused on maternal mortality around the world and the realities faced by women suffering from obstetric fistula....
5/8/2008	Anti-Affirmative Action Ballot Initiative Defeated in Missouri The campaign to place a ban on affirmative action on Missouri's November state ballot failed to produce enough signatures by the required deadline on Sunday....
5/8/2008	Feminist Candidates Win Key Victories in Primaries Feminist candidates won key victories in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries this week....
5/6/2008	Students Protest University Honoring Notorious Anti-Feminist Students at Washington University in St Louis are organizing in protest of the University's plans to honor notorious anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly with an honorary doctorate degree at the school's commencement ceremony May 16....
4/16/2008	Study Highlights Economic and Health Disparities Faced by Women after Katrina Women continue to face discrimination in the aftermath of Katrina, which inhibits the recovery process, a study released last Friday reports....
4/15/2008	Anti-Sexual Assault Organization Launches Online Counseling Hotline Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN), the largest anti-sexual assault organization in the US, launched an online counseling service yesterday....
4/10/2008	Jackie Speier to be Sworn In to Congress Following an overwhelming victory in Tuesday’s special election, Jackie Speier will be sworn into the US House of Representatives today....
4/9/2008	Senators Propose Bill to Improve Women Veteran's Health Care A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill last week that would require the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) to improve health care for women veterans....
4/8/2008	Military Contractor in Iraq Faces More Rape Allegations Another woman has come forward with allegations of rape by both a fellow KBR employee and a US soldier while working for KBR in Iraq....
4/3/2008	Senate Committee Hearing on Rape as a Weapon of War On Tuesday, United States Senator Dick Durbin chaired the first-ever Congressional hearing on the use of rape as a weapon of war....
4/2/2008	Senate Bill Targets Deceptive Advertising by Pregnancy Crisis Centers Senator Robert Menendez introduced a bill in the Senate yesterday that would regulate the misleading advertising practices of Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs)....
4/1/2008	Iraqi Women Face Increased Human Rights Violations in Post-Invasion Iraq Iraqi women's rights are eroding instead of improving in post-invasion Iraq....
3/25/2008	Anti-Abortion Extremist Breaks Agreement to Stay Away from Mississippi Clinic Anti-abortion extremist Roy McMillan admitted in court on Friday that he had violated a federal agreement to stay away from Mississippi's only abortion clinic....
3/10/2008	Feminists Celebrate National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers Today, March 10th, feminists across the country celebrate the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers....
3/7/2008	Karen Bass Elected First Black Woman Speaker of California Assembly The California State Assembly unanimously elected Karen Bass as the new Assembly Speaker last week....
3/4/2008	UN Secretary General Calls for an End to Violence against Women The United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched a campaign last week during the UN's 52nd Commission on the Status of Women that seeks an to end violence against women....
2/26/2008	Massachusetts Attorney General Supports Clinic Safety Buffer Zones Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed a brief in federal court last week responding to a lawsuit by anti-abortion extremists challenging the state’s clinic safety buffer zone laws....
2/15/2008	Kentucky Senate Passes Anti-abortion Bill A bill that forces a doctor to perform an ultrasound test prior to every abortion and to show the images to each woman seeking an abortion has passed the Kentucky Senate, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader....
2/13/2008	Alleged KBR Rape Victim Testifies at Another House Hearing Jamie Leigh Jones, a former KBR employee, testified again on Tuesday at a Congressional hearing that she was drugged and gang-raped by a group of her co-workers in the Green Zone KBR camp in Iraq in 2005....
2/6/2008	Bush Budget Cuts Domestic Programs The proposed FY 2009 budget released by President Bush on Monday includes broad cuts from many vital domestic programs, including health care, nutrition and energy assistance for low-income families, violence against women programs, and social services for low-income families....
1/22/2008	Wichita Pro-Choice Community Rallies Behind Dr. Tiller As they marked the 35th anniversary of the landmark US Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, supporters gathered today outside the Women’s Health Care Services clinic in Wichita, Kansas....
1/16/2008	Jordanian Parliament Endorses Domestic Violence Bill The Jordanian Parliament last week endorsed a family protection bill aimed at curbing the growing domestic violence problem there....
1/14/2008	Abortion Foes Focus on States As the 2008 elections approach, anti-abortion activists have turned their attention to states....
1/14/2008	Kentucky Bill Would Require Ultrasound for Abortion Patients A bill recently introduced in the Kentucky state legislature would require women seeking abortions to first undergo an ultrasound....
1/10/2008	Women in Greece Defy Men-Only Rule About 10 women defied a strict ban from the all-male Mount Athos monastic sanctuary on the Athos peninsula of Greece....
1/3/2008	Two Arrested in Albuquerque Clinic Arson Two men were arrested last week in connection to the fire that destroyed an Albuquerque clinic in early December....
12/7/2007	Princeton Picking Up Costs of Birth Control Price Spike for Students Starting last Saturday, Princeton University now subsidizes oral contraceptive for its students in the face of the growing birth control pricing crisis....
12/4/2007	Plea Bargain for Jena Six Youth The LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters agreed to a plea bargain on Monday for one of the black teenagers facing trial in the Jena Six case....
11/19/2007	Boy Scouts of Philadelphia to Lose Headquarters The city solicitor gave the Boy Scouts of Philadelphia until December 3 to renounce their policy of excluding homosexuals, or the Scouts will lose the subsidized rent of their city-owned, 79-year-old landmark headquarters....
11/2/2007	Report Finds Alarming High School Drop Out Rate According to a report released this week by the National Women’s Law Center, an alarmingly high number of young women are dropping out of high school....
11/2/2007	Biden and Lugar Introduce International Violence Against Women Act Senators Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Richard Lugar (R-IN), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced yesterday the International Violence Against Women Act....
10/19/2007	Women’s Health in US Deteriorating According to a study released this week by the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), the status of women’s health within the US is in an overall state of decline....
10/8/2007	Late-Term Abortion Provider Target of Multiple Investigations Operation Rescue has filed a complaint with the Kansas Board of Healing Arts against Dr....
10/4/2007	EEOC Steps In to End Los Angeles Fire Department Discrimination The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on Tuesday accused the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) of violating civil-rights law through a pattern of discrimination, harassment and retaliation against black and woman employees....
10/1/2007	Discrimination Lawsuit Filed Against Bloomberg, LP The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit Thursday against Bloomberg LP, the company founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 1981....
9/27/2007	Jena Six Case Will Go to Juvenile Court Reed Walters, the prosecutor in the "Jena Six" cases announced that he will not challenge a Louisiana sate appeals court’s ruling that Mychal Bell, 17, could not be tried as an adult and that his second-degree battery conviction be set aside....
9/19/2007	Erwin Chemerinsky Re-Hired for Deanship University of California, Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake announced on Monday that he is reinstating respected constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky as the new UCI law school’s founding dean....
9/18/2007	New Illinois Planned Parenthood Clinic Opening Blocked The new Aurora, Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic has been forced to delay its anticipated September 18 opening....
9/17/2007	Convicted Anti-Abortion Arsonist and Kidnapper Released From Prison Anti-abortion extremist Don Benny Anderson was just released from prison to a halfway house, after serving 24 years for kidnapping Illinois clinic owner Dr Hector Zavallos and his wife Jean....
9/12/2007	Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum Finishes Sixth in Guatemala’s Presidential Election Nobel Peace Laureate and human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum lost her bid for Guatemala's presidency Sunday, finishing sixth in a field of 14 candidates....
9/11/2007	California Acts to Correct Ledbetter Decision The California State Senate has passed a law to shield workers in the state from a US Supreme Court decision that severely limits employees' ability to sue for equal pay....
9/10/2007	Plan B Bill Moves in Wisconsin After a long delay, the Compassionate Care for Rape Victims Bill is now being considered by the Wisconsin State Assembly....
9/6/2007	UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Met with Iranian Women's Rights Activists During a recent trip to Iran, United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Louise Arbour met with women's rights activist and Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi on the status of women in Iran....
9/5/2007	Niki Tsongas Wins Primary in MA-5 Niki Tsongas won the Democratic primary yesterday for her Congressional bid in Massachusetts' fifth district, where US Representative Martin Meehan (D) has announced he will be stepping down after serving in Congress for 14 years....
8/20/2007	13-Year Old Boys Face Trial for Sexual Harassment Two 13-year old Oregon boys face criminal sexual harassment charges for allegedly spanking girls and touching their breasts....
8/20/2007	Minnesota to Cut Birth Control Costs in Half Minnesota enacted a new law this month that will make birth control more affordable and accessible....
8/14/2007	On Social Networking Sites, Pro-Anorexia Seems Validated While the prevalence of pro-eating disorder websites is nothing new, their existence has become more accepted, more respected, and easier to access via popular social networking sites....
8/14/2007	9 Indicted for Alleged Sex Trafficking Ring Nine Guatemalans were indicted for allegedly sex trafficking young women and girls from Guatemala into the US, the US Department of Justice announced Thursday....
8/10/2007	Air Force Woman Could Be Convicted in Her Own Rape A woman airman in the US Air Force who was allegedly raped by three of her male counterparts is being charged with indecent acts, according to an AP report....
8/6/2007	Dr. George Tiller Enters Not Guilty Pleas to 19 Charges Facing 19 misdemeanor charges for consulting a doctor with whom he allegedly has legal and financial ties, Doctor George Tiller reported for processing on Friday while his attorneys submitted not guilty pleas to all counts on his behalf....
7/23/2007	UN Peacekeepers Under Investigation for Sexual Assault After allegations that Moroccan peacekeepers have committed sexual assault in Cote d'Ivoire, the UN has announced plans to repatriate the entire contingent during its investigation....
7/23/2007	Anti-Abortion Protestors Leave Birmingham Anti-abortion protestors left Birmingham yesterday after a week-long protest targeting the city's two women's health centers....
7/17/2007	Florida Adopts Domestic Violence Leave Act A new law recently went into effect in Florida to protect victims of domestic violence from losing their jobs due to necessary time off to seek medical attention or counseling, or to take legal action....
7/13/2007	Nebraska Judge Declares Mistrial in Rape Case after Language Ban District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront declared a mistrial yesterday in a Nebraska rape case in which the alleged victim would have been unable to say certain words, including "rape" and "assault"....
7/9/2007	Report Denounces University's Handling of Student's Rape and Murder The US Department of Education has released an 18-page report confirming that Eastern Michigan University (EMU) mishandled student Laura Dickinson's rape and murder case in December 2006....
7/2/2007	Israeli President Escapes Jail Time for Rape Charges Women's rights activists in Israel are expressing outrage at a plea bargain that will exempt President Moshe Katsav from going to prison for sexual harassment and rape....
6/29/2007	Egypt Moves to Ban Female Genital Mutilation Egypt's health ministry announced yesterday that it would close a legal loophole allowing female genital mutilation (FGM), days after a 12-year-old girl died from the procedure....
6/21/2007	Rep. Conyers Holds Briefing with Michael Moore on Health Care Reform House Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI) and other members of Congress held a briefing and press conference yesterday on Capitol Hill, highlighting the failures of the for-profit health care system and the difficulties faced by millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans....
6/20/2007	Kopp Sentenced to Life Plus 10 in Federal Court for Abortion Provider's Murder Anti-abortion extremist James Kopp was sentenced yesterday to a life term plus 10 years in prison by a federal judge....
6/14/2007	Bush Nominates Anti-Gay Doctor to Surgeon General Post President Bush's recent nominee to the position of surgeon general has a history of condemning and criticizing homosexuality, making him "unworthy" of the surgeon general's post, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) asserts....
6/14/2007	Fatal Shooting Outside Afghan Girls' School Two gunmen killed two girls and wounded six others, including a teacher, outside a girls' school in Logar Province, Afghanistan on Tuesday....
6/13/2007	Ledbetter Testifies in House Hearing; Committee Calls for Title VII Action Lilly Ledbetter, the plaintiff in a wage discrimination case against the Goodyear Rubber and Tire Company, spoke yesterday before the House Committee on Education and Labor, highlighting the difficulties employees face when reporting incidents of discrimination in the workplace....
6/6/2007	Afghan Radio Owner and Reporter Killed Zakia Zaki, the owner and manager of Peace Radio and a headmaster of a girls' school in Parwan province, was shot dead inside her home early this morning....
5/25/2007	Study Shows Sexual Harassment Targets Women Who Defy Gender Stereotypes A recently published study in the Journal of Applied Psychology finds that sexual harassment targets women who do not conform to gender stereotypes....
5/25/2007	Gallup Poll Shows Majority of Americans Approve of Strengthened Hate Crimes Law According to a Gallup poll conducted earlier this month, 68 percent of all Americans believe that federal hate crime laws should protect people from discrimination or violence on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, and gender identity....
5/18/2007	Massachusetts Legislature Considers Bill Limiting Protestors at Abortion Clinics The Massachusetts legislature is considering a bill that would prevent protestors from entering a 35-foot zone around abortion clinics....
5/17/2007	CT Governor Signs EC Bill for Sexual Assault Victims Connecticut Governor M Jodi Rell (R) signed a bill yesterday ensuring that all licensed health care facilities make emergency contraception available to victims of sexual assault....
5/17/2007	TX Man Indicted for Abortion Clinic Bombing Paul Ross Evans, who was arrested last month on charges that he attempted to bomb a women's health clinic in Austin, Texas, was indicted on Tuesday....
5/15/2007	Sunday Morning Talk Shows Lack Women and Minority Guests, Study Finds According to a new report released by Media Matters for America, the guests on Sunday morning talk television shows -- which garner some 12 million viewers every week -- are predominately white men....
5/7/2007	Women Leaders Converge To Discuss Lack of Equity in Academia On May 2, Harvard's president-elect, Drew Gilpin Faust, gathered four current and former women presidents of Ivy League schools to participate in a coffee-table panel on the position of women in academia....
4/30/2007	Suspect Arrested and Charged in Attempted Austin Clinic Bombing A 27-year-old man has been arrested on three charges related to a pipe-bomb that was found near an Austin, Texas abortion clinic last week....
4/27/2007	Iran: More Feminist Activists Sentenced to Jail, Police Crackdown on Women in Public Of the 11 women's rights activists who have been summoned by Iran's Revolutionary Court in the past week, six have now been sentenced to serve jail time....
4/26/2007	Cost of Birth Control Skyrockets for Colleges, Many Clinics A change in the Medicaid rules under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 has increased the price of birth control pills and other prescription drugs at college health centers and many clinics serving low-income women nationwide....
4/24/2007	France's First Woman President, Just One Election Away France moved another step closer to electing its first woman president when Socialist candidate and self-declared feminist Segolene Royal became one of two final contenders in the first round of the presidential elections on Sunday....
4/11/2007	Imus Loses 2 Advertisers; Rutgers Team Agrees to Closed Meeting Two companies have announced that they will pull advertisements from Don Imus's morning show on MSNBC and CBS after the host made sexist and racist comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team last week....
4/5/2007	Women Tsunami Survivors Face Exploitation, Discrimination Post-tsunami aid has disproportionately assisted men, leaving women survivors in continuing poverty, according to a report by the Alliance of Women Affected by the Tsunami....
4/3/2007	OPI Products Removes Hazardous Ingredient from Nail Polish At the urging of activists and consumers with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, OPI Products has reformulated its nail polish to remove the hazardous solvent toluene....
4/3/2007	MA Woman Will Not Face Homicide Charges after Inducing Abortion The Essex, Massachusetts district attorney has announced that a woman who was charged two months ago with illegally inducing an abortion by taking anti-ulcer pills will not face homicide charges....
3/23/2007	Mississippi Governor Signs Abortion Trigger Law Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour (R) signed a bill into law yesterday that will outlaw and criminalize all abortions in the event that the US Supreme Court overturns its 1973 decision in Roe v Wade....
2/26/2007	Two Women Allegedly Gang-Raped by Iraqi Security Forces Two alleged gang rapes of Iraqi women by national security forces caused an uproar in Iraq last week....
2/21/2007	U.S. To Take in 7,000 Iraqi Refugees, Giving Women and Children Priority In response to mounting international pressure, the United States has pledged to grant asylum to 7,000 Iraq war refugees, prioritizing the "most vulnerable," including women and children....
2/14/2007	Extremist Kopp May Be Extradited to Canada to Face Shooting Charges Anti-abortion extremist James Kopp, who is currently imprisoned for killing an abortion provider near Buffalo, NY, may be extradited to Canada to face more charges....
