women

Trump joins ranks of Sexual Abusers-in-Chief like Gaddafi and Mussolini, but CNN thinks he Deserves a Townhall

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald John Trump was found liable by a jury on Tuesday for having sexually abused and then libeled writer E. Jean Carroll. The only reason he wasn’t also found liable for rape was that the victim said he inserted something else into her– fingers or some instrument — against her […]

Feminism

Post-Roe Abortion Bans force Pregnant People with Life-Threatening Complications to Travel Long Distances

Iowa Capital Dispatch

By: Kelcie Moseley-Morris – An ultrasound image of Jennifer Adkins’ 12-week-old fetus that was diagnosed with Turner syndrome and hydrops fetalis, two defects that are often fatal to the fetus and dangerous for the pregnant person to carry. Adkins had to seek an abortion in Oregon because, like 13 other states across the country, Idaho […]

Houthi

Any New Yemen Truce must allow Participation of Citizens and Civil Society

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Negotiations for a new truce in Yemen by Saudi and Houthi authorities present an opportunity to incorporate accountability and monitoring mechanisms that are essential for protecting Yemenis’ fundamental rights, Human Rights watch said today. Based on news reports, negotiations are apparently making progress. To effectively address Yeminis’ human rights, […]

Feminism

Behind the Ruling: Supreme Court decrees Mifepristone can Remain Available

The Conversation

By Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia and Sonia Suter, George Washington University | – (The Conversation) – The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling on April 21, 2023, that allows continued access to the abortion pill mifepristone in states where abortion is legal. The court’s decision, which included few details and only indicated that […]

Authoritarianism

Many Female Voters see Turkey’s May 14 Elections as Crucial to Future of Women’s Rights

Arzu Geybullayeva

Written byArzu Geybullayeva ( Globalvoices.org) – In a report that was published in 2007 by European Stability Initiative, a think tank, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was hailed for bringing about reforms to empower women since coming to power in 2002. “If this report had been written in 1999, the year Turkey […]

Afghanistan

The Taliban is not playing Straight with the west over Easing of Sanctions – and Women and Girls are paying much of the Price

The Conversation

By Kambaiz Rafi, SOAS, University of London | – The economic and political isolation of Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021 has worsened a humanitarian crisis in the country. The World Food Program has projected that between November 2022 and March 2023 the number of food-insecure Afghans would rise to 20 million – […]

Reproductive Choice

Florida Legislature approves extreme 6-week Abortion Ban, after Weeks of Protests and Debates

Florida Phoenix

By: Danielle J. Brown – In less than a year, Florida has moved from a 15-week abortion ban to the passage of one of the most restrictive bans in the nation — a 6-week abortion ban. The state House approved the legislation after at least six hours of questions, amendments, debate, protests and a […]

Far Right

Physicians: Ruling banning Abortion Pill could harm Women experiencing Life-threatening Miscarriages

Minnesota Reformer

By Kelcie Moseley-Morris and Sofia Resnick A Texas federal judge with a history of anti-abortion beliefs has thrown into jeopardy the most common form of abortion since Roe v. Wade fell last summer. U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk released his decision on the cusp of Easter weekend to pause the Food and Drug […]

Courts

The Dobbs Effect? In Seismic Shift for Wisconsin and the Nation, Progressives attain Majority on State Supreme Court

Wisconsin Examiner

By: Henry Redman – ( Wisconsin Examiner) – As Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz took the stage at her election victory party Tuesday night, the three current members of the liberal minority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court watched from off stage, arm-in-arm, as they took in the moment they became a majority. Protasiewicz, a […]