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2009-07-04: Headlines
Asahi Shimbun: Weekly Report/ Personality: Outsider who won acceptance 2009-07-04
Question: Your dissertation was on Fusae Ichikawa, one of the leaders in the women's rights movement in Japan. Answer: (Like Ichikawa) my mother was active ...
Lower Hudson Journal news: FBI's actions deserve scrutiny 2009-07-04
... organizations such as the women's rights movement, the civil rights movement (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ...
World Socialist Web Site: Sarkozy pushes austerity, anti-immigrant chauvinism 2009-07-04
The presentation of a measure to outlaw personal behaviour based on religious belief as a defence of women's rights is utterly cynical.
Los Angeles Times: Mavis Leno 2009-07-04
Why does it seem like women's rights are always negotiable? We are the first chip that they throw over to the opposition in every country; because it's been ...
U.TV: Rumble in the jungle 2009-07-04
She is a director of the Institution for Research on the Peruvian Amazon, a senior anthropologist and champion of indigenous women's rights.
Buzznet: Excellent news you guys! 2009-07-04
... i mean...good for, women's rights in a higher office than as governor. does this mean i'll be running for president in 2012? it's too early to say ...
San Jose Mercury News: Marketers look to the heavens to honor the first moon walk 2009-07-04
Littleton Coin, known for mail-order numismatics, is selling a two-coin "special collectors set" of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Susan B. Anthony dollars th ...
Oregon Commentator: In Memorandum 2009-07-04
If you're looking at Sarah Palin as a historical figure in women's rights then you seriously don't know anything about America. Including her name in ...
Mormon Times: Founding Mothers: The matriarchs of American independence 2009-07-04
She was an advocate for the rights of women and the emancipation and education of slaves, enrolling at least one young servant boy in the local school ...
Gazette Online: REVIEW: 'Schoolhouse Rock' on a roll at TCR 2009-07-04
The history of women's rights is a challenging number, but Wheeler nailed it with a committed performance that left her just enough breath to shout “Sister ...
Lew Rockwell: Independence and Liberty 2009-07-04
Freedom from chattel slavery, women's rights, religious freedom, the freedom of speech, freedom from conscription – in many of these ...
findingDulcinea: Young and Old Americans at Odds as Generation Gap Widens 2009-07-04
Given the widespread conflicts over the Vietnam War, social issues and women's rights that existed during the 1960s, it's surprising that the generation gap ...
Cinematic Happenings Under Development: A Box Of Gobstoppers And A Pepsi One - The Second Wave 2009-07-03
It will be just as thrilling to see huge toys tear the piss out of each other over a giant Susan B Anthony dollar, with a red button in the center of ...
Ventura County Star: Your Letters: July 3 2009-07-03
... me — who thinks that world domination isn't such a hot thing while global warming, stem-cell research, market regulation, women's rights and jobs are.
Independent: After Suitable Boy, India in frenzy over A Suitable Girl 2009-07-03
Yet as Seth points out, many of the issues important in 1952, when his original story was set, are still important: land reform, the rights of women ...
Daily Kos: A Life of Thoughtful Choices 2009-07-03
... Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women, a male person with a prominent roll in the campaigning for women's rights in the early 1980s.
AllAfrica.com: Nigeria: Amnesty to Militants Encouraging - US 2009-07-03
... especially the rights of women, supporting religious freedom, addressing corruption, and promoting economic, health and educational development," ...
New America Media: Iranian Women Bring Century of Activism to Protests 2009-07-03
In exile in the United States, Ms. Afkhami has been a leading advocate of women's rights for more than three decades. We've seen women at the forefront ...
Inter Press Service: WOMEN'S HEALTH - A SMART INVESTMENT IN TROUBLED TIMES 2009-07-03
Action now to protect the health and rights of women will set the stage not only for economic recovery, but also for economic growth that reduces inequity ...
Kurdish Globe: The journey to the ballot box 2009-07-03
... so far, no side has put forward any revolutionary ideas on how to improve women's rights and the general status of women in Kurdish society.
