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5/21/2013	Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks AR 12 Week Ban A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction against a twelve week abortion ban in Arkansas while the constitutionality of the bill is in question. U.S....
5/16/2013	El Salvador Supreme Court Hears Arguments to Save Beatriz's Life Yesterday the Supreme Court of El Salvador heard open arguments in a case where they will determine if doctors can administer a medically necessary abortion for a woman who could die as a result of her pregnancy....
5/15/2013	Army Sexual Assault Prevention Coordinator Face Sexual Assault Charges A U.S....
5/9/2013	Working Families Flexibility Act Passes House, Threatens Over Time Pay A bill that would remove over time pay and replace it with "comp" time passed the House yesterday in a vote along party lines of 223 to 204....
5/8/2013	Sexual Assault in the Military Rose by 35% in Two Years Yesterday the Department of Defense issued an annual report that showed that sexual assault in the military rose by 35% from 2010 to 2012....
5/6/2013	No Decision Yet for 'Beatriz' in El Salvador The Supreme Court of El Salvador has still not issued a decision about whether or not it will allow a woman in El Salvador to terminate a life-threatening, non-viable fetus. "Beatriz", who is currently 22 and already a mother of a young infant, was diagnosed with multiple severe illnesses and is 18 weeks pregnant....
5/3/2013	Florida Teenager Arrested Over 'Science Experiment' A 16 year old student in Bartow, Florida was arrested under felony charges earlier this week after a science experiment caused smoke and a loud noise on school property. Kiera Wilmot* mixed toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil in an 8oz plastic bottle for a science experiment after hearing it would produce non-toxic smoke from a friend....
5/2/2013	Feminists Critical of Decision to Appeal Plan B Ruling Late Wednesday night, the Obama Administration filed an appeal in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals challenging a federal judge's decision that emergency contraception must be made available over the counter with no age restrictions....
5/2/2013	Feminists Critical of Decision to Appeal Plan B Ruling Late Wednesday night, the Obama Administration filed an appeal in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals challenging a federal judge's decision that emergency contraception must be made available over the counter with no age restrictions....
5/1/2013	Signature Drive for 2015 Mississippi Personhood Begins Last week, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood approved the language for a 2015 ballot measure that would amend the Mississippi state constitution to define life as beginning at conception....
5/1/2013	First Female Speaker of Bangladesh Takes Oath Yesterday, Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury was sworn in as Bangladesh's first female Speaker of the Parliament....
4/30/2013	Saudi Arabia Launches First Domestic Violence PSA The King Khalid Foundation (KKF) in Saudi Arabia has launched the first advertising campaign to combat violence against women in Saudi Arabia....
4/30/2013	WA State Senate Staffer Says Gays Can Go "Grow Their Own Food" A staff person for Washington state Senator Mike Hewitt (R-Walla Walla) recently told a Washington blogger that LGBT individuals can fend for themselves when they are denied services under a recently proposed bill. Jay Castro, a reader of the Washington blog column Slog at The Stranger, called Senator Hewitt's office to ask about his sponsorship of SB 5927, which would allow people to refuse to provide services and discriminate against LGBT people because of "sincerely held religious beliefs." Castro asked an unidentified staffer, "What are rural gays supposed to do if the only gas station or grocery store for miles won't sell them gas and food?" Hewitt's staffer responded to Castro, "Well, gay people can just grow their own food" (emphasis added)....
4/25/2013	Woman Could Go To Jail For Life-Saving Abortion In El Salvador A woman who faces a life-threatening, non-viable pregnancy may have to choose between saving her life or going to jail in El Salvador. "Beatriz", who is currently 22 and already a mother of a young infant, was diagnosed with multiple severe illness and is 18 weeks pregnant....
4/25/2013	HRW Report Finds Afghan Women Police Officers Face Harassment, Violence Female police officers in Afghanistan are fighting harassment in co-ed changing facilities and restrooms at the hands of male colleagues, according to a recent report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW). In the story, released today, HRW found that women in the Afghan police force face sexual harassment, assault, and even rape from male colleagues....
4/24/2013	Eden Foods Suing Obama Administration, Facing Boycott Eden Foods, a popular supplier of organic food items, has filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act....
4/23/2013	Cuba's Ladies in White To Receive International Award A group of women opposition activists from Cuba called the Ladies in White will be in Brussels to collect the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought today. The women were awarded the prize in 2005 for their efforts to raise awareness of the treatment of dissenters in Cuba, but were not permitted to leave the country....
4/23/2013	Breaking News: France Legalizes Same Sex Marriage Today French lawmakers voted to legalize same sex marriage and adoption in the country....
4/22/2013	Arrests made in Delhi Child Rape Case Two men thought to have played a part in the abduction and rape of a five year old girl in New Delhi are now in custody....
4/22/2013	Global Heroes Honored in LA An Afghan rapper....
4/19/2013	Five Year Girl in Critical Condition After Rape A five year old girl is in critical condition after being allegedly kidnapped and raped in Delhi, India....
4/9/2013	Today is National Equal Pay Day President Barack Obama has declared today Equal Pay Day to highlight the discrimination women currently face in wages for equal work....
4/8/2013	Mariam Chamberlain, Pioneer for Women's Studies, Dies Dr....
4/5/2013	Federal Judges Strikes Age Restrictions for Plan B Over the Counter U.S....
4/5/2013	NV State Congresswoman Threatened After Sharing her Abortion Experience A Nevada state Congresswoman (D), Lucy Flores, has faced several threats on her life after sharing her personal experience with abortion at the state Assembly Education Committee on Monday....
4/4/2013	Florida House Committee Advances Anti-Abortion Bill The Florida House Judiciary Committee narrowly passed a bill that could threatened abortion access to women of color in the state on Wednesday. HB 845 would ban abortion for sex-selection or race-selection purposes....
3/29/2013	Pro-Life America Network Director Nominated to MS Board of Health Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant (R) announced that he has nominated Terri Herring to the state's Board of Health Wednesday....
3/22/2013	Kansas House Passes Abortion Restrictions ...
3/20/2013	TX Senate Panel Passes TRAP Bill A Texas senate committee has passed a TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) bill that would require abortion clinics in the state to meet strict operating standards that could potentially close many of Texas's abortion providers....
3/14/2013	Steubenville Trial Begins Yesterday, both sides made opening statements in the case of two high school football players accused of raping a 16 year old classmate in Steubenville, Ohio....
3/12/2013	VA Public Hearing on TRAP Laws Over 50 individuals gathered yesterday in Alexandria, Virginia to speak on strict TRAP regulation signed by Governor McDonnell....
3/8/2013	Today is International Women's Day Today marks over a century of honoring women on International Women's Day....
3/7/2013	UN Affirms Commitment to Ending Violence Against Women On Monday, the 57th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women began in New York....
3/1/2013	Openly Gay MS Mayoral Candidate Found Dead Mayoral Candidate Marco McMillan of Clarksdale, Mississippi, was found dead on Wednesday in what authorities have ruled is a homicide....
2/28/2013	Teenager Accused in New Delhi Gang-Rape Pleads Not-Guilty A teenager accused of murder in the violent gang-rape of a New Delhi medical student in December 2012 plead not guilty....
2/26/2013	Microsoft Launches "DigiGirlz" In India Microsoft launched a new program in India to encourage more girls to take up careers in technology, the Times of India reports....
2/25/2013	First Woman President of South Korea Sworn In South Korea's first female president, Park Geun-hye, was sworn in Monday....
2/21/2013	First Female Members Sworn In to Shura Council The first female members of Saudi Arabia's Shura Council were sworn in by King Abdullah on Tuesday. The Shura Council, composed of 150 members, councils the government in decisions regarding legislation....
2/15/2013	MS Bill to Regulate Abortion Passes the Senate Senate Bill 2795, also known as the "Women's Health Defense Act," [PDF] passed in the Mississippi Senate yesterday on a 39 to 12 vote....
2/11/2013	IN Community Calls for "Traditional" Prom Banning Gay Students Students, parents, and faculty at Sullivan High School in Sullivan, Indiana, are rallying to create a "traditional" prom that would exclude gay students....
2/11/2013	VA Governor Limit Work Hours to Avoid Paying for Obamacare As part of Virginia's 2013 Budget, Governor Bob McDonnell has limited the amount of hours an hourly employee of the state can work in a week in an attempt to avoid paying for healthcare as required by the Affordable Care Act....
2/6/2013	Mississippi Senate Bill Threatens Abortion by Pill On Tuesday, a Mississippi state Senate committee approved a bill that could threaten the use of medical abortion in the state....
2/5/2013	Two Bills Limiting Abortion Access Pass in Arkansas House Yesterday, the Arkansas state House approved a bill that would outlaw abortions after twenty weeks of pregnancy without any exception for rape or incest on a vote of 75 to 20....
2/1/2013	Catholic Cardinal Relieved from Public Duties following Cover Up Release Retired Cardinal Roger M....
1/30/2013	Malala Yousafzai Approaching Final Surgeries Malala Yousafzai, the girls' rights activist who was shot in the head by the Taliban in October 2012, is preparing for her final surgeries....
1/29/2013	Wyoming House Rejects Heartbeat Bill Yesterday a Wyoming state House committee voted 5 to 3 to reject a bill that would have prohibited abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. House Bill 97 was introduced into the Wyoming House Labor Health and Social Services committee yesterday by Representative Kendell Kroeker (R-Evansville)....
1/28/2013	Sixth Accused Rapist in New Delhi Case Determined to Be A Minor A Juvenile Justice Board in New Delhi has ruled that a sixth attacker in the fatal rape of a medical student on a bus in December was 17 at the time of the attack....
1/28/2013	Public Comment Period on VA TRAP Law Opens The 60-day public comment period on Virginia's strict TRAP laws begins today....
1/25/2013	New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortion After Rape/Incest Under a proposed law in the New Mexico state House of Representative, a woman who has an abortion after being raped could face felony criminal charges....
1/25/2013	Ban on 'Gay Propaganda' Passes First Reading in Russian Parliament A new bill that would ban "gay propaganda" from being directed towards minors passed its first reading in the Russian Lower House today....
1/24/2013	Trial in Brutal India Gang-Rape Begins Today The trial of five men accused of brutally gang raping a 23 year old medical student, who later died of her injuries, on a bus in New Delhi, India, began today....
1/17/2013	Delhi Rape and Murder Case Moved to Fast-Track Court The case of five men accused of the brutal rape and murder of a 23 year old medical student in New Delhi has been moved to a special "fast-track" court, an Indian magistrate declared on Thursday....
1/15/2013	President Obama, New York to Take Harsher Stance on Gun Control On Monday, President Barack Obama announced that he will be revealing a proposal of new gun control policies and is willing to take executive actions if necessary....
1/4/2013	Malala Yousafzai Released from Hospital Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani teenager who was shot in the head by Taliban forces for her outspoken support of girls' education, was released yesterday from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK....
1/2/2013	VA TRAP Law Approved Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell certified new abortion regulations known as TRAP (targeted regulations of abortion providers) laws on Friday, December 28th....
12/20/2012	Indian Activists Protest Gang Rape Protests erupted in India yesterday in response to a violent gang rape on a bus in South Delhi....
12/19/2012	Tim Scott to Succeed SC Senator On Monday, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley appointed Representative Tim Scott as the successor to retiring Senator Jim DeMint. Tim Scott will be the only African-American Republican in Congress after the defeat of Representative Allen West in Florida in the November election....
12/12/2012	WI Planned Parenthood Challenges Medical Abortion Restrictions Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging a state law that would force doctors who perform medical abortions to face possible criminal charges....
12/6/2012	Textbooks in Saudi Arabia Feature Photographs of Women For the first time in the history of public education in Saudi Arabia, new textbooks will feature photographs of women....
12/5/2012	Bihar Village Bans Use of Cell Phones by Women On Sunday, the self-appointed village council of Sunderbari within the state of Bihar in India prohibited the use of mobile phones by unmarried women and girls....
11/29/2012	Russian Court Bans Pussy Riot Videos On Thursday, a court in Moscow ruled that videos of Pussy Riot's performance at Christ the Savior Cathedral must be removed from websites....
11/28/2012	Ohio Senate Not to Consider "Heartbeat" Bill or Defunding Planned Parenthood Ohio Senate President, Tom Niehaus (R-New Richmond), announced Tuesday that he will not bring the two separate measures designed to attack abortion and family planning rights to the floor before the end of this legislative term. The "Heartbeat Bill," House Bill 125, passed the House in 2011 and was awaiting the Senate....
11/20/2012	Judge Rules: Hobby Lobby Must Cover Contraception Yesterday, U.S....
11/15/2012	Air Forces Releases Lackland Sex Abuse Investigation Results The US Air Force released the results of an investigation into widespread sex abuse charges at the Lackland Air Force Base training facility in Texas this week....
11/12/2012	Gaddafi's Former PM On Trial for Mass Rape Former Libyan prime minister Al Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi appeared in court today to face charges including ordering a mass rape and corruption during the war that overthrew Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi....
11/12/2012	Malawi Backtracks on Suspended Criminalization of Homosexuality Last Wednesday, Malawian Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara backtracked on his announcement that Malawi intends to suspend criminalization of homosexuality....
11/9/2012	Pakistani Girl's Parents Confess to 'Honor Killing' A 15-year-old Pakistani girl named Anusha was the victim of an "honor killing" last week at the hands of her parents....
11/5/2012	Malawi Suspends Criminalization of Homosexuality as Laws are Debated In Malawi, a law against homosexuality has been suspended and the police have been ordered to stop arresting gay people pending a decision by parliament as to whether to repeal the law....
11/5/2012	Appeals Court Hears Arizona Abortion Case The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in a case that challenges Arizona's ban of abortion at 20 weeks today....
11/1/2012	OH Students Forced to Remove LGBTQ Friendly Shirts Ohio high school students faced disciplinary action early this week for wearing t-shirts that featured messages supporting LGBTQ equality....
10/26/2012	President Obama Endorses Marriage Equality on the Ballot Yesterday, President Obama's campaign released three statements announcing his endorsement of state ballot initiatives to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland, Washington, and Maine....
10/23/2012	Akin Compares McCaskill to a Dog Missouri Senate candidate and current Congressman Todd Akin (R-MO) recently compared his opponent Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) to a dog in remarks he made at a campaign fundraiser....
10/22/2012	Activists Project "Rape Is Rape" onto US Capitol Sunday Stories of sexual violence, punctuated by the words "RAPE IS RAPE," were projected onto the U.S....
10/19/2012	VA Health Commissioner Resigns Over TRAP Laws Virginia Health Commissioner Dr....
10/12/2012	Excerpts from Gloria Steinem's Speech as Ms. Turns 40 An inspiring keynote (view video) at the National Press Club in celebration of Ms....
10/9/2012	Breaking News: Sandusky Receives 30-60 Yr Sentence This morning, Jerry Sandusky was sentenced by a Pennsylvania court to "no less than 30 years and no more than 60 years with credit for time served"....
10/5/2012	Voting While Trans Awareness Campaign Launched Yesterday, the National Center for Transgender Equality launched a series of public service announcements targeting what transgender individuals need to know in order to vote in the upcoming election....
10/1/2012	Gov. Brown Vetoes CA Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, which would have provided about 200,000 domestic workers with overtime pay, meal breaks, and a suitable sleeping environment for live-in workers, due to what he claims to be a "number of unanswered questions" that the bill raises....
9/28/2012	Todd Akin Admits Arrest for Blocking Abortion Clinic Entrance Yesterday, Right Wing Watch released a video from early in Todd Akin's Senate campaign in which Akin admits to having been arrested for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic....
9/27/2012	Cuccinelli Approves Virginia TRAP Laws Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli approved new regulations yesterday designed to force existing abortion clinics to meet the same building codes as new hospitals....
9/27/2012	Anti-Abortion Motion in Canada Defeated The Canadian Parliament voted to defeat an anti-abortion motion last night by a vote of 203-91....
9/25/2012	Federal Court Will Hear Walmart Sex Discrimination Case A federal judge has agreed to hear arguments in a sex discrimination case brought by women employees of Walmart in California....
9/18/2012	Female Poverty in Bangladesh Result of Biased Family Laws Many women in Bangladesh face poverty after a failed marriage as the result of discriminatory family laws according to a new Human Rights Watch report released on Monday. According to the report, outdated family laws that do not recognize the rights of women in cases of divorce and abandonment drive women to stay in abusive marriages or live in poverty on their own....
9/14/2012	Cuccinelli Gets His Way -- VA Board of Health Reverses Decision Today the Virginia Board of Health met and voted 13-2 to reverse their June decision to grandfather in existing clinics, exempting them from new, hospital-like restrictions for the state's abortion clinics, commonly called TRAP laws or Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers....
9/13/2012	Hobby Lobby Sues Obama Administration over Morning-After Pill Craft store and evangelical-based Hobby Lobby filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against the Obama Administration over the mandate requiring employers to provide coverage for the morning-after pill and other medications. Under the new mandate, companies who do not provide coverage that includes medication such as the morning after pill can face fines of up to $1.3 million daily....
9/11/2012	Study Shows No Negatives from Repealing DADT The first academic study since the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" found that troops have suffered no negative side effects. The study included interviews with anti-repeal advocates, 13 generals and admirals who were against the repeal, and 60 active duty soldiers from every branch of the military of all sexual orientations....