2/9/2007	Hearings Held on Conditions in Mariana Islands The US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held hearings yesterday on the labor, immigration, law enforcement, and economic conditions in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands....
2/1/2007	Three Iranian Women Journalists, Activists Face Prosecution Three women's rights activists and journalists were arrested at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport en route to a journalism workshop in India and now face prosecution....
1/31/2007	SD Legislature Reintroduces Revised Abortion Ban An abortion ban, similar to the previous ban that was soundly rejected by voters in November 2006, will be introduced into the South Dakota House of Representatives today....
1/30/2007	500 Companies Pledge to Detoxify Beauty Products; Major Companies Still Refuse to Sign More than 500 cosmetics and body care product manufacturers have signed "The Compact for Safe Cosmetics," a pledge to eliminate toxic ingredients from their products....
1/30/2007	Pro-Choice and Anti-War Congressman, Priest Dies at 86 Father Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest and lawyer who served in the US Congress for ten years died on Sunday at the age of 86....
1/26/2007	Kopp Convicted on Federal Charges for Murdering Abortion Doctor Anti-abortion extremist James Kopp was convicted yesterday on federal charges for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act when he shot and murdered an abortion doctor in 1998....
1/23/2007	Anniversary of Roe Met, Once Again, with Rallies of Support and Protest Supporters and opponents of reproductive freedom participated in events across the country yesterday, marking the 34th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade that legalized abortion for women in the US....
1/19/2007	Pregnant Women May Be Turned Away From Hong Kong Women from mainland China who are seven months pregnant or more and wish to enter Hong Kong could be turned away at the border after a new measure is implemented in February....
1/10/2007	Kopp's Federal Trial Begins with Apology James Kopp, who was convicted under New York state law for the 1998 murder of an abortion provider in Buffalo, NY, started his federal trial yesterday on charges that he violated the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act....
12/20/2006	Six Anti-Abortion Protestors Convicted for Behavior in Mississippi in July The Jackson, Mississippi Municipal Court found six anti-abortion protestors guilty yesterday for charges brought against them during Operation Save America's week-long siege of the last remaining abortion clinic in the state this summer....
12/12/2006	Swift Pleads Guilty to AWOL Charges After Sexual Abuse Specialist Suzanne Swift has agreed to plead guilty to charges of being away without leave after refusing an assignment to return to Iraq because she says she was sexually harassed and abused by other officers....
12/8/2006	James Kopp Loses Bid to Dismiss Federal Trial for Murder of Abortion Provider A federal judge refused to dismiss charges against James Kopp, the convicted killer of abortion provider Barnett Slepian, MD, for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act....
11/20/2006	Dutch Immigration Minister Proposes Burqa Ban Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk proposed legislation on Friday that would ban the burqa, a head-to-toe garment for women to wear in public, and other full face coverings, such as ski masks and full-face helmets....
11/9/2006	Justices Consider Medical Details in Abortion Ban Hearing The Supreme Court heard two cases yesterday regarding the federal ban on certain abortion procedures used in the second and third trimester of pregnancy....
11/6/2006	Saudi Gang Rape Victim Punished A Saudi victim of gang rape was sentenced to 90 lashes for being alone in a car with a male friend who was not her husband prior to her rape....
10/3/2006	Iran Selects Women’s Rights Film as Oscar Nominee Iran announced its decision to submit a film that defends women's rights to compete in the foreign film category of the Oscars....
10/3/2006	Study: UK Pregnant Women Face Discrimination in the Workplace A recent study of 1,100 pregnant women in the United Kingdom finds that pregnant women are not receiving adequate support in the workplace....
9/28/2006	CA: Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Protecting Abortion Patients, Providers California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill designed to protect patients and employees of reproductive health clinics from anti-abortion extremists who may use violence against them....
9/20/2006	Report Finds Women Discriminated Against in Science and Technology Fields Women face discrimination from academic institutions in science and technology fields, according to a new report released Monday from the National Academy of Sciences....
9/19/2006	Presbyterian Minister Cited for Performing Same-Sex Marriage Rites An investigating committee of the Pittsburgh Presbytery has found Reverend Janet Edwards in violation of the Church's constitution for performing marriage rites for a same-sex couple....
9/12/2006	Members of Congress Urge Labor Department to Support Women's Bureau More than 100 members of Congress asked the US Department of Labor to continue its support of the Women's Bureau, the only bureau dedicated exclusively to women's issues in employment....
9/11/2006	Ban on Women at Mecca Met with Resistance; Officials Reconsider Women Muslims across the world have spoken out against recent proposals in Saudi Arabia to ban women from praying at the most sacred shrine for Muslims, the Grand Mosque in Mecca....
9/7/2006	UNFPA Releases 2006 State of the World Report The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its 2006 State of the World Population report yesterday in a morning briefing in Washington, DC, emphasizing the importance of women's issues and international migration....
8/18/2006	Bush Approves Pension Tax Law with Benefits for Same-Sex Couples President Bush signed the Federal Pension Protection Act into law yesterday, which includes two provisions that will greatly benefit same-sex couples and other non-spouse beneficiaries....
8/14/2006	Barr Laboratories Intends to Resubmit EC Application Barr Laboratories has announced that it will incorporate an 18 and older age restriction into its application for emergency contraception (EC) to be made available over-the-counter to accommodate acting FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach’s request that the age limit be raised from 16....
8/4/2006	Cameroonians Fight Breast Ironing Breast ironing, a brutal practice meant to slow the development of young women's breasts in order to ward off sexual attention, is inflicted on a quarter of all girls in Cameroon, according to a recent study by GTZ, a German NGO....
7/31/2006	Study Shows Domestic Workers Endure Abuse, Cruelty Worldwide Domestic workers worldwide face starvation, forced confinement, and regular physical and sexual abuse, concludes a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released on Thursday....
7/27/2006	Labor Unions Oppose Anti-Choice Ballot Initiative Feminist leaders successfully convinced California unions this week to take a stand against an anti-choice measure that will be on the California ballot this November....
7/27/2006	Feminists Gather to Promote Women's Leadership Leading women members of Congress spoke about women's leadership yesterday at an event on Capitol Hill organized by Feminist Majority Foundation interns....
7/20/2006	Possible Return of Taliban’s Religious Police Threatens Afghan Women's Rights Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his cabinet have approved the reestablishment of the Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice....
7/20/2006	Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill President Bush used his veto power for the first time in his five-year presidency yesterday when he held a ceremony in the White House to veto legislation that would have allowed federal funding to be used for embryonic stem cell research....
7/18/2006	Ralph Reed, Linked to Abramoff, Faces Tough Primary Race in Georgia Former Christian Coalition Executive Director Ralph Reed faces a tough primary race today for lieutenant governor of Georgia....
7/13/2006	Louisiana Clinic Bomber Pleads Guilty Patricia Hughes, 25, pleaded guilty yesterday to setting off a small firebomb outside a Shreveport abortion clinic....
7/12/2006	Study Finds Canadian Women Behind in Investment Industry Canadian men outnumber women four to one in all jobs in the investment industry except support staff occupations, says a new study conducted by the Canadian non-profit group Women in Capital Markets....
7/11/2006	Pakistan to Free More than 1,000 Women Pakistan's President signed an amendment to a controversial Islamic law on Friday that will allow 1,300 women facing charges of adultery and other minor crimes to be released from prison on bail....
7/7/2006	Saudi Arabian Women Gain Some Rights in Business In Saudi Arabia, recent changes to business regulations will now allow women to launch and register businesses by themselves....
7/6/2006	Amnesty May Be Granted to Ugandan Responsible for Kidnapping, Sex Slavery Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced Tuesday that if peace talks are successful, he will grant amnesty to Joseph Kony, head of a Ugandan terrorist organization, despite the atrocities Kony has committed over the past 19 years....
7/5/2006	Irish Pro-Choice Group Calls for Legalized Abortion Following recent figures that indicate 15 Irish women go to the United Kingdom for an abortion every day, Alliance for Choice has called on the Irish government to legalize abortion....
6/28/2006	New HIV/AIDS Bill Proposes Changes to PEPFAR Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) has proposed a bill that would require all HIV programs funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to address the rapid spread of infection among women and young people....
6/21/2006	Pentagon Document Classifies Homosexuality as a Mental Disorder A Pentagon document that surfaced this week classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, grouping it with retardation and personality disorder....
6/19/2006	Louisiana Governor Signs Abortion Ban into Law Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco (D) signed an extreme ban on abortion into law this weekend....
6/16/2006	Kuwaiti Women Run for Seats in Parliament for First Time Women are running for seats in Kuwait’s 50-seat parliament for the first time since the governing body was created in 1962....
6/16/2006	Eastern European Women’s Economic Status Plummets The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) have released a report that examines the effects of economic transitions from state socialism to free markets on women in 18 Eastern European countries. According to the report, titled "The Story Behind the Numbers: Women and Employment in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Commonwealth of Independent States," Eastern European women have suffered because of the collapse of state socialism, with high rates of long-term unemployment....
6/14/2006	Global Summit of Women Held in Egypt Women business, professional, and government leaders gathered to build international alliances and develop strategies to advance women's economic development throughout the world....
6/12/2006	Delegation Traveling to Guatemala to Address Rampant Femicides A delegation led by the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA, a non-profit organization, will travel to Guatemala later this summer to address violence against women....
6/2/2006	Louisiana House Approves Abortion Ban With an 85-17 vote, the Louisiana House passed a ban on most abortions, with exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman or prevent serious physical harm....
5/25/2006	Head of Mass. Catholic Hospital System Forced to Resign for Sexual Harassment Robert Haddad, MD, the head of the Massachusetts Catholic hospital system Caritas, has been forced to resign after allegations surfaced that he has sexually harassed more than 14 women....
5/24/2006	House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Mifepristone In a sometimes contentious hearing, a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives Government Reform committee last week heard testimony and debated whether mifepristone (RU 486) should be removed from the market....
5/24/2006	HIV/AIDS Activists Put Focus on Feminization of Epidemic HIV/AIDS activists and advocacy groups held a press conference yesterday to draw attention to the feminization of the global epidemic prior to a review of global AIDS policy by the United Nations at the end of the month....
5/22/2006	Iowa Man Attacks Clinic Worker An employee of the Emma Goldman Clinic in Iowa City, Iowa was assaulted by a man last week who then attempted to break into the reproductive health clinic....
5/22/2006	Saudi Arabia’s King Asks Newspapers Not to Publish Images of Women At a recent meeting with newspaper editors, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who has previously been seen as a modernizer, asked that Saudi papers reverse their recent trend of publishing pictures of women....
5/15/2006	Half of Health Professionals Receive No Training in Abortion Care A recent study of advanced practice clinician (APC) training programs, which train nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified nurse-midwives, found that nearly half of such programs fail to offer training in abortion procedures, options counseling, or post-abortion care....
4/24/2006	Anti-HIV Gel for Women May Be Available by 2010 Scientists attending the Microbicides 2006 Conference have announced that a gel that would prevent the transmission of HIV could be ready for use by 2010....
4/17/2006	Report Shows Continued Violence and Discrimination Against Afghan Women A new report on the current status of Afghan women and girls issued by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) demonstrates that Afghan women and girls continue to face extreme obstacles and discrimination as they seek to exercise their rights....
4/13/2006	Francine Busby Top Vote-Getter in San Diego Special Election Democrat Francine Busby won 44 percent of the vote to replace jailed Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R) in a special election held yesterday....
4/6/2006	GAO Report Criticizes Bush Administration's Approach to Global HIV Prevention The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report that strongly criticizes the Bush Administration's focus on promoting abstinence and fidelity as the best methods of preventing HIV infection....
4/4/2006	Kuwaiti Women Vote for the First Time Kuwaiti women vote for the first time today, going to the polls to choose a local council member in the district of Salmiya....
4/3/2006	A Second Female Presidential Candidate in Yemen A second woman has decided to run for president of Yemen....
3/29/2006	Anti-Choice Group Challenges Pittsburgh Clinic Ordinance An anti-abortion group known as the Alliance Defense Fund filed a lawsuit this week challenging Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's law requiring a 15-foot buffer zone around clinics....
3/21/2006	Under New Guidelines, Lesbians and Gays May Be Denied Government Jobs Revised security clearance guidelines approved by President Bush may create obstacles for lesbians and gay men seeking security-related government jobs....
3/17/2006	Senators Block Confirmation of FDA Commissioner Over EC In a repeat of last spring's battle over the confirmation of the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) have announced that they will block the confirmation of Andrew von Eschenbach until the FDA rules on making the emergency contraceptive Plan B available over-the-counter....
3/15/2006	Senator Boxer Introduces Bill for Afghan Women Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced the Afghan Women Empowerment Act of 2006 last week, which authorizes funding for the Afghan Ministry of Women's Affairs, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC, and Afghan women-led nonprofit organizations (NGOs) to promote the rights of women and to provide services for women and girls in Afghanistan....
3/15/2006	Mexico Compensates Rape Victim for Denying Her Right to an Abortion Nearly seven years after Paulina Ramirez became pregnant from a rape attack in her home by a heroin addict, the Mexican government has agreed to pay her reparations for forcing her to carry the pregnancy to term....
3/13/2006	Women's Groups Criticize Media's 'Mommy Wars' The National Organization for Women (NOW) has taken aim at the media's coverage of mothers, which frequently pits mothers who work outside the home against those who do not....
3/8/2006	Mexico: Rape Victims Denied Access to Abortion Rape victims in Mexico face hostile officials who actively prevent women from accessing legal abortion services, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW)....
3/7/2006	South Dakota Governor Signs Abortion Ban Yesterday, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds (R) signed a statewide abortion ban into law....
3/6/2006	Wal-Mart To Carry EC But Not Require All Pharmacists to Dispense It In a partial victory for women, Wal-Mart has announced that it will now carry emergency contraception (EC) in all of its pharmacies, complying with a February 14 ruling of the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy that forced the company to do so in that state....
3/6/2006	Parental Notification Laws Do Not Lower Abortion Rates A recent analysis of states that enacted parental notification or consent laws has shown that the addition of these requirements did not lead to a decline in the abortion rate among teenagers....
3/2/2006	Activists Urge Tourism Boycott to Protest SD Abortion Ban Following the passage of a disastrous abortion ban in South Dakota, the Women's Medical Fund and other abortion-rights activists are calling for pro-choice Americans to boycott all tourism in the state....
2/28/2006	Supreme Court Ruling Could Imperil Women's Health Clinics Arlington, VA – The Supreme Court today issued an 8-0 decision in two related cases (Scheidler, et al, v National Organization for Women (NOW), et al and Operation Rescue v NOW, et al), lifting a nationwide injunction protecting virtually all women's health clinics in the nation....
2/28/2006	Supreme Court Rules Against NOW, Clinics in Anti-Abortion Violence Case The Supreme Court today issued an 8-0 decision in two related cases first brought by the National Organization for Women (NOW) and two clinics of the National Women's Health Organization on behalf of virtually all clinics and all women two decades ago....
2/27/2006	First Woman Prime Minister Poised to Govern in Jamaica Portia Simpson Miller will soon become the first female prime minister in Jamaica after she was elected president of the governing People's National Party on Saturday....
2/23/2006	South Dakota Legislature Passes Bill Banning Nearly All Abortions The South Dakota Senate yesterday approved (23-12) a bill that would make it a felony for doctors to perform any abortions in the state except those necessary to save the life of the woman....
2/17/2006	In Eight Years, Practically No Progress For Women Policy-Makers In the last eight years, the number of women with policy-making posts in state government has barely budged, says a new study from the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society (CWIG)....
2/15/2006	Massachusetts Wal-Marts Must Stock Emergency Contraception Tuesday, the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy unanimously decided to require Wal-Marts in the state to stock emergency contraception (EC), making it the second state where women can fill EC prescriptions at the retail giant....
2/14/2006	Women in Zimbabwe Protest Economic Hardships Nearly 200 Zimbabwean women were arrested following their participation in a march against President Mugabe, economic crises in the country and human rights violations....
2/7/2006	Kansas Grants Access to Clinic Records, Protects Patient Information In a unanimous ruling Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court granted Attorney General Phill Kline permission to investigate records from abortion clinics, but patients' names and personal information will be withheld from the records he sees....
2/4/2006	Feminist Giant Betty Friedan Dies at 85 Betty Friedan, author of the groundbreaking book (The Feminine Mystique)that helped launch the contemporary women's movement, died today at the age of 85....
