At a population conference in China yesterday, experts said that families in rural areas were still killing baby girls. Saying that female infanticide is considered “a family matter, a private issue,” Professor Zhu Chuzhu said that the practice still isn’t seen as murder to many villagers. Modern neonatal technology that detects the sex of fetuses […]
In Newark, New Jersey, Catholic school students will no longer wear uniforms and athletic clothes produced in sweatshops and will be encouraged not to buy other sweatshop-produced clothes, said Labor Secretary Alexis Herman and Archbishop Theodore McCarrick yesterday. The archdiocese will teach an anti-sweatshop curriculum to 24,000 students in grades 7-12. The authors hope that […]
Over 5,000 women electors voted in yesterday’s elections for Oman’s next consultative council. Women are 10% of Oman’s electoral college. The college voted for 164 candidates out of a field of 736 candidates, including 27 women. This is the first time that women cadidates have been allowed to run. In December, Sultan Qaboos will choose […]
Nebraska’s Court of Appeals has upheld a lower-court ruling that stated “a parent’s sexual activity is insufficient to establish a … change in custody.” In 1995, Thomas Hassenstab filed a suit to reverse Carol Hassenstab’s custody of their child after the divorce. Ms. Hassenstab is a lesbian. The court said there was no evidence that […]
New York Gov. George Pataki signed a bill Tuesday that says police must determine who was the aggressor before arresting anyone in a domestic violence dispute. Women who fight back against their abuser will no longer be arrested for misdemeanor assault, as was the case previously. “Women who are the targets of domestic violence should […]
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has asked U.S. District Judge Alan Nevas to deny a $200 refund to Stanley Scott for violating a court order preventing him from screaming outside an abortion clinic. Nevas has ordered Scott to refrain from shouting anti-abortion invectives outside the Summit Women’s Health Clinic in Bridgeport loud enough so that […]
For the second time, California Gov. Pete Wilson vetoed AB 257, a bill that would have prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation under the state’s Fair Employment and Housing Act. “This is a Governor who claims to be against discrimination and in favor of strong law enforcement — but when he had a […]
Republican New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman is enjoying strong support from women for the upcoming election. At a “Women for Whitman” rally in New Bruswick, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” played in the background while almost 2,000 women shouted “Four more years.” Her campaign spokesman Pete McDonough said Whitman had “bridged the gender […]
Bomb components were found at the home of a man accused of shooting two police officers, leading a bombing task force to suggest the bombings of Olympic park, an Atlanta clinic and a gay nightclub may be linked to the same man. Officer John Sawa, 28, was fatally injured and Officer Patricia Cocciolone, 35, is […]
James F. Nerdrum, who confessed to making 350 bomb threats and committing vandalism and property destruction in Eau Claire, Wis., has been sentenced to up to 60 years in a mental institution and 40 years in prison. Nerdrum surrendered and confessed his guilt after a shoot-out with polive Police say most of his crimes, including […]
The organization responsible for ending affirmative action at the University of Texas, causing a steep decline in minority enrollment, is now attacking the University of Michigan for policies that doubled its minority population in the past decade. The Center for Individual Rights filed a class-action lawsuit against the highly competitive school for denying admission to […]
A survey sponsored by The Women’s Vote Project, a coalition of 110 national women’s groups, found that women who did not vote in 1992 or 1994 lacked information about candidates and issues, and faced difficulty in finding the time and mobility to vote. The survey of 620 women from five states was done to find […]
The brother of an Australian nurse murdered by two British nurses in Saudi Arabia has waived his right to seek the death penalty, in exchange for financial compensation. In return for his clemency, he made a deal for a 1.2 million settlement. The case made international headlines because the strict Islamic law in Saudi Arabia […]
Bomb components were found at the home of a man accused of shooting two police officers, leading a bombing task force to suggest the bombings of Olympic park, an Atlanta clinic and a gay nightclub may be linked to the same man. Officer John Sawa, 28, was fatally injured and Officer Patricia Cocciolone, 35, is […]
James F. Nerdrum, who confessed to making 350 bomb threats and committing vandalism and property destruction in Eau Claire, Wis., has been sentenced to up to 60 years in a mental institution and 40 years in prison. Nerdrum surrendered and confessed his guilt after a shoot-out with polive Police say most of his crimes, including […]
The organization responsible for ending affirmative action at the University of Texas, causing a steep decline in minority enrollment, is now attacking the University of Michigan for policies that doubled its minority population in the past decade. The Center for Individual Rights filed a class-action lawsuit against the highly competitive school for denying admission to […]
A survey sponsored by The Women’s Vote Project, a coalition of 110 national women’s groups, found that women who did not vote in 1992 or 1994 lacked information about candidates and issues, and faced difficulty in finding the time and mobility to vote. The survey of 620 women from five states was done to find […]
According to a study published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, identifying women more likely to carry genetic mutations linked to breast and ovarian cancers may now be easier to do. “This study will assist physicians in determining which patients are at highest risk for having a .. mutation and will help […]
The brother of an Australian nurse murdered by two British nurses in Saudi Arabia has waived his right to seek the death penalty, in exchange for financial compensation. In return for his clemency, he made a deal for a 1.2 million settlement. The case made international headlines because the strict Islamic law in Saudi Arabia […]
Gay rights activists have written an anti-discrimination measure that would prevent discrimination against lesbians and gay men in the workplace. If passed, it will be the first gay rights initiative passed by voters rather than legislators. Despite the fact that the ballot measure also specifically forbids preferential treatment, quotas, and domestic partner benefits and exempts […]