8/30/2012	Cardinal Dolan will lead prayer at DNC following RNC Senior Cardinal Timothy Dolan will give the benediction at the Democratic National Convention a week after leading prayer at the Republican National Convention. Cardinal Dolan is the senior Catholic Cardinal in the United States and is also President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops....
8/28/2012	Another Politician Shows No Understanding of Rape The Republican nominee for U.S....
8/23/2012	Senior Cardinal to Lead Prayers at RNC Mitt Romney will announce that the senior US Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan will give a benediction at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. Cardinal Dolan was requested to speak personally by convention organizers, according to a press statement released by the Archdiocese of New York....
8/15/2012	Judge Refuses to Block Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson refused to grant an injunction that would have stopped a new Pennsylvania voter ID law from going into effect today....
8/15/2012	Rep. Sandy Adams Defeated in Florida Primary Tea party favorite Rep....
8/8/2012	Anti-Abortion Activist to Face Jury Trial in Harassment of Doctor US District Judge J....
7/25/2012	Priest Sentenced in Abuse Case Monsignor William Lynn, the high-ranking Philadelphia Catholic Church official convicted of covering up priests' sexual abuses in a landmark court case, was sentenced to three to six years in prison yesterday....
7/25/2012	Sam's Club Latest Company to Drop Rush Yesterday Sam's Club announced their decision to withdraw ads from The Rush Limbaugh Show, following in the footsteps of over 150 other businesses....
7/18/2012	Federal Judge Dismisses Contraception Coverage Lawsuit A federal judge in Nebraska dismissed a federal lawsuit yesterday that sought to block part of the new healthcare policy that will require insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pays....
7/16/2012	Court-Martial Begins in Air Force Sex Abuse Case Today, Air Force Sergeant Luis Walker's court-martial in the Lackland Air Force Base sexual abuse scandal begins in Texas....
7/13/2012	Pro-Choice Groups Challenge Arizona Abortion Restrictions The Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday in an attempt to block an anti-choice law in Arizona....
7/10/2012	UPS Drops Ads from the Rush Limbaugh Show in Response to Customer Outrage Following in the footsteps of many major businesses, including Toyota, Geico, and McDonald's, UPS denounced Rush Limbaugh's misogynistic rhetoric by pulling their ads from the Rush Limbaugh radio show on July 3rd....
6/20/2012	Pennsylvania Clinics Receive TRAP Law Reprieve The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced this week that 14 abortion clinics across the state have been given a reprieve from compliance with Amendment 122, a Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) law....
6/18/2012	Catholic Health Group Rejects Birth Control Compromise The Catholic Health Association (CHA) of the United States, the largest network of nonprofit hospitals and health facilities in the United States, announced on Friday that it would not support the Obama Administration's accommodation on insurance coverage of birth control, reversing an earlier decision to support the accommodation....
6/15/2012	Judge Orders Diocese into Arbitration A judge has ordered the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City- St....
6/8/2012	Ex-Ensign Aide Pleads Guilty An aide to former Senator John Ensign (R-NV) pled guilty to a misdemeanor violation yesterday, four years after he resigned from his job over a scandal that later forced Ensign to resign from the Senate....
6/7/2012	House Bill Restricts DC Abortions A spending bill released on Tuesday by US House of Representatives Republicans maintains provisions that restrict abortion in the District of Columbia and a planned bill seeks to further restrict abortion in DC....
6/1/2012	House Rejects PRENDA The US House of Representatives voted 246-168 yesterday against the Pregnancy Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), a bill that sought to impose criminal penalties on doctors who perform an abortion for a woman who seeks the procedure on the basis of the gender of the fetus....
6/1/2012	Part of Florida Voter Registration Law Blocked A Federal District Judge blocked a portion of Florida's voting law yesterday that put restrictions on voter registration....
5/30/2012	House to Debate Sex-Selective Abortions Bill The US House of Representatives is set to begin debate today on a bill that seeks to ban abortions that are based on the sex of the fetus....
5/24/2012	Monsignor William Lynn Takes Stand in Abuse Trial Monsignor William Lynn took the stand yesterday in his own defense in the landmark case against him in Philadelphia, in which he has been charged with child endangerment and conspiracy for allegedly failing to act in response to cases of alleged priest sex abuse of children....
5/21/2012	Negotiating with the Taliban will not work and will produce disastrous results for Women and Afghanistan Women for Afghan Women, a women's human rights organization with programs for women in NYC and throughout Afghanistan, and the Feminist Majority Foundation, the first (1997) U.S....
5/11/2012	US Conference of Catholic Bishops Launch Inquiry Into Girl Scouts The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched an official inquiry into Girls Scouts USA....
5/10/2012	Utah Enacts 72-Hour Mandatory Waiting Period for Abortions This week, Utah became the only state in the country to enact a law that requires a 72- hour waiting period for a woman seeking an abortion....
5/7/2012	Texas Blocked from Defunding Planned Parenthood Again In the 3rd ruling in this case in a week, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Texas cannot exclude Planned Parenthood from its state women's health program, pending the hearing of formal arguments....
5/7/2012	New Arizona Law Bans Funding for Planned Parenthood Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed into law on Friday a bill that will prevent the allocation of public funds to abortion providers in the state....
5/3/2012	DOJ Moves to Dismiss Contraception Coverage Lawsuit The Justice Department filed court papers on Monday asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act's requirement that healthcare plans include contraception coverage....
4/27/2012	White House Event Encourages Girls in STEM The White House hosted a panel on Tuesday highlighting women trailblazers in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields....
4/2/2012	Link Between Education and Access to Maternal Healthcare in India "Multiple Deprivations and Maternal Care in India," a study conducted by Sanjay Mohanty and published in the March issue of International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, found that in India, impoverished women who lack education face significant barriers in their access to maternal healthcare, including antenatal and post natal care, as well as medical services at the time of their delivery....
3/27/2012	Former IMF Chief Charged with Aggravated Pimping Yesterday Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who formerly served as the chief of the International Monetary Fund, was charged by French officials with "aggravated pimping" for his alleged involvement with prostitution rings in Paris and Washington DC in 2010 and 2011....
3/26/2012	Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on ACA Today marks the first of three days that the Supreme Court will hear arguments concerning whether the mandated minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which requires that a person purchase minimum health coverage or face a modest monetary penalty beginning in 2014, is constitutional under the Commerce clause of the US Constitution....
3/21/2012	Tammy Duckworth Wins Chicago Primary Yesterday Tammy Duckworth won the Democratic Congressional primary in the Illinois 8th district....
3/13/2012	Syndicator Halts National Ads on Limbaugh Show for 2 Weeks In a breakthrough for women's rights groups, Premier Networks, the syndicator for the Rush Limbaugh show, indicated yesterday that it will suspend national advertising for two weeks on local stations....
3/12/2012	98 Advertisers Pull Ads on Limbaugh Show The list of advertisers who have pulled their ads from the Rush Limbaugh show continues to grow and now totals 98....
3/9/2012	Update: Number of Companies Pulling Ads from Limbaugh Show up to 50 The number of advertisers dropping the Rush Limbaugh show continues to grow, with 50 total refusing to advertise on the show....
3/8/2012	Update: 45 Companies Pull Ads from Limbaugh Show The number of advertisers dropping the Rush Limbaugh show continues to grow, with 45 total refusing to advertise on the show....
3/7/2012	36 Companies Pull Ads from Limbaugh Show The number of advertisers dropping the Rush Limbaugh show is mounting at an amazing rate....
3/1/2012	Women Leaders Vow to Fight Back Against Assaults As the Senate prepared to vote on the Blunt Amendment, a coalition of over 50 women's organizations held a press conference to announce an unprecedented drive to mobilize women voters on the ground and online around Health and Economic Rights - HERvotes - in 2012....
2/29/2012	KS Judge Orders Revocation of Medical License Judge Ed Gaschler, a state administrative judge, ordered the revocation of Dr....
2/27/2012	56th Commission on the Status of Women This week, government officials, representatives from the United Nations, private sector officials, and rural women will convene at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW56)....
2/24/2012	Sandra Fluke Testifies at House Democratic Steering Committee Hearing Yesterday, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic Steering Committee held a hearing concerning the religious exemption on contraception coverage and women's health, inviting Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown Law School as the sole witness....
2/23/2012	ND Judge Keeps Injunction Against Medication Abortion North Dakota District Court Judge Wikcham Corwin ruled to keep an existing injunction on a law banning medical abortions in the state, indicating that the law, which would completely ban medical abortion, violates the state constitution....
2/1/2012	Komen Foundation to End Partnership with PPFA The Susan G....
1/26/2012	IN Senate Committee Votes to Restrict Medical Abortion Pill Yesterday, the Indiana Senate health committee voted 5 to 4 to further restrict women's access to RU-486, or the abortion pill....
1/13/2012	UN Agencies Address Maternal Health in Haiti Two years since the earthquake in Haiti, UN Women and UNFPA Haiti, in collaboration with the Ministry for Women Conditions and Women's Rights (MCFDF), have worked work to improve conditions for women, who still face rapes and gender-based violence at an alarming rate....
1/6/2012	Man Arrested for Allegedly Setting Fire to Abortion Clinic Yesterday federal officials arrested Bobby Joe Rogers for allegedly starting a fire on Sunday the American Family Planning clinic in Pensacola, Florida....
12/21/2011	International Family Planning Aid Escapes Massive Cuts President Obama is expected to sign the FY 2012 omnibus spending bill, which includes $610 million in bilateral and multilateral funding for international family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH), cutting off international family planning by a mere $5 million from 2011....
12/19/2011	Two AZ Planned Parenthood Clinics Resume Abortion Services Planned Parenthood of Arizona (PPAZ) announced that it will continue offering abortion services at two clinics near Phoenix....
12/14/2011	Concerns Arise over Maternal Mortality in Afghanistan Politicians, economists and activists gathered at the Bonn Conference in early December expressed concerns regarding the impact of the withdrawal of th US on maternal mortality....
12/8/2011	High Rate of Harassment of Black Lesbians and Transgender Men in South Africa A report published by Human Rights Watch, entitled "'We'll Show You You're a Women': Violence and Discrimination Against Black Lesbians and Transgender Men," revealed a high rate of discrimination against black lesbians and transgender men in South Africa....
12/6/2011	Members of Congress Push for Greater Sexual Assault Prevention in the Military Yesterday Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee, and 46 bipartisan Members of Congress, issued a letter to the House and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairs and Ranking Members calling for the adoption of five provisions to the FY2-12 National Defense Authorization Act to "ensure zero tolerance for sexual assault in the ranks." The provisions would "clarify victim access to legal counsel, record maintenance and confidentiality, and expedite unit or station transfer." Congresswoman Slaughter stated, "Imagine being a victim of rape while serving in the military, and being forced to face your attacker each and every day in order to continue doing your job....
12/2/2011	Department of Labor Files Sex Discrimination Lawsuit The US Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that it will sue Brunswick Corp and Lund Boat Co., both federal contractors, for discriminating against over 200 women job applicants....
12/1/2011	World AIDS Day UNAIDS released a report in honor of World AIDS Day today documenting the advances in the political, scientific, and medical responses to AIDS made in 2011 and calling for a renewed effort to stop the spread of the disease....
11/15/2011	The Citadel Faces Child Abuse Allegations Amidst news of the Penn State abuse scandal, the Citadel, a South Carolina military academy, has released details of an alumnus and former camp counselor at the school who faces charges of criminal sexual conduct with a child....
11/11/2011	Obama Administration Affordable Care Act Upheld in Appeals Court On Tuesday, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of the minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)....
11/1/2011	Herman Cain Accused of Past Sexual Harassment Past allegations of sexual harassment by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain have resurfaced, with Cain being accused of having demonstrated suggestive sexual behavior towards at least two former employees during his tenure as CEO of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s....
10/26/2011	Federal Judge Blocks Provision of NC Abortion Law US District Court Judge Catherine Eagles issued a preliminary injunction yesterday against a provision in a North Carolina abortion law that would require abortion providers to perform an ultrasound at least four hours prior to an abortion....
9/28/2011	Woman in Saudi Arabia Receives 10 Lashes for Driving On Tuesday, a Saudi court sentenced a woman to 10 lashes with a whip for driving a car....
9/27/2011	Setback for Saudi Women's Driving Rights Despite gaining the right to vote in a recent speech delivered by King Abdullah, Saudi women are facing a setback in their struggle to achieve driving rights....
9/23/2011	First Republican to Cosponsor DOMA Repeal For the first time, the bill to repeal the Respect for Marriage Act, which repeals the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), has a Republican co-sponsor: Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida....
9/20/2011	DADT Repealed Today The official repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) will go into effect today....
9/13/2011	Hearing Begins Against KS Doctor for Abortion Referrals On Monday, a disciplinary hearing began in Kansas for Dr....
9/9/2011	Federal Appeals Court Blocks VA Challenge to ACA Yesterday the three judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond Virginia unanimously ruled to throw out a lawsuit filed by the state of Virginia challenging the constitutionality of the mandated minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)....
9/9/2011	Hyatt Hotel Workers Protest Outsourcing and Unsafe Workplace Yesterday approximately 3,000 Hyatt employees began a weeklong strike in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Honolulu to protest Hyatt's outsourcing practices and unsafe working conditions....
9/2/2011	Study Shows Contraception Key in World of Seven Billion A new Guttmacher study, entitled "The World at Seven Billion: Global Milestone a Reflection of Individual Needs," found that empowering women and couples is imperative to addressing the economic, developmental, environmental, and social challenges that will be present when the world's population reaches seven billion....
8/30/2011	Poll Reveals 50% of Americans Don't Understand ACA A poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation that only about 50 percent of uninsured, non-elderly Americans understand the benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the tax credits for people with low and middle incomes....
8/30/2011	Social Media Driven by Women, Study Shows A new study released August 26 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that young women are among the top users of social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace and Linkedin....
8/19/2011	NIH Links Cigarette Smoking and Bladder Cancer in Women The National Cancer Institute (NCI), a division of the National Institutes of Health, released the results of its study this week indicating that cigarette smokers face a greater risk of bladder cancer than previously reported....
8/16/2011	NJ Sexual Assault Bill Before Governor In New Jersey, a bill that would prevent sexual assault survivors from receiving invoices for forensic examinations, as well as for medications to prevent sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy tests, and emergency contraception, awaits the signature of Republican Governor Chris Christie....
8/3/2011	Burqa Ban Advances in Italian Parliament Yesterday the Italian Parliamentary Constitutional Affairs Commission approved a draft of a law that would ban women from covering their faces with veils, including a burqa or a naqib, in public....
8/2/2011	HHS Announces Guidelines for Preventive Services Yesterday the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new guidelines, developed by the Institute of Medicine, that will require private insurance plans beginning on or after August 1, 2012 to cover an annual well-woman visit and a variety of specific health screenings and counseling, such as for domestic and interpersonal violence, gestational diabetes, cervical cancer (an HPV DNA screening), HIV and STIs, as well as all FDA-approved contraceptives, breastfeeding support, lactation services, and supplies....
7/29/2011	House Bill Would Slash Foreign Family Planning, Reimpose Gag Rule The House State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee voted to cut IFP funding by $154 million for FY2010 and expand the Global Gag Rule, banning funding for family planning programs in developing countries that counsel or provide information to women or advocate on a full range of options, including abortion....
7/27/2011	Hundreds of Priests Support Ordination of Women Hundreds of Roman Catholic priests from all over the world are challenging the Vatican to rethink all-male celibate priesthood and ordain women priests....
7/25/2011	Obama to End "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Era President Obama announced that the US ban on gays serving openly in the military will be lifted on September 20, bringing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy to an end....
7/25/2011	OH Governor Signs Anti-Abortion Bill Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) signed a bill into law that will restrict abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy unless a doctor determines the fetus is not viable or if the woman's life is endangered....
7/22/2011	Study Finds that Telemed Abortions are Safe and Effective A new study has found that the method of abortion through telemedicine is just as effective and safe for patients as the face-to-face method....
7/18/2011	Voter ID Bill Sponsor Resigns After Drunk Driving Charge Ohio state Representative Robert Mecklenborg announced Sunday that he is resigning after news of a drunk driving charge became public....
6/30/2011	US Appeals Court Upholds Individual Mandate Healthcare Law Yesterday, the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio decided with a 2-1 majority that the mandated minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which requires that a person purchase minimum health coverage or face a modest monetary penalty beginning in 2014, is constitutional under the Commerce Clause....
6/28/2011	US Supreme Court Strikes Down AZ Campaign Finance Law In a 5-4 vote yesterday, the US Supreme Court struck down as an unconstitutional violation of free speech a provision in an Arizona public campaign finance law that gives additional public funds to a candidate who adheres to personal spending limits of $500, agrees to participate in at least one debate, will return unspent money, and faces a high-spending opponent who does not accept public funds....
6/27/2011	Former Rwandan Minister of Women and Families Convicted of Genocide Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, former Rwandan minister for women and family affairs, is the first woman to be convicted of genocide by the United Nations Chamber of the Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)....
6/17/2011	New Treaty to Establish Labor Protections for Domestic Workers The International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted a groundbreaking treaty yesterday to extend labor protections to domestic workers....
6/16/2011	NY House Passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill The New York State assembly approved a same-sex marriage bill on Wednesday and is likely to face a vote in the Senate on Friday....