2/3/2006	Women Sue Wal-Mart Over Emergency Contraception Three women in Massachusetts have sued Wal-Mart over its refusal to stock emergency contraception in its pharmacies, calling it a violation of state law that requires pharmacies carry all "commonly prescribed medications." The women, Katrina McCarty, Julia Battel, and Dr....
2/2/2006	Research Confirms that Heart Disease's Presentation and Treatment Varies by Sex Research released as National Women's Heart Health Month begins shows that heart disease manifests differently in women than in men and requires independent study and treatment, confirming a report on women's health in the current issue of Ms magazine....
1/20/2006	Anti-HIV Gel May Empower Women in the Fight Against AIDS The FDA has put an anti-HIV vaginal gel called VivaGel on the fast track for approval....
1/10/2006	Four Dead in Pakistan Honor Killing A 25-year-old woman and her three younger stepsisters have been murdered in a brutal "honor killing" in Pakistan....
1/5/2006	Bush Makes Recess Appointment of Sauerbrey Despite Women's Protests Yesterday, President Bush made a recess appointment of Ellen Sauerbrey to be Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, circumventing Congressional opposition to her appointment....
1/4/2006	Students from 35 States Come to Washington, DC to Stop Alito Students from 35 States Come to Washington, DC to Stop Alito Feminist Majority Foundation Announces Freedom Winter '06 WASHINGTON, DC - Today the Feminist Majority Foundation, with the National Organization for Women and the National Congress of Black Women, announced Freedom Winter '06, part of a joint national campaign to block the confirmation of Samuel Alito because of the serious threat he poses to the future of women's rights and civil rights....
12/22/2005	MsMagazine.com Released Today the Top Ten News Stories for Women in 2005 MS....
12/12/2005	Woman Maintains Lead in Chilean Presidential Election Michelle Bachelet is leading her opponents after the first round of Chile's presidential election and could become the country's first female president after a January runoff....
12/1/2005	Alito Memorandum Demonstrates Hostility to Women's Reproductive Rights Unquestionable evidence of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's efforts to undercut women's reproductive rights surfaced yesterday in a memorandum he wrote while serving in the Reagan Justice Department....
11/30/2005	Supreme Court Hears Critical Cases to Stop Anti-Abortion Violence - Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President Supreme Court Hears Critical Cases to Stop Anti-Abortion Violence Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President Washington, DC - After the United States Supreme Court heard arguments today in two related class action cases involving anti-abortion clinic violence and access to women's health clinics (Joseph Scheidler, et....
11/30/2005	AIDS Funding to be Subject to Global Gag Rule The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) has charged the Bush Administration with secretly undermining the effort to fight HIV/AIDS by subjecting US AIDS funding to the Global Gag Rule....
11/8/2005	Nigerian Lawyer Awarded Human Rights Prize Hauwa Ibrahim, Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, is one of three recipients of the European Parliament's distinguished 2005 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought....
11/1/2005	Trade Studies Still Gender Segregated Girls still are stuck in home econmics classes while boys take 'shop' — that's the gist of a new report released by the National Women's Law Center (NWLC)....
10/31/2005	Feminist Majority Opposes Samuel Alito Alito's Confirmation Would Drive Women's Rights Back Decades Arlington, Virginia – Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal issued the following statement on the nomination of Samuel A....
10/31/2005	Progressive Groups Oppose Alito Nomination In the hours after President Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, many progressive groups have announced their opposition to this far-right Supreme Court nominee....
10/25/2005	Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Icon, Dies at 92 Civil rights leader Rosa Parks passed away in her Detroit home on Monday evening at age 92, following a long battle with dementia....
10/20/2005	Liberia One Step Closer to First Female African President Liberians voted last Tuesday for the first time since the 14-year civil war ravaged the country under Charles Taylor....
10/4/2005	Miers' Nomination Overshadows New Indictments for DeLay The announcement of Harriet Miers as Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court yesterday pushed news of additional indictments of Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX) to the background....
9/30/2005	Portugal Agrees to Hold Abortion Referendum Portugal's parliament on Wednesday voted to hold a referendum to decriminalize abortion during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy....
9/27/2005	Iraqi Women's Rights under Daily Threat Women's rights activists in Iraq are sounding the alarm that certain freedoms, particularly freedom of dress and movement, exercised by women even under the regime of Saddam Hussein, are being degraded and threaten to disappear....
9/14/2005	Rally Planned to Oppose Roberts MEDIA ADVISORY Leading Women's & Civil Rights Organizations to Hold Rally Opposing John Roberts for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Thursday, September 15 1-2 p.m. C St....
8/26/2005	FDA Delays Decision on Emergency Contraception Today, for the third time, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) delayed its decision on making the emergency contraceptive Plan B available over-the-counter....
8/26/2005	Feminist Majority Foundation Expresses Outrage over FDA Stall Tactics on Over-the-Counter Status for Emergency Contraception Arlington, VA – The Feminist Majority Foundation today expressed its outrage that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has delayed for the third time its decision on the emergency contraceptive Plan B....
8/25/2005	Nigeria: Islamic Province Segregates Public Transportation by Sex The state of Kano, in northern Nigeria, has banned women from most motorcycle taxis and has instituted segregated seating on public buses....
8/18/2005	Afghan Women Run for Office Amid Increasing Intimidation and Threats Nearly 600 Afghan women are running for office in the country's first legislative elections since the fall of the Taliban in 2001....
8/17/2005	Nonprofit Sues US Government for Basing Grants on Opposition to Prostitution DKT International, a nonprofit organization that works to prevent HIV/AIDS worldwide, has sued the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for its retraction of a grant when DKT refused to sign a pledge opposing sex work....
8/10/2005	John Roberts: Architect of Laissez-Faire Policy Concerning Clinic Violence? Focus on John Roberts and Clinic Violence Washington, DC – The Feminist Majority and its president, Eleanor Smeal, joined other leading women’s rights groups today in bringing into focus John Roberts’ role in Bray v....
8/2/2005	Afghan Women Running for Office Face Obstacles Afghan women candidates in the upcoming September 18 parliamentary elections are running despite threatening letters and phone calls demanding that they withdraw from the election....
7/19/2005	Anti-Abortion Extremist Rudolph Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole Eric Robert Rudolph was sentenced to two life sentences without parole on Monday for the 1998 bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama women's health clinic, which killed an off-duty police officer and critically injured a nurse....
7/18/2005	Federal Court Hears Appeal in 'Nuremberg Files' Case A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week heard an appeal by anti-abortion groups in the "Nuremberg Files" case....
7/14/2005	Portuguese Women Acquitted of Illegal Abortion Charges Two Portuguese women were acquitted Monday of illegally terminating their pregnancies, in a case that dates back to 1999....
7/13/2005	Catholic Church Pays Sexual Abuse Settlement in CA, Removes Priest in WA In a win for victims of clergy abuse, the Archdiocese of San Francisco reached a settlement Friday in the case against Joseph Pritchard for abuse committed while he was a priest at St....
7/12/2005	Laura Bush Wants a Woman to Fill the Supreme Court Vacancy In an interview on NBC's "Today Show," Laura Bush said that she hoped a woman would fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor....
7/8/2005	Anti-Abortion Extremist Sentenced to 19 Years for Fake Anthrax Mailings Anti-abortion extremist Clayton Waagner was sentenced to 19 years in prison without parole for sending fake anthrax mailings to over women's health clinics and reproductive rights organizations at the height of the anthrax scare following September 11, 2001....
7/8/2005	Acid Attacks on Iraqi Women Increase Several Iraqi women have been burned by acid attacks during recent weeks in Baghdad and the western province of Anbar....
7/6/2005	Senators Differ on Impact of Nuclear Option on Supreme Court Nomination With Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's resignation, Senators on both sides have begun to discuss the potential impact of the so-called "nuclear option" and the deal that took it off the table in May....
6/20/2005	Controversial Judicial Nominee to Get Senate Vote Fourteen years after first being nominated to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, controversial US District Court Judge Terrence Boyle will face a vote on the Senate floor....
6/10/2005	Title IX Lawsuit Avoided at Assumption College In a victory for women's collegiate athletics, Assumption College, a Catholic four-year liberal arts college in Worchester, Massachusetts, has reinstated both the men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field teams....
6/6/2005	Afghan Women Still Suffer Violence, Abuse Women in Afghanistan still face violence and abuse both within their families and at the hands of the police or judicial system, according to a new report from Amnesty International....
6/3/2005	Bahrain Files Charges to Silence Women's Activist Ghada Jamsheer, the head of the Women's Petition Committee (WPC) in Bahrain, faces three trials for slander this month as a result of her involvement in family law cases and her criticisms of Bahrain's sharia judges....
6/1/2005	Mississippi Clinic Wins - Judge Overturns Restrictive Law Today, US District Judge Tom Lee threw out a Mississippi law that banned early second trimester abortions at clinics, declaring it unconstitutional....
5/27/2005	Shorter Waits for Women in New York Restrooms The City Council of New York City passed legislation this week requiring new public venues and those undergoing renovations, such as bars, restaurants, theaters or concert halls, to create restroom equity by establishing a two-to-one ratio of women's to men's stalls....
5/26/2005	Medicaid Funding Viagra for Sex Offenders New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi announced Sunday that 198 convicted sex offenders have received Viagra through New York state Medicaid funds since January of 2000....
5/24/2005	Clinton May Face Opposition in 2006 Senate Race Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) may face opposition as she prepares to run for re-election in 2006....
5/11/2005	New Study Shows Barriers to Receiving Emergency Contraception A new study found that 55 percent of Catholic hospitals and 42 percent of non-Catholic hospitals in the United States do not dispense emergency contraception in their emergency departments under any circumstances....
5/6/2005	Vaccines Show Promise in Eliminating Cervical Cancer Early vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) could vastly reduce the incidence of cervical cancer, and two vaccines are nearing the point of regulatory approval....
4/28/2005	Thousands of Girls Forced to Fight With Armed Groups A new report shows that current efforts to release children from armed groups often overlook the fact that over 120,000 girls have been abducted and forced to fight with armed groups around the world....
4/26/2005	Senator Boxer Proposes Bill to Require Pharmacies to Fill All Prescriptions Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced legislation to protect women's access to contraception in response to recent reports that women seeking birth control or emergency contraception (EC) have been turned away by pharmacists....
4/22/2005	US Supreme Court Lets Stand Massachusetts Abortion Clinic Buffer Law By declining to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling, the US Supreme Court earlier this week let stand a Massachusetts law that prohibits protesters from coming within six feet of abortion clinic patients to disturb them or hand them leaflets....
4/14/2005	Title IX Critic Approved by Judiciary Committee Despite Questionable Record The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved Thomas Griffith for a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit....
4/14/2005	Iran's Parliament Votes to Liberalize Abortion Laws In an attempt to end the high numbers of maternal deaths due to backstreet abortions in Iran, Iran's parliament voted to liberalize its restrictive abortion laws to allow pregnancies to be terminated in the first four months if the fetus is mentally or physically handicapped....
4/11/2005	McCain Opposes So-Called Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said this weekend on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he opposes ending the use of the filibuster on judicial nominees....
3/31/2005	Woman Challenges North Carolina Anti-Cohabitation Law A former sheriff’s dispatcher is challenging North Carolina’s law against cohabitation after losing her job for living with her boyfriend out of wedlock....
3/31/2005	Kenyan Women Take Complaints of Rape by British Military to the United Nations Several hundred Kenyan women from the Samburu and Masai tribes seeking compensation for being raped by the British military 15 years ago are taking their case to the United Nations....
3/28/2005	Muslim Woman Will Organize More Prayer Services Led By Women Asra Nomani, the author of a book on women in Islam and former Wall Street Journal reporter, is organizing the second women-led prayer service in a week....
3/18/2005	Muslim Woman Plans to Lead Prayers, Sparking Controversy In an attempt to bring attention to the second-class status that many Muslim women face, Amina Wadud, a leading female Islamic studies scholar and professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, will lead a prayer service in Manhattan....
3/14/2005	Anti-Abortion Extremist Eric Rudolph Could Face Death Penalty if Convicted US District Court Judge C Lynwood Smith ruled that anti-abortion extremist Eric Robert Rudolph could be tried under a federal arson law, which would allow him to face the death penalty if convicted....
3/11/2005	Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Controversial Judicial Nominee Thomas Griffith, nominated to a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, faced the Senate Judiciary Committee in a confirmation hearing on Tuesday....
3/5/2005	Report Documents Discrimination at Ivy League Universities "The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League," a report conducted by a graduate student group at Yale University, found that women and minorities at Ivy League schools have made little progress breaking into the tenure track faculty ranks, and are instead becoming a larger part of the growing group of highly qualified but non tenure track faculty and staff....
3/4/2005	Amendment to Bankruptcy Bill Would Close Loophole for Anti-Choice Extremists Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) is expected to propose an amendment next week to bankruptcy legislation which would bar anti-abortion extremists from escaping legal judgments by declaring bankruptcy....
2/18/2005	Bipartisan Group in Congress Introduces Stem Cell Funding Bill A bipartisan group of 156 Senators and Representatives introduced a bill this week to expand federal funding for stem cell research....
2/18/2005	Harvard President Finally Releases Transcript of Controversial Speech Following pressure by women's groups and Harvard faculty members, Harvard President Lawrence Summers finally released the transcript of the speech he gave at an academic conference last month during which he suggested the possibility that women have less innate ability to perform in science and mathematics than men....
2/17/2005	Polish Parliament Drops Vote to Liberalize Abortion Poland's Parliament voted 199 to 183 to drop a measure that would have liberalized the severely restrictive abortion laws in a country that currently has a very powerful Catholic hierarchy....
2/10/2005	United Nations Official Accuses Iran of Women's Rights Abuses A United Nations human rights investigator accused Iran of sentencing women to death based on flimsy evidence and called on the Iranian government to abolish the death penalty....
2/9/2005	Women's Organizations Speak Out Against Privatization of Social Security The National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO) urged President Bush to listen to women's concerns about privatizing social security in a press conference held yesterday....
2/1/2005	Bill Restricting Teen Abortion a Top Senate Republican Priority The so-called Child Custody Protection Act, legislation supported by President Bush which would criminalize the transportation of a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion, has been deemed a top ten priority by Senate Republicans....
12/20/2004	Top Two Candidates in Chile's Presidential Race Are Women Two women are leading for the presidential nomination of Chile's ruling coalition, for the first time ever....
12/15/2004	African Condom Shortage Crisis Amidst AIDS Pandemic Due to inadequate aid efforts by the United States and other donor countries, acute shortages of condoms have been contributing the rapid rise in HIV/AIDS cases in Africa....
12/6/2004	Christine Gregoire Only 42 Votes Away from Washington Governorship With Christine Gregoire, the Democratic candidate for Governor in Washington, only 42 votes behind Republican candidate Dino Rossi, the state faces an unprecedented statewide hand recount of Washington's 2.9 million ballots....
12/2/2004	Federal Prosecutors Fight to Have Abortion Clinic Protections Upheld The Assistant US Attorney General argued before the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals to have the verdict of a lower court overruled in order to protect the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE)....
12/1/2004	On World AIDS Day, the Face of AIDS is a Woman Many World AIDS Day observances around the world today have focused on the need to protect women and girls from HIV who are contracting the virus at an alarming rate....
11/30/2004	Abercrombie & Fitch Settles Class Action Lawsuit for $50 Million Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch recently settled a class action discrimination lawsuit, agreeing to pay $40 million to current, former, and prospective minority and women employees, as well as consenting to implement a multifaceted strategy to diversify its workforce....
11/29/2004	Investigators Find Cases of UN Sex Abuse in Congo Investigators sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo reported more than 150 cases of pedophilia, rape and soliciting prostitutes by United Nations officials and peacekeepers....
11/18/2004	Poland's Restrictive Abortion Laws Criticized by UN Committee The United Nations Human Rights Committee recently criticized Poland's strict abortion laws....
11/11/2004	Spokane Diocese to Declare Bankruptcy The Catholic diocese in Spokane, Washington will become the third in the nation to file for bankruptcy in the face of lawsuits brought by people who were sexually abused by priests....
11/8/2004	Bush to Pursue Constitutional Amendment to Ban Gay Marriage According to Karl Rove, President Bush's top strategist, Bush intends to continue his pursuit of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage....
11/8/2004	King Releases Nepalese Women Imprisoned for Having Abortions Nepal's King Gyanendra granted amnesty to 12 female prisoners who were jailed for having abortions....
