Just over a week since an unidentified assailant stabbed Dr. Garson Romalis outside his Vancouver medical office, investigators continue their search for the man responsible for the second attack on the abortion provider. While most Canadian anti-abortion groups have denounced the attack on Dr. Romalis, two prominent American anti-abortion extremists have issued inflammatory statements regarding […]
Planned Parenthood has filed a class-action lawsuit against the oldest family-owned drug store chain in the nation charging that the company’s insurance plan that excludes coverage for contraceptives illegally discriminates against women. This case, brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, is not the first effort by women’s groups to demand insurance coverage […]
The Congressional Black Caucus has charged the Republican-controlled US Senate of demonstrating racist and sexist tendencies in confirming judicial appointments. Since November 1999, the Senate has confirmed 42 percent of President Clinton’s white nominees but less than 18 percent of his black nominees. Senators also take approximately two months longer to consider each black nominee […]
More than 50 Burundian women delegates convened in the four-day All-Party Women’s Conference to discuss ways of promoting peace in their country and securing women’s rights. The gathering, sponsored by the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Mwalimu Nyere Foundation, will tackle issues such as establishing women’s constitutional rights, implementing a quota system […]
The Nigerian government will soon create a national committee, Women For Peace, that seeks to unify women in efforts to eradicate gender discrimination and enlarge their roles in the decision-making process concerning national and international conflicts. The special adviser to the president on Women Affairs, Chief Titilayo Ajanaku, emphasized that the committee would be a […]
According to a report released by the British Pregnancy Service (BPAS), 2,460 Irish women a year travel to England for abortions – or twenty women a week. This year, already 1012 women have traveled to England for the procedure. Ann Furedi, the BPAS spokesperson, commented, “There is no denying that Irish women have abortions. Laws […]
With the razor-thin Supreme Court decision in Stenberg v. Carhart protecting abortion rights, the abortion issue is becoming increasingly critical to the presidential race and the selection of Vice Presidential candidates, especially in Bush’s selection of a running mate. The New York Times calls this “the first presidential campaign in which the Republican candidate truly […]
Fr. Frank Pavone and his anti-abortion group Priests for Life held a press conference yesterday to launch their new ad campaign directed at the upcoming presidential election. At the same time, the Feminist Majority Foundation and the Institute for Democracy Studies jointly called attention to Fr. Pavone’s endorsement of anti-abortion extremists and militant tactics. The […]
In response to the brutal murder of Private Barry Winchell last July, the army conducted an investigation of Winchell’s regiment, concluding that “no climate of homophobia existed at the base,” according to the New York Times. Winchell was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat while he was sleeping in his barracks by 19-year-old Private […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) praised Nigeria’s efforts to improve conditions for women there. Georgiana Nngeri-Nwaga, the agency’s representative, commended the ban on female genital mutilation, inclusion of women in policy making, and increased enrollment of girls in school. Despite these advances, however, she noted that the practice of early marriages still exists as […]
The first trials that focus specifically on war crimes committed against women during World War II will be held by the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal in Tokyo in December. The group’s spokesperson, Yayori Matsui, said the event, which was made possible by the Violence Against Women in War-Japan’s Women’s Network (VAWW-NET), will clarify Japan’s […]
A new contraceptive method could be on the market within five years, Edinburgh University scientists hope. Researchers reported yesterday that a male contraceptive pill developed by the Dutch firm Organon was 100% effective, with no harmful side effects, in recent clinical trials run in Scotland and Shanghai. The pill introduces hormones into the bloodstream that […]
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) issued a statement on Friday urging West Virginia law enforcement to thoroughly investigate the fatal beating of Arthur “J.R.” Carl Warren Jr., an African-American gay man. David Allen Parker and Jared Wilson, both white 17-year-olds, have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. But the beating, despite evidence to the […]
Hours after Louisiana Governor Mike Foster signed into law a bill banning so-called “partial-birth” abortions, a group of women’s health care providers filed suit in federal court. The group claims that the bill’s definition of “partial-birth” abortion is overly broad and thus the bill violates a woman’s constitutional right to have an abortion. The suit […]
From July 6-9, 2000, forty-three student feminist activists representing forty-one campuses nation-wide gathered for the fourth annual Feminist Majority Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia to learn pro-choice organizing strategies. The intense and exciting four-day Institute involved workshops on topics ranging from current issues in Reproductive Choice, to How to Fight the Right-Wing Backlash, to How […]
The Feminist Majority Foundation and several campus Leadership Alliances groups recently signed on as endorsers of CARE 2000: The Campaign for Access and Reproductive Equity. CARE 2000 is a two-year multi-issue, grassroots, public education effort to increase awareness of prohibitive federal and state legislation impacting the reproductive health of low-income women, women of color and […]
Looking for ideas on how to get the pro-choice message visible on your campus? The Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP) has created a series of innovative and eye-catching posters concerning women’s right to reproductive choice and access. Order these posters for free for your Leadership Alliance’s pro-choice education campaign! http://www.feministcampus.org/pepads.asp
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Tamil rebels invade schools, homes, and orphanages to seize hundreds of children, some as young as 9 and 10 and many of them girls, and send them into battle against the Sri Lankan Army, reported the University Teachers for Human Rights. Since the rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam began their fight for […]
Women’s groups are fighting to help rape survivors in Thailand, where the stigma and shame associated with rape has pushed thousands of young women into muted suffering and suicide. The rape of young girls is also an important part of a larger campaign that will widen Thai women’s access to abortion and to legal counsel. […]