Weekly Blitz: POPULAR FEMALE BROADCASTER RESIGNS, ALLEGES HARASSMENT 2009-07-03
... by the electronic and print media, but what happens when the guardians of women's rights themselves indulge in unprofessional and disgusting behavior?
EuropeNews: The Silent Holocaust: Why Humanity Must Achieve Victory over Islam 2009-07-03
Islam under any kind of interpretation is and always has been a strong force against secularism, modernism, egalitarianism and women's rights.
EuropeNews: Should America Ban the Burqa? 2009-07-03
... consider banning the burqa not only for security-related reasons but on the grounds of human rights/women's rights and for health-related reasons.
Norristown Times Herald: Former Norristown resident publishes second novel 2009-07-03
He is an advocate for women's rights and the civil rights of minorities. Mr. Capparella was born and raised in Norristown Pennsylvania.
Dollars & Sense: Youth of Color Resist Military Recruiting 2009-07-03
... a movement building organization, focused on the leadership development, well-being, and human rights of women of color across the United States.
Pakistan Christian Post: AWAM organized a consultation meeting with different local NGOs 2009-07-03
They said “Govt. has passed two bills to safeguard the human rights of women, however a tedious, inefficient medical and judicial system, with few women ...
24: Early marriages prevail in Kyrgyz south 2009-07-03
As to Sezim, the UN gender committee has raised concern over several cases of violation of women's rights in Kyrgyzstan.
Express Buzz: 3 killed in Mysore communal clashes 2009-07-03
Go check the women's rights in the muslim countries and you will know. Minorities will always feel opressed - partly because they really are overlooked ...
Japan Focus: Women's Anti-Imperialism, 'The White Man's Burden,' and ... 2009-07-03
... but they were not open to taking on gender inequality along with anti-imperialism, though Susan B. Anthony did seek the support of men in the AIL.
Radio Australia News: Fiji's interim government approves new women's group 2009-07-03
In a statement, Fiji's interim government says the new "Fiji Womens Federation" will be the advocate for, and representative of, women's rights in ...
The Gazette (Montreal): Marley's ghost and other spirits of reggae at the Montreal jazz fest 2009-07-03
Championing women's rights became a lifelong crusade for Sangare, who as a child sang at weddings, baptisms and in the streets to help feed the family ...
EnerPub: Embattled priest works to save child prostitutes 2009-07-03
A lot of work is based around the humanitarian rights of women and children. "We are working for the rights of abused and exploited children ...
Daily News & Analysis: Will floodgates open for women bureaucrats? 2009-07-03
Satyanarayan, who played a significant role fighting for the rights of women bureaucrats, said, "Through my new assignment I will try to strengthen the role ...
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation: Uganda to ban female genital mutilation 2009-07-03
He added that last year, the UN passed a resolution that female genital mutilation violates the rights of women, increase the risk of HIV as well ...
24: About 65 percent of couples prefer not to legalize relations ... 2009-07-03
However it severely violates rights of women and children. The number of single mothers, whose husbands notify about divorcing them by a simple phone call ...
Manila Standard Today: The Nightingale 2009-07-03
By deliberately choosing to make a career out of espousing women's rights and issues and to sing of her gender's trials and tribulations, Susan went down ...
History News Network: Woody Holton: On Money, a Founding Mother Knows Best 2009-07-03
Long famous for her political partnership with her husband and her advocacy for women's rights, Abigail Adams was also something of a financial wizard.
New York Times: Head Scarf Emerges as Indonesia Political Symbol 2009-07-03
... said Siti Musdah Mulia, a professor of Islamic studies at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University here and a leading proponent of women's rights.
Vancouver Sun: Uganda to outlaw female circumcision 2009-07-03
Last year, the United Nations passed a resolution that called female genital mutilation a violation of the rights of women and said it constituted ...