5/11/2011	Uganda Anti-Gay Bill Dropped Following Global Outrage Following vocal condemnation from US political leaders, human rights groups, and activists, the Uganda Parliament decided to drop an anti-gay bill, which would impose life sentences or the death penalty for gay people....
5/4/2011	Judge Rules in Favor of Woman Shackled During Labor A U.S....
4/21/2011	Wichita Judge fails to issue Preliminary Injunction against Anti-Abortion Activist U.S....
4/19/2011	Georgia Session Ends Without Anti-Abortion Legislation Last Thursday marked the end of the annual forty-day legislative session of the Georgia General Assembly....
4/19/2011	Wichita Doctor Targeted By Anti-Abortion Activist The Justice Department filed a civil complaint last week against an anti-abortion activist for sending a threatening letter to Dr....
4/6/2011	41 Senators to Filibuster CR Defunding Planned Parenthood Forty-one senators, composed of thirty-nine Democrats and two Independents led by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), announced that they will filibuster any spending bill blocking funding to Planned Parenthood....
3/30/2011	EDNA Reintroduced in House of Representatives This morning the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (EDNA) was reintroduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA)....
3/29/2011	US Supreme Court Hears Wal-Mart Class Action Sex-Discrimination Case Today the US Supreme Court will hear Wal-Mart v....
3/1/2011	Intercall Pays $700,000 in Discrimination Settlement In a settlement with the US Labor Department, Intercall, a federal contractor, has agreed to pay $700,000 in back wages, interest, and benefits to the 151 minority job applicants who faced discrimination by the company....
2/22/2011	Obama Repeals Bush Conscience Rules On Friday, the Obama administration rescinded the "conscience" rules, first instituted under the Bush administration, that granted protections to medical providers who refused to provide abortions, sterilization, in-vitro fertilization, and other medical procedures, such as care to AIDS patients, due to moral objections. Under the "conscience" rules, hospitals could refuse to provide emergency contraception to rape victims and pharmacists could refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control pills....
2/1/2011	Federal Judge Finds Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional In Florida yesterday, Federal District Court Judge Roger Vinson ruled the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional because it penalizes Americans for not having health insurance beginning in 2014....
1/27/2011	Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Murdered David Kato, a gay rights activist in Uganda, was beaten and killed in his home yesterday....
1/11/2011	Feminist Dreams of a Young Girl A budding feminist and nine-year-old elementary school politician, Christina Taylor Green, was the youngest of six killed in the shooting that occurred at the "Congress on Your Corner" event sponsored by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday. Born on 9/11 and featured in a book entitled Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11, Green expressed an abiding interest in American civic life....
12/21/2010	Census Release 2010 Population Counts Today The US Census released the 2010 population counts today, finding a 9.7 percent increase since 2000....
12/8/2010	LGB Students More Likely to be Punished by Schools and Police A study conducted by Yale University and released by the American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday found that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) students are 40 percent more likely to be punished by schools, police, and the justice system than heterosexual students....
12/3/2010	Deficit Commission Vote Today The bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform voted this morning on a plan to reduce the federal deficit by $828 billion or cutting it in half by the year 2015....
11/29/2010	Sixty-Nine Afghan Women Elected to Parliament Last Wednesday, Afghan officials announced the final results for the parliamentary election held on September 18....
11/16/2010	Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Breaks Hunger Strike Post Trial Nasrin Sotoudeh went to trial yesterday at Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court....
11/15/2010	Three Women Lawyers Arrested in Iran Iranian authorities arrested three women Iranian human rights lawyers on Saturday for so-called security related offenses....
11/12/2010	Iranian Woman Ends Dry Hunger Strike But Continues Hunger Strike The husband, sister and brother of the imprisoned Iranian lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, visited her yesterday at Evin Prison in Tehran for ten minutes....
11/10/2010	Iranian Woman's Dry Hunger Strike- Nine Days Today After ending her one-month hunger strike in protest against the conditions of her imprisonment and the mishandling of her case on October 26, Nasrin Sotoudeh, human rights attorney, went on a dry (no water and no food) hunger strike this time after meeting with the Tehran General Attorney in Tehran's Evin Prison on October 31....
11/9/2010	Women's Rights Gravely Threatened in Iran Two Iranian women, Sakineh Ashtiani who currently faces an execution sentence, and Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is a human rights lawyer and colleague of Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, are in danger in Iran....
11/8/2010	North Carolina Anti-Abortion Leader Tried for WANTED Posters Flip Benham of Operation Rescue/Operation Save America, goes to trial today for stalking and distributing WANTED posters with the names, pictures, and home and office addresses North Carolina abortion doctors....
11/5/2010	Abortion Bomb Plotter Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges Justin Carl Moose pled guilty late last week to plotting to bomb a North Carolina abortion clinic....
10/29/2010	Arkansas School Board Member, Who Wants Gays to Die, Resigns In Arkansas, Midland School District Vice President and state board member Clint McCance, who wrote on his personal Facebook page that he encourages gays to commit suicide, announced his resignation yesterday....
10/27/2010	Federal Court Overturns Arizona ID Law On Tuesday, a federal appeals court has ruled against ruled against Proposition 200, a law that requires people to show proof of U.S....
10/25/2010	Female Officers to Begin Serving on US Navy Submarines On Thursday, the US Navy announced that women will start serving on US submarines in December 2011....
10/25/2010	United States Improves in Global Gender Equality Assessment The United States made considerable progress toward gender equality in 2009, according to the recently released Global Gender Index Study (GGIS), an annual index released by the World Economic Forum....
10/22/2010	Uganda Newspaper Publishes List Outing Gay Individuals Earlier this month, a Ugandan newspaper published a list of homosexuals along with their names and addresses and a yellow banner on the side reading, "hang them." The newspaper, named Rolling Stone, which is not connected to the same-name American magazine, stated that a deadly disease has been attacking homosexuals and that they are raiding schools and recruiting children, according to AOL News....
10/19/2010	OH Elections Commission Rules Against SBA List in False Advertising Complaint Late last week, the Ohio Elections Commission ruled that US Representative Steve Driehaus (D-OH) can proceed with his complaint that the Susan B Anthony List, an anti-abortion group, is intentionally lying to distort his record....
10/18/2010	Congolese Women March Against Mass Rapes On Sunday, thousands of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo marched against mass rapes, which have become increasingly prevalent in the country as a weapon of war....
10/15/2010	Nordic Countries Lead in Promoting Gender Equality In its recently released Global Gender Index Study, the World Economic Forum ranked Nordic countries -Iceland, Norway, Finland, and Sweden - the highest for gender equality....
10/13/2010	OH Congressional Candidate Iott Involved in Nazi Re-enactments Congressional candidate Rich Iott, a Republican running in Ohio's ninth district, has recently faced criticism after photographs surfaced of him dressed in a Nazi uniform sometime in the mid-2000s....
10/12/2010	Two Indigenous Mexican Rape Victims Awarded Damages Last week, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued separate rulings that the Mexican government must pay damages to two indigenous women who were raped by military soldiers in 2002....
10/8/2010	France's Constitutional Council Approves Burqa Ban France's Constitutional Council endorsed a law that bans burqas and the niqab, full body and face coverings, in public spaces....
9/27/2010	TX Restricts Informed Consent Laws for Abortion Clinics Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ruled on Friday that Texas abortion facilities may no longer use prerecorded phone messages to inform women about the risks of abortion prior to the procedure, a practice that formerly complied with state law....
9/15/2010	Burqa Ban Approved by French Senate In a nearly unanimous vote yesterday, the French senate approved a law banning any veils that cover the face, making France the first European country to pass such a measure....
9/10/2010	NC Man Arrested After Helping Informant He Believed Would Bomb Abortion Clinic Justin Carl Moose was arrested earlier this week and charged with "providing information related to the making, use, or manufacture of an explosive, destructive device, or weapon of mass destruction to a person Moose believed was planning to bomb a women's health clinic in North Carolina." According to the FBI, the criminal complaint against Moose "alleges that Moose utilized a social networking website as a platform to advocate violence against women's health care clinics - specifically locations where abortions are performed - and the health care professionals employed at these facilities....
9/7/2010	Ashtiani Controversy Heats Up Between Iran and EU The European Union traded barbs with Iran today regarding the case of Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, an Iranian woman who was convicted of adultery and originally sentenced to death by stoning....
9/2/2010	Boxer and Fiorina Debate in CA Incumbent Senator Barbara Boxer (D) faced Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in a debate yesterday where they addressed many feminist issues. Regarding abortion, Boxer said, "If my opponent's views prevailed, women and doctors would be criminals, they would go to jail....
8/25/2010	Alaska Voters Pass Parental Notification Law As a result of a voter initiative passed Tuesday in Alaska's primary election, women age 17 and under seeking an abortion in state of Alaska must have their parents notified prior to the procedure....
8/24/2010	VA Attorney General Issues Opinion on Abortion Clinic Regulations Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued a legal opinion yesterday that empowers the Virginia Board of Health to require women's health clinics that offer abortion procedures to meet hospital-like standards....
8/16/2010	FDA Approves 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new emergency contraceptive, Ella or ulipristal acetate, which is effective at preventing pregnancy up to five days after contraceptive failure or unprotected sexual intercourse....
8/12/2010	Iranian Woman "Confesses" to Murder A woman who claimed to be Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an imprisoned Iranian woman who faces execution for the crime of adultery, despite solid evidence that she is innocent, appeared yesterday on Iranian primetime television....
8/11/2010	Brazil Offers Asylum to Imprisoned Iranian Woman Brazilian ambassador to Iran Antonio Luis Espinola Salgado submitted a formal request from the Brazilian Government to Iran's Foreign Ministry on Monday offering asylum to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an imprisoned Iranian woman who faces execution for the crime of adultery, despite solid evidence that she is innocent....
8/11/2010	Argentina's Reproductive Policies Failing Women Human Rights Watch released a report yesterday indicating that Argentina is failing to provide adequate reproductive health care for women....
8/10/2010	Iranian Lawyer Seeks Asylum Iranian human rights lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, has sought asylum in Norway to flee a warrant for his arrest....
7/28/2010	ESPN Sportscaster Supports Anti-Stalking Legislation Erin Andrews, an ESPN sportscaster who was recently victimized by a stalker, came out in support of the Simplifying the Ambiguous Law, Keeping Everyone Reliably Safe Act of 2010 (STALKERS) yesterday at a press conference....
7/28/2010	Saudi Cleric Comments on French Burqa Issue Saudi cleric Sheikh Ayedh al-Garni declared last week that it is permissible for women to only wear a hair cover in places where the burqa is banned, namely France....
7/19/2010	Syria Bans Niqab in Public Universities Authorities in Syria banned wearing the niqab, a veil that covers the face, in public universities earlier this week....
7/14/2010	Terri Sewell Wins Run-Off Terri Sewell earned the Democratic nomination last night in Alabama's 7th District, securing 55% of the vote....
7/13/2010	Church of England Takes First Steps Toward Female Bishops The Church of England's ruling body has announced that women bishops should be allowed, despite protests from traditionalists within the Church....
7/13/2010	French Parliament Approves Ban on Burqa Veils France's lower house of parliament approved a ban on Islamic-style burqa veils that cover the face today in a 335 to one vote....
7/9/2010	Vitter Dismisses Controversy Surrounding Aide's Violent Attack Senator David Vitter (R-LA) offered his first remarks on Tuesday regarding the controversy surrounding his former aid, Brent Furer, who was convicted of attacking and threatening to kill his girlfriend with a knife in 2008....
7/8/2010	Malaysia's Islamic Courts Appoint First Women Judges Malaysia's Islamic courts appointed their first two women judges today....
7/6/2010	ACLU Asks that Religiously-Affiliated Hospitals Provide Required Reproductive Healthcare The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service in a letter late last week "to ensure that religiously-affiliated hospitals provide emergency reproductive care as required by federal law," including emergency abortions....
7/6/2010	Justice Department to File Suit Against AZ Immigration Law The United States Justice Department filed a suit against Arizona's new immigration law today....
7/1/2010	CPC "Truth in Advertising" Legislation Introduced Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced a bill yesterday that would regulate the misleading advertising practices of Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs)....
6/29/2010	Abortion Hotline in Pakistan Sparks Controversy In Pakistan, a new hotline that educates women about abortion options was launched yesterday, but has already sparked controversy....
6/25/2010	Julia Gillard is Australia's First Woman Prime Minister Julia Gillard became Australia's first woman prime minister yesterday, after former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd abruptly stepped down from his position....
6/23/2010	Marshall Wins Democratic Nomination for North Carolina Senate Seat Elaine Marshall defeated opponent Cal Cunningham last night to win the Democratic Senate nomination for North Carolina....
6/18/2010	Kentucky Supreme Court Rules Fetus Cannot Be Considered Separate Person The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a fetus cannot be legally separated from the pregnant woman carrying it, and thus cannot be treated as a separate legal person....
6/14/2010	Advisory Committee Upholds Ban on Blood Donation by Gay and Bisexual Men The federal Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability ruled on Friday to uphold the long â€“ standing ban preventing gay and bisexual men from donating blood....
6/10/2010	Saudi Court Convicts Man for Kissing This week a young man in Saudi Arabia was convicted and sentenced to 90 lashes and four months jail time after being caught on mall security cameras kissing a woman, reported the Associated Press....
6/9/2010	Lincoln, Fiorina Win in Key Primaries Incumbent Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and California Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina won their respective primary races Tuesday....
6/8/2010	Lesbian Couple are First Same-Sex Couple to Marry in Portugal The first same-sex marriage was performed in Portugal yesterday after the country legalized gay marriage in May....
6/3/2010	Feminist Candidate Faces Run-Off in AL Congressional Race Feminist candidate Terri Sewell (D) will face a runoff election in July for a congressional seat representing Alabama's 7th District....
5/27/2010	Marie Stopes Abortion Ad Airs on British Television The United Kingdom's first television ad for abortion services ran earlier this week....
5/27/2010	Maryland CPC Sues Over Disclosure Law A crisis pregnancy center (CPC) in Silver Spring, Maryland, filed a lawsuit last week in US District Court against Montgomery County, Maryland, over the county's disclosure law....
5/24/2010	Supreme Court Rules that Chicago Firefighter Discrimination Suit can Continue The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that 6,000 black applicants to the Chicago fire department can proceed with their discrimination lawsuit even though their complaint was filed more than 300 days after the incident....
5/20/2010	Saudi Woman Fights Back Against Religious Police A Saudi Arabian woman who punched a religious police officer who was questioning her for illegal socialization with an unrelated male may face prison time and lashings....
5/19/2010	Pro-Choice Sestak Ousts Specter Representative Joe Sestak (D-PA) won the Pennsylvania Democratic primary for US Senate yesterday and ousted incumbent Arlen Specter (D-PA), who has held the seat for nearly 30 years, all but the past year as a Republican....
5/19/2010	Gay Malawian Couple Face 14 Year Sentences A court in Malawi found a gay couple guilty of "unnatural acts" and "gross indecency" yesterday and will sentence the couple tomorrow....
5/5/2010	Marshall Will Face Runoff in NC, Brunner Loses OH Primary Two women Secretaries of State, both feminists, put in strong performances in the first Democratic primaries of the election season for US Senate....
5/4/2010	New Oklahoma Ultrasound Law Blocked Oklahoma state Attorney General agreed yesterday to a state judge's order to temporarily block enforcement of a new anti-choice state law for 45 days....
4/30/2010	Women Will Serve on US Navy Submarines The United States Navy announced yesterday that women are no longer banned from military submarines....
4/28/2010	Lawsuit Filed to Block Enforcement of New Oklahoma Ultrasound Law The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) filed a lawsuit yesterday to stop the enforcement of a new Oklahoma state law that extends existing ultrasound requirements for women seeking an abortion....
4/27/2010	Oklahoma State Legislature Votes to Override Abortion Bill Vetoes The Oklahoma state Senate voted to override the vetoes of two anti-choice bills vetoed Friday by Governor Brad Henry....
4/22/2010	France and Belgium Move Toward Veil Bans French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced yesterday that he plans to introduce a ban prohibiting women from wearing a full veil in public....
4/9/2010	Austin, TX Becomes Second City to Enact "Truth in Advertising" Law For CPCs Austin's City Council approved "truth in advertising" for crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) Thursday, making the capital of Texas the second city in the US to enact the law....
4/1/2010	Nebraska Abortion Restriction Bill Advances Nebraska's Senate voted 38 to 5 on an abortion bill which will affect how long into a pregnancy abortion is legal, based on the fetus's possible ability to feel pain....
3/30/2010	Court Rules Against Patents on Breast Cancer Genes A New York District Court judge ruled yesterday that patents on the human BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are associated with breast and ovarian cancer, are invalid because the patents were "directed to a law of nature and were therefore improperly granted." The ruling (see PDF) did not consider claims that the patents are unconstitutional....
2/26/2010	Spain Reforms Abortion Laws Spain's Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill that liberalizes the countries abortion laws....
2/24/2010	US Navy to Allow Women On Submarines The United States Navy plans to allow women on submarines for the first time, military officials announced yesterday....
2/16/2010	Army Releases Single Mother on Administrative Discharge The US Army decided last week to dismiss specialist and single mother Alexis Hutchinson with an other-than-honorable discharge instead of a court-martial....