11/3/2004	Record Number of Women to Serve in US House A record number of women will serve in the US House of Representatives next year, while the number of women in the Senate will remain steady at 14....
10/20/2004	Drives to Register More Women Voters Are Successful Nationwide Women's rights organizations are reporting success in registering voters across the country and in key target states as historic drives to get out the women’s vote continue in the weeks leading up to the presidential election on November 2....
10/15/2004	WI: Pharmacist Faces Hearing After Refusing to Fill Birth Control Prescription Neil Noesen, a pharmacist in Wisconsin, faced a disciplinary hearing earlier this week for refusing to fill or transfer Amanda Phiede’s prescription for birth control pills in July, 2002....
10/4/2004	House Defeats Gay Marriage Ban The Federal Marriage Amendment was defeated in the House of Representatives last Thursday, falling 49 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass it....
10/1/2004	Women Arrested In Zimbabwe for Protesting Bill that Bans Human Rights Groups Sixty-one Zimbabwean women were arrested in the capital for protesting a bill that will ban international human rights groups and will cut off funding for local organizations promoting human rights and democracy....
9/28/2004	Group Criticizes Islamic Law in Nigeria Citing Discriminatory Practices Sharia (Islamic) courts in northern Nigeria impose discriminatory and harsh sentences and have failed to respect due process rights, according to a report just released by Human Rights Watch (HRW)....
9/23/2004	Pentagon Hopes to Limit Sex Trafficking with New Rule Against Solicitation US service members convicted of soliciting a prostitute could face dishonorable discharge and up to one year in prison if a proposed change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice is made law....
9/20/2004	Conference in Kenya Urges African Government to Ban FGM An international conference met to review progress made in the fight to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo....
9/16/2004	Turkey’s Ruling Party Reverses Decision to Drop Proposal Criminalizing Adultery Despite earlier statements that it was abandoning its plan to criminalize adultery, Turkey’s Islamic dominated ruling party is now planning to move forward with its plan to criminalize adultery....
8/25/2004	Judge Delays Sentencing for Clayton Lee Waagner US District Judge Anita Brody signed an order to delay the sentencing of self-proclaimed anti-abortion "terrorist" Clayton Lee Waagner until the US Supreme Court rules on two unrelated cases that will clarify federal sentencing guidelines....
8/25/2004	Women on Waves Sparks Renewed Debate on Abortion in Portugal As reported earlier this week, Women on Waves set sail on Monday for to bring attention to the nation's restrictive abortion policies....
8/23/2004	Women on Waves Leaves for Portugal Women on Waves will set sail for Portugal this afternoon to bring attention to the nation's restrictive abortion policies....
8/13/2004	Renowned Chef Julia Child Dies at Age 91 Julia Child, the face of French cuisine to many Americans, died Thursday at the age of 91....
8/12/2004	Denise Majette Makes History with US Senate Nomination Denise Majette became the first woman and the first black candidate nominated to the US Senate in Georgia following her Democratic runoff victory Tuesday....
8/11/2004	Possibility of Women Voters in Groundbreaking Saudi Elections Officials announced the new rules for Saudi Arabia's first municipal elections yesterday, stating that all citizens above the age of 21, except for military personnel, would be eligible to vote....
8/9/2004	Afghan Rights Activist Expects Death; Aid Agency Scales Down Operations A leading Afghan women’s rights activist, Malaly Joya, expects to be killed for her opposition against former warlords....
8/2/2004	Vatican Issues Scathing Attack on Feminism The Vatican issued a disturbing letter this past Saturday assaulting the feminist movement....
8/2/2004	Women Can Be Convicted of Homicide for Risky Behavior during Pregnancy After Regina McKnight delivered a stillborn baby in 2001, prosecutors speciously linked the baby’s death with McKnight's cocaine use and promptly convicted her of homicide – a conviction that American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorneys are seeking to overturn....
7/30/2004	Romany Women Confront Prejudice from Inside and Outside their Community Women of the Roma diaspora are organizing across Europe in attempts to challenge patriarchy within the culture, and bigotry from the outside world, reports The Guardian....
7/28/2004	New Report Highlights Gender Disparities in Participation in the Sciences A recently released GAO report found that while participation in the sciences by women has increased in recent years, more needs to be done to gain full educational equality....
7/19/2004	Canadian Friar Accused of Sex Abuse Hides in California A Dallas newspaper recently brought to light a case in which a Canadian priest accused of sexually abusing minors was moved by the Catholic Church to the United States....
7/14/2004	Morgan Stanley Settles Sex-Bias Suit with $54 Million Out of Court Faced with charges of sex discrimination in the workplace, Morgan Stanley agreed yesterday to pay a $54 million settlement rather than stand trial....
7/12/2004	CA: Landmark Paid Leave Law Takes Effect A groundbreaking new paid family leave law went into effect in California on July 1, making it easier for employees to spend time with new infants or to care for ailing relatives....
7/8/2004	Three Women Stand Trial for Abortion in Portugal Three Portuguese women are standing trial for allegedly undergoing illegal abortions....
7/7/2004	Momentous Election Victory of Woman Governor in Mexico Voters in the Mexican state of Zacatecas have chosen a woman to be governor for the first time in Mexico since the end of one-party domination....
7/6/2004	Florida Abortion Clinic Firebombed A suspicious fire broke out a women's health clinic in Palm Beach County, Florida late Friday night....
7/1/2004	Internet Pornography Law Blocked by Supreme Court The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a ban on the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which threatened to criminalize not only pornographic but also sex education and advice websites....
6/30/2004	Court Decision Rejects Media Monopolies In a move protecting independent and progressive media voices, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit blocked implementation of several Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules that would have facilitated media conglomerates' consolidation....
6/11/2004	Air Force Cadet Takes Plea Deal in Rape Case Douglas Meester, the Air Force cadet accused of rape last year, settled his case with a reprimand and a fine of $2000 on Tuesday....
6/9/2004	House Bill Eases Ban on Partisan Politics for Churches An amendment that would reduce the penalties for churches that engage in partisan politics has been tacked on to a major corporate tax-relief bill being fast-tracked in the House of Representatives....
6/7/2004	Michigan on Verge of Banning Abortion Procedures Michigan is on the verge of passing a ban on abortion procedures similar to the current federal law that was just declared unconstitutional by a US District Court judge in San Francisco....
6/2/2004	Herseth Wins Special Election in South Dakota Stephanie Herseth last night won a special election to fill South Dakota's vacant US House of Representatives seat, bringing the total number of women in the House up to 63....
6/1/2004	Federal Judge Overturns Abortion Ban A federal judge in San Francisco today declared that the abortion procedures ban passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush last year is unconstitutional....
5/14/2004	Security Is Main Concern in Afghanistan At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Afghanistan on Wednesday, several witnesses asserted that security is the main concern in Afghanistan....
5/14/2004	Iraqi Female Prisoners Face Trauma Even After Release Women's rights and human rights advocates fear that whether or not there was widespread sexual abuse of female prisoners in Iraq, the women who were imprisoned face even more problems upon release....
5/11/2004	NH Bill to Allow Access to EC Directly From Pharmacists Last Wednesday, the New Hampshire House passed a bill that would allow women to purchase emergency contraception directly from pharmacists without a prescription....
5/7/2004	FDA Rejects Over-the-Counter Status for Emergency Contraception The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last night announced that it was rejecting over-the-counter status for emergency contraception....
4/29/2004	Statement from Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority in Response to Karen Hughes' Comparison of the Values of Pro-Choice Americans to Those of Terrorists: ...
4/15/2004	Law Outlawing Homosexuality Passed in Zanzibar Zanzibar's parliament recently passed a bill outlawing homosexuality....
4/5/2004	Maloney Introduces Afghan Women Security and Freedom Act 2004 Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), with Representatives Tom Davis (R-VA) and Corrine Brown (D-FL) introduced the "Afghan Women Security and Freedom Act 2004." The act (HR 4117) authorizes $300 million for each of the fiscal years 2005, 2006, and 2007....
3/22/2004	Huge Shortage of Girls in China The United Nations (UN) has reported that China will face a huge shortage of girls that will cause major problems for China's family and social stability if the trend is not changed....
3/17/2004	Over 40 Percent of Jordanian Women Suffer Abuse According to a recent United Nations report, 42 percent of Jordanian women suffer physical abuse and continue to face discrimination in economic and political spheres....
3/12/2004	Air Force Ordered Study on Sexual Misconduct and Rape An Air Force five-month review found that ninety-two accusations of rape by Air Force personnel were reported to military officials from 2001 to 2003 in the Pacific....
3/12/2004	Introduction (All materials written by Women's Environment and Development Organization at www.wedo.org). by Sororro Reyes The good news about women’s political empowerment is that 189 governments have promised women “equal access to” and “full participation in” power structures and decision making....
3/10/2004	USC FMLAs Organize Faces of Feminist Concert and Party USC FMLAs Organize Faces of Feminist Concert and Party to Empower Campus on Positive Image of Feminism In an effort to promote a diverse and supportive perspective on feminism and to debunk feminist stereotypes, the USC Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance is organizing a "Faces of Feminism Concert and Party." The event will include the finished display of their semester-long “Faces of Feminism” project, which demonstrates the diversity of support for feminism through a collage of photos of students who showed support for social, political and economic equality between women and men....
2/26/2004	SD: Bill to Ban Most Abortions Goes to Governor for Signature A bill that would ban almost all abortions in South Dakota was passed by the state House on Wednesday....
2/23/2004	Anti-Abortion Extremist Pleads Guilty in Plot to Bomb Clinics Anti-abortion extremist Stephen Jordi, charged with plotting to bomb abortion clinics, lesbian and gay bars, and some churches, pleaded guilty this month to one count of attempted arson....
2/4/2004	CDC Recommends Abstinence as Primary HPV Prevention Strategy The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent a report to Congress last week recommending that abstinence or monogamy should be used as the primary prevention strategy for human papillomavirus (HPV), angering women's rights and health advocates....
1/9/2004	Malaysia: Women's Work Clothing Restricted The Islamic government in Malaysia's city of Kuala Terengganu has banned non-Muslim women from wearing mini-skirts, tight fitting dresses, and even moderately revealing clothes such as short-sleeved shirts and tight jeans to work....
1/8/2004	Iraqi Women Council Members and Officers Face Discrimination Iraqi women continue to face discrimination in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq....
12/18/2003	"The March for Women's Lives" Unveiled as New Name for March on April 25, 2004 Washington D.C....
12/16/2003	FMF Medical Director Testifies in Support of Emergency Contraception's Over-the-Counter Availability WASHINGTON, DC- The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) joined with the nation's leading medical and women's health organizations at a public hearing today urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make Plan B emergency contraception (EC) available over-the-counter....
12/10/2003	Ms. Honors Women's Achievements Globally Among the ten outstanding women selected as Ms Women of the Year are several who are working for women's rights and health globally....
12/9/2003	Bush Signs Harmful Medicare Drug Bill President Bush signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act yesterday....
12/5/2003	Clayton Lee Waagner Convicted for 2001 Anthrax Hoax Anti-abortion extremist Clayton Lee Waagner was convicted on Wednesday for mailing envelopes containing fake anthrax to over 700 abortion clinics in 24 states....
12/2/2003	Man Allegedly Plotting to Bomb Abortion Clinics Indicted A man who was arrested last month for allegedly plotting to bomb abortion clinics, lesbian and gay bars, and churches that did not condemn abortion was indicted by a grand jury last week....
12/1/2003	State Medicaid in New Mexico to Cover Abortion Pill In August, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson rewrote state Medicaid rules to include coverage of abortion pills in cases that are deemed medically necessary....
11/25/2003	Harmful Medicare Drug Bill Passes Congress Following the House's passage on Saturday by a vote of 220-215, the Senate cleared the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act to be sent to the White House today by a vote of 54-44....
11/21/2003	Two High School Girls Suspended for Kissing Two high school girls at River Hills High School in Clarkesville, MD were suspended on November 5 for a kiss they claimed was an act of protest against discrimination faced by homosexual students....
11/21/2003	Medicare Drug Proposal Harmful to Older Women The Medicare drug proposal agreement currently before a Congressional Conference Committee, if adopted by the House and Senate, would "do more harm than good to the Medicare system and midlife and older women," Dr Laurie Young, Executive Director of the Older Women's League (OWL), asserts....
11/12/2003	Florida Man Arrested for Planning to Bomb Abortion Clinics On Tuesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Stephen Jordi of Coconut Creek, Florida for planning to bomb "an unspecified number" of abortion clinics....
11/10/2003	Schwarzenegger Hires Private Firm to Investigate Groping Allegations Against the protests of women's rights advocates, Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger recently hired a private investigation firm to look into allegations that he groped at least 16 women in the past three decades....
11/7/2003	Department of Justice Criticized for Hiding Findings on Diversity The Department of Justice has recently come under harsh scrutiny from Democrats for the heavy editing of an internal report, tracking the diversity of the department, which was posted on their web site....
11/7/2003	UN Report: Girls Face Discrimination in Accessing Schooling A report issued by UNESCO asserts that while there has been significant progress in the number of girls attending school, girls are still facing discrimination in gaining access to schooling in most developing countries....
10/31/2003	AZ High Court Refuses to Hear Case Against Napolitano The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a petition by conservative lawmakers charging that Governor Janet Napolitano overstepped her gubernatorial authority when she signed an executive order prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation for state workers....
10/21/2003	Report: Women Bear Brunt of Environmental Contamination Findings in a new report by the Women's Foundation of California show that due to their biological makeup and roles in society women bear the brunt of contamination from environmental toxins....
10/2/2003	Idaho Planned Parenthood Pulls Out of Title X Funding for Family Planning Planned Parenthood of Idaho recently announced that it would no longer take federal Title X funds, which provide a range of reproductive health services for women and men who are at or below the poverty level....
9/15/2003	More Single Women Buying Homes The National Association of Realtors' 2003 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers found that the percent of single women homebuyers rose more than any other group this year....
9/10/2003	Gender Gap Gives Bustamente Edge in Recall Election A significant gender gap favors California's current lieutenant governor over leading Republican challenger Arnold Schwarzenegger in the upcoming recall election in California....
9/3/2003	Anti-Abortion Extremist to be Executed Tonight Anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill, who in 1994 killed a Pensacola, Florida doctor and his volunteer escort, is scheduled to die tonight by lethal injection....
9/2/2003	Federal Judge Rules Part of Clinic Defense Law Unconstitutional A federal judge recently found part of the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) unconstitutional....
9/2/2003	Afghan Woman First to Compete in International Sports Event In August at the world track and field championships in Paris, Lima Azimi became the first Afghan woman to participate in a major international sports event, according to the International Association of Athletics Federations....
8/28/2003	Russia Increases Restrictions on Abortion Russia increased its restrictions on abortion for the first time in nearly 50 years....
8/26/2003	Troubles Persist for Air Force, Naval Academies As a new academic year begins, troubles continue to plague two of the nation's prestigious military academies already embroiled in sexual assault scandals....
8/25/2003	Afghanistan: US Role Expected to Increase, Girls' School Burned Down As the Bush administration continues to consider plans to increase aid and peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan, another girls' school was burned down last week....
8/25/2003	Boston Archbishop Raises Settlement Offer to $65M After plaintiff attorneys last week told the Archdiocese of Boston the priest sex abuse case was worth $90-$120 million, based on their review of 500-plus claims and compensations granted in similar cases, Archbishop Sean O'Malley raised his initial proposed settlement to $65 million....
8/22/2003	Kopp Accomplices Are Sentenced to Time Served, Released Two accomplices of James Kopp, the convicted assassin of Barnett Slepian, MD, were released yesterday....
8/21/2003	Kenyan Widows Face Dangerous Tradition A major national newspaper recently investigated a traditional requirement that widows in Kenya often face that is being blamed for helping spread HIV/AIDS....
8/20/2003	Execution of Anti-Abortion Terrorist Could Further Violence, Groups Warn With the September 3 execution date for anti-abortion terrorist Paul Hill drawing near, the Feminist Majority Foundation and other groups working to stop anti-abortion violence have urged clinics to take extra security measures, fearing that Hill's death could trigger violent incidents....
8/19/2003	Florida State Officials Face Possible Charges in Rape Case Several Florida State University officials face possible charges after evidence was revealed that suggests at least one official had discouraged an alleged rape victim from reporting the incident to the police....
