The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Tuesday to consider the scope of a federal law that bans people who have been convicted of domestic violence from owning a gun.
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Texas Health Care Providers File Lawsuit To Protect Abortion Access
Last week over a dozen women’s health care providers in Texas filed a joint lawsuit to immediately block two provisions of a law that would reduce women’s access to safe and legal abortion. Texas House Bill 2 gained national spotlight after Texas state Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) held a marathon filibuster to defeat the […]
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Founding Feminists: October 2, 1918
Yesterday’s defeat has only served to make suffragists in all States even more determined to flex their political muscles in the upcoming election.
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NYC Council Passes Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Employers will now be required to provide reasonable accommodations for a worker’s needs related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.
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Afghan Human Rights Leader Sima Samar Named in Top 10 Most Influential Women List
Dr. Sima Samar, head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), has been named one of the Top 10 Most Influential Women in South and Central Asia for 2013 by Central and South Asia Business. As chairperson of the AIHRC, Dr. Samar oversees the progress of human rights education programs across Afghanistan, the implementation […]
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Founding Feminists: October 1, 1918
The speeches by pro-suffrage Senators today were as eloquent and impassioned as they had been during yesterday’s debate.
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Health Insurance Marketplaces Open Today
“Don’t be fooled by the scare tactics. If you have insurance, you won’t lose it, but for the 50 million who do not, this is a great deal.”
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US Justice Department To Sue NC Over Voting Law
The US Justice Department sued North Carolina yesterday over the state’s new restrictive voting law. The lawsuit challenges four parts of the new law: the photo identification provision, the shortening of the early voting period, the elimination of same-day voter registration during the early-voting period, and the prohibition on counting provisional ballots cast by voters […]
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Impact of Government Shutdown Felt by the Most Vulnerable
The US government shut down today after the Democratic-controlled Senate rejected the Republican-controlled House of Representatives’ measure that would keep the government operating for 10 weeks in exchange for a delay in implementing parts of the Affordable Care Act. As a result, over 800,000 federal workers will be furloughed and a variety of government services […]
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Founding Feminists: September 30, 1918
It was a truly stunning moment when President Wilson came into the Senate at 1:00 this afternoon and spoke eloquently and unequivocally about the need for women’s suffrage.
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NJ Court Orders State to Allow Gay Marriage
A New Jersey court ruled on Friday that state officials must allow same-sex couples to marry beginning October 21, stating that the current civil union system deprives same-sex couples of equal protection under the law. A spokesman for Republican Governor Chris Christie said the state would appeal the decision, but did not say whether it […]
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Advocates Around the World Mobilize for Abortion Access
On September 28, advocates mobilized in over 50 countries for the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion. A flash mob in Indonesia, a pro-choice picnic in New Zealand, and a silent march in Kenya are examples of the variety of events organized by sexual and reproductive rights organizations and women’s […]
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Founding Feminists: September 27, 1914
On September 14th they began sending speakers with carloads of literature to the districts where Democrats will be up for election in November, hoping to get the West’s four million women voters to replace them with Republicans.
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California To Gradually Raise Minimum Wage
California enacted a law Wednesday that will gradually raise the minimum wage from $8 to $10 an hour.
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95 Percent of Uninsured Will Have Lower Healthcare Premiums than Projected Under Obamacare
Health insurance under the Affordable Care Act will be even more affordable than planned.
Afghanistan Holds First Social Media Summit
Afghanistan held its first social media summit this week in Kabul, the first in a three-part project. The summit – entitled “Paiwand,” meaning “connection” in Dari – was organized by local digital media agency Impassion Afghanistan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Themed “Social Media for Social Good,” the summit brought together over 200 […]
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Founding Feminists: September 26, 1968
Their common purpose was to save the N.W.P.’s headquarters, and the property immediately surrounding it.
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New Trial for Marissa Alexander
Marissa Alexander, the African-American Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for discharging a gun in self-defense, will get a new trial.
READ: 3 Girls Learn International Activists Featured in New Youth Activism Book
Three GLI leaders and activists were featured in STAND UP!, a book centered on “75 young activists who rock the world” which came out last week.
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Founding Feminists: September 25, 1932
“This strange freak of legislation is merely a reaction against the employment of women on the part of men who, after all the remarkable work women have done, still cannot push aside their biased opinions and honestly consider the real good of the service.”