2/11/2010	Study Indicates Ohio is Hub of Sex & Labor Trafficking A new report released yesterday by the Ohio Trafficking in Persons Study Commission indicates that approximately 1,800 American and immigrant children are coerced into sex-trafficking or forced labor in Ohio....
2/10/2010	NY State Senator Expelled due to Domestic Abuse Charges The New York state Senate voted 53 to 8 yesterday to expel Senator Hiram Monserrate (D) because of misdemeanor assault charges....
2/10/2010	Iranian Feminists Issue Global Call for Action A group of Iranian feminists and activists are asking women's rights groups and feminists worldwide for support in demanding "an end to state-led violence and repression" and "immediate release of all political detainees in Iran." Thus far, more than 40 women's rights groups from 9 countries are supporting partners....
1/26/2010	Veil Debate Renewed in France A French parliamentary committee released a nearly 200 page report yesterday that recommends banning face veils in certain public spaces, including on public transportation and at schools, hospitals, and government offices....
1/13/2010	Coakley Race Tightens A new Rasmussen poll released yesterday shows Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic nominee to fill the seat of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, holding a slim two point lead over Republican nominee State Senator Scott Brown....
1/11/2010	Iranian Women Activists Arrested At least 33 Iranian women activists were arrested yesterday during a peaceful protest in Tehran....
1/7/2010	Several Key Kennedys Endorse Coakley in Advance of Election Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic nominee to fill the seat of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, today won the endorsement of key members of the Kennedy family....
1/7/2010	EMILY's List President Ellen Malcolm Announces Retirement EMILY's List founder and president Ellen Malcolm announced yesterday that she will step down as the president of the organization....
1/4/2010	Military Drops Iraq Soldier Pregnancy Policy The United States military announced late last month that it was reversing its new policy that allowed female soldiers and their sexual partners in Iraq to be court-martialed in the event of a pregnancy....
12/23/2009	Pregnant Soldiers Face Threat of Court-Martial n American Army General issued a policy last month that would allow female soldiers and their sexual partners to be court-martialed in the event of a pregnancy....
12/14/2009	Uganda Bars Female Genital Mutilation The Ugandan parliament unanimously passed a bill late last week that bans female genital mutilation (FGM) in the country....
12/14/2009	Iran Cracks Down on Women's Rights Activists Somayeh Rashidi, an Iranian women's rights activist with the One Million Signatures Campaign, was targeted this morning with a search of her home and a summons to court....
12/10/2009	Justice Sotomayor Makes History with First Opinion Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor became the first to use the term "undocumented immigrant" in a Supreme Court decision when her first opinion from the high court was released Tuesday....
12/10/2009	Boycott Launched Against Ralph Lauren Due to Ads Last week, filmmaker Darryl Roberts launched a boycott against the clothing company Ralph Lauren on the grounds that their advertisements promote negative body images in women and girls....
12/3/2009	PEPFAR Five Year Strategy Announced The State Department announced a new five-year strategy for the U.S....
12/1/2009	Keep Pledges to Afghan Women and Girls: Build Lasting Peace Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation joined Women for Afghan Women in a press conference, on the same day President Obama is announcing the new US policies for Afghanistan and Pakistan, to keep in focus the plight of Afghan women and girls....
12/1/2009	Keep Pledges to Afghan Women and Girls Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation joined Women for Afghan Women in a press conference, on the same day President Obama is announcing the new US policies for Afghanistan and Pakistan, to keep in focus the plight of Afghan women and girls....
12/1/2009	Push For Access as an Human Right on 21st World AIDS Day World AIDS Day was globally commemorated today with more than awareness events and free HIV testing sites....
11/24/2009	Student Protests Continue in CA, Feminist Activists Play Part Feminist campus activists have played a key role in student protests across the University of California system, which have been ongoing since a decision Friday to raise student tuition and fees by 32 percent....
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-choice, anti-women’s rights nomination for Attorney General....
1/9/2001	20-Year Anti-Women’s Rights Record Disqualifies Ashcroft John Ashcroft is a totally anti-choice, anti-women’s rights nomination for Attorney General....
1/5/2001	Stem Cell Research in Jeopardy Under Bush Administration Stem cell research, which could potentially provide life saving treatment for Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, and cancer patients, could be blocked under the new Bush administration....
1/5/2001	Long Island Officers Accused of Making Women Strip Two Long Island women have filed complaints stating that Suffolk County police officers forced them to strip in public to avoid arrest....
1/4/2001	Follow Up: Chavez’s Record on Women is Appalling Opponents of Linda Chavez’s nomination for Labor Secretary have amassed excerpts from her collection of conservative columns and statements that reveal her blatant anti-woman rights stance....
1/3/2001	Shots Fired Into Kansas Abortion Clinic On December 31, 2000, an unknown person fired at least 25 bullets into a suburban Kansas City abortion clinic....
12/20/2000	UN Imposes Harsh Sanctions on Taliban The United Nations Security Council has issued an arms embargo and tightened other sanctions against the Taliban, an extremist militia that now controls 95 percent of Afghanistan....
12/13/2000	Brazil Leads In Trafficking Of Women In South America According to United Nations and the Helesnki Federation of Human Rights,some 75,000 Brazilian women have been forced and coerced into sexual trafficking and slavery in the European Union....
12/11/2000	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....
11/29/2000	Contraceptives Prohibited in Many Health Centers for Low Income Patients According to a recent Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, 77 percent of middle and high school-based health centers cannot legally distribute contraceptives to patients....
11/28/2000	The Right's Stealth Tactics - Part I Until March 2000, Tammy Johnson was a community organizer in Milwaukee, the national center of the school voucher movement, where she saw what she calls the “devastating” impact of vouchers. “The demand for better facilities, more qualified teachers, and relevant curriculum fell on deaf ears at the school board, which spent millions on vouchers,” Johnson said....
11/28/2000	The Right's Stealth Tactics - Part III IJ’s caseload is full of suits brought on behalf of low-income clients facing unfair evictions and small business owners shackled by absurd-sounding federal rules....
11/27/2000	Pakistan Refuses To Reopen Border Pakistan refuses to reopen its border with Afghanistan, which it closed on November 10, 2000....
11/27/2000	National Young Women's Day of Action a Success! Congratulations to all the Leadership Alliances that participated in this year’s National Young Women’s Day of Action (NYWDA), a nationwide grassroots campaign organized for and by young women to activate a reproductive rights agenda that places reproductive and sexual freedom in the context of larger goals of racial justice, economic justice, LGBT rights, freedom from violence and quality education....
11/20/2000	Anti-Lesbian and Gay Church Targets Maine, Vermont The inflammatory Westboro Baptist Church visited Maine this past weekend, and plans to visit Vermont and New Hampshire in the next few days, says the Boston Globe....
11/17/2000	Pakistan, Tajikistan Close Borders to Afghan Refugees On November 10, Pakistan’s Interior Ministry closed its borders to Afghan refugees after a month-long influx of 30,000 people, raising the number of Afghans living in Pakistan to 2.1 million....
11/16/2000	Anti-Abortion Extremist Rudolph Indicted in Bombings Suspected bomber Eric Robert Rudolph has been indicted by a grand jury in connection with two abortion clinic bombings....
11/16/2000	LAPD Corruption Case Returns 3 Guilty, 1 Acquitted The Los Angeles Police Department Rampart scandal, which broke over a year ago and revealed deeply rooted corruption in the LAPD, including framing innocent people, fabricating evidence, and covering up physical abuse by police officers, has produced three convictions of LAPD officers....
11/14/2000	"W for Women" Fails The Bush campaign failed in its efforts to mute the impact of gender gap issues such as abortion rights and gun control in the presidential campaign....
11/14/2000	Healing Voices When women from the six Tewa-speaking pueblos of northern New Mexico decided to do something about the rape and sexual violence in their communities, they turned to their cultural roots of peace and respect for the earth....
11/10/2000	UN Security Council Passes Women, Peace And Security Resolution On October 31, 2000, the United Nations (UN) Security Council unanimously passed a resolution on Women, Peace and Security....
11/10/2000	Pakistan Closes Border To Afghan Refugees Pakistan authorities in the North West Frontier Province on Thursday have officially closed their borders to Afghanistan, to prevent refugees from fleeing to Pakistan....
10/31/2000	Lesbian and Gay Rights, Abortion on State Ballots In Maine, voters have the opportunity to ratify a gay and lesbian rights measure passed by the state legislature....
10/26/2000	Senator Quotes “Bushisms” on Senate Floor Last night, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) stood on the Senate floor for 30 minutes and quoted verbatim statements made by Texas Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate George W....
10/26/2000	The Baby Abandonment Myth - Part II Regardless of who is supporting these bills, one important question remains unanswered: is there a need for this legislation at all? Or is this just another case of politicians scoring easy "we-care-about-children" points? No one is really certain that baby abandonment is a statistically significant problem....
10/24/2000	US Senate Candidate George Allen Distorts Abortion Position In a recent debate, as well as in his ad campaign, U.S....
10/19/2000	Indiana Judge Rules Medicaid Must Cover Medically Necessary Abortions A county judge in Indiana ruled in favor of two women’s health clinics that filed a suit in August of 1999 arguing that the state’s Medicare policies discriminated against low-income women with certain health conditions....
10/16/2000	Texas Executions Receive Little Consideration by Bush Texas executes more people than any other state....
10/13/2000	Precedence Set Against Female Genital Mutilation In Norway Two Gambian Islamic religious leaders, including the leader of the Muslim Council in Oslo and a Somalian are facing prosecution for aiding and abetting female genital mutilation (FGM) in Norway....
10/13/2000	Proposed Legislation In Chile Advance Reproductive Rights A coalition of "center-left" legislators seeking to win legislation designed to improve sexual and reproductive rights, reported the Chilean Times....
10/5/2000	Lesbian and Gay Backlash Ignited In Namibia Lesbians and gays in Namibia are outraged over a statement made by Home Affairs Minister Jerry Ekandjo urging police officers to "eliminate gays and lesbians from the face of Namibia." In the past, Minister Ekandjo compared homosexuality to murder....
9/29/2000	Judge Speaks Out in Case of Harassed Lesbian Police Officer A federal judge criticized the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for alleged lax investigation into a harassment case brought by a lesbian police officer against her male colleagues....
9/28/2000	Girls In Britain Endangered By Female Genital Mutilation More than 3,000 young girls may be mutilated each year in Britain according to findings released by researchers....
9/22/2000	The Plight Of Afghan Refugees More than 2 million Afghans are living as refugees in Pakistan and Iran with the vast majority consisting of widowed women and children....
9/15/2000	Female Police Officer Speaks Out in Domestic Violence Case Tori-Lynn Heaton, a Rhode Island police officer, will testify against Joseph Fillion, her husband—a police officer who is charged with 12 counts of domestic violence....
9/15/2000	Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Anti-Abortion Extremist The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has handed down another defeat for anti-abortion extremists who have attempted to challenge a law meant to protect access to abortion clinics....
9/12/2000	World Health Organization Estimates 4 Million Unsafe Abortions Per Year In Latin America The World Health Organization estimates that four million unsafe abortions are performed annually in Latin America....
9/6/2000	Anti-Abortion Extremists Attempt to Overturn Law Protecting Clinics Two Michigan anti-abortion extremists have filed suit in a Grand Rapids court in an attempt to overturn the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE), a law passed in 1994 meant to protect clinics from anti-abortion violence....
9/1/2000	Taliban Announces Rules For United Nations Aid To Afghanistan Taliban officials have drafted rules stating that the United Nations must base its humanitarian relief efforts in the capital city of Kabul, use the Afghan banking system for financial transactions and allow the Taliban to vet all staff....
8/29/2000	Women Integrate Bangladesh Armed Forces Bangladesh has become the third South Asian country to integrate it’s armed forces by allowing women to serve as officers....
8/25/2000	Smeal and Leno Unveil Back to School Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, and Mavis Leno, chair of the Foundation's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan unveiled a Back to School Campaign - a new initiative to raise public awareness of the brutal treatment of women and girls under the Taliban, which has banned them from attending schools, working or leaving their homes unaccompanied by a close male relative....
8/25/2000	Man Granted Asylum on Basis of Sexual Identity A federal appeals court granted asylum to a cross-dressing Mexican gay man who, because of his sexuality, was persecuted by his family, school officials and police....
8/18/2000	Female Genital Mutilation Continues Underground in Tanzania Those seeking to abolish female genital mutilation (FGM) in Tanzania confront new obstacles as communities practicing FGM begin to carry out the practice underground....
8/16/2000	Taliban Shuts Down "Widow's Bakeries" In yet another attempt to enforce its brutal system of gender apartheid, the Taliban militia ordered the United Nations to close down bakeries run by Afghan women in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul....
8/11/2000	Women In The Middle East Fight To Boost Their Status And Human Rights Women’s rights advocates in the Middle East are fighting to end “honor” killings, polygamy, and repressive marriage laws....
8/7/2000	Britain Establishes Initiatives to Support Forced Marriage Victims In an effort to end forced marriages of British nationals, the British Foreign Office and Home Office have devised a multi-faceted program that will offer support to victims of forced marriage through increased outreach and law enforcement....
8/7/2000	Gore Chooses Pro-Choice Running Mate Vice President Al Gore has selected Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman to be his running mate, confirming that the Democratic presidential ticket will remain staunchly in favor of abortion rights....
8/7/2000	Taliban Edict Threatens Humanitarian Aid to Millions The Taliban's edict forbidding Afghan women from working for international and national humanitarian organizations may have a devastating impact for the millions of women and children living in poverty in Afghanistan....
8/4/2000	Lifetime to Show Film about Lesbian Teen On Monday August 7 at 9 pm EDT, the cable TV network Lifetime will air "The Truth About Jane," a film about a teenaged girl who comes out to herself and to her family as a lesbian....
8/2/2000	Two African Nations May Face Sanctions For Breaking U.N. Diamond Embargo The United States and Britain condemned Liberia and Burkina Faso for their military assistance to a brutal rebel group in Sierra Leone, accusing the West African nations of violating a United Nations embargo....
8/2/2000	Rigoberta Menchu: On the Trail of Dictators - Part II Although Menchú's lawsuit is due in part to developments in the international legal community, the roots of her case stretch back to 1954, the year that Guatemala's progressive president Jacobo Arbenz was toppled by a U.S.- backed coup....
8/1/2000	Women Prisons Established by the Taliban The women prisons established by the Taliban represent yet another facet of the gender apartheid imposed by the brutal regime....
8/1/2000	American Soldier Faces Sentencing For Kosovo Murder An American soldier who confessed to murdering an 11-year-old girl while on peacekeeping operations in Kosovo will face sentencing on July 31st....
7/21/2000	Swaziland May Ban Schoolgirls From Wearing Miniskirts To Halt AIDS Spread The miniskirts of schoolgirls and their effect on teachers are being blamed for the AIDS epidemic in Swaziland....
7/21/2000	U.N. War Crimes Court Upholds First Rape Verdict The United Nations war crimes court upheld a landmark conviction of a Bosnian Croat paramilitary commander who failed to stop the rape and torture of a Bosnian Muslim woman....
7/17/2000	Domestic Violence Coverup in LAPD Made Public The details of as many as 277 possible domestic violence related crimes involving Los Angeles police officers were posted on the internet on Friday....
7/11/2000	Pro-Choice Victory - Coburn Amendment Defeated On July 10, by a close vote of 187-182, the House quickly voted down Rep....
7/11/2000	CEDAW Committee Deplores Honor Killings Gender inequity persists in forms such as "honor killings," trafficking and sexual exploitation, and legal restrictions on property rights, reported members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the only UN human rights body that exclusively addresses women's rights....
7/11/2000	The Technological Revolution Leaves Women in Africa Behind Women in Africa and developing nations are being left behind in the technological revolution, threatening to exacerbate gender inequities and further push women and girls into impoverishment....
7/7/2000	Federal Execution Delayed Due to Racial and Geographic Concerns Citing the absence of clemency procedures and concerns about racial and geographic disparities in death penalty cases, President Clinton is planning to postpone what was to be the first federal execution in almost 40 years....
7/6/2000	List of Afghan Refugees Targeted for Criticizing the Taliban Grows Afghan refugees living in Pakistan face severe consequences if they outwardly criticize the Taliban regime, which has instituted a brutal system of gender apartheid....
6/29/2000	UN report cites continued violations against the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan UN report cites continued violations against the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan This week United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan presented his most recent report on the situation in Afghanistan to the U.N....
6/29/2000	Elections in Mexico Further Threaten Women's and Gay Rights After seventy-one years of struggle for democracy in Mexico to overthrow the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the world's longest ruling political party with a history of corruption and economic irresponsibility, feminists and lesbian and gay rights activists face an even greater threat to their equality in Sunday's upcoming elections: the possibility of the National Action Party (PAN) coming to rule....
6/28/2000	It's A Bloody Shame Tampons are not necessary, or so Australian women are being told....
6/24/2000	Vaccine Being Tested to Eradicate Cervical Cancer Scientists are testing a new vaccine that will aid in preventing the development of cervical cancer in women....
6/20/2000	Supreme Court Reaffirms Separation of Church and State in School Prayer Case The Supreme Court today ruled against student-led prayers at high school football games, reaffirming earlier decisions against "officially sponsored prayer in public schools." The decision declared unconstitutional a Santa Fe public school district's policy to elect students to lead prayer before home high school football games....
