Arsonists set fire to a clinic in Albuquerque last week. The fire, which was set late Thursday night, burned the clinic’s exam room and caused smoke damage throughout the building, reports the KOAT News. No one was injured. According to Jake Gonzales of the ATF Albuquerque office, witnesses from a nearby hotel that overlooks the […]
A Texas woman filed a federal lawsuit in May against Halliburton and its former subsidiary KBR, stating that she was drugged and gang-raped by a group of her co-workers in the KBR camp in the Green Zone in Iraq in 2005. The woman, Jamie Leigh Jones, says after the attack she was held without food […]
Former Fresno State women’s basketball coach Stacy Johnson-Klein was awarded $19 million last week in a sex discrimination lawsuit against the school. Johnson-Klein argued that she was fired in March 2005 because she is a woman and because she advocated for gender equality at the university. She also argued that the school investigated her when […]
Feminist Jelveh Javaheri”s arrest makes her the second feminist to be arrested in Iran in two weeks for campaigning for women”s rights. Jelveh Javaheri was charged with “publishing false information”, “disturbing public opinion”, and “publicity against the Islamic Republic” by setting up her internet advocacy website “We-Change”, Reporters Without Borders reports. Approximately 33 women have […]
Starting last Saturday, Princeton University now subsidizes oral contraceptive for its students in the face of the growing birth control pricing crisis. The university subsidy program allows students to purchase generic oral contraception for $6 a month, reports the Associated Press. Birth control prices have skyrocketed, some up to $50/month, as a consequence of the […]
The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), launched an investigation this week into mismanagement of the Rabia Balkhi Women’s Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. The investigation follows a report by the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) that highlights the serious concerns of health experts about the situation at Rabia Balkhi. A contractor’s assessment of […]
Mass graves containing what is believed to be the bodies of murdered women are being uncovered by forensic teams in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The teams want to take DNA samples from the remains in an effort to identify the bodies, reports the Associated Press. Since 1993 women, mostly poor mothers working in the industrial border […]
According to a preliminary report released this week by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the teen birth rate in the US rose for the first time since 1991. The report is based on a review of more than 99 percent of the birth certificates from last year and reflects a 3 […]
The University of Colorado announced on Monday that it will settle a Title IX lawsuit that accused the university of deliberate indifference to sexual harassment and assault by football players and recruits. The plaintiffs, two women who were allegedly raped by football players at an off campus party in 2001, will receive $2.85 million. The […]
The Brazilian Congress has assigned a committee to probe into allegations that a fifteen year old girl was raped repeatedly after being placed in the same cell as twenty male offenders in the state of Para. The girl says that she was forced to exchange sex for food with the inmates, and raped persistently for […]
A Kansas grand jury investigation on Dr George Tiller, one of the few late-term abortion providers for women with troubled pregnancies and complicated health problems, is set to begin January 8, 2008. The investigation is the result of a citizen petition circulated by anti-abortion extremist groups. Kansas is one of six states that allows citizens […]
The California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery (CA ACTS) Task Force released its Final Report, Human Trafficking in California, on Tuesday. The 18-month study found that California is a top destination for human traffickers who coerce people into the sex trade or labor through force or fraud, reports the Associated Press. The 19-member task […]
Falak Jamaani has become the first woman to win a seat in Jordan”s outside of the country”s quota system for women in the legislature. The victory increases the number of female members of Parliament in Jordan from six to seven, Women’s eNews reports. Jordan’s quota system reserves six seats in the 110 seat lower- parliament […]
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. With this deal, the charges against Mychal Bell, 17, will be sharply reduced. Walters dropped the conspiracy charge, and Bell pled guilty to a juvenile charge of second-degree […]
A Detroit pharmacist is suing his former employer, Target, alleging that he was fired for refusing to dispense emergency contraceptives. The pharmacist, Brian Bundy, claims that Target violated the US Civil Rights Act of 1964 by not accommodating his religious beliefs, reports the Daily Women’s Health Policy Report. Bundy was fired seven months after the […]
Don Imus returned to radio this morning, less than a year after CBS Radio fired him for using a racist, sexist slur when describing the Rutgers women’s basketball team. Imus’s new show is broadcast by Citadel Broadcasting Corp’s ABC Radio Networks and is based out of New York City’s 77WABC, one of 243 Citadel stations. […]
The Elliot Group, an anti-abortion group based out of Springfield, Illinois, is seeking to add a ballot initiative to the Missouri 2008 election that could greatly reduce access to abortion in the state. The Elliot Group claims that abortion causes long-term physical, psychological and emotional problems. The proposal would require doctors to extensively review any […]
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have sought refuge in Syria since the US invasion of Iraq. Barred from conventional work, women and girls have been forced into the sex trade to support themselves and their families, reports the BBC. Syrian authorities and aid agencies state that exact numbers of young women in their teens working […]
President Bush’s proposed budget for 2008 would cut half a million people from the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, which provides, among other things, food vouchers for low-income pregnant women, new mothers, and children. Bush has proposed $5.4 billion in funding to serve about 8.3 million people. However, the caseload has increased to 8.5 […]
A Johnson County, Kansas judge refused this week to prevent a Kansas grand jury investigation of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, Kansas. The investigation is a result of a citizen’s petition circulated by a coalition of anti-abortion extremist groups, including Operation Rescue. Robert Eye, an attorney for Planned Parenthood, argued that since all […]