Korea Times: Plight of NK Women Defectors Deepening 2009-07-03
An official of the Coalition for North Korean Women's Rights said the biggest hurdle for them was cultural and language barriers. ``Even though North Kore ...
2009-07-03: Headlines
Ventura County Star: Your Letters: July 3 2009-07-03
... me — who thinks that world domination isn't such a hot thing while global warming, stem-cell research, market regulation, women's rights and jobs are.
FinalCall.com: Native groups seek justice after 'massacre' 2009-07-03
... Mr. Morales instead sent a letter by the hand of Senator Leonilda Zurita, an activist for women's rights and political and trade union freedoms.
New America Media: Iranian Women Bring Century of Activism to Protests 2009-07-03
In exile in the United States, Ms. Afkhami has been a leading advocate of women's rights for more than three decades. We've seen women at the forefront ...
Norristown Times Herald: Former Norristown resident publishes second novel 2009-07-03
He is an advocate for women's rights and the civil rights of minorities. Mr. Capparella was born and raised in Norristown Pennsylvania.
Cumberland Times-News: Chautauqua returns to Garrett College 2009-07-03
Paul was a 20th century women's rights activist and social reformer. A committed Quaker, Paul held an abiding belief in the equality of all people ...
Weekly Blitz: Taslima Nasrin stopped from returning home! 2009-07-03
The South Asian Women's NETwork [SAWNET] reported that the Sahaba Soldiers bombed the home of Sultana Kamal, a women's rights activist and lawyer ...
Radio Australia News: Fiji's interim government approves new women's group 2009-07-03
In a statement, Fiji's interim government says the new "Fiji Womens Federation" will be the advocate for, and representative of, women's rights in ...
Ethiopian Review: UN and World Bank voice concerns about funding for family planning 2009-07-03
“It is not a lack of knowledge that is hindering progress; it is a lack of political will to protect the health and rights of women,” she stated.
Al-Ahram Weekly: Seize the day 2009-07-03
... they need to clarify their position on the rights of women vis-Ã -vis male family members and treat women and men equally in the public domain.
Japan Focus: Women's Anti-Imperialism, 'The White Man's Burden,' and ... 2009-07-03
... but they were not open to taking on gender inequality along with anti-imperialism, though Susan B. Anthony did seek the support of men in the AIL.
New York Times: Head Scarf Emerges as Indonesia Political Symbol 2009-07-03
... said Siti Musdah Mulia, a professor of Islamic studies at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University here and a leading proponent of women's rights.
Manila Standard Today: The Nightingale 2009-07-03
By deliberately choosing to make a career out of espousing women's rights and issues and to sing of her gender's trials and tribulations, Susan went down ...
24: About 65 percent of couples prefer not to legalize relations ... 2009-07-03
However it severely violates rights of women and children. The number of single mothers, whose husbands notify about divorcing them by a simple phone call ...
Mid-Day: Lawyer to make movie for women in live-ins 2009-07-03
However, Sarvate is not the first in his family to fight for the rights of women in live-ins. "My mother was also an advocate who fought for rights of women ...
Huffington Post: 'W' Is for Withdrawal 2009-07-02
As I recall, when we launched our little war on terror, we were championing not only democracy but women's rights -- or was that only in Afghanistan?
Huffington Post: Burqas: When Religion Trumps Citizenship 2009-07-02
France also strongly defends women's rights. Today, these two principles happen to coincide: girls in public high schools are not allowed to wear ...
NPR: Debating The Burqa: Sarkozy Proposes Ban 2009-07-02
... to kind of standing up to the right wing, we must show that we hate what they represent, and too easily give up on women's rights.
Sun-Sentinel.com: In South Florida, students increasingly use hate words as terms ... 2009-07-02
Slur-speaking teens, however, reason that because their generation is far removed from the equal rights, civil rights and women's rights movement ...
Chicago Press Release Services (press release): Janet Rowley Awarded Gruber Genetics Prize for Chromosome Studies 2009-07-02
The Gruber International Prize Program honors contemporary individuals in the fields of Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Justice and Women's Right ...