6/15/2000	Courting the Women’s Vote in Mexico Mexico's ruling party and conservative opposition candidates—locked in a virtual tie in the run up to Sunday's presidential election—are lavishing unprecedented attention on women voters. Francisco Labastida, candidate for the ruling Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), and his opponent Vicente Fox, of the family-values oriented National Action Party (PAN), each have about 40 percent of the vote, according to recent public opinion polls....
6/12/2000	Feminist Majority Foundation Participates in Beijing +5 The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) joined hundreds of NGOs and women's rights leaders from around the world at the United Nations Special Session of the General Assembly entitled Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century (Beijing +5) in New York last week. FMF International Campaign Organizer, Ossai Miazad, and Afghan Refugee Giti Shams kicked off the Beijing +5 Conference during the opening Welcome Rally at the United Nations Plaza by addressing the crisis facing Afghan women and girls....
5/31/2000	N.H. Clinic Reopens After Suspicious Weekend Fire The staff at the Concord Feminist Health Center, a nonprofit collective that provides abortions and other gynecological services to women in New Hampshire, returned to work today following a Sunday night fire that authorities are calling "highly suspicious." The fire was reported shortly after 10 p.m....
5/31/2000	High Anxiety In May, the European Union began regulating its aviation industry to protect flight crews from cosmic radiation-the higher we fly above the earth's surface, the higher the exposure....
5/11/2000	House Passes Sex Trafficking Bill The House approved by voice vote and sent to the Senate a bill that would increase the penalties for sex traffickers and offer more protection within the United States for victims of the sex industry....
5/9/2000	Hearing Begins on Afghans' Appeal of Asylum Denial Thirty-eight Afghan passengers from a jet hijacked in February who were denied asylum in Britain by Home Secretary Jack Straw began their appeal yesterday....
5/8/2000	Honor Crimes Against Women in Pakistan The Washington Post featured today the appalling plight of women in Pakistan who are mutilated or killed by husbands or family members for so-called "honor crimes," which sometimes includes seeking a divorce....
4/27/2000	Out in Africa Lesbians and gay men in several African countries who come out of the closet may land in a prison cell....
4/21/2000	Pakistan Leader Vows to Promote Women's Rights Gen....
4/19/2000	Women & Philanthropy Selects 2000 LEAD Award Winner Women & Philanthropy announced Monday their selection of Katherine Acey for their Leadership for Equity and Diversity award....
4/11/2000	Human Life International Feud Reveals Anti-Choice Infighting A conflict between founder Rev....
3/28/2000	Opinion>>> Beyond Sanctions While the U.S....
3/14/2000	Four Convicted in Date-Rape Drug Case Three men were convicted today of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 15-year-old girl....
3/13/2000	Medical Students For Choice Honor Abortion Providers In recognition of the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers (NDAAP) on Friday, hundreds of Medical Students For Choice will honor abortion providers in their communities....
3/3/2000	FMLA Campus Group Camps Out to Protest Inequality The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at Iowa State University camped out on February 24 to raise awareness about worldwide inequalities....
2/17/2000	Campus Activism from Leadership Alliances Across the Nation! Campus Activism from Leadership Alliances Across the Nation! Students have been staying busy in the wake of the recent Roe v....
2/1/2000	Congress Approves 'Date Rape' Drug Bill The United States House of Representatives passed a bill that would significantly toughen federal laws for the possession and distribution of the 'date rape' drug....
1/27/2000	MA Supreme Court Rules Buffer Zones Constitutional The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that a 25-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics would not be a violation of First Amendment free speech rights....
1/27/2000	Jordan Parliament Rejects Harsher Punishment for 'Honor Killings' For the second time in two months, Jordan lawmakers have rejected a draft law that would enact harsher punishment for the practice of 'honor' killings of women....
1/18/2000	U. S. Supreme Court to Hear Case of Protective 'Bubble' for Abortion Clinics The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in Hill v....
12/16/1999	Proposed Ban on Gay Marriages May Harm Children A proposed state ban on lesbian and gay marriages in California would affect nearly 150,000 children living with lesbian and gay couples or single parents....
12/10/1999	Afghans May Face Severe Hunger The World Food Program (WFP) stated today that millions of people in war-ravaged Afghanistan face the potential of severe food shortages this winter....
11/29/1999	Advocates For Life Ministries to Close In a letter to his followers, Andrew Burnett, director of Advocates for Life Ministries, announced that AFLM and its publishing Life Advocate magazine was closing as of December 31, 1999....
11/23/1999	Parliament in Kuwait Rejects Women's Right to Vote Kuwait's Parliament voted down women's right to vote and run for office 41-22 as an act of protest against the emir Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah who issued the decree shortly after he dissolved Parliament in May....
11/15/1999	Nigerian Women Gain Economic Prominence Faced with desperate poverty in the predominantly Muslim country of Niger, women are now earning money for themselves in jobs outside the home, breaking with tradition....
11/15/1999	Navy Debates Submarine Duty for Women The debate over women serving on board the U.S....
11/12/1999	Women Make Progress in Fortune 500 Companies A census prepared by Catalyst, a women's research group, found that 3.3 percent of companies' top earners are women, a slight gain from 2.7 percent last year and 1.2 percent in 1995....
11/10/1999	House Approves New Penalties for Sex-Traffickers The House International Relations Committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would provide new penalties for international traffickers in women and children....
11/5/1999	Moseley-Braun Gets Senate Hearing A hearing has been scheduled for Carol Moseley-Braun before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to consider her nomination to be ambassador to New Zealand....
10/25/1999	Carol Moseley-Braun Faces Old Challenge for Ambassadorship Appointment Former U.S....
10/22/1999	HRW Reports on Violence Against Women in Pakistan Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on the status of women in Pakistan called “Crime or Custom? Violence Against Women in Pakistan.” The report revealed epidemic levels of violent crime against women....
10/18/1999	Dangerous Winter Looms Ahead for Afghans Displaced by Taliban Hundreds of thousands of Afghans that have been forced to flee their homes by the Taliban militia’s reign of terror face a long cold winter that UN officials predict could be “as much a killer as the actual fighting.” In the Panjshir Valley, one of the few places in Afghanistan that the Taliban militia does not yet control, an estimated 65,000 displaced Afghans currently seek refuge....
10/7/1999	Protest Against US AIDS Drug Policy in Developing Nations Fourteen AIDS activists were arrested Wednesday in front of Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky’s office during a protest against US policies inhibiting poor countries from getting AIDS drugs....
9/23/1999	CA Corrections Officers Resign Over Sexual Misconduct Charges Allegations of sexual misconduct at four California women's prisons have forced the resignations of five male corrections officers....
9/23/1999	Seven Boys Accused of Raping Girl, 8 Seven boys, all of whom are under the age of 14, have been accused of gang-raping an eight-year-old girl in an abandoned house in St....
9/21/1999	Abused Women Neglected by Welfare-to-Work Plan A report released yesterday declared that victims of domestic abuse who are enrolled in Wisconsin Works, a welfare-to-work program, face "significant barriers" to escaping poverty....
9/21/1999	WAR OF ATTRITION TARGETS ABORTION CLINICS NATIONWIDE: One Fourth of Nation's Clinics Still Face Severe Violence Washington DC -- Eleanor Smeal, national feminist leader and one of the nation's leading experts on anti-abortion terrorism, today released the results of the Feminist Majority Foundation's sixth annual National Clinic Violence Survey Report, the most comprehensive study of anti-abortion violence in the United States....
9/3/1999	Study Vitamins "Dramatically Decrease" Pre-Eclampsia A study conducted by researchers at Guy's, King's and St....
9/2/1999	AR "Fetal Protection" Act May Soon Face First Test The "Fetal Protection" Act was enacted in the state of Arkansas just over one month ago, on July 30th....
8/30/1999	Hillary Rodham Clinton Addresses DV Conference Organizers of the Next Millenium Conference opened the four-day domestic violence awareness event yesterday with a videotaped address by First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who declared, "Citizens and governments around the world will recognize that domestic violence is not a custom, it is a crime." More than 2,000 domestic violence experts, survivors, and advocates assembled for the Chicago conference, which was organized by the Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services....
8/27/1999	Conservatives Sue Atlanta to Stop Affirmative Action The conservative Southeastern Legal Foundation filed suit against the city of Atlanta yesterday, charging that a city policy which has set aside one-third of city contracts for minority and women-owned businesses is "illegal and unconstitutional." The policy, which has been in effect for the past 24 years, is a successful program that has been emulated by other cities....
8/17/1999	Pakistan Islamic Militants Threaten to Strike U.S. A representative of militant Islamic groups in Pakistan threatened that the U.S....
8/13/1999	Settlement in First Male-On-Male, Class Action Sexual Harassment Suit The U.S....
8/10/1999	Japanese Women Fight Sex Discrimination Historically, Japanese women have been paid significantly less than their male counterparts and were expected to be subservient towards their bosses....
8/6/1999	House Committee Approves Date-Rape Drug Legislation On Thursday, the House Commerce Committee approved legislation that would make it illegal to use, manufacture, distribute, or dispense gamma hydroxybutyrate (often called the “date-rape” drug)....
8/5/1999	Bosnian Serb Pleads Non-Guilty to Rape and Enslavement On Wednesday, a Bosnian Serb pleaded not guilty to raping and enslaving Muslim women in the town of Foca during the war from 1992-1995....
7/30/1999	Breast Cancer Drug can Advance Disease Scientists have found evidence that tamoxifen, the drug widely used to treat breast cancer, may lose its effectiveness over time and begin to behave like the hormone it is supposed to block....
7/19/1999	Statement by Eleanor Smeal, President Feminist Majority Foundation on Federal Nationwide Injunction Issued Against Anti-Abortion Extremists Today, in Chicago, Illinois, Federal Court Judge David Coar took the bold step of issuing a nationwide injunction to protect women's health clinics from harassment, intimidation and anti-abortion violence....
7/16/1999	Statement by Eleanor Smeal, President, Feminist Majority Foundation, on Federal Nationwide Injunction Issued Against Anti-Abortion Extremists, Operation Rescue, Pro-Life Action League in NOW v. Scheidler WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, in Chicago, Illinois, Federal Court Judge David Coar took the bold step of issuing a nationwide injunction to protect women's health clinics from harassment, intimidation and anti-abortion violence....
7/12/1999	U.S. World Cup Team Champions for Women's Sports The women's World Cup championship game, held on Saturday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, was the most-watched soccer event ever on a U.S....
7/8/1999	Air Force Sergeants Accused of Sexual Misconduct Two Air Force Sergeants have been charged with “unprofessional relationships” with female students at Brooks Air Force Base....
6/30/1999	States Debate: Viagra vs. Birth Control Ever since insurance companies began offering coverage for the anti-impotency drug Viagra, women’s groups have worked harder than ever to win insurance coverage for contraceptive devices and are winning considerable support from many state and federal lawmakers....
6/29/1999	Super Embryos Increase Chances of Late Births Researchers have invented a new fertility method that will allow women in their late thirties and early forties a better chance of delivering a healthy baby....
6/28/1999	Abortion Clinic Target of Violence and Protest Several days a week, the abortion clinic in El Monte, California, is targeted by anti-abortion protesters....
6/24/1999	Vaccine Being Tested to Eradicate Cervical Cancer Scientists are testing a new vaccine that will aid in preventing the development of cervical cancer in women....
6/24/1999	The House Judiciary Committee Approves Teen Abortion Bill The House Judiciary Committee voted 16-13 to approve legislation that curtails a woman's right to choose to have an abortion....
6/22/1999	Bankruptcy Legislation Detrimental to Single Women and Mothers The House of Representatives recently passed a bill that increases the difficulty for individuals trying to clear their financial histories....
6/22/1999	Casualties of Rape in Kosovo In the early 1990s, mass rapes were reported in Bosnia....
6/16/1999	Osteoporosis Drug Decreases Risk for Breast Cancer According to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, a new drug being tested to combat osteoporosis in premenopausal women has been found to simultaneously fight breast disease....
6/11/1999	"Nuremberg Files" Creator Sues Mindspring Anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley, whose "The Nuremberg Files" Web site included a virtual "hit list" of targeted individuals including abortion providers, security officers who protect abortion clinics, pro-choice activists, clinic owners, clinic workers, pro-choice judges and politicians, has sued Internet service provider Mindspring for $251 million....
6/4/1999	Cyclist Protests Anti-Choice Violence With Cross-County Ride Melissa Marin believes in abortion rights so fervently that she has agreed to bike 80 miles a day for nearly two months to raise awareness of anti-choice violence and its consequences....
6/3/1999	Woman Coach's Equal Pay Suit Rejected Marianne Stanley filed a EEOC-backed sex discrimination lawsuit against the University of Southern California in 1996 after learning that men's basketball coach George Raveling earned at least $54,000 more than she did as coach of the women's team....
6/3/1999	Students Carve Anti-Gay Slur on Classmate's Body Northfield Mount Hermon preparatory school students Jonathan Shapiro, 18, and Matthew Rogers, 20, are alleged to have carved the word "homo" onto the back of an unnamed classmate using a pocketknife....
6/2/1999	Teens Deny Hate Was Motive in Gay Man's Murder Bryan Donahue, 17, and Billy Dodge, 18, has confessed to beating Steven Goedereis to death, but now deny that they killed him because he was gay....
5/28/1999	Study Probes Sex Discrimination in Pharmaceutical Industry The Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) has conducted research on the obstacles women face while trying to advance their careers within the pharmaceutical industry....
5/25/1999	Supreme Court: Schools Liable for Sexual Harassment Among Students The United States Supreme Court yesterday ruled that schools may be held liable for failing to protect students from the sexual harassment of another in certain circumstances, overturning several lower court rulings, which argued that Title IX did not apply to peer harassment....
5/24/1999	Justice Dept. Tackles Drug-Facilitated Rapes In an effort to help local police officers and prosecutors crack down on rapes committed using "date rape" drugs, the Justice Department has issued an instruction video and book entitled "The Prosecution of Rohypnol and GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) Related Sexual Assaults." Attorney General Janet Reno explained that drug-facilitated rapes are "very difficult for police officers and prosecutors to investigate and bring to trials," mostly due to the fact that victims, incapacitated by drugs, cannot give details about their rape....
5/24/1999	Boys Charged With Raping Twin 6-Year-Old Girls Five boys have been charged with repeatedly raping and sodomizing two twin six-year-old girls in and around a Kansas City day-care center....
5/18/1999	Japan Outlaws Sex With A Minor Japan's lower house of Parliament passed a law which will make it a criminal offense for an adult to have sex with a minor....
5/14/1999	Bangladesh: Four Get Death Sentence For Acid Attack After twenty-year-old Rinku Rani Das rejected his proposal of marriage and instead married another man, Dhrubolal Shil became enraged and wanted revenge....
5/12/1999	Shepard's Mom Makes Appeal for Hate Crimes Legislation The mother of slain gay college student Matthew Shepard appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday in attempt to convince members to support the Hates Crimes Prevention Act, sponsored by Democratic Sen....
5/12/1999	First Woman Graduates From Citadel On Saturday, Nancy Mace became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, a formerly all-male military college....
5/11/1999	DV Shelters Filled to Capacity A survey conducted by Jane Doe Inc....
5/7/1999	Indonesia Women Fight Violence Via E-mail List The Indonesian Women's Coalition for Justice and Democracy created an e-mail list to foster communication between women's rights group in Indonesia and to communicate information about the violence and human rights violations that women face there....
5/4/1999	OWL Urges Medicare Changes to Aid Women A report issued Monday by the Older Women's League (OWL) reveals that women, who make up the majority of Medicare recipients, suffer more chronic illness, use more long-term care, and spend more of their own money on health care....
5/4/1999	Nearly 1 Million Women Elected to Indian Village Councils As a result of a 1993 constitutional amendment that set aside 1/3 of all panchayat seats and village chiefs' positions for women, almost 1 million women have now been elected to village governing boards....
4/30/1999	Montana Gov. Signs Revised Abortion Ban Montana Governor Marc Racicot has signed a ban on certain surgical abortion procedures in the state....
4/29/1999	India: Militia Threatens to Mutilate & Murder Women Over Dress A fundamentalist Islamic militia group known as the Laksher-e-Toiba or "Contingents of the Pious" has threatened to mutilate and murder women who wear close-fitting clothing in the Indian state of Kashmir....
4/22/1999	Nadler Amendment Defeated An amendment which would have required convicted violators of FACE and other abortion clinic protection laws to pay court-ordered damages was defeated yesterday in the House Judiciary Committee....
4/21/1999	Feminist Majority Foundation Supports Amendment to Enforce Clinic Protection Laws The Feminist Majority Foundation is in full support of S.625, Senator Schumer's proposed amendment to Section 523(a) of title 11, United States Code....
4/15/1999	"The Practice" Stars Join Breast Cancer Cause Actors Lara Flynn Boyle, Lisa Gay Hamilaton, Camryn Manheim, Marla Sokoloff and Kelli Williams of ABC-Television's "The Practice" will appear in an informational magazine insert on the topic of breast cancer....
4/9/1999	French Bill Would Give Unmarried Couples Legal Rights The French National Assembly passed a billed which would grant legal status to unmarried couples Wednesday....
