Women's Rights

                   

Save Wisconsin's compassionate care law

jsonline.com     6 hrs ago          

Posted: Sept. 7, 2008 It took five years of struggle to win passage in 2007 of Wisconsin’s Compassionate Care for Rape Victims bill, which requires hospitals to give rape victims information about emergency contraception...                    

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Jordan ‘honour killings’ cover for other crimes

thenews.com.pk     23 hrs ago   2 related          

Sunday, September 07, 2008 AMMAN: When 18-year-old Maha decided that she wanted to quit her family’s prostitution ring, her brother killed her and claimed it was to “cleanse” the family’s honour. Maha is one of hundreds,...                    

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‘No need for limits on alimony amount’

livemint.com     12 hrs ago          

The changes in divorce legislation over the years notwithstanding, Delhi High Court advocate Anil Amrit does not think personal laws adequately protect the woman’s financial rights. Yet she can get more than the maximum...                    

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Mother of three followed fleeing robbery suspect

post-gazette.com     yesterday   1 related          

Dormont woman felt sense of duty after her bank was robbed By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Eileen McCabe was in her car at the Banksville Plaza Shopping Center when a man jogged in front of her, pulling a...                    

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FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet

nwsource.com     yesterday   5 related          

Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations. By...                    

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4 Iranian woman sent to jail

news24.com     yesterday          

Stockholm - Iran has reportedly sentenced four female activists to six months in prison for writings demanding equality for women, a move denounced on Friday by Sweden, which awarded a human rights prize to one of the...                    

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Prison agrees to boost mental care

jsonline.com     yesterday          

Under the threat of a federal lawsuit, Wisconsin officials have promised to make wide-ranging improvements to mental health care for women being held at Taycheedah Correctional Institution, according to an agreement made...                    

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Five Women Buried Alive -- and the Media Ignore It

alternet.org     yesterday          

Why is it that we get so outraged over war but look the other way when women and girls are beaten and murdered in the name of tradition? According to the Asian Human Rights Commission, the women's "crime" was that they...                    

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Harriet Harman struggles for positive notes as Labour fights economic gloom

timesonline.co.uk     05-Sep-2008          

Harriet Harman is Yin to Gordon Brown's Yang. While the Labour leader quotes Gertrude Himmelfarb's philosophy on the Enlightenment, his deputy hands out recipes for her “foolproof” asparagus tart. He is a state-educated...                    

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Report: Arthur apologizes, denies using marijuana

espn.go.com     06-Sep-2008   59 related          

Updated: September 5, 2008, 6:49 PM ET apologized for his role in an incident at the NBA's rookie transition program earlier this week, but denied ever using marijuana, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported. Wednesday,...                    

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