8/15/2003	Rudolph to Pay $115M for AL Clinic Bombing Jefferson County Circuit Judge Helen Shores Lee on Wednesday awarded Emily Lyons, the nurse who was seriously injured in the 1998 Birmingham abortion clinic bombing, and her husband Jeff, $115 million in damages....
8/11/2003	Birmingham Clinic Bombing Victim Sues Rudolph for $110M Emily Lyons, the nurse who was seriously injured in the 1998 Birmingham abortion clinic bombing, is suing bomb suspect Eric Robert Rudolph for $110 million in damages....
8/8/2003	Women of Color Face Challenges in Business Several recent studies reveal that women of color still face many challenges in obtaining high-level corporate jobs....
8/7/2003	FMF Interns Hold March for Choice Briefing in Los Angeles Over 70 young activists and interns assembled at the Feminist Majority's Los Angeles offices Tuesday for a briefing on Save Women's Lives - March for Freedom of Choice, to take place April 25, 2004 in Washington, DC....
8/1/2003	O'Malley Takes Helm at Boston Archdiocese, Vatican Protests Gay Unions Earlier this week, Bishop Sean Patrick O'Malley was installed as the new archbishop of Boston, filling the position vacated by Cardinal Bernard Law last December....
8/1/2003	More Than Two-Thirds of California Voters Support Abortion Rights Even as Republicans make inroads in their efforts to recall California's pro-women's rights, pro-abortion rights governor, more than two-thirds of California voters continue to support abortion rights, according to findings from a Field Poll....
7/25/2003	Okinawa: Marine Pleads Guilty to Rape The US marine arrested in June for allegedly punching and raping a 19-year-old Japanese woman in Okinawa pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of rape and assault, reported Reuters....
7/24/2003	Feminist Majority Foundation Interns Hold March for Choice Briefing at Senate Over 150 people attended a Capitol Hill briefing yesterday about the Save Women's Lives: March for Freedom of Choice planned for April 25, 2004....
7/18/2003	House Cmte Votes to Block FCC Changes; Senators Introduce Congressional Veto With a 40-25 vote, the House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that would keep the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from implementing its recent decision to repeal media ownership rules and grant large corporations greater control of the media....
7/16/2003	Law Enforcement Fails to Respond to Reports of Rape and Abduction in Iraq Widespread reports of abduction and rape of women in Iraq have been met with disinterest from Iraqi and US authorities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports in a study released today....
7/15/2003	Right-Wing California Activist Takes Affirmative Action Fight to Michigan California conservative activist Ward Connerly announced on Tuesday his plan to bring an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative, similar to California's Proposition 209, to Michigan in 2004....
7/14/2003	Women's Rights Groups Win Title IX Victory Faced with overwhelming support for Title IX, the Bush administration announced Friday that there will be no changes to the landmark 1972 law that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education....
7/11/2003	TX Clinics Win Short-Term Victory Against Efforts to Limit Choice Texas clinics received a temporary reprieve last Monday from state health officials' demand that they promise, in writing, to stop performing abortions or face the loss of all public funding....
7/10/2003	Kopp to Face Federal Trial James Kopp, the anti-abortion extremist who in March was convicted of the intentional murder of Barnett Slepian, MD, will face federal charges for the murder as well....
7/9/2003	Wal-Mart Adds Sexual Orientation to Nondiscrimination Policy In contrast to its history of sex discrimination, Wal-Mart Stores, the nation's largest private employer, last week expanded its anti-discrimination policies to protect the rights of gay and lesbian workers....
7/8/2003	Air Force Academy Cadet Faces Court-Martial The Air Force Academy last week announced a decision by Brigadier General Johnny Weida to court-martial Douglas Meester, 20, the first cadet to be tried since the rape scandal erupted last year....
7/7/2003	Alleged Rudolph Accomplice Expects Indictment An anti-abortion activist who in February fired a shotgun into an abortion clinic faces a possible indictment for helping anti-abortion extremist and bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph escape capture....
7/3/2003	Women on Waves Investigated for Missing Abortion Pills As Women on Waves finishes its historic trip to Poland, Polish police are investigating the group for distributing the abortion pill mifepristone (RU 486), which is illegal in Poland....
6/27/2003	Supreme Court Lets Stand Pro-Choice Victory In a victory for pro-choice advocates, the US Supreme Court let stand a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that WANTED-style posters and an Internet hit list are threats under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE)....
6/24/2003	Senate Committee Votes To Overturn FCC Ruling on Media Ownership With bipartisan support, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee voted to send a bill to the floor that would overturn the Federal Communication Commission's recent decision to repeal media ownership rules and grant large corporations greater control of the media....
6/20/2003	Afghanistan: Hearing Calls for Expansion of Peacekeeping Troops At a House hearing held yesterday on Afghanistan's reconstruction, Representative Tom Lantos (D-CA) called upon NATO, which recently agreed to take over the 4,500 person peacekeeping force in Afghanistan (ISAF), to double the size of ISAF....
6/19/2003	Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal Runs Amok As US Catholic bishops convene today for a biannual meeting in St Louis to discuss the status of the priest sex abuse scandal, the news appears less than promising....
6/18/2003	Okinawa: Marine Arrested for Rape Coming on the heels of the ongoing Air Force Academy scandal, a US marine accused of punching and raping a 19-year-old Japanese woman in Okinawa was arrested this week, highlighting the continuing problem of sexual violence in the military....
6/17/2003	Eating Disorders Rising Among Hispanic Women Once thought to be a disease affecting only white females, eating disorders are breaking racial barriers, a new study finds....
6/4/2003	Bush Administration Urges Supreme Court to Reject Appeal By Anti-Abortion Extremists The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court to deny a pending appeal by anti-abortion extremists who use "UN-WANTED" wild-west style posters and a Web site to terrorize abortion providers, the Washington Post reported....
6/3/2003	Eric Robert Rudolph to be tried for abortion clinic bombing in Alabama first Eric Robert Rudolph will appear in court in Birmingham, AL today where he is expected to enter a plea....
6/3/2003	AZ Bishop Gets Immunity in Priest Sex Abuse Scandal Threatened with criminal indictment for concealing pedophilic priests, Bishop Thomas O'Brien of the Diocese of Phoenix signed an agreement early last month, securing his own immunity from prosecution....
6/2/2003	FCC Approves Deregulation of Nation's Media The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 along party lines today to approve the relaxation of media ownership rules that will allow large corporations to further control our nation's media....
6/2/2003	Eric Robert Rudolph Captured in Murphy, North Carolina Eric Robert Rudolph, suspected bomber of two abortion clinics, a gay nightclub, and Centennial Park in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics, was captured without incident early Saturday morning in Murphy, NC....
5/30/2003	Female Cadets Blamed for Alleged Sexual Assaults at Air Force Academy Mirroring the hostility many female cadets confronted when they reported sexual assault incidents at Colorado’s Air Force Academy, a woman appointed to a panel charged with investigating the academy’s mishandling of more than 50 sexual assault incidents has said that she questions the truthfulness of the female cadets’ allegations....
5/23/2003	NH Diocese Agrees to Multi-Million Dollar Settlement A multi-million settlement was reached yesterday, curtailing what could have been an arduous legal battle for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester....
5/19/2003	NYC Passes Bill Protecting Domestic Workers The New York City Council passed a bill last Wednesday increasing protections for nannies and other domestic workers in the city, the first such bill on the nation....
5/9/2003	Kopp Receives 25 Years to Life for Murder James Kopp, the convicted murderer of a New York abortion provider, was sentenced today to the maximum allowable under the law, 25 years to life....
5/9/2003	Senate Committee Approves Kuhl; Democrats Block Estrada and Owen In a strict party-line vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-9 yesterday to approve President Bush's nomination of Carolyn Kuhl to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for consideration by the full Senate....
5/5/2003	Dial, Boeing Sued for Sexual Harassment Detergent maker Dial Corporation agreed last Monday to pay $10 million, settling a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by 90 previous and current female employees working at its Aurora, Illinois soap factory....
5/5/2003	Police Chief’s Wife Dies; Reports of Abuse Continue to Surface After filing for divorce to escape more than a decade of abuse, Crystal Brame, the estranged wife of Tacoma Washington Police Chief David Brame, died Saturday after clinging to life for nearly a week....
4/29/2003	JMU Students Fight for Access to Emergency Contraception Nearly 3,000 students demanded that James Madison University's Board of Visitors reverse their decision to stop the student health center from dispensing emergency contraception....
4/25/2003	Supreme Court Hears Nike’s Sweatshop Abuse Case The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that will determine whether Nike can be sued for statements in which they denied the use of child labor and substandard wages in sweatshops in Asia....
4/24/2003	Afghanistan: "Climate of Fear" Growing Religious fundamentalism is on the rise in Afghanistan, an international human rights group warned officials this week at the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Commission....
4/23/2003	Environmental Groups Celebrate Earth Day Advocacy groups celebrating Earth Day yesterday raised concerns about the Bush Administration's record on the environment....
4/21/2003	Request Filed for Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception Women's Capital Corporation, makers of the emergency contraceptive Plan B, submitted their request to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today to make Plan B available over the counter....
4/21/2003	Wal-Mart Halts Gun Sales in CA Stores Retail goliath Wal-Mart announced earlier this month it would halt gun sales in its 118 California stores, after state inspectors discovered almost 500 firearms sales violations....
4/18/2003	Scientific Grants Face Political Scrutiny Scientists studying AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases report that their research grants face political scrutiny by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or by members of Congress....
4/17/2003	Nepal: Abortion Legal but Women Still Imprisoned Despite the legalization of abortion in Nepal last September fifty women remain imprisoned on abortion and related offenses....
4/16/2003	Extremists Receive Plea Deal for Aiding Killer Anti-abortion extremists Loretta Marra and Dennis Malvasi pleaded guilty yesterday to aiding James Kopp while he was wanted by the FBI for the murder of abortion provider Barnett Slepian, MD....
4/9/2003	Arkansas: Bill Requires Abortion Providers to Offer Ultrasounds The Arkansas House passed a bill (SB 729) Monday requiring abortion providers to offer women an ultrasound image of the fetus prior to undergoing an abortion, reported Kaisernetwork....
4/8/2003	Cross Burning Decision Could "Doom" Anti-Abortion Extremists' Case The US Supreme Court's recent ruling that outlaws cross burning when it is intended to frighten or terrorize has set a precedent that could "doom" a pending appeal by anti-abortion extremists who use "UN-WANTED" wild-west style posters and a Web site to terrorize abortion providers, the LA Times reported today....
4/8/2003	Congressional Leaders, Athletes Call for Preservation of Title IX Members of Congress and prominent women athletes spoke out for preserving and strengthening Title IX at a hearing yesterday....
4/4/2003	Senate Calls For Independent Review of Air Force Academy Rape Scandal After Senators from both sides of the aisle demanded that a climate of hostility toward women at the nation's Air Force Academy be addressed, the Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to appoint an independent panel to investigate the academy's handling of close to 60 sexual assault allegations from female cadets over the past decade....
4/2/2003	State Bills Requiring Abortion Providers to Offer Ultrasounds The Arkansas Senate last month passed a bill (SB 729) requiring abortion providers to offer women an ultrasound image of the fetus prior to undergoing an abortion, reported Kaisernetwork....
3/28/2003	Anti-Women Judicial Nominee Approved by Senate Committee The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday approved by a 10-9 partly-line vote the nomination of anti-women Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals....
3/17/2003	Afghan Women's Radio Launched on International Women's Day The first Afghan radio station for women, “The Voice of Afghan Women,” began broadcasting in Kabul to commemorate International Women’s Day....
3/13/2003	Church’s Troubles Grow as Priest Sex Scandal Shows No Signs of Waning With the priest sex abuse scandal showing little sign of waning, the Archdiocese of Boston faces a bleak financial future, church officials announced last Monday....
3/12/2003	Kopp Waives Right to Jury Trial James Kopp, the anti-abortion extremist who confessed to the sniper-style killing of abortion provider Barnett Slepian, MD, waived his right to a jury trial yesterday, against the advice of the judge and two of his three lawyers, according to the Buffalo News....
3/7/2003	Air Force Cites 54 Cases of Rape, Sexual Assault in Academy Air Force Secretary James Roche revealed yesterday that there have been 54 cases of alleged rape or sexual assault at the Air Force Academy, and acknowledged that number was likely to be much higher, according to the Los Angeles Times....
3/7/2003	Settlement Reached in Contraceptive Coverage Lawsuit A federal district court in Seattle approved a settlement earlier this month in the class-action lawsuit Erickson v Bartell, filed in 2000 on behalf of employees of the Bartell drugstore chain who alleged that the exclusion of prescription contraceptives coverage in their health insurance constituted sex discrimination (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)....
3/6/2003	Afghanistan: Injustices Against Women and Girls Persist Despite some measures of progress following the Taliban’s fall from power in late 2001, Afghan women and girls continue to suffer brutal acts of violence and inequality, according to a United Nations (UN) report released today....
3/4/2003	Jury Selection Begins in Kopp Trial Jury selection began yesterday in the trial of anti-abortion extremist James Kopp, who confessed to the sniper-style killing of Dr....
3/3/2003	Rape Charges Continue to Unfold at Air Force Academy; Pentagon Criticized for Disbanding Sexual Assault Committee With widespread reports of sexual assault against female cadets continuing to surface at a Colorado Air Force Academy, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has come under fire for disbanding a panel that addressed sexual assault throughout the military....
2/25/2003	Commissioners Plan Minority Report on Title IX At least two members of the Bush Commission on Opportunity in Athletics reviewing Title IX plan to submit a minority report, charging that the Commission’s recommendations to the Department of Education could negatively impact millions of women and girls....
2/24/2003	Afghanistan: German Peacekeepers May Leave if US War with Iraq Erupts German Defense Minister Peter Struck told reporters Friday that civilians and German peacekeeping troops serving in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) might evacuate Afghanistan should a US-led war with Iraq erupt....
2/24/2003	Bush Commission Recommends Cutting Back on Women's Sports Opportunities A draft of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics' report on Title IX, published in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, ignores the continuing lack of participation opportunities and funding that women's and girls' athletics face in favor of recommendations that will increase males' participation in athletics....
2/21/2003	Poll, Protests Worldwide Show Strong Opposition to Iraq War Protests held in cities all over the world, including New York City, London, Rome, Barcelona, and Madrid, demonstrated broad and widespread opposition to the potential US war against Iraq....
2/20/2003	Judge Denies Boston Archdiocese’s Request to Dismiss Civil Lawsuits A Superior Court judge yesterday rejected a motion filed by the Archdiocese of Boston, seeking dismissal of 500 civil lawsuits alleging priest sex abuse....
2/20/2003	Asian Sex Trafficking Called Largest Slave Trade in History A top UN official recently called the trafficking of women and children across Asia the largest slave trade in history....
2/19/2003	Poll, Protests Worldwide Show Strong Opposition to Iraq War Protests held in cities all over the world, including New York City, London, Rome, Barcelona, and Madrid, demonstrated broad and widespread opposition to the potential US war against Iraq....
2/11/2003	Afghan Warlords Will Face International Criminal Court Human Rights Watch reports that Afghan warlords who commit atrocities in the future may face prosecution by the new International Criminal Court (ICC)....
2/6/2003	Afghan Women Demand Equal Rights Three hundred women in Afghanistan gathered Tuesday at the Afghan Women’s Broad and Comprehensive Conference in Kabul, urging equal rights for women in all spheres, reported Reuters....
1/30/2003	Report: Females Suffer Higher Rates of HIV/AIDS in Zambia Than Males A human rights report released earlier this week reveals that girls in Zambia are five times more likely to be infected with the HIV virus than their male counterparts as a result of widespread sexual abuse....
1/27/2003	Women Forced to Quit Jobs and Marry Early in Kashmir and Jammu India Muslim women in Jammu and Kashmir, India are required to quit government jobs by January 25, or face death for disobeying the orders issued by a pro-Pakistani militant group, reports the Press Trust of India....
1/14/2003	New Jersey Expected to Pass Bill in Support of Stem Cell Research While far-right extremists are pushing the US Congress to approve legislation banning all types of cloning, the New Jersey legislature is expected to pass a bill in support of the therapeutic cloning needed for stem cell research....
1/13/2003	Afghanistan Joins ICC, Stability Remains Key Concern Afghanistan today announced its decision to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), signaling the government’s increased efforts to weaken the power of feuding warlords, reported the Reuters English News Service....