4/6/1999	Saudi Arabia: Doctor Sentenced to Life for Performing Abortions An unidentified Lebanese doctor was sentenced to life in prison for performing abortions in Saudi Arabia, according to the al-Eqtissadiyah newspaper....
4/1/1999	Legal Progress for Rape Victims in Taiwan Women in Taiwan embraced a legal victory for victims of rape on Tuesday....
3/25/1999	Methodist Bishop Files Complaint Over Lesbian Ceremony Bishop Melvin Talbert has "with sorrow and regret" filed a complaint against the 69 ministers who participated in a "holy union" lesbian commitment ceremony last January in Sacramento....
3/23/1999	MIT Study Reveals Pervasive Sex Discrimination A five-year study reveals that the female faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Science face "pervasive, if unintentional" sex discrimination....
3/18/1999	Hale Reprimanded and Fined $22,000 Retired Army Maj....
3/17/1999	"Date Rape" Drug Deaths Rising The Drug Enforcement Administration has reported that the illegal "date-rape" and body-building drug gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) has been linked to 32 deaths and 3,500 overdoses in the U.S....
3/16/1999	Clintons Host "Millennium Evening" on Women's Rights In a gathering held last night at the White House, President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton held a discussion with women's historians and activists on the topic of women's rights, past and present....
3/16/1999	Army General Will Face Court Martial Retired Maj....
3/11/1999	Columbia Guerrillas Admit Murder of Three Activists The blind-folded and bullet-ridden bodies of activists Ingrid Washinawatok, 41, Lahe'ena'e Gay, 39, and Terence Freitas, 24, were returned to the United States yesterday from the Venezuelan field where they were found last week....
3/8/1999	Anti-Abortion Protestor Tests Nuremberg Ruling Anti-abortion protestor Teresa Van Camp is apparently trying to force a test of U.S....
2/26/1999	Judge Forbids Anti-Abortion Web Site and "Wanted" Posters Three weeks after a federal jury ruled that creators of "The Nuremberg Files" Web site violated federal anti-racketeering laws and the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, U.S....
2/24/1999	Minister on Trial for Performing "Gay Marriage" Rev....
2/24/1999	Billboard Features Mature, Self-Assured Model A billboard advertisement for Bucknell University's art gallery features a picture of 67-year-old Margaret Manchot, proud-faced and dressed only in a girdle alongside the slogan "Look at you loving me." Manchot rests her hands behind her head in the picture and exudes confidence in herself, love handles, age spots and all....
2/23/1999	"The Nuremberg Files" Web Site Finds New Home The New York Times has reported that the Nuremberg Files Web site gained a new online home this Saturday....
2/18/1999	Mother Alleges Job Discrimination New York lawyer Joann Trezza recently filed suit against her employer, The Hartford Inc....
2/16/1999	Child Soldiers, Sex Slaves in Sierra Leone In her article published in the New York Times this Sunday, journalist Jan Goodwin wrote of the children who are being abducted by Government and opposition forces for work as soldiers and sex slaves in Sierra Leone's civil war....
2/12/1999	Senators Acquit Clinton The U.S....
2/12/1999	CO Senate Committee Passes Abortion Ban A Colorado Senate committee has passed a bill that would ban nearly all abortions beyond the 19th week of pregnancy....
2/8/1999	Mindspring Pulls Nuremberg Site Internet service provider Mindspring removed "The Nuremberg Files" Web site from the Internet on Friday after site creator Neal Horsley pledged to publish live video of women entering abortion clinics, in violation of Mindspring's "appropriate use" policies....
2/4/1999	National Women's Leaders Oppose Live Testimony At Senate Trial Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority I am proud to join today with national women's leaders and leading women members of Congress to urge the United States Senate to put an end to this spectacle of hypocrisy and travesty of justice....
2/4/1999	Lesbian and Gay Students Fight for Notre Dame Anti-Discrimination Policy One hundred students at the University of Notre Dame began a hunger strike Wednesday night....
2/4/1999	National Women's Leaders Oppose Live Testimony at Senate Trial: Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Washington DC -- I am proud to join today with national women's leaders and leading women members of Congress to urge the United States Senate to put an end to this spectacle of hypocrisy and travesty of justice....
2/3/1999	Federal Jury Finds "Un-wanted" Posters And "Nuremberg Files" To Be Threats, Not Free Speech Washington DC -- Today, in Portland Oregon, a jury handed down the precedent-setting decision in the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE ) and RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act) lawsuit, Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette v....
2/3/1999	Taliban Uses Torture As Punishment Under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, amputations of hands and feet are common punishment for thieves, while murderers are publically executed and women are tortured for violating Taliban rules....
2/3/1999	Federal Jury Finds "Un-wanted" Posters And "Nuremberg Files" To Be Threats, Not Free Speech Washington DC -- Today, in Portland Oregon, a jury handed down the precedent-setting decision in the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE ) and RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act) lawsuit, Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette v....
2/2/1999	Jury: Web Site in Violation of FACE A federal jury ruled today that creators of "The Nuremberg Files" Web site violated the Freedom of Access to Clinics Act (FACE) and federal racketeering statutes and awarded the plaintiffs with damages in the tens of millions....
2/2/1999	Women Surgeons Gaining Clout In surgery, as in most professions, women still face sex discrimination and are largely confined to the lower-paying, less-prestigious surgical specialties....
2/2/1999	Pregnancy Still Risky for Older Mothers Years ago, pregnancies in women ages 35 and over were considered "high risk" and discouraged by doctors....
1/29/1999	Anti-Abortion Legislation in Works in AR, MD The Arkansas House passed a bill that would ban all abortions past the 16th week of pregnancy in a near-unanimous vote yesterday....
1/27/1999	FACE Trial Goes to Jury An eight-member jury will begin deliberations today on a 1995 suit filed by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a women's clinic, and five doctors against creators of the "Nuremberg Files" Web site....
1/26/1999	Military Rapist and Murderer Enters Plea Bargain Danial J....
1/26/1999	Studies Question Biological Basis for Sex Roles Scientists have long hypothesized that women's biology makes them naturally monogamous and that men are naturally prone to stray and seek multiple sexual partners....
1/22/1999	Women Fight "Honor Killings" in Jordan In countries throughout the Middle East, India, Pakistan, and Brazil, women and girls are routinely killed by family members who believe that they have violated the family's honor in some way....
1/21/1999	WAR OF ATTRITION TARGETS ABORTION CLINICS NATIONWIDE Eleanor Smeal, national feminist leader and one of the nation's leading experts on anti-abortion terrorism, today released the results of the Feminist Majority Foundation's sixth annual National Clinic Violence Survey Report, the most comprehensive study of anti-abortion violence in the United States....
1/20/1999	FBI: Alleged Clinic Bomber May Soon Reappear FBI Special Agent Woody Enderson announced yesterday that alleged clinic bomber Eric Robert Rudolph may soon be forced to retreat from hiding to get more food and supplies....
1/15/1999	Senegal Bans Female Circumcision The government of Senegal officially ended the practice of female genital mutilation on Wednesday, thanks to years of struggle by women's rights activists, educators, doctors, and politicians....
1/8/1999	Suit Against Anti-Abortion Web Site Begins A suit filed by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a women's clinic, and five doctors against creators of the "Nuremberg Files" Web site began yesterday in Portland....
12/18/1998	Livingston Admits to Extra-Marital Affairs This morning, the U.S....
12/18/1998	New Dollar Coin to Feature Sacagawea U.S....
12/16/1998	New Online Bank for Gay and Lesbian Entrepreneurs A new, gay-friendly bank deemed "G&L Bank" by co-founders Steven Dunlap and Keith E....
12/15/1998	Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President of Feminist Majority on the Pending Presidential Impeachment Vote The Feminist Majority joins with our sister organizations - and indeed the majority of women in this nation - in a united call to action to help stop this impeachment spectacle that has overtaken our political system....
12/15/1998	Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President of Feminist Majority, on the Pending Presidential Impeachment Vote Washington DC -- The Feminist Majority joins with our sister organizations - and indeed the majority of women in this nation - in a united call to action to help stop this impeachment spectacle that has overtaken our political system....
12/11/1998	86% of U.S. Counties Are Without An Abortion Provider A large decline in the number of abortion providers, along with a rise in effective contraceptive use, has been deemed the cause for the United States' abortion rate being the lowest in two decades, according to a study published by the Alan Guttmacher Institute....
12/10/1998	Afghan Women Testify To Taliban Terrors at UN Mock Tribunal Women who have suffered human rights violations appeared at a UN mock tribunal last night, the eve of today's 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights....
12/8/1998	Girl Falsely Accused of Staging Hate Crime Settles With School Sixteen-year-old Lucy Weber reached a settlement with the prestigious Middlesex Prep School in Concord, Mass....
12/8/1998	Pro-Choice Ad Campaign Launched to Attract Young Women A brand-new abortion rights ad campaign has hit the billboards, buses, and subways of New York City this month....
12/1/1998	New Warnings Issued to Taliban Iran issued a new set of warnings to the Taliban on Sunday, demanding justice for the Iranian diplomats murdered in Afghanistan this past August....
11/30/1998	New Chairwoman to Lead EEOC Ida L....
11/20/1998	One of Every Five U.S. Women Has Faced Rape A government study has revealed that nearly one in five women in the United States have been raped or faced an attempted rape at least once in their lives....
11/19/1998	Catholic Leaders Create Campaign Against Abortion American Leaders of the Catholic Church are moving to increase their political activism by starting a new lobbying campaign against abortion and encouraging pro-choice candidates to change their stances on the issue....
11/18/1998	DC Officer Faces 42 Charges in Domestic Abuse Case A Washington DC grand jury indicted District of Columbia police officer Kenneth L....
11/13/1998	First Woman Speaker of the House a Possibility Rep....
11/3/1998	Anti-Semitism Evident Among Anti-Abortion Extremists The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has identified a long-running association between anti-abortion extremists and anti-Semitism....
11/2/1998	Iran Forces Sex Segregation at Hospitals Iran's parliament passed an amendment that is the first of several planned measures designed to force segregatation of men and women at the country's hospitals....
10/28/1998	Depression Increases Elderly Women's Mortality Rate Older women who are depressed face an increased risk of death, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco....
10/27/1998	Nurse Condemns Clinic Violence In Commercial Nurse Condemns Clinic Violence in Commercial Registered Nurse Emily Lyons was walking into the New Woman, All Women Health Care Clinic last January when a bomb exploded in her face....
10/23/1998	Lesbian Attacked Following Anti-Hate Vigil An openly lesbian student was attacked at St....
10/21/1998	Epileptic Women Provided More Information Concerning Reproduction Research collected over a thirty-year span has given physicians better insight into the effects epileptic drugs have on women's contraception, pregnancy, and breast feeding....
10/20/1998	UN Special Envoy Returns with Mixed Report UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held talks last week with the Taliban militia in an attempt to ease the tension between Afghanistan and Iran....
10/19/1998	Sorority Shut Down Over Cruel, Anti-Gay Action The national board of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority has agreed to shut down its Colorado State University chapter after the group co-sponsored a vicious, anti-gay float in the school's homecoming parade....
10/14/1998	Gender Gap Emerging in Computer Science The gender gap between girls and boys studying math and science is closing....
10/13/1998	Shots Fired at Female Afghan Journalist in Pakistan The life of a female Afghan journalist was threatened Monday, October 5, at night in Peshawar, Pakistan when two unidentified assailants fired shots at her....
10/13/1998	Re-Election Uncertain for Boxer, Murray, Moseley-Braun 1992, the year of the woman, saw democrats Barbara Boxer, Carol Moseley-Braun, and Patty Murray elected to the Senate....
10/12/1998	US First Lady Promotes Women’s Rights in Eastern Europe Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Bulgarian business women today as part of a four-day trip to promote women’s rights in Eastern Europe....
10/9/1998	Kenyan Man Found Guilty of Domestic Abuse, But Walks Moita Ole Risa, a Kenyan man accused by his wife of physical abuse, was found guilty Thursday....
10/8/1998	Study Reveals Harsh Conditions for Women in Afghanistan Physicians for Human Rights published a recent study on the conditions Afghanistan women have suffered under Taliban rule....
9/30/1998	Pregnancy Not A Cure For Teen Depression Although pregnancy can temporarily stave off depression in teens, teen often become even more depressed after giving birth, one study reports....
9/30/1998	Feminist Writer Faces Arrest Warrant In Bangladesh Homecoming Feminist writer Taslima Nasreen faces a court order for her arrest after returning to her native country of Bangladesh....
9/29/1998	Domestic Terrorism in Alabama Leaves One Dead, One Injured at Abortion Clinic Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal Demands Zero Tolerance on this War of Attrition Washington DC -- Eleanor Smeal, national feminist leader and one of the nation's leading experts on anti-abortion terrorism, decried today's bombing of the New Woman All Women Health Care Clinic in Birmingham, Alabama....
9/24/1998	Women Leaders Take Action To Stop Impeachment, Warn What's at Stake for Women and Who's on Third to Succeed (cont from part 1) Not only are we standing united, we are urging action....
9/22/1998	New NBC Show Will Feature First Gay Male Lead NBC's Will and Grace, a new television program that will debut this fall, appears to be based on a standard sitcom scenario....
9/11/1998	Girls' Software Now Readily Available; Clinton Pledges to Increase Diversity in Scientific, Technological Workforce After a long drought, a significant number of software developers are finally developing their products with girls in mine, although few can be deemed "feminist" in design....
9/11/1998	Zimbabwean Women Demand Equitable Land Redistribution A group of twenty-six women's non-governmental organizations (NGOs) presented a position paper to the Zimbabwean government demanding that a new land distribution program be made more equitable for women....
9/9/1998	Maquiladora Women Condemn Sweatshop Labor in U.S. Tour The National Labor Committee has brough teenagers Claudia Molina and Judith Viera to the U.S....
9/2/1998	Women's Groups Fear Possibility of "Another Taliban" in Pakistan Women's rights groups in Pakistan fear that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's plans to "Islamize" the country's government will devastate women there....
8/26/1998	Taiwanese Women Escape Abuse Through Divorce As Taiwanese women gain education, self-confidence, and economic independence, they are divorcing abusive husbands more than ever before or choosing to avoid marriage altogether....
8/20/1998	Clinton Orders Military Strikes Against Terrorist Facilities in Afghanistan, Sudan The U.S today launched military strikes against a terrorist base in Afghanistan and a chemical weapons facility in Sudan affiliated with Osama bin Laden, a major funder of anti-U.S....
8/19/1998	Taliban-Linked Radical Islamic Groups Threaten U.S. Two radical, militant Islamic groups, the "Islamic International Front for Fighting Jews and Crusaders" and the "Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places," sent statements to London-based Arabic newsdaily....
8/17/1998	Latin American Activists Discuss Girls' Rights 150 experts from 20 Latin American countries participated in a UNICEF-sponsored conference, "Our Girls: the Right to Equity From Infancy," earlier this month....
8/6/1998	Washington to See All Female Race for Senate The nation could see its third all female race for the United States Senate if Republican Linda Smith, known for her tough stance on campaign donations, sweeps the Sept....
7/31/1998	UN Launches Campaign Against Domestic Violence in Africa The United Nations Fund for Women launched its campaign against gender-based violence in Africa today, which is also Pan-African Women's Day. Although reports of domestic violence are on the rise in Africa, it has yet to be recognized as a serious crime, according to women's and human rights organizations....
7/30/1998	Florida Priests Accused of Sexual Misconduct In south Florida, Catholic priest Jan Malicki has been accused of having sex with two women, and Episcopal priest John Brackett faces accusations of having affairs with two women while promising to marry each one as well as misusing church funds. Malicki was suspended by the Epiphany Catholic Church in Miami, Florida when one woman accused him of sexual misconduct....
7/28/1998	International Rape Convict Denied Parole With Help of Victim Ali Rasai, accused of raping women in several countries, was denied for parole thanks in part to the efforts of one of his victims, Holly Desimone. Rasai was born in Iran and was first charged with rape in Australia in 1990....
7/21/1998	Women Avoid Discrimination, Increase Wages As Entrepreneurs Women, eager to avoid wage discrimination, glass ceilings on promotion, and the lack of freedom they face in the modern-day workplace, continue to start their own businesses, adding to the almost 8 million woman-owned firms nationwide....
7/20/1998	Military Penalty May Be Reduced After Major General Investigated Officials at the Pentagon are submitting a proposal that would lower the maximum punishment for adultery....
7/20/1998	Abortion Blocked in Case of Twelve Year Incest Victim A Michigan Judge has blocked a twelve year old pregnant girl who is a victim of incest from being taken by her parents to Kansas to obtain an abortion Raped by her brother, the girl is twenty-eight weeks pregnant....
7/20/1998	DC Schools Consider Programs to Alleviate Harassment Against Gay and Lesbian Students As gay youths become more open about their sexual orientation, they are being subject to more "visible" abuse in Washington, DC area schools, according to Linda Shevits, a Maryland education official to whom discrimination cases are reported....
5/27/1998	U.S. Supreme Court Refuses FACE Challenge The U.S....
5/22/1998	FBI to Investigate Acid Attacks on Florida Abortion Clinics FBI officials will investigate the 8 separate acid attacks waged on Central and South Florida abortion clinics this past week....
