A new campaign in Afghanistan urges women to vote – specifically, for candidates that support their rights and equality.
UN Agencies Condemn Violence Against Women in Afghanistan
UN Women, the United Nations agency committed to gender equality and women’s empowerment, condemned the recent intimidation and targeted killings of Afghan women government officials. Several prominent women have been intimidated, abducted, and killed – including Afghanistan’s most senior female police officer, Lieutenant Negar, who died on Monday after being shot by an unidentified gunman […]
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Founding Feminists: September 17, 1909
Now that the nation’s largest suffrage organization is situated in such a strategic location, and rent is not a burden, the future of the cause seems very bright.
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Millions of Americans Will Pay Under $100 Monthly for Obamacare Coverage
6.4 million Americans will be able to buy health insurance for $100 or less per month using the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplace.
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New USAID Projects Aim to Empower Afghan Women
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has recently announced several programs aimed at empowering women and girls in Afghanistan. The three-year women’s empowerment project launched last week aims to strengthen the Ministry of Women’s Affairs’ (MoWA) capacity to support women. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs Organizational Restructuring and Empowerment Project (MORE), which will […]
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Founding Feminists: September 16, 1918
There has been more progress in the past five years than in the sixty-five that preceded it, so “more of the same” by both factions should produce the result that all suffragists desire: “Votes for Women” in all 48 States, and permanently assured.
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Rape Survivor Settles Lawsuit with Wesleyan and Fraternity
A former Wesleyan University student who was sexually assaulted in 2010 at a fraternity house, nicknamed by students the “rape factory,” has settled a $10 million lawsuit against the university and the fraternity chapter.
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Supreme Court to Decide New Abortion Pill Case
An Oklahoma law that could outlaw all drug-induced abortions – and could have a sweeping impact on other abortion laws across the nation – is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Top Female Afghan Police Officer Murdered
Afghan Lieutenant Negar, the most senior female police officer in Afghanistan, died early Monday morning, one day after being shot by unidentified gunmen. Negar, who only goes by one name like many Afghans, was shot in the neck outside her home in the province of Helmand on Sunday. She is the third top policewoman to […]
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Pakistan to Release Head of Taliban Military Operations
Pakistan announced last week that it would free captured Taliban commander Mullah Adbul Ghani Baradar later this month. Baradar is one of the founders of the Taliban and was second in command when he was captured in Karachi through a joint operation between Pakistani and American intelligence forces in February 2010. At the time of […]
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Washington DC Mayor Vetoes Large Retailer Wage Bill
Vincent Gray vetoed a bill Thursday that would have forced big retailers, like Walmart and Target, to pay wages higher than the capital’s current minimum of $8.25.
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Australia Will Debate Personhood Law
If a new proposal in the Australian state of South Wales becomes law, women who abort a fetus after 20 weeks could be charged with grievous bodily harm.
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Over 100 Women Arrested While Protesting House Inaction on Immigration Reform
The 104 women included 20 undocumented immigrants, the largest number of undocumented immigrant women to willingly submit to arrest.
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Men Convicted in New Delhi Gang Rape Sentenced to Death
The four men found guilty Tuesday of the fatal gang-rape of a 23 year-old student in New Delhi, India have been sentenced to death by hanging. AP reports that they will be hanged. Vinay Sharma, Ashkay Thakur, Pawan Gupta, and Mukesh Sing were convicted of murder, rape, and kidnapping; last December, they tortured and raped […]
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Founding Feminists: September 12, 1967
Are being quite young, very attractive, and an unmarried woman “bona fide occupational qualifications” for being a flight attendant?
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Domestic Workers’ Rights Bill Heads to California Governor’s Desk
A bill that would protect the rights of domestic workers has passed the California State Senate.
Women Commit Majority of Suicides in Afghanistan
95 percent of all suicides in Afghanistan are committed by women and girls. According to officials at the Ministry of Public Health yesterday at World Suicide Prevention Day in Kabul, more than 2,500 Afghan women have already committed suicide in 2013. Experts cited extreme levels of violence against women and forced marriage between young girls […]
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Founding Feminists: September 11, 1917
Over the past eight months, pickets have endured extreme cold and heavy snow, then rain, heat and humidity, criticism from more conservative suffragists, attacks by mobs, and finally arrests and lengthy sentences in the harshest of prisons.
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Judge Declares Indiana’s Anti-Labor Law Unconstitutional
Indiana state Superior Court judge John Sedia recently ruled that Indiana’s “right-to-work” law is unconstitutional.
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