1/10/2003	House Reintroduces Human Cloning Ban Legislation Compelled by Clonaid’s latest claims crediting itself with the first-born human clone, House representatives Dave Weldon (R-FL) and Bart Stupak (D-MI) on Wednesday reintroduced the Human Cloning Prohibition Act, calling for a total ban on reproductive as well as therapeutic human cloning....
1/6/2003	South Carolina Judge Rules Anti-Abortion License Plates Unconstitutional A South Carolina judge ruled recently that specialty license plates sporting an anti-abortion slogan are unconstitutional because they provide a forum for anti-abortion extremists without providing a voice for abortion rights activists....
1/6/2003	Congress to Consider Anti-Abortion Legislation Congress will reconvene tomorrow at noon after a long recess, with anti-abortion legislation and confirmation of President Bush’s judicial nominees on its agenda....
1/6/2003	Deportation Stayed, African Immigrant Woman Avoids Possible Genital Mutilation The US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay last Friday to Philomena Nwaokolo, a Nigerian immigrant living in Dallas who argued that she and her 3-year-old daughter would face the tortures of female genital mutilation (FGM) if they were deported....
1/3/2003	Women Lead Universities Squaring Off in Fiesta Bowl For the first time, both football teams competing for Friday’s college national championship represent universities led by women....
1/2/2003	DNA Evidence Links Kopp to Another Shooting DNA evidence has been found to link James Kopp to the attempted murder of a Canadian doctor, the Buffalo News reported....
12/27/2002	Bush Administration Criticizes Stanford’s Plans for Stem Cell Research In a new effort to subvert stem cell research, Leon Kass, chair of the President’s Council on Bioethics, sent a letter to Stanford University officials to criticize plans for the school’s new Institute for Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine....
12/27/2002	Salomon Sex Discrimination Settlement: Arbitration Panel Awards Employee for First Time A three-person arbitration panel last Thursday ordered securities firm Salomon Smith Barney to pay roughly $3.2 million in compensatory and punitive damages to a female employee, as part of a 1997 settlement in a sex-discrimination lawsuit....
12/20/2002	Supreme Court Asks for Bush Opinion in Anti-Abortion Violence Case In a somewhat unusual move, the US Supreme Court asked the Bush administration’s Solicitor-General for his opinion on a case involving anti-abortion extremists who circulated “WANTED” posters for abortion providers and launched a Web site called the “Nuremberg Files” that lists abortion providers’ personal information and declares them guilty of crimes against humanity....
12/20/2002	Islamic Rebels Kill Three Women in Kashmir Three women were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir by Islamic militants for not wearing burqas, United Press International reports....
12/19/2002	Virginia Prosecutors No Longer Assigned to Some Domestic Violence Cases As state legislatures struggle to balance their budgets in the face of a nationwide, cumulative deficit of $40 billion and the worst budget crisis since World War II, domestic violence victims in states such as Virginia are the ones paying the price....
12/18/2002	Kopp Pleads Not Guilty to Second Murder Charge Anti-abortion extremist James Kopp pleaded not guilty to a second murder charge yesterday, after a grand jury indicted him last week for “reckless or depraved murder” in addition to an original charge of intentional murder....
12/16/2002	Bill Would Severely Restrict Abortion Access in Georgia The very first bill prefiled in Georgia’s state legislature for the next session, HB 1, would require women to go to court in order to obtain a “death warrant” to receive an abortion....
12/13/2002	Cardinal Law Resigns over Mishandling of Abusive Priests In a victory for women and for victims of priest abuse, Cardinal Bernard Law today submitted his resignation as archbishop of Boston to Pope John Paul II in Rome....
12/13/2002	Bush to Repeal Rule Providing Unemployment Pay to Parents on Family Leave Despite his campaign promises proclaiming support for “family values,” Bush earlier this month announced his intention to repeal the Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation Rule which provides unemployment pay for workers on leave to care for a new child....
12/12/2002	Lott’s Racist Remarks Prompt Calls for His Resignation Both conservatives and liberals have called for the resignation of Trent Lott (R-MS) as incoming Senate Majority Leader following his racist remarks last week....
12/11/2002	NH Diocese Facing Criminal Indictment, First to Settle Faced with criminal violations, carrying fines as high as $20,000, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester on Tuesday admitted it failed to protect children from pedophilic priests....
12/6/2002	Landrieu Faces Terrell for Senate in Louisiana Runoff Race Mary Landrieu, a first-term Democratic US Senator, faces Republican challenger Suzanne Haik Terrell in tomorrow’s runoff race in Louisiana....
12/4/2002	Church Documents Made Public, Reveal “Truly Horrible” Details Following a Superior Court order issued last week, the Boston Archdiocese on Tuesday publicly released over 2,000 of 11,000 internal documents detailing an undeniable, chronic problem with priest pedophilia over the last three decades....
12/2/2002	Kopp Trial Issued Gag Order, Lawyer Change After James Kopp admitted to the fatal shooting of Dr Barnett Slepian in an interview with the Buffalo News, he and lawyers involved in the case have been ordered by a state court judge to refrain from publicly discussing the case before it goes to trial in Erie County Court in March....
11/21/2002	Groups Continue Push for Women Members at Augusta Despite the media blitz last week by Augusta National chair Hootie Johnson, defending the exclusion of women from the club’s elite membership and insisting that there is a “difference” between racial and gender discrimination, two more groups this week joined the call for female members....
11/18/2002	Anti-Women Judicial Nominee Approved By Senate Despite continued opposition from the Feminist Majority and other women’s rights and civil rights groups, Michael McConnell, President Bush’s nominee for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, was approved by the US Senate Friday in a voice vote....
11/14/2002	Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Anti-Women Nominees In an attempt by Democrats to ease relations with Republicans in the last days before control of the Senate shifts to the right, the US Senate Judiciary Committee approved two of President Bush’s anti-women’s rights, anti-civil rights judicial nominees today....
11/13/2002	Judiciary Committee to Consider Two Anti-Women Nominees Tomorrow Two appellate court nominees opposed by the Feminist Majority and a wide range of women’s rights and civil rights groups are scheduled to be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, the New York Times reported today....
11/13/2002	Woman Candidates Face Uphill Battle in Politics Woman candidates still face considerable barriers when running for political office, concludes research presented by the White House Project and American University’s Insititute for Women’s Policy Research at a press conference in Washington today....
11/8/2002	U of WI-Milwaukee FMLA Raises Money and Awareness with Rock for Choice Concert Educating their campus and raising awareness about the threats to abortion access and reproductive rights, the FMLA Affiliate at the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MILWAUKEE organized the city’s first Rock for Choice benefit concert with much success....
11/6/2002	Women Hold Their Numbers in 2002 Election A record number of women ran for office in yesterday’s 2002 midterm election....
10/29/2002	Bishop Admits to Promoting Sexually Abusive Priest Bishop Thomas Daily admitted in testimony made public yesterday to promoting Paul Shanley two decades ago to head a Boston parish, despite knowing that Shanley had openly expressed his approval of sexual relations between men and boys, according to the Boston Globe....
10/24/2002	Bahraini Women Participate in Parliamentary Elections for First Time Bahrainis are electing their Parliament today for the first time in almost 30 years....
10/17/2002	Tight Senate Races Hold Key to Balance of Power With the current Senate at only a one-vote majority for the Democratic Party, the mid-term elections on November 5 are seen as crucial by both liberals and conservatives alike....
10/17/2002	Saudi Arabian Women Face Many Challenges While sex segregation is the norm in Saudi Arabia, when it comes to the selling and purchasing of lingerie, all rules seem to vanish....
10/16/2002	LAPD Whistle Blower’s Case Heard by Appeals Court Robert Mullally, the legal researcher turned whistle-blower who brought attention to domestic violence felonies committed by Los Angeles police officers, may face time in federal prison for leaking personnel files to a local television station....
10/16/2002	Utah: Plural Wife is First Woman Charged in Polygamy Case In the first case of its kind, a Utah woman is facing charges for aiding and abetting a polygamist relationship between her legal husband and her then 16-year-old sister....
10/8/2002	Congress, Women’s Leaders Speak Out for CEDAW Today, Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal joined key members of Congress, Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, and over 170 women's rights and major non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to voice support for US ratification of the International Women’s Treaty (CEDAW). Queen Noor discussed the treatment of women throughout the world, the advancements women in Jordan have made and the obstacles they still face, and the importance of US ratification of CEDAW....
10/4/2002	More Charges of Sexual Abuse Surface Against Former Priest Geoghan John Geoghan, a defrocked Boston priest already accused of sexually abusing 86 young boys, has been named in 17 new lawsuits filed against the Catholic Church for allegedly sexually abusing 17 boys—ages 8 to 15— between 1964 and 1996....
10/3/2002	US Threatens To Ban Somali Families Who Commit Female Genital Mutilation Somali refugee families may be barred from immigrating to the US for performing female genital mutilation on their daughters....
9/30/2002	Women Gain Abortion Rights in Nepal In a huge step forward for women’s rights in Nepal, the King of Nepal recently signed a bill that officially legalizes abortion, makes sexual abuse against children a crime and allows women to inherit property from their parents....
9/26/2002	TX Court Rules for Medicaid Funds for Abortion Last week, a Texas court of appeals ruled that denying Medicaid funding to poor women seeking abortion violates their equal rights....
9/24/2002	Boston Priest Sex Abuse Suit Settled for $10 Million A suit involving 86 victims of sexual abuse by defrocked Boston priest John Geoghan was settled in court last week for $10 million....
9/23/2002	Two Women To Compete For Hawaii’s Top Executive Spot For only the second time in US history, two women will face off in a general election for governor....
9/23/2002	Clayton Lee Waagner Faces Terrorist Charges In Anthrax Hoax Anti-abortion extremist Clayton Lee Waagner was officially charged as a domestic terrorist last week in a 79-count indictment for sending anthrax hoax letters to hundreds of clinics around the country....
9/19/2002	Anti-Women Judicial Nominee Does Little To Appease Critics In Senate Committee Hearing Michael McConnell consistently tried to distance himself from his anti-women’s rights and anti-civil rights writings during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday on his nomination to a lifetime seat on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals....
9/18/2002	Shannon O’Brien Becomes Massachusetts’ First Woman To Win Major Party Primary In Gubernatorial Race Shannon O’Brien yesterday became the first woman to win a major party primary in the Massachusetts governor’s race....
9/17/2002	Feminist Majority Opposes President Bush’s Anti-Women Judicial Nominee *Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Must Vote Against McConnell* WASHINGTON, DC - With a judicial record that is clearly anti-women, Michael McConnell, President Bush’s nominee to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, poses an imminent danger to women’s rights, Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority declared today....
9/17/2002	Progressive Groups Join Together To Voice Opposition To Anti-Women Judicial Nominee The Feminist Majority joined several other women’s rights, civil rights and progressive groups at a press conference today to voice opposition to President Bush’s nomination of Michael McConnell to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals....
9/16/2002	Women’s Groups Oppose Bush’s Latest Right-Wing Judicial Nominee; McConnell To Have Senate Committee Hearing Wednesday The Feminist Majority joined several abortion rights, civil rights and other progressive groups in opposing President Bush’s nomination of Michael McConnell, a right-wing judicial activist, to the Tenth US Circuit Court of Appeals....
9/16/2002	Rwanda’s Female Minister Charged With Rape As A Crime Against Humanity Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda’s Minister of Family and Women’s Affairs, is the first woman to ever be charged with rape as a crime against humanity....
9/12/2002	Sept. 10 Primaries End in Victories And A Few Losses for Women With almost half of all open gubernatorial seats pursued by women candidates, the September 10 primaries closed with some clear gains for women’s rights across the country....
9/11/2002	Problems Rampant in Florida Election; Janet Reno Trails In Gubernatorial Primary Former US Attorney General Janet Reno was trailing her opponent Bill McBride following yesterday’s Democratic primary in the race for Florida’s governor....
9/11/2002	Three Arrested In New York For Forcing Russian Women Into Sexual Slavery Three people were arrested in New York City recently and accused of bringing at least 30 Russian women into the US and forcing them to dance nude in strip clubs....
9/10/2002	Spotlight on UC San Diego: Feminist Campus.Org Featured FMLA With only one year since chartering, the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) has made a tremendous impact on the feminist and political climate on their campus. Determined to establish a permanent feminist agenda on campus, FMLA activists worked to dispel current stereotypes about feminism and to transform the public debate on issues of importance to women's lives....
9/10/2002	More Leadership Alliance Activism The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at SACRAMENTO STATE UNIVERSITY in California continues to do their part in promoting reproductive health access in their community....
9/9/2002	PA Supreme Court Rules Domestic Violence Victims Must Testify Against Their Abusers The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that victims of domestic violence must testify against their abusers regardless of whether they intend to press charges....
9/9/2002	Thousands of Women Forced Into Sexual Slavery For US Servicemen in South Korea Since the mid 1990s, more than 5,000 women have been trafficked into South Korea for sexual services for United States servicemen, according to a report from the International Organization for Migration....
8/23/2002	Abortion Foe Plans to Violate Women’s Privacy on Television Show Dave Leach, an anti-abortion extremist and candidate for the Iowa House of Representatives, plans to air footage of women entering and exiting a Des Moines Planned Parenthood clinic on his local cable access show "The Uncle Ed Show." "By shining a light on wickedness, I’m hopeful people will be awakened," said Leach, according to TheIowaChannel.com....
8/19/2002	Federal Court Rules US Navy Must Pay for Abortion In a ruling issued last week, US District Court Judge Barbara Rothstein ordered the US Navy to fund an abortion for a Navy spouse carrying an anencephalic fetus....
8/16/2002	Anti-Abortion Extremist Sentenced for Firearms and Car Theft Charges Domestic terrorist and anti-abortion extremist Clayton Lee Waagner was sentenced to 19 years and seven months in prison yesterday for six federal charges of possession of illegal firearms and for stealing a car while on the run from authorities....
8/16/2002	CA Governor Denies Parole for Battered Women California Governor Gray Davis reversed two parole recommendations earlier this month for two battered women who killed, or were involved in the killing of, their long-time abusive partners....
8/16/2002	Two WA Women Police Officers Sue Police Department for Discrimination Arin Reining and Nina Murphy, two women police officers who worked for the Sumner, Washington Police Department, have filed a federal lawsuit against the Department, alleging that they were discriminated against because of their sex, and faced retaliation when they complained about it....
8/16/2002	Legal Updates on Two Police Family Violence Cases Two brutal police family violence cases, one in Ohio and another in Pennsylvania, have been making headlines this month....
8/13/2002	Priest Scandal Extends Worldwide; Catholic Heartland of Ireland Reels With Revelations After years of sexually abusing young boys while leaders of the Catholic church looked the other way, a prominent Irish priest was arraigned on 29 charges of sodomy, indecent assault and gross indecency – showing that the scandal that has rocked the church in the US extends even as far as the devoutly Catholic stronghold of Ireland....
8/12/2002	Nigerian Women Protest Against ChevronTexaco and Shell Less than one month after an agreement was reached between ChevronTexaco and Nigerian women protesting at the Escravos oil terminal in Nigeria’s Delta state, the multinational oil companies of ChevronTexaco and Shell continue to face opposition from native communities, who charge that they exploit environmental resources and neglect the region’s widespread poverty....
8/8/2002	Bush Administration Criticized for Policy in Afghanistan Policy experts and Bush administration officials have conceded privately that President Bush’s policy in Afghanistan is “high on the rhetoric of commitment and low on the level of engagement,” the Washington Post reported today....
8/8/2002	Iowa Supreme Court Grants Stay for Required Disclosure of Pregnancy Tests The Iowa Supreme Court granted a stay to Planned Parenthood this week, temporarily suspending a requirement that Planned Parenthood’s Storm Lake Clinic turn over the names and addresses of all women who had a positive pregnancy test between August 15, 2001 and May 30, 2002....
8/7/2002	US Defense Contractor Held Responsible For Sex Trafficking in Bosnia Two DynCorp employees won recent legal victories after the defense-contracting firm fired them for reporting co-workers involved in sex-slave trade in Bosnia....
8/2/2002	Ohio Deputy Convicted of Rape and Kidnapping A Butler County, Ohio sheriff’s deputy was convicted Thursday of kidnapping and raping a 19-year-old woman....
7/29/2002	Sexual Abuse Victims Disappointed with Pope's Statement Advocates for victims of sexually abusive priests expressed disappointment Sunday following Pope John Paul II’s address to an audience of 800,000 people at World Youth Day in Toronto....
7/29/2002	Pakistan: Police Response to Crimes Against Women Lacking The suicide of a young woman raped at gunpoint follows a series of recent incidents in which horrific crimes against women in Pakistan’s Punjab province have been brought to the world’s attention....
7/22/2002	Planned Parenthood Clinic Ordered To Hand Over Medical Records An Iowa court recently ruled that the Storm Lake Planned Parenthood clinic must turn over names and addresses of all women who have received positive pregnancy tests between August 2001 and May 2002. Judge Frank Nelson first ordered the clinic to provide these records last month as part of an ongoing police investigation to identify the mother of a newborn baby found dead at a recycling center in May....
7/16/2002	Witnesses in Kopp Murder Case To Receive Protective Order Judge Michael D’Amico ruled yesterday that witnesses in the James Kopp murder trial would receive a protective order to conceal their identities, according to the Associated Press....
7/11/2002	Church Bans Women from Priesthood In a statement denouncing the “ordination” of seven women to priesthood, the Vatican yesterday urged the women to repent or face excommunication....
7/9/2002	New Editor-in-Chief for Ms. Magazine Investigative Journalist Tracy Wood to Lead Feminist Publication LOS ANGELES—Tracy Wood, award-winning investigative journalist, will lead Ms....
7/1/2002	Bush Administration Threatens to Withdraw US Peacekeeping Troops if Americans Are Not Exempted from ICC As the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened its doors in The Hague today, the United States government showed its opposition by casting a vote in the UN Security Council to withdraw American peacekeepers in Bosnia....
6/25/2002	Utah Polygamist Found Guilty of Raping 13-year-old Tom Green, a convicted Utah polygamist, was convicted yesterday of raping his 13-year-old “wife,” Linda Kunz, in 1986....
6/18/2002	Senate Majority Whip Calls Anti Abortion Extremists Terrorists The Feminist Majority joins Sen....
6/14/2002	Women Instrumental in Reducing World Hunger At the World Food Summit in Rome this week, experts emphasized the critical role of women in mitigating world hunger....
6/7/2002	Women’s Rights Leader May Lose Seat in Congress Despite adamant protests from women’s rights groups such as the Feminist Majority, the New York State Legislature has approved a redistricting map that eliminates Representative Louise Slaughter’s (D-NY) seat in the US Congress....
6/7/2002	Feminists Win Potentially Largest Police Lawsuit in History Leading feminist attorneys Patricia Bellasalma, Los Angeles National Organization for Women President Shelly Mandell, Jack O’Donnell, and Genie Harrison were handed a major victory yesterday when a Los Angeles Superior Court ruled unanimously that Los Angeles County has demonstrated a pattern and practice of race discrimination against its 500-plus public safety officers. The class action lawsuit, spearheaded by Captains Alma Cruz, George Frank, and Victor Turner, argued that public safety officers perform duties comparable to Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies: they too face danger and possible loss of life....
6/6/2002	Kopp Pleads Innocent to FACE Charges Anti-abortion extremist James Charles Kopp was extradited from France yesterday before appearing in federal court where he pled not guilt to charges that he violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) and illegally used a firearm to commit a crime....
6/6/2002	Lack of Funding Forces UN Food Agency to Suspend Some Relief in Afghanistan A multi-million dollar funding gap for the United Nations World Food Program’s work in Afghanistan has resulted in cutbacks on relief projects throughout the country....
6/4/2002	Switzerland Liberalizes Abortion Laws Voters in Switzerland approved the decriminalization of abortion in a pivotal decision that Swiss Justice Minister Ruth Metzler called a “historic victory for women.” In an effort to challenge a law passed by Swiss lawmakers last year, an anti-abortion coalition brought a referendum before voters Sunday....
5/28/2002	Kopp Gives Up Extradition Appeal A lawyer representing anti-abortion extremist James Charles Kopp announced Monday that Kopp will no longer appeal his extradition to the US from France....
5/28/2002	Priest Pleads Guilty to Date-Rape Drug Charges A Roman Catholic priest from Illinois pled guilty this week to charges that he conspired to make and distribute gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), also known as the “date-rape” drug....
5/24/2002	Priest Pleads Guilty to Date-Rape Drug Charges A Roman Catholic priest from Illinois pled guilty this week to charges that he conspired to make and distribute gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), also known as the “date-rape” drug....
5/24/2002	Philadelphia Gets Rid of Lie-Detector Tests A directive was issued this week by the Philadelphia Police Department that removes the passage of a lie detector test as a condition of employment....
5/17/2002	Pakistani Rape Victim Sentenced to Death by Stoning Zafran Bibi is on death row, sentenced to death by stoning for having sex outside marriage....
5/16/2002	Ninth Circuit Rules 'Wanted' Posters, Nuremberg Files Website are Threats Under FACE WASHINGTON, DC – In a victory for pro-choice advocates, an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit today ruled that WANTED-style posters and an Internet hit list are threats under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE)....
5/2/2002	Mexico Legislature Votes to Increase Female Candidates Mexico’s legislators approved a bill Tuesday requiring that women comprise at least 30 percent of each political party’s nominations....
5/1/2002	Smeal Warns of Backlash Against Women in Policing Opening the National Center for Women and Policing’s (NCWP) 7th Annual Conference, Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, warned of the growing backlash to women in policing....
4/30/2002	Number of Women in Policing Decreasing; Enormous Gender Gap Found in Rate of Police Brutality National Center for Women & Policing Releases New Studies Showing Number of Women in Policing Decreasing; Enormous Gender Gap Found in Rate of Police Brutality Gender Balance in Law Enforcement Urged at the Kick-off of Annual Conference of Women Police Leaders Washington, DC – For the second consecutive year, the number of women in policing has declined, according to the latest survey conducted by the National Center for Women & Policing, a division of the Feminist Majority Foundation....
4/25/2002	House Committee Votes to Continue Abstinence-Only Funding A House Committee voted yesterday to renew $50 million in funding for abstinence-only sex education over the next 5 years....
4/19/2002	Anti-Abortion Extremist Convicted on Firearms Charges Former fugitive Clayton Lee Waagner was convicted yesterday on six counts of firearms and car theft charges, adding to previous convictions on weapons, theft, and escape charges....
4/18/2002	House Passes Anti-Abortion Legislation In a 260-161 vote, the House yesterday passed the Child Custody Protection Act (HR 476), which would make it a federal crime for an adult to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion if that adult is not the minor’s parent....
4/17/2002	Vatican Focuses on US Pedophile Priests Despite Worldwide Abuses The Vatican has called a summit of U.S....
3/21/2002	FBI Scales Back Search for Anti-Abortion Terrorist The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced plans to scale back its search for anti-abortion terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph, suspected in the 1998 bombing of the Birmingham New Woman All Woman abortion clinic, the 1997 bombing of an Atlanta lesbian night club, and the 1996 Olympic Park bombing....
3/19/2002	Army of God Letters Promise Continued Use of Anti-Abortion Violence The Southeast Bomb Task Force, which includes agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is investigating two letters claiming to be from the Army of God that expressed support for clinic bomber Eric Robert Rudolph and promised to continue using “lethal force” against abortion clinics and providers....
3/18/2002	Non-Prescription EC Passes Hawaii House Amid Controversy Last week, the Hawaii House passed legislation that would enable women over the age of 18 to obtain emergency contraception (EC) from their pharmacists without a prescription....
3/15/2002	Nepal to Legalize Abortion In a victory for Nepalese women, the Lower House of Parliament amended the Nepalese Civil Code to legalize abortion in the first trimester, in cases of rape or incest, or to protect a woman’s health....
3/13/2002	Boston Archdiocese Settles Sex Abuse Cases The Boston Archdiocese announced yesterday that it will pay 86 people who have filed claims of sexual abuse at the hands of the defrocked Boston priest, John J....
3/11/2002	Struggle of Afghan Women Highlighted at UN International Women’s Day The United Nations marked International Women’s Day last Friday by looking ahead at the future for women in Afghanistan....
3/5/2002	Ending Poverty with Living Wages Montgomery County, Maryland will now require most companies conducting business with the county to pay their workers a living wage, more than twice the rate set by the federal minimum wage, now $5.15/hour....
3/5/2002	Priests Sex Abuse Scandal Continues Cardinal Roger Mahony forced as many as a dozen priests suspected in cases of sex abuse in the Los Angeles Archdiocese to retire or to suspend their duties....
3/1/2002	Nepalese Push for More Liberal Abortion Laws Six Nepalese women die each day from botched illegal abortions according to Panos, an international non-profit organization focusing on the developing world....
2/22/2002	Pedophile Priest Sentenced to State Prison Convicted of sexually molesting a 10 year-old boy in 1991, defrocked Boston priest John Geogan was sentenced yesterday to 9-10 years in Massachusetts state prison....
2/19/2002	Guatemalan Women Suffer Discrimination from Companies with U.S Ties Guatemalan women face continual discrimination in maquilas, clothing factories, which routinely prevent women’s access to health care....
2/15/2002	Colin Powell Departs from Bush Policy for Abstinence-Only Education In an appearance on MTV yesterday, Secretary of State Colin Powell advocated condom use as a responsible way to prevent the spread of AIDS, diverging from President George W....
2/14/2002	National Geographic Exposes Honor Killings National Geographic yesterday premiered a documentary on its cable television channel focusing on honor killings in Pakistan....
2/12/2002	Catholic Priest Charged With Making Date Rape Drug; Boston Scandal Intensifies Rev....
2/11/2002	Teachers Union Works to Make Schools Safer for Lesbians and Gays The Board of Directors of the National Education Association (NEA) is developing a set of recommendations to help schools meet the needs of lesbians and gays....
2/8/2002	Abortion Clinic Bomber Confesses During an arrest for a suspected DUI in Mississippi, Randy Maske confessed to police that he had firebombed an abortion clinic in Peoria, Illinois in 1993....
1/25/2002	Clayton Waagner Indicted Anti-abortion extremist Clayton Lee Waagner was indicted yesterday on six counts of firearms and stolen vehicle charges....
1/15/2002	Cardinal Apologizes for Allowing Alleged Child Abuser to Continue as Priest Cardinal Bernard F....
1/10/2002	Anti-Abortion Activists Suffer Court Defeat The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a claim that anti-abortion activists have a legal right to provide “sidewalk counseling” outside women’s reproductive health clinics....
1/8/2002	Genetic Mutations in Men or Women May Increase Risk of Pre-Eclampsia Research detailed in this month’s Journal of Medical Genetics suggests that genetic mutations in men and women may contribute to the increased likelihood of developing pre-eclampsia, a potentially life-threatening pregnancy complication that usually occurs after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy....
1/4/2002	Vermont Upholds Civil Unions The Vermont Supreme Court rejected claims made by legislators and town clerks that the state’s civil union laws, which grant gay and lesbian couples the most comprehensive package of domestic partner benefits in the nation, were unconstitutional....
1/3/2002	Californians to Decide on Instant Runoff Voting In March, San Francisco will decide whether to use instant runoff voting to elect city officers in the upcoming November 2002 elections....
12/13/2001	Ninth Circuit Re-Hears “Nuremberg Files” Case The Ninth Circuit U.S....
12/6/2001	Ms. Magazine Salutes Extraordinary Women Making a Difference Ms. magazine launched its 30th anniversary celebration today by honoring women athletes, artists, philanthropists, and activists at its Women of the Year Awards in New York City....
12/3/2001	Two White Supremacist Anti-Abortion Extremists Sentenced Benjamin Matthew Williams and his brother James Tyler Williams were sentenced last Friday in conjunction with the 1999 arson of three synagogues and the firebombing of Choice Medical Group, a women’s reproductive health clinic that performs abortions in Sacramento, California....
11/27/2001	FMLA's Are Changing the Face of Feminism The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at SPELMAN COLLEGE in Atlanta recently hosted a Faces of Feminism panel....
11/19/2001	Afghan Girl Re-Introduces Kabul TV With Kabul freed from Taliban rule, the local television station began broadcasting again, and 16-year old Mariam Shakebar was the first to welcome viewers back to Kabul TV....
11/16/2001	Senators Urge Inclusion of Afghan Women in Rebuilding of Afghanistan Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Sam Brownback (D-KS) held a press conference at the Capitol yesterday to urge the Bush Administration and the United Nations to ensure that the women of Afghanistan play a central role in the rebuilding of Afghanistan....
11/14/2001	Feminist Iranian Filmmaker Faces Execution Iranian filmmaker Tahmineh Milani, arrested earlier this year by Iran’s Revolutionary Council, faces execution if she is convicted of supporting anti-revolutionary groups outside of Iran and threatening national security through the misuse of the arts....
11/8/2001	Women’s Empowerment Essential to Controlling World Population, Alleviating Poverty The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released a new report finding that empowering women and enabling them to control their fertility and reproduction are key to ensuring better environmental conditions and a decrease in global poverty....
11/6/2001	Wal Martyrs At 24, Kim Miller had high expectations when she joined Wal-Mart as a cashier in Ocala, Florida....
11/5/2001	Afghan Refugee Women Face Danger in Camps Even after escaping the Taliban and fleeing to refugee camps in Pakistan, Afghan women are not free from danger, according to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative Dr....
10/25/2001	Women Senators Step Up Fight for Afghan Women Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) successfully won passage of an amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill calling for the inclusion of Afghan women in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, giving women a voice in the establishment of a new Afghan government....
10/18/2001	George Washington University Galvanizes Support With Rock For Choice Hundreds of students gathered on October 6th for a Rock For Choice concert organized by the GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance....
10/18/2001	FMF Urges Abortion Providers to Be On Highest Alert: Anthrax Threats Hit Over 170 Abortion Clinics Nationwide More than 170 clinics from 14 states and the District of Columbia received threatening letters yesterday containing a white powder....
10/16/2001	Anthrax Threats Hit Over 170 Abortion Clinics Nationwide FMF Urges Abortion Providers to be on Highest Alert ARLINGTON, VA—Over 170 abortion clinics and doctors' offices in 14 states and the District of Columbia have received threatening letters claiming to contain anthrax....
10/16/2001	Anthrax Threats Reach Abortion Clinics Nationwide More than 170 clinics from 14 states and the District of Columbia received threatening letters yesterday containing a white powder....
10/15/2001	CA Governor Passes Women’s Rights Legislation Governor Gray Davis of California signed into law yesterday measures to protect women’s reproductive health by increasing clinic safety and accessibility to emergency contraception....
10/9/2001	Afghan Women Refugees in Continued Crisis Acknowledging a healthcare crisis for Afghan women refugees, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has requested $4.5 million for donor countries to provide refugees with reproductive healthcare services including services intended to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)....
10/8/2001	Mexican Labor Organizers Victorious A protest at Mexmode – an assembly factory in Atlixco, Mexico that produces college sweatshirts for Nike and Reebok – in January 2001 over objectionable working conditions launched an international outcry from Mexican and U.S....
10/4/2001	Pro-Choice Forces Receive Second Major Victory in Two Days Over Domestic Terrorism Pro-choice supporters received their second victory against domestic terrorism today as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed in an unusual opinion to review en banc the three-judge panel decision in Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette, et al....
10/4/2001	“Nuremberg Files” Case Will Be Reconsidered The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed in an unusual opinion to review en banc the three-judge panel decision in Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette, et al....
10/4/2001	President Gives $320 Million in Afghan Aid; Biden Calls for $1 Billion President Bush today announced $295 million in new humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and Afghan refugees, making his total aid package $320 million....
10/3/2001	Nomination of Scalia to Labor Dept. Challenged The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee began its hearings on the nomination of Eugene Scalia, son of ultra-conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be Solicitor of Labor, the third-ranking official at the Department....
10/3/2001	Heroin Trafficking Finances Taliban and Terrorism Production of heroin in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan provides the Taliban with its main source of revenue that is then diverted to terrorist networks inside of the country, including Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network....
9/25/2001	The Tragedy Caused by Terrorists Chief Penny E....
9/19/2001	Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Refuses to Condemn Robertson Remarks While attempting to distance himself from long-time friend and financial supporter, televangelist Pat Robertson, the anti-choice, Republican candidate for Virginia governor, Mark Earley, refused to condemn Robertson’s remarks in which Robertson supported Jerry Falwell’s remarks blaming the September 11th terrorist attacks on God’s wrath against feminists, abortion rights proponents, civil liberties groups, and gays and lesbians....