5/21/1998	Florida Gov. Vetoes Anti-Abortion License Plates Florida Governor Lawton Chiles vetoed a request for a new anti-abortion license plate yesterday....
5/8/1998	Men Burn Women With Acid in Bangladesh According to a February 16 article published in The Economist, increasing numbers of men in Bangladesh are burning their wives and other women with acid....
5/4/1998	South Carolina School Cancels "Indigo Girls" Concert in Anti-Lesbian Action According to a National Gay and Lesbian Task Force press release, Irmo High School, located near Columbia, S.C., canceled a scheduled Indigo Girls concert when school Principal Gerald Witt learned that band members Amy Ray and Emily Saliers are gay....
4/20/1998	Landmark Won! Civil RICO Case Cracks Anti-Abortion Ring of Conspiracy National Feminist Leader Eleanor Smeal Calls for Use of Criminal RICO to End Violence Washington DC -- Today, in Chicago, Illinois, a federal jury handed down the precedent-setting decision in the class action RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act) lawsuit, NOW v....
4/17/1998	Population of Older Women to Double by 2025 The number of women over 60 in the world will double to 645 million by the year 2025, according to a new study by the U.S....
4/15/1998	Women Win Pulitzer Prize Head of the Washington Post Co....
3/30/1998	Foreign Workers in U.S. Face Forced Prostitution, Forced Abortion Foreign workers on a U.S....
3/30/1998	Emma Thompson Battles Hollywood’s “Thin is Beautiful” Myth Actress Emma Thompson is launching a battle against Hollywood’s demand that actresses be extraordinarily thin....
3/26/1998	D.C. Doctor Charged With Sexual Assault Two women have charged a 45-year-old doctor at Washington’s Greater Southeast Community Hospital with sexual assault....
3/25/1998	UNPF, IPPF Launch Women’s Rights Campaign The United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) are launching a campaign aimed at heightening global awareness that women’s rights are human rights....
3/19/1998	Nicaragua Minister Signs Code of Ethics for Women Workers Nicaraguan Minister of Labor Wilfredo Navarro signed a 10-point Code of Ethics that will regulate conditions and labor relations for women maquila workers in the country’s free-trade zone....
3/19/1998	Three Women Assaulted in One Week at U. Maryland Three women have been assaulted in a week at the University of Maryland in College Park....
3/17/1998	McKinney Sentenced to Rank Reduction, Files Suit Against Plaintiff Sgt....
3/16/1998	Taliban Extends Gender Apartheid to Foreign Women The Taliban militia group sent a letter to Sergio de Mello, the United Nation’s humanitarian coordinator for Afghanistan, stating that they would no longer allow foreign Muslim women in the country unless accompanied by a close male relative....
3/16/1998	Sgt. Maj. McKinney Found Not Guilty of Sexual Misconduct Sgt....
3/13/1998	Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Celebrates 20th Anniversary Residents of Sydney, Australia attended the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras this week....
3/12/1998	Mail-Order Brides Risk Domestic Violence Abuse Western companies are making millions in a booming mail-order bride and “romance tour” industry that not only degrades women but also exposes many to domestic abuse....
3/12/1998	Same-Sex Classes Improve Girls’ Confidence But Not Test Scores The American Association of University Women issued a report stating that girls-only math and science math classes did not improve test scores, but did improve girls’ confidence levels and attitudes towards science and math....
3/12/1998	San Francisco Mayor Performs Same-Sex Marriage Ceremony for 50 San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown will perform a marriage ceremony for 50 same-sex couples at City Hall....
3/10/1998	Muslim Women Demand Equal Rights Islamic women’s groups are voicing their outrage at a growing system of gender apartheid in the Muslim world....
3/10/1998	Women Face High Risk from Family Heart Disease A study released in the European Heart Journal reports that women face a greater genetic risk of heart disease than do men....
3/6/1998	African Media Center Aids Female Journalists The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) officially opened the African Women’s Media Center (AWMC)....
3/3/1998	Teens Seeking Abortions Forced Out-of-State Abortion providers in Virginia will appear today in a Richmond, VA appeals court to challenge the constitutionality of a parental consent law which took effect July 1, 1997....
2/25/1998	Military Judge Rejects Defense Pleas to Drop Charges Military Judge Col....
2/25/1998	Freedom Prize Awarded to Imprisoned Female Journalist The United Nation’s Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) awarded its $25,000 World Press Freedom Prize to Nigerian journalist Christina Anyanwu....
2/25/1998	Eastern European Countries Cut Maternity Benefits A study issued by the International Labor Organization (ILO) reports a decrease in maternity benefits in Eastern European countries due to economic restructuring....
2/24/1998	Prosecutors Rest in McKinney Case Prosecutors have rested their case after 10 days of testimony from 27 witnesses charging former Sgt....
2/19/1998	Gay Service Members Face Increased Harassment Gays and lesbians in the military face increasing harassment, according to an annual report released by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network....
2/19/1998	Medicaid Recipients Obstructed From Sterilization A study issued by the National Institutes of Health reports significant barriers for women on Medicaid who desire tubal ligation....
2/19/1998	Anti-abortion Extremists Plead Guilty to West Coast Bombings Peter Howard pled guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for attempting to blow up an abortion clinic....
2/18/1998	Operation Rescue Director Convicted for HS Demonstration Flip Benham, director of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue National, was sentenced to a year in jail by Lynchburg, Virginia Circuit Judge Richard Miller for organizing a religious demonstration at a public school....
2/18/1998	D.C. Police Officer Charged With Rape Two weeks after the incident was reported, authorities in Prince George County, Maryland arrested D.C....
2/13/1998	Egyptian Health Minister Defends Female Circumcision Ban Egyptian Health Minister Ismail Sallam criticized Moslem fundamentalists for opposing Egypt’s ban on female circumcision....
2/13/1998	FBI, Justice Department to Convict U.S. Sexual Abusers in Latin America Casa Alianza, a non-profit organization that works with street children in Latin America, will begin working with the FBI and the U.S....
2/11/1998	Evidence Supports Victims in Army Sex Trial Prosecutors submitted an audio tape of a February 1997 telephone conversation in which Sgt....
2/10/1998	First of Fifty Testifies in Army Sex Trial Former Staff Sgt....
2/6/1998	ACLU Challenges Maryland Anti-Gay Law The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenged a Maryland law that makes oral sex an illegal act between members of the same sex....
2/5/1998	Human Rights Study Reports Worldwide Oppression of Women The U.S....
2/5/1998	Army Officer Pleads Not Guilty to Sex Misconduct Charges Sgt....
2/4/1998	Army Sexual Misconduct Trial Suspended The court-martial trial of Sgt....
2/4/1998	Public Mourns Clinic Bombing Victim’s Death Hundreds of police officers assembled at the Homewood Church of Christ for the funeral of Birmingham Officer Robert Sanderson, the first casualty of abortion clinic bombings in the United States....
2/2/1998	Authorities Search for Witness in Alabama Clinic Bombing Authorities are searching for Eric Robert Rudolph, a witness whose gray Nissan truck was spotted leaving the Birmingham abortion clinic bombing scene last Thursday....
1/30/1998	Clinton Condemns Abortion Clinic Bombing President Clinton denounced the bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama clinic in which a clinic security officer was killed and a nurse was seriously injured....
1/29/1998	Abortion Access Decreasing in Canada On the tenth anniversary of Canada's Supreme Court ruling that decriminalized abortion, pro-choice activists worry that violent attacks on abortion providers and political pressure are making it harder for women to gain access to the procedure....
1/27/1998	Rape Used to Control, Intimidate Indian Women Women’s organizations in India are outraged over increasing use of rape as a means of intimidation and punishment....
1/27/1998	Turkish Girls Attempt Suicides to Avoid Virginity Tests Human rights groups are outraged by the recent attempted suicides of five girls who wanted to avoid virginity tests in Turkey....
1/22/1998	Clinton Supports Abortion Rights On the eve of the 25th Anniversary of Roe Vs....
1/16/1998	War of Attrition Targets Abortion Clinics Nationwide Washington D.C.- Eleanor Smeal, national feminist leader and one of the nation's leading experts on anti-abortion terrorism, released the results of the Feminist Majority Foundation's annual National Clinic Violence Survey Report, the most comprehensive study of anti-abortion violence in the United States and its territories....
1/15/1998	War of Attrition Targets Abortion Clinics Nationwide Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal Releases Fifth Annual National Clinic Violence Survey Results Washington DC -- Eleanor Smeal, national feminist leader and one of the nation's leading experts on anti-abortion terrorism, released the results of the Feminist Majority Foundation's annual National Clinic Violence Survey Report, the most comprehensive study of anti-abortion violence in the United States and its territories....
1/7/1998	Judge Refuses Dismissal of Sexual Misconduct Case Against Army Officer Military judge Col....
1/6/1998	New Panel to Investigate Corporate Child Care Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin has named a six-member panel to investigate and report on child care in the workplace....
10/31/1997	Affirmative Action Activists Support Justice Dept. Civil Rights Nominee On Thursday, October 30, members of Congress and representatives of the Asian-Pacific, Hispanic, African-American, and women¹s communities gathered on the Capitol lawn to voice their support for President Clinton¹s nominee for the position of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Bill Lann Lee....
10/28/1997	NY Panel Orders Removal of Sexist, Racist Judge The Commission on Judicial Conduct in New York ordered on Friday that Judge Lorin M....
10/28/1997	Eating Disorders Surface in Asia Anorexia and bulimia are becoming more common among affluent young women, say health authorities in Korea and Japan....
10/24/1997	Congress Considers Employment Non-Discrimination Act Congressional hearings began yesterday for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that would outlaw work place discrimination based on sexual orientation....
10/24/1997	Sex Ed Does Not Encourage Promiscuity, Study Says In a comprehensive study released Wednesday, the U.N....
10/21/1997	Women Leaders Decreasing Worldwide Last month, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright hosted a party for foreign ministers with only one requirement -- they must be women....
10/15/1997	Information and Time Would Increase Women's Voting, Study Says A survey sponsored by The Women's Vote Project, a coalition of 110 national women's groups, found that women who did not vote in 1992 or 1994 lacked information about candidates and issues, and faced difficulty in finding the time and mobility to vote....
10/15/1997	Information and Time Would Increase Women's Voting, Study Says A survey sponsored by The Women's Vote Project, a coalition of 110 national women's groups, found that women who did not vote in 1992 or 1994 lacked information about candidates and issues, and faced difficulty in finding the time and mobility to vote....
10/9/1997	McKinney to be Court-Martialed The Army says it will court-martial Sgt....
10/9/1997	McKinney to be Court-Martialed The Army says it will court-martial Sgt....
10/2/1997	Promise Keepers Seek Domination of U.S. Politics Despite Promise Keepers claims that their organization is not political, more and more evidence reveals their far-right religious agenda to control U.S....
10/2/1997	Promise Keepers Seek Domination of U.S. Politics Despite Promise Keepers claims that their organization is not political, more and more evidence reveals their far-right religious agenda to control U.S....
10/1/1997	Clinic Bomber Convicted On Tuesday, September 30, a federal jury convicted Brian Ratigan on five counts for his involvement in a bank robbery and Planned Parenthood clinic bombing in Spokane, Wash....
10/1/1997	Clinic Bomber Convicted On Tuesday, September 30, a federal jury convicted Brian Ratigan on five counts for his involvement in a bank robbery and Planned Parenthood clinic bombing in Spokane, Wash....
9/26/1997	Marv Albert Pleads Guilty to Assault and Battery After three days of testimony that graphically recounted NBC sportscaster Marv Albert's unusual sex practices, from cross-dressing to group sex, Albert pleaded guilty to assault and battery for biting a 42-year-old woman with whom he had had a previous sexual relationship....
9/26/1997	Lesbian British Nurses Sentenced in Saudi Arabia British Nurses Lucille McLauchlan and Deborah Parry have been sentenced to 500 lashes with a whip and eight years in prison in Saudi Arabia for the murder of fellow nurse Yvonne Gilford, an Australian....
9/25/1997	Little Rock, Arkansas Abortion Clinics Subject of Terrorism Washington, D.C....
9/25/1997	Little Rock, Arkansas Abortion Clinics Subject of Terrorism Washington D.C....
9/22/1997	Promise Keepers Continue to Inflame In the face of the Promise Keepers' growing visibility, suspicion is deepening among feminists and religious scholars, both about the organization's ties to the political agenda of the Religious Right, and their fundamentalist rhetoric that calls for members to "take back the nation for Jesus" and who hold that abortion and homosexuality are sins....
9/19/1997	McKinney May Face Court-Martial A military hearing officer reportedly has recommended that Sgt....
9/12/1997	International Sex Ring Busted Canadian and U.S....
9/9/1997	Army Drill Instructor Avoids Court-Martial, Receives Discharge Sgt....
8/18/1997	Afghan Girls Denied an Education in Refugee Camps Afghan girls who have lost the right to education because of the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban movement face a similar problem in Pakistan refugee camps....
8/15/1997	Army Lessens Charges Against Aberdeen Drill Sergeant Staff Sgt....
8/14/1997	Comic Strip Causes Controversy The comic strip "For Better or Worse" will shift attention to the love life of its gay character, Lawrence, for a four-day series....
8/13/1997	First Offender Convicted Under Domestic Abuse Law William M....
8/5/1997	Lutheran World Federation Denounces Discrimination Against Women At the Ninth Assembly meeting from July 8 to 16 in Africa, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) denounced discrimination against women in nations and churches....
7/22/1997	UNICEF Report Finds Women Live in High Risk of Violence According to a United Nations report released July 22nd women throughout the world face an unacceptably high risk of violence....
7/22/1997	Tuscaloosa, AL Abortion Clinic is the 13th Arson/Bombing of 1997 Highest Rate of Anti-abortion Violence Since 1984 The July 22nd arson of the West Alabama Women's Center clinic in Tuscaloosa, AL marks the 13th abortion clinic arson or bombing of 1997 -- the highest rate of anti-abortion violence since 1984....
7/15/1997	Federal Judge Blocks Rhode Island "Partial Birth" Abortion Ban United States District Judge Ronald Lagueux has issued an order blocking enforcement of Rhode Island's partial birth abortion ban....
7/14/1997	Young Woman Names Mars Rover After Sojourner Truth In 1995, then eleven year-old Valerie Ambrosie won an essay competition designed to generate a name for the Mars rover....
7/13/1997	Promise Keepers Holds No Promise for Women Washington, DC - Today, the Feminist Majority Foundation, joining other national women's rights, religious, lesbian/gay/bisexual, and domestic violence organizations, condemned the hidden agenda of the all-male, religious right organization, the Promise Keepers....
7/9/1997	McKinney Hearing Continues Brenda Hoster, the woman who originally brought charges of harassment against the Army's top enlisted man Sergeant Major of the Army Gene McKinney, has said she will be willing to testify at the pre-trial hearing assessing the charges under two conditions....
7/8/1997	Ferraro Hints She May Join New York Senate Race Former Congresswoman and Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro said on July 7th that, "If it [the New York Senate race] were today, I'd probably say 'Yeah, I'm going to go'." Ferraro further commented that she would make a firm decision by December of 1997 regarding the 1998 Senate race....
7/8/1997	The Citadel's Legal Battles Continue Attorneys who fought The Citadel's all-male admissions policy face another battle with the state of South Carolina, this time over legal fees....
7/3/1997	Commander Suspended for His Battalion's Sexual Misconduct The June 27th suspension of Lt....
7/2/1997	McKinney's First Accuser Refuses to Testify Citing Harassment of Other Accusers In February, retired Sgt....
6/27/1997	Hearings Begin on Harassment Charges Against Army’s Highest-Ranking Sergeant Hearings began this week to determine whether the Army's highest-ranking enlisted soldier should be court-martialed for alleged charges of indecent assault, adultery, and obstruction of justice....
6/26/1997	Los Angeles Police Commission Approves New Discipline Guidelines Police officers in Los Angeles who commit offenses such as degrading women and minorities will face stricter punishments as of Tuesday, June 24....
6/24/1997	Clintons Campaign for Female Senators President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton spent Monday raising funds for California Senator Barbara Boxer and Washington Senator Patty Murray....
6/23/1997	Justice Department Forces Arkansas to End Discrimination Against Women Prison Guards Faced with a Justice Department discrimination suit, the state of Arkansas decided on June 19 to hire 400 women guards in men's prisons....
6/13/1997	Promise Keepers Hold No Promise for Women On June 13th, the Feminist Majority Foundation, joining other national women's rights, religious, lesbian/gay/bisexual, and domestic violence organizations, condemned the hidden agenda of the all-male, religious right organization, the Promise Keepers....
6/13/1997	After Fleeing for Eight Years, Alex Kelly Convicted of Rape For eight years Alex Kelly lived in Europe, off his wealthy parent's money, avoiding a United States trial for raping two women....
6/12/1997	Military Court Convicts U.S. Army Sgt. in Germany of Rape U.S....
6/10/1997	Ralston Withdraws From Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Consideration Air Force General Joseph Ralston has withdrawn his name for consideration as the next Chair of the Joint Chief of Staff, the highest non-civilian military post....
6/5/1997	Clinton's Lawyer Decides Not to Explore Jones' Sex Life U.S....
6/4/1997	Army Men Retire, Move, Get Discharged The commander of Aberdeen Proving Ground has announced his retirement from the Army after the discovery of an affair he had with a civilian woman five years ago during a separation from his wife....