DemocracyArsenal.org: Should the Burqa be Banned? 2009-07-02
She advocates a burqa ban because the burqa violates women's rights. I agree with almost everything she says regarding the burqa, that it, in effect ...
Reuters: Nobel winner seeks UN human rights envoy for Iran 2009-07-02
Ebadi was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts to promote democracy and human rights, in particular the rights of women and children.
Afrika: Africa: Promoting women's land rights at the 13th AU summit (opinion) 2009-07-02
In its preamble, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women ...
SP.NL: Government must put an end to Sharia practices 2009-07-02
Women's rights are human rights and infringement of these rights by people who want to adhere to oppressive mediaeval traditions is an attack on these ...
Awoko: Stakeholders meet on UNSCR 1325 at Parliament 2009-07-02
... in post conflict situations and transition processes should be respected and the human rights of women and girls in conflict should also be protected.
Hürriyet: Feminists irate over game show 2009-07-02
Women's rights activists react after just two episodes, claiming the show is evidence of the discrimination against women in Turkish society.
Atlantic Online: Scarlett & Jo 2009-07-02
... in a section on Scarlett's drinking about women "who were insane or divorced, or believed, with Miss Susan B. Anthony, that women should have the vote.
Nebraska City News Press: A conversation with author Reza Aslan 2009-07-02
She does some important work for women's rights …but she does no research, no serious investigation. She is someone who had a horrible life experience ...
CPJ Press Freedom Online: Lively debate on the state of press freedom in Managua 2009-07-02
Among them was leading women's rights activist and journalist SofÃa Montenegro , who has also suffered legal persecution during Daniel Ortega's tenure.
New York Times: Ban the Burqa 2009-07-02
A bizarre political correctness has tied the tongues of those who would normally rally to women's rights. One blogger, a woman, lamented that “Sarkozy' ...
Berkeley Daily Planet: Golestan Kids 2009-07-02
But at the same time I am happy Iranians are getting united for democracy, women's rights and freedom of speech,” she said. “That's really fantastic.
Weekly Times Now: Downer political legacy lives on 2009-07-02
Sir John was a visionary and social reformer and argued for the rights of women and children. As a political family history, this is an exceptionally fine ...
National Post: Barbara Kay, Let the defenders of the Burka wear Burkas 2009-07-02
The sixth issue — the sixth issue that I want to address is women's rights. (Applause.) I this issue. I reject the view of some in the West that a woman ...
ISRIA: Norway - MFA - Speeches - Statement at the Conference on the World ... 2009-07-02
We are particularly concerned about the negative impact of the crisis on women's rights and the difficult living conditions of many women.
The National: Envoy Pandith pledges to be a good listener 2009-07-02
The decision to appoint a woman for the post meshes with the administration's broader goal of promoting women's rights in Muslim countries.
ISRIA: UN France - Security Council : Afghanistan - Statement by Je ... 2009-07-02
The issue of women's rights in particular should continue to be a priority of the Afghan Governments. I should also like to reiterate our ongoing concern ...
MiamiHerald.com: Iranian actress says she was born to play the storyteller in ... 2009-07-02
Aghdashloo, who has campaigned for women's rights in the Middle East, said she was born to play Zahra in the new film. "When he first called me about ...
U.S. News & World Report: The Burkha Ban Debate 2009-07-02
Islamic countries have their laws (associated with religion) and France is more than allowed to make its own laws in support of women's rights.
Rabble.ca: Diaspora Iranian students on the country's political dissent 2009-07-02
Panellist Niloofar Golkar was part of the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality in Iran, which advocated for women's rights; she is now studying ...
Phnom Penh Post: Govt ratifies law to protect women 2009-07-02
Son Chhay said he hoped the treaty would push the government towards better protection for women's rights. "Women have the same capacity as men ...
Hour.ca: V for Vixen 2