9/14/2001	Right Wing Blame Terrorism on Feminists, ACLU, Lesbians, Gays Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson blame Tuesday’s tragedies on “God’s anger” at today’s “secular and anti-Christian” America, echoing the sentiments of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Save America (OSA)....
9/7/2001	Afghan Refugees Await Australian Judge’s Decision; WFP Requests Funds The 434 refugees awaiting admission to Papua New Guinea before being resettled to New Zealand and the small island republic of Nauru will face at least another three days at sea in the Australian naval ship Manoora....
8/31/2001	Federal Judge Upholds Adoption Discrimination Against Gays and Lesbians A federal judge upheld a Florida law banning adoption by gays and lesbians....
8/23/2001	Continued Reports of Taliban Human Rights Abuses As the controversy swarms around the Taliban’s refusal to release 24 humanitarian aid workers from custody, new reports of human rights abuses are emerging from one of the country’s poorest and most remote regions....
8/23/2001	Two Marines Charged with Raping Trainees The Marine Corps has charged two drill instructors with raping female students at the Ft....
8/15/2001	Update: Taliban Won’t Allow Visits to Jailed Workers The Taliban has denied U.S., Australian and German diplomats’ requests to see jailed foreign aid workers from Shelter Now International....
8/7/2001	Prisoner of Choice Dr....
8/2/2001	Indecent Exposure? Gil Scott-Heron said the revolution would not be televised....
7/30/2001	Breaking Down Walls For the next anti-globalization demonstration, I'm bringing a gas mask....
7/30/2001	Administration Promotes Abstinence-Only Education The Bush Administration continues to promote an "abstinence only" approach to reproductive and sexual health, significantly scaling back efforts to promote family planning and contraceptive use....
7/24/2001	Women Face Obstacles in Technology Education and Employment "Balancing the Equation," a recent report by the National Council for Research on Women, reveals the deficit of women in the fields of science and engineering....
7/19/2001	Abortion Clinic Security Guard Killed in Australia Steven Rogers, a security guard at the Fertility Control Clinic in Melbourne, Australia was shot in the face and killed by an unidentified gunman on Monday, July 16....
7/16/2001	NYC Faces Sexual and Racial Harassment Case New York City is being sued by the U.S....
7/12/2001	ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT URGED TO CONDEMN ANTI-ABORTION TERRORISM WASHINGTON, DC—Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal joins Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Gloria Feldt and National Abortion Federation Executive Director Vicki Saporta in urging Attorney General John Ashcroft to be proactive and take action publicly against all anti-abortion terrorist threats. “With Operation Save America (formerly Operation Rescue) kicking off their ‘Let’s Finish It’ campaign in Wichita, KS this coming weekend, and outspoken anti-abortion terrorist Clayton Lee Waagner on the loose, heavily armed and threatening the lives of clinic staff across the country, time is of the essence,” said Smeal. Tiller has been the target of anti-abortion protests for the past decade, and in 1993 was shot 5 times by anti-abortion extremist Shelley Shannon....
7/10/2001	FGM Exposed One day last year, a 20-year-old woman named Kadra walked into a mosque in the Norwegian capital of Oslo....
7/3/2001	VMI Plans to Dismiss Pregnant Cadets The Virginia Military Institute (VMI) has adopted a resolution that will force the resignation of any female cadet who becomes pregnant and any male cadet who impregates a woman, on or off-campus....
6/29/2001	Egyptian Feminist Faces Forced Divorce If veteran feminist, doctor, and sociologist Nawal Saadawi is tried under hisba, she and her husband of 37 years could be forcibly divorced....
6/28/2001	French Court Rules in Favor of Kopp Extradition A French court recommended that James Charles Kopp, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, be extradited to the United States....
6/28/2001	Women Athletes Exhibit Opens “Game Face: What does a Female Athlete Look Like” premiered at the Smithsonian in Washington DC yesterday, depicting women of all ages and races participating in a variety of sports at every athletic level....
6/26/2001	Ad Naseum Bikini-clad cuties cavorting in tropical paradise: just fine....
6/22/2001	Suing Bush for His Global Gag Rule A court hearing has not been scheduled yet in the case of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) v....
6/19/2001	Activism guide With Bush II in office, it's more crucial than ever that progressives join in and work for change....
6/13/2001	U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Double Standard for Men and Women The U.S....
6/8/2001	California Senate Protects Abortion Clinic Access The California Senate voted 26-12 to pass legislation on June 6 imposing state penalties on individuals who threaten or intimidate reproductive healthcare providers, staff, or patients....
6/1/2001	Taliban Adds New Restrictions on Women, Feels UN Pressure In the face of stepped-up pressure from the United Nations (UN) for the Taliban to grant women more freedom, the Taliban has imposed a new ban restricting foreign women from driving cars in Afghanistan....
5/9/2001	US Asks France to Extradite Anti-Abortion Extremist The United States has submitted a request to France’s Justice Ministry for the extradition of James Charles Kopp, the anti-abortion extremist charged with the 1998 assassination of obstetrician and abortion provider Barnett A....
5/2/2001	D.C. Circuit Upholds FACE Violation Decision but Limits Injunction The D.C....
5/1/2001	Article Reveals Bush Connections to Independent Women’s Forum An article in today’s Washington Post exposes what feminists have long known – the connections between the George W....
4/30/2001	Leadership Alliances Rally in DC to Support Abortion Rights Hundreds of Leadership Alliance activists from over 40 campuses nationwide rallied with the Feminist Majority Foundation during NOW’s Emergency Action For Women’s Lives in DC last Sunday April 22nd....
4/27/2001	*Special Issue of Elle* Magazine Focuses on Women in Afghanistan** The most recent issue of the French women’s magazine Elle is completely devoted to covering the women of Afghanistan, the abuses they suffer under the ruling Taliban regime, and the dehumanization they endure....
4/27/2001	Detroit Police Admit Wrong Stats for Rape Arrests Throughout the 1990s, the Detroit Police Department's rape squad looked great, consistently reporting the nation's highest arrest rates, always at least double the national average. Women's advocates are alarmed and say the phony numbers gave them a false sense of security. Now, the city's shame-faced police department acknowledges that the statistics were wrong and its crime data are so seriously flawed that it is unclear how many suspects really were collared....
4/26/2001	Sexual Harassment Plagues Women in the Marines Accusations of sexual assault and harassment against 19 male officers at the Fort Leonard Wood Marine training base in Missouri surfaced recently, bringing attention to the high number of women in the military who are victims of sexual abuse by their male counterparts or superior officers....
4/23/2001	Abortion Rights Action Draws Thousands to DC The Emergency Action for Women’s Lives, hosted by the National Organization for Women, drew thousands of women, men, and children to Washington DC this weekend in support of abortion rights (see for yourself!)....
4/20/2001	Supreme Court Refuses FACE Challenge In a clear victory for women’s reproductive health clinics, the U.S....
4/18/2001	Married to the Visa - Part I Women who cannot obtain U visas must either leave the country or stay in abusive relationships....
4/17/2001	U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Clinic Access Law In a major victory for abortion rights, the U.S....
4/13/2001	Lawmakers File Appellate Brief Against Anti-Abortion Violence Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), along with a bipartisan group of more than 40 House and Senate members, will file a legal brief today in support of abortion providers and clinics asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling that he says will “severely undercut the enforceability of FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act).” Last month, in the case Planned Parenthood, et al....
4/6/2001	UN Blames Pakistan For Blockage Of Aid To Afghan Refugees In a statement released by the United Nations, “Pakistan has reneged on an agreement reached last month with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to allow adequate UN relief supplies to be delivered to the 70,000 Afghan refugees in the Jalozai refugee camp.” One of the most desperate camps for Afghan refugees is located in the Pakistan city of Jalozai....
3/30/2001	Compromise In Bankruptcy Bill May Force Anti-Abortion Extremists to Pay Up The abortion debate on the bankruptcy bill centers on language introduced by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) that would specifically bar perpetrators of abortion clinic-related violence from avoiding paying legal judgments by declaring bankruptcy....
3/30/2001	Divisive Ashcroft Vote Sends Strong Message The nomination of John Ashcroft for U.S....
3/30/2001	Nationwide, Severe Violence Affects One in Five Abortion Clinics: Survey Finds Lower Violence Where Law Enforcement is Strong A potential anti-abortion assassin escapes from prison and becomes the subject of a nationwide investigation....
3/30/2001	Ironic Feminism, Empathic Activism: Robin Morgan's Saturday's Child A child actor, radical Leftist feminist, founder of the global women’s movement, poet, writer, lesbian, and mother, Robin Morgan gives us a story we have and haven’t heard before in her memoir Saturday’s Child....
3/30/2001	Leadership Progam Helps Women in Policing The National Center for Women and Policing’s (NCWP) sixth annual conference, committed to changing the face of law enforcement, is being held April 4-8 in Palm Springs, CA....
3/29/2001	NEWS FLASH: 9th Circuit Court Protects Anti-abortion Domestic Terrorism FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 28, 2001 CONTACT: Julie Bernstein 703-522-2214; 240-601-5562 Outrage Over Court-Protected Domestic Terrorism Statement of Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal WASHINGTON, DC – We are shocked and dismayed that a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously chosen to limit and weaken the protections guaranteed by Congress through the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE)....
3/29/2001	9th Circuit Court Protects Anti-abortion Domestic Terrorism Outrage Over Court-Protected Domestic Terrorism Statement of Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal WASHINGTON, DC – We are shocked and dismayed that a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously chosen to limit and weaken the protections guaranteed by Congress through the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE)....
3/21/2001	Feminists Protest Taliban Official’s Visit to State Department In violation of a recent United Nations Security Council sanction against the Taliban regime, which currently occupies 95 percent of Afghanistan, a senior official from the Taliban Foreign Ministry traveled to the U.S....
3/19/2001	Post Chronicles Afghan Refugee Crisis In a front page story in this Sunday’s Washington Post, journalist David Finkel provides one of the first comprehensive U.S....
3/16/2001	UNHCR May Send 1.5 Million Refugees Back to Afghanistan, Despite Gender Apartheid The new head of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees Ruund Lubbers announced possible plans to return 1.5 million refugees to Afghanistan....
3/13/2001	Anti-Abortion Extremist Pleads Guilty in Internet Case Nicholas Morency pled guilty in U.S....
3/8/2001	Study Examines Women’s Reproductive Health Risk Worldwide A study released today by Population Action International (PAI) reported women in America face greater reproductive health risks than women in Singapore, Australia and much of Europe, while women in Africa and Afghanistan have the highest risk of reproductive health problems....
3/1/2001	Women’s History Month Begins Today March 1 marks the beginning of Women’s History Month, a celebration of the accomplishments of women throughout history, and a reminder of the challenges that women worldwide still face....
2/22/2001	Dire Situation in Afghanistan Finally Reaches US National Press The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) and other women’s right groups have covered the situation in Afghanistan since the Taliban militia took control of the country in 1996 and imposed brutal gender apartheid on the women and girls of Afghanistan....
2/6/2001	Under the Peace Tent - Part II Long aware that their fates were inextricably linked, they took on the hard work of fighting for justice and an end to oppression, both in the Occupied Territories and within the State of Israel--because there cannot be peace in one without peace in the other. Whatever the political outcome of the coming weeks and months, these women know that the separation between Israelis and Palestinians that Prime Minister Ehud Barak speaks of as a national goal is a dangerous oversimplification of reality....
2/5/2001	Bush Criticized for “Faith-Based” Plan, Global Gag Rule At a retreat for Democratic House members this weekend, George W....
2/2/2001	9 Universities Vow to Work for Equality for Women Faculty Presidents and Provosts from 9 universities issued a statement Monday promising the institutions would work for diversity in faculty, equal compensation and resources for women, and reformation of any policies that discriminated against women with families....
2/1/2001	DIVISIVE ASHCROFT VOTE SENDS STRONG MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT BUSH Statement by Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal This historic vote on John Ashcroft for U.S....
1/31/2001	Young Women Lobby to Fight Ashcroft WASHINGTON, DC—Student activists have joined an unprecedented effort by women’s rights, abortion rights, civil rights, gun control, environmental and gay and lesbian rights organizations to oppose the nomination of John Ashcroft for U.S....
1/31/2001	Bush's Picks: A Cabinet that looks like Radical Right America - Part II Property rights people love her, as do defenders of so-called "state's rights." According to the Washington Post, in a 1996 speech to a conservative group in Colorado, Norton likened her struggle to preserve states from federal interference to the cause of the Confederacy, saying "We lost too much" when the South was defeated in the Civil War....
1/31/2001	Bush's Picks: A Cabinet that looks like Radical Right America - Part IV Although union officials are not as opposed to Bush II's second labor secretary nominee as they were to Linda Chavez, Chao merits scrutiny from progressives....
1/31/2001	Bush's Picks: A Cabinet that looks like Radical Right America - Part V "The issue is Ashcroft's lack of sensitivity and concern about the rights of women and minorities, as well as his ideological rigidity, all qualities that are antithetical to the ability to serve all Americans as our Attorney General....
1/26/2001	Bush’s Faith-Based Funding Violates Constitution Americans United for Separation of Church and State has come out against President Bush’s initiative to direct more federal funds to “faith-based” social service programs that would rally “armies of compassion,” and his plan to establish a White House Office of Faith-Based Action that will remove roadblocks religiously affiliated groups face when receiving federal money....
1/25/2001	Two John Ashcrofts; One 25 Year Record Against Women’s Rights WASHINGTON, DC – The John Ashcroft presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the John Ashcroft the women’s rights movement has known for over 20 years are not the same man....
1/25/2001	Sen. Reid Renews Fight for Equal Health Care Coverage for Women Sen....
1/24/2001	Global “Gag Rule” Will Increase Deaths; Boxer and Lowey Propose Policy Reversal Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) yesterday announced their plan to introduce legislation reversing Bush’s policy, and have already garnered the support of several pro-family planning Republican legislators....
1/23/2001	Leadership Alliances Promote Feminism and Debunk Stereotypes on Campus Last Thursday, the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Leadership Alliance organized a panel discussion with a diverse set of speakers who discussed their perspectives on feminism....
1/22/2001	Bush Will Block US Funding for International Family Planning President Bush’s anti-woman, anti-abortion position is clear this morning, as he announces his decision to block US funding for international groups that provide women around the world with family planning information, counseling and abortion services....
1/17/2001	Dems Question Ashcroft’s Ability to Enforce All Laws The Senate confirmation hearing in John Ashcroft’s bid for Attorney General continues today, with protestors again crowded outside the Russell Senate building, opposing the nomination of this anti-choice, anti-woman, anti-civil rights politician....
1/17/2001	Sex Bias in Citizenship Law Challenged WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS—The nation's highest court was asked Tuesday, January 9, to overturn one of the last remaining federal laws that makes a distinction solely on the basis of gender: citizenship provisions for foreign-born children of American citizens....
1/16/2001	Ashcroft: Ideology Trumps Legal Judgment 20-Year Anti-Women’s Rights Record Disqualifies Ashcroft WASHINGTON, DC – John Ashcroft is a totally anti-choice, anti-women’s rights nomination for Attorney General....
1/16/2001	Ashcroft's Ideology Trumps Legal Judgment! 20-Year Anti-Women’s Rights Record Disqualifies Ashcroft John Ashcroft is a totally anti-choice, anti-women’s rights nomination for Attorney General....
1/16/2001	Women’s Alliance for Peace Makes Appeal for Help for Afghanistan The Women’s Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan (WAPHA) has made an international appeal for help and humanitarian aid for Afghan refugees who have fled the brutal Taliban regime and the region’s worst drought....
1/12/2001	Nigerian Girl Scheduled to Be Flogged Jan. 27: Take Action! Thirteen-year-old Bariya Ibrahim Magazu was charged with having pre-marital sex and making “false” accusations against the three middle-aged men whom she testifies pressured her into sex....
1/10/2001	Police Family Violence Whistle Blower Found Guilty of Criminal Contempt Robert Mullally, a former legal consultant who exposed serious family violence involving officers in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), was found in criminal contempt on Friday in federal district court in Los Angeles....
1/9/2001	Ashcroft: Ideology Trumps Legal Judgment 20-Year Anti-Women’s Rights Record Disqualifies Ashcroft WASHINGTON, DC – John Ashcroft is a totally anti-cho