5/23/1997	Abortion Clinic Arsons And Bombings Reach Highest Rate Since 1984 Peak Domestic Terrorism Increases Washington, DC - Alarmed by a resurgent wave of abortion clinic arsons and bombings across the nation, Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal stated, "Today's arson of the Lovejoy Surgicenter marks the eleventh abortion clinic arson or bombing of 1997 -- the highest rate since 1984....
3/31/1997	Afghan Woman Stoned to Death for Spending Time with Non-Relative Early on March 29th, Taliban religious rulers stoned an Afghan woman to death who had spent time with a man who was not one of her relatives....
3/28/1997	Secretary of Health and Human Services Encourages Girls to Enter Sports The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports released results of a study today which show the female high school athletes receive better grades, are less likely to drop out of school, more likely to go to college, and develop fewer health problems than their non-athletic counterparts....
3/28/1997	Arkansas Legislature Votes to Ban Abortion Procedure Arkansas Republican Governor Mike Huckabee has promised to sign a bill passed by the State Legislature which outlaws the abortion D&X procedure....
3/21/1997	House Votes to Ban D&X Abortion The House of Representatives voted 295-136 on March 20 to ban the use of the D&X abortion method except in cases where it would save the life of the woman....
3/21/1997	Aberdeen Officer Gets Light Prison Sentence on Sex Charges Aberdeen Proving Ground's Capt....
3/19/1997	Women's Faces Corrupt Men, Says Taleban in Afghanistan The extremist Islamic group controlling much of Afghanistan, the Taleban, ordered Kabul residents to paint their windows opaque so neighbors would not see women's faces inside the homes....
3/14/1997	Operation Rescue Demonstrates in California High Schools Operation Rescue anti-abortion activists have been picketing four high schools in California....
3/11/1997	Congressional Hearings Held on D&X; New York State Senate Votes to Ban the Procedure The full Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing on the D&X abortion procedure on March 11....
3/11/1997	Citadel Punishes Nine, Expels One for Hazing, Harassment Officials at South Carolina’s military school the Citadel announced Monday, March 10 that one male cadet had been dismissed and nine others punished for participating in the hazing and harassment of female cadets Kim Messer and Jeanie Mentavlos who left the school in December because of the treatment....
3/10/1997	Clinton Firm on Protecting Health of Women in Late-Term Abortion Debate In the face of renewed opposition to the rare D&X abortion procedure, President Clinton is standing by his decision last spring to veto legislation that would have banned the procedure with no exception to save a woman’s health....
3/7/1997	International Women's Day Celebrations Planned "International Women’s Day is an occasion to review how far women have come in their struggle for equality, peace, and development....
3/7/1997	Citadel Hazing Hearing Results to be Announced The results of the Citadel's disciplinary hearings for 11 male cadets accused of hazing will be announced on Monday, March 10, the South Carolina military college said....
2/27/1997	Senate Votes for Unrestricted Release of International Family Planning Funds The Senate has voted 53-46 in favor a joint-resolution granting President Clinton’s request to release $385 million for international family planning on March 1 instead of July 1....
2/27/1997	Groups Urge Confirmation Hearing for Herman Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal, together with other national women's leaders launched a campaign for the confirmation of Alexis Herman, nominee for U.S....
2/26/1997	Report Says Lesbians and Gay Men Are Targeted for Abuse According to “Breaking the Silence,” a report by Amnesty International, lesbians and gay men are killed, tortured and imprisioned on the basis of their sexual orientation and face prosecution in up to 60 countries....
2/26/1997	Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Urges Fast-Track Confirmation for ALEXIS HERMAN WASHINGTON, D.C....
2/26/1997	Senate Votes for Unrestricted Release of International Family Planning Funds The Senate has voted 53-46 in favor a joint-resolution granting President Clinton’s request to release $385 million for international family planning on March 1 instead of July 1....
2/26/1997	Report Says Lesbians and Gay Men Are Targeted for Abuse According to “Breaking the Silence,” a report by Amnesty International, lesbians and gay men are killed, tortured and imprisioned on the basis of their sexual orientation and face prosecution in up to 60 countries....
2/26/1997	Groups Urge Confirmation Hearing for Herman Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal, together with other national women's leaders launched a campaign for the confirmation of Alexis Herman, nominee for U.S....
2/18/1997	Ex-Citadel Cadet Tells of Brutal Hazing Jeanie Mentavlos, one of the two female cadets who left the Citadel in January after a semester, has detailed the series of mental and physical abuse which she endured....
2/10/1997	Two Senators Call for Suspension of Top Army Official Accused of Sexual Harassment Citing that drill sergeants accused of misconduct are suspended from training duties, Republican Senators Olympia Snowe (ME) and Rick Santorum (PA) both stated on February 7th that the Army should suspend Gene McKinney....
1/29/1997	Fifth Soldier Accused of Sex Crime at Aberdeen The Army announced on January 28 that a fifth soldier, Sgt....
1/24/1997	Air Force Colonel Faces Court-Martial for Sexual Harassment Col....
1/22/1997	Military Sex Scandal Widens The Army announced January 21 that it has charged a fourth instructor at Maryland’s Aberdeen Proving Ground with sexual misconduct....
1/22/1997	Judge Rejects Doubled Bail for Alleged Rapist Alex Kelly, the alleged rapist of two high school girls in the late 80s, will face a $1 million bond instead of the $2 million sought by the prosecution....
1/16/1997	New Feminist Majority Foundation Survey Finds Severe Anti-abortion Violence Still Plagues Almost One-Third of Clinics The Feminist Majority Foundation was joined by National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood Federation of America in releasing current statistics on clinic violence and calling for improved law enforcement response....
1/16/1997	New Feminist Majority Foundation Survey Finds Severe Anti-abortion Violence Still Plagues Almost One-Third of Clinics Data Refute Spate of News Articles Saying Violence Is Over WASHINGTON, D.C....
1/14/1997	Citadel President Addresses Cadets About Hazing Incidents Clifton Poole, interim president for the Citadel, spoke to the 1,700-member Corps of Cadets at the South Carolina military college on January 13 after two of the four female first-year cadets announced they would not be returning to the formerly all-male school....
1/13/1997	Survey Shows Women Feel Mistreated While Traveling A recent study by Uniglobe Travel (International) Inc....
1/8/1997	Women Break Barriers in Japanese Workforce Soon, a Japanese sport dominated by men for over 1,000 years will open up to women athletes....
1/3/1997	Ireland Consider Reforms in Handling Violent Crimes Committed Against Women A working group established in 1995 by the National Women’s Council of Ireland and funded by the Department of Justice has recommended eighty-four reforms to the Minster of Justice in dealing with violent crimes against women....
1/3/1997	Women Slowly Making Progress in Workplace A new study conducted by the Population Reference Bureau has found that women have made slow progress toward achieving equity with men in the workplace....
1/2/1997	Female Cadets' Lawyers Ask for Hazing Evidence from the Citadel The lawyers of female Citadel cadets who were hazed during their first semester by upper-class cadets have requested evidence from the military institute....
12/19/1996	VOA Sex Discrimination Suit Coming to Close Voice of America, a government sponsored overseas radio broadcasting program, faces sex discrimination claims in excess of $500 million dollars....
12/13/1996	Army Drill Sergeant Receives Dishonorable Discharge for Sexual Assault Fort Leonard Wood Staff Sergeant Anthony S....
12/12/1996	Reprisals for Sexual Harassment Complaints in the LAPD Appearing before the council's Personnel Committee during a sexual harassment hearing, Penny Harrington of the Feminist Majority Foundation's National Center for Women in Policing testified that women in the Los Angeles Police Department who complain of sexual harassment face reprisals from their co-workers....
12/10/1996	Afghan Women Punished for Disobeying Strict Dress Codes The fundamentalist Islamic Taleban militia has disclosed that it punished 225 women who did not follow its strict clothing rules....
12/10/1996	Feinstein Seeks to Amend Welfare Legislation Stating that welfare reform will devastate California residents, Senator Dianne Feinstein wants to amend the newly-passed legislation....
12/9/1996	Study Finds Female Inmate Population Faces Large Assault Risk A study released by the Human Rights Watch has found that women in state prisons in the U.S....
12/2/1996	Supreme Court Blocks Challenge to Clinic Violence Law The Supreme Court rejected without comment the appeal of an anti-abortion protester who claimed she was wrongly denied a jury trial for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act....
10/11/1996	Rock Bands Perform Benefit Concert to Stop Violence Against Abortion Clinics MORPHINE, LETTERS TO CLEO, BUFFALO TOM’S BILL JANOVITZ, FUZZY AND GIGOLO AUNTS O PERFORM SAFE AND SOUND BENEFIT CONCERT TUESDAY, Oct....
5/24/1996	Naval Lt. Commander Faces Court-Martial for Rape Lt....
5/21/1996	Anti-Abortion Extremist Barred from Stalking Clinic Head In a ruling Thursday (5-16), Oregon Judge Thomas L....
5/16/1996	Nebraska Bishop Excommunicates Pro-Choice Catholics Wednesday (5-15) was Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz' deadline for Catholics in his diocese to quit 12 groups or face excommunication....
5/7/1996	Judge Blocks Wisconsin Abortion Waiting Period U.S....
5/2/1996	Japanese Women Challenge Sexual Harassment On Wednesday (5-1), Washington Post printed a feature article on the pervasive nature of sexual harassment in Japanese companies....
4/29/1996	GREAT CALIFORNIA CON GAME STARTS NATIONAL TOUR HIGH-STAKES SHELL GAME BEING PLAYED OUT WITH UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SEATS AS THE CHIPS The great California Con Game announced the start of its national tour....
4/25/1996	Fauziya Kasinga Released From Jail The Immigration and Naturalization Service freed Fauziya Kasinga of Togo from jail and scheduled her precedent-setting request for U.S....
4/24/1996	INS To Argue Female Genital Mutilation Grounds for Political Asylum The Immigration and Naturalization Service has announced that it will argue in court that female genital mutilation is grounds for political asylum in the U.S....
4/23/1996	Women Face Tough Fight for Superintendent Jobs Although almost 75 percent of elementary and secondary teachers are women and the number of women qualified to be public school superintendents is increasing, women still make up only 10 percent of all superintendents nationwide....
4/22/1996	Women Face Tough Fight for Superintendent Jobs Although almost 75 percent of elementary and secondary teachers are women and the number of women qualified to be public school superintendents is increasing, women still make up only 10 percent of all superintendents nationwide....
4/20/1996	Owner of Professional Football Team Charged with Sexual Assault Ken Behring, owner of the professional football team the Seattle Seahawks, is being sued by a former employee for general and punitive damages on charges of sexual assault and battery....
4/16/1996	Male Police Officer Guilty of Sexual Assault, Kidnapping A jury convicted a San Francisco police officer Monday (4-15) of forced copulation and kidnapping by use of police authority but acquitted him of aggravated kidnapping for the purpose of rape....
4/10/1996	Pharmacist Convicted in Planned Assault A jury in Contra Costa County convicted a man Tuesday (4-9) of assaulting a woman in her home despite his claims that the attack was part of a kinky sex scheme....
4/3/1996	Girls Kidnapped in Columbia, Possibly Sold Into Prostitution In the neighborhood of La Manuelita in Columbia, seven girls aged 11 to 15 have been kidnapped in the last year....
3/27/1996	Grand Jury Indicts Anti-Abortion Arsonists Jennifer Sperle and Clark Martin, Virginia anti-abortion activists, were indicted on federal conspiracy and arson charges for fires at two clinics....
3/25/1996	Patrolman Cleared of Federal Civil Rights Charges in Highway Harassment Episode Claiming that the harassing and physically abusive actions of Lance Cpl....
3/15/1996	Political Assault on Poor Women Continues Several developments in the world of welfare reform surfaced Thursday (3-15)....
3/12/1996	Salvi Defense Calls Last Witness In the murder trial of abortion clinic gunman John Salvi, the defense called its last witness Monday (3-11) and was expected to finish presenting evidence Tuesday....
3/1/1996	Witnesses for Defense Describe Salvi’s Church Outburst The defense called former New Hampshire state Sen....
2/29/1996	Navy Cook Sentenced for Sexual Harassment On Tuesday, Chief Petty Officer George Powell was convicted of indecent assault, simple assault, and drunk and disorderly conduct for sexually harassing an enlisted woman on a commercial jet in October of 1995 and another woman on a flight in November....
2/28/1996	Prosecutors Rest in Salvi Case; Defense Tries to Show Evidence of Schizophrenia On Tuesday, prosecutors rested their case in the murder trial of John Salvi, accused of murdering two women in an attack on two abortion clinics in Brookline, Mass....
2/27/1996	Salvi Script Shows Motivation, Delusions of Grandeur Shortly before attacking two abortion clinics and killing two people, John Salvi portrayed himself as a rebel combating an evil, anti-Christian cabal in a skit he wrote....
2/20/1996	Court Upholds Injunction Against Abortion Protester In a unanimous opinion Friday, a federal appeals court upheld a permanent injunction issued last March by U.S....
10/31/1995	Filipino Maid Sentenced to 100 Lashes and Year in Prison A Filipino maid accused of killing her male employer received a sentence of 100 lashes, a year in prison, a monetary penalty and faces deportation....
10/23/1995	Canadian New Democratic Party Elects Female Leader On October 14th, Canada's left-wing party elected Alexa McDonough, 51, as its new leader....
10/20/1995	Clinton Backs Anti-Discrimination Bill for Homosexuals White House officials announced Thursday that President Clinton supports a bill which would outlaw workforce discrimination against homosexuals....
10/20/1995	Navy Officer Acquitted of Sexual Harassment Charges A panel of five admirals and three captains, which included two women, found Captain Everett Greene innocent of "unduly familiar personal relationships." Two of his subordinates accused Greene, who at the time processed sexual harassment claims for th e Navy, of making them feel uneasy at work by repeatedly sending them cards and gifts....
10/20/1995	Navy Officer Acquitted of Sexual Harassment Charges A panel of five admirals and three captains, which included two women, found Captain Everett Greene innocent of "unduly familiar personal relationships." Two of his subordinates accused Greene, who at the time processed sexual harassment claims for th e Navy, of making them feel uneasy at work by repeatedly sending them cards and gifts....
10/17/1995	Supreme Court Rejects Appeal from Anti-Abortion Demonstrators The Supreme Court yesterday, without comment, turned down an appeal claiming that a San Jose ordinance banning picketing near a doctor's private residence violated the free speech clause....
10/13/1995	Navy Officer Responsible for Handling Sexual Harrassment Claims Accused of Sexual Harrassment The Navy officer responsible for handling sexual and racial harrassment complaints is undergoing a court martial for allegedly sexually harassing two female subordinates....
10/13/1995	Navy Officer Responsible for Handling Sexual Harrassment Claims Accused of Sexual Harrassment The Navy officer responsible for handling sexual and racial harrassment complaints is undergoing a court martial for allegedly sexually harassing two female subordinates....
10/11/1995	Gingrinch and AMA Strike Deal The American Medical Association announced Tuesday night its support for the G.O.P Medicare plan....
10/10/1995	Abortion Foes Gearing Up for Congressional Battles National Right to Life members flooded fax machines and e-mail boxes with a clear and simple message, "defeat the $243 billion defense bill" -- the bill contained a single clause relating to abortion....
9/29/1995	University Costs Rise by 6%, Congress Considers Cutting Back Student Loan Programs An annual survey released on Thursday by the College Board indicates that College tuition and fees rose by six percent this school year....
9/12/1995	U.S. Women Still Face Discrimination In a poll of three-thousand women, eighty-four percent stated that they still face more restrictions than men....
9/11/1995	WOMEN'S RIGHTS ADVOCATES ADVANCE PLATFORM FOR ACTION Women's advocates claimed victory today as two measures that had faced stiff opposition from anti-abortion and conservative delegations were approved....
9/9/1995	Huariou Forum Ends With Ceremony and Final Press Conference The final day in Huairou was, again, wet and muddy, as NGO participants conducted their last day of work and workshops....
9/5/1995	Teachers' Unions On the Defensive The conservative political climate now endangers teachers' unions, which face attack from both federal and state governments....
8/30/1995	NOW asks for Reynolds' Resignation NOW has called on Representative Mel Reynolds to quit immediately....
8/29/1995	Clintons Mark Anniversary of Women's Suffrage, Hillary Clinton Heads to Beijing While celebrating the 75th anniversary of the nineteenth amendment in Wyoming, the Clintons reiterated the importance of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on women....
8/29/1995	Packwood Shifts Course, Wants Hearings in Public Senator Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) announced on Friday that he now does want the Senate ethics committee to conduct public hearings on charges against him of sexual misconduct....
8/28/1995	Bank Merger to Adversely and Disproportionately Affect Women Workers The board of directors of Chase Manhattan Bank and Chemical Banking announced today that they have voted on a $10 billion stock swap to merge the two banks in an effort to save $1.5 billion annually....
1/21/1995	*Rock for Choice Roe v. Wade* Anniversary Show Taking an electric and eclectic stand against anti-abortion violence,Primus, Fishbone, Face to Face, No Doubt, The Geraldine Fibbers,Possum Dixon, Weapon of Choice, and Stone Fox performed during the Feminist Majority's Rock for Choice** Roe v....

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