U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday spoke of women and children’s critical role in peacemaking as part of the “Vital Voices: Women in Democracy” conference, held in Northern Ireland. Clinton urged the audience not to let recent terrorist activities against pacifists to deter them from their quest for peace between Protestants and Catholics, saying […]
More and more South Korean women are obtaining paid jobs outside of the home due to financial difficulties brought by widespread economic turmoil in the region. Traditional values that formerly limited women’s sphere to their roles as wives and mothers are crumbling, at least partially due to economic need. Before the Asian financial crisis began […]
Rukshana Naz was seven months pregnant and living in the U.K. when her mother and two brothers allegedly strangled her, stuffed her body into a sack, and then dumped her in a field. Officials first learned of the crime after one of Naz’s brothers confessed the murder to his girlfriend, who then reported the crime […]
The Missouri House approved a ban on certain surgical abortion procedures Tuesday by a vote of 127 to 29. The bill defines the performance of certain surgical abortion procedures as infanticide, which is a felony offense. The measure includes an exception for doctors who perform the procedure to save a pregnant woman’s life, but not […]
The mother of slain gay college student Matthew Shepard appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday in attempt to convince members to support the Hates Crimes Prevention Act, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. The proposed bill would strengthen existing hate crimes legislation so that the federal government could prosecute individuals who commit […]
On Saturday, Nancy Mace became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, a formerly all-male military college. The Citadel reluctantly accepted Shannon Faulker as its first female student in 1995 after Faulker won a 3-year legal battle against the school. Faulker’s lawyers argued that the school was legally obligated to admit women because it […]
Maiti Nepal is a non-governmental organization that works to protect Nepali from sex traffickers and aids women who have been forced into sex work. Between 5,000 and 7,000 Nepali women are lured to India each year with promises of legitimate work, and are later forced to prostitute themselves at brothels. Maiti Nepal offers job and […]
A Kaiser Family Foundation study found that 98% of women who obtained an abortion rated their overall care as either “excellent” (60%), “very good” (26%), or “good” (12%). Ninety-six percent said that would recommend their abortion provider to loved ones. The study was conducted by The Picker Institute, a Boston-area health care quality assessment and […]
Two Filipina women who allegedly provided abortions in the western city of Jeddah, Saudia Arabia, have been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and deportation. The women, who were not identified by the Saudi al-Iktisadiyeh newspaper, were found to have “abortion tools” in their house. Court President Sheikh Hussein al-Hikmi told the newspaper that officials found […]
A survey conducted by Jane Doe Inc. Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence found that nearly 12,000 women and children were denied access to shelters in the state due to overcrowding and lack of resources. For every woman or child who was admitted into a Massachusetts shelter, at least three more were turned […]
Magnetic resonance imaging, commonly known as MRI, has been found effective in identifying and assessing the severity of invasive lobular breast cancer, a type of breast cancer that often defies detection using traditional mammography screening. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania conducted a small study of 28 women with invasive lobular carcinoma and found that […]
The search for James Charles Kopp intensified yesterday after officials charged him with second degree murder and with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act by using deadly force to block access to an abortion clinic. Kopp is also wanted for questioning in four shootings of abortion providers known as the “Remembrance Day” […]
Women’s and volunteer organizations across the country are planned special celebrations to honor poor and homeless mothers this Mother’s Day, May 9. The Women’s Lunch Place of Boston will sponsor an elegant lunch, music and dancing for women and their children. San Francisco’s Hamilton Family Center, an emergency shelter for women, will offer women free […]
The Indonesian Women’s Coalition for Justice and Democracy created an e-mail list to foster communication between women’s rights group in Indonesia and to communicate information about the violence and human rights violations that women face there. The list, moderated by Nani Buntarian is credited with recruiting 500 participants for the Indonesian’s Women’s Congress in just […]
Research conducted by the United Kingdom’s Open University, Bournemouth University, and the University of Hertfordshire indicates that the gender of images used in software programs may influence boys and girls’ ability to master them. In the study, 11 and 12-year-olds were given problem-solving exercises which used either stereotypically masculine images including pirates, ships and planes, […]
A nationwide survey published in the Women’s Encyclopedia of Natural Health reveals that three quarters of American women are misinformed about their number-one health risk. Only 24% of the 503 women surveyed gave the correct answer of heart disease. The most common incorrect answer, given by 48% of survey respondents, was breast cancer. The next […]
Police have issued an arrest warrant for James C. Kopp, 44, of St. Albans, Vt., in the October 23, 1998 sniper-style shooting of abortion provider Dr. Barnett Slepian. Slepian was killed in the kitchen of his Amherst, NY home shortly after he and his family had returned from synagogue. “We have probable cause to believe […]
Polar explorers Ann Bancroft and Liv Arneson dream of becoming the first all-women team to ski across Antarctica. If successful, Bancroft and Arneson will also have skiied the longest distance ever covered by women. The “Bancroft Arnesen Expedition” is slated to begin in November of 2000, when the duo will begin their 2,400-mile trek through […]
A man who stuck his tongue into the mouth of a sleeping woman got quite an unpleasant surprise when the woman bit off part of his tongue. The woman was alone at the time, sleeping in her home in Kedah, Malaysia. She told police that she instinctively bit down when she woke to find a […]
The December 6 Fund was named in remembrance of the “Montreal Massacre” of December 6, 1989, when 14 women were murdered at the University of Montreal’s Äcole Polytechnique. The killer, Marc Levine, said he killed the women because he “hated feminists.” Founded by a group of domestic violence shelter workers and other women’s advocates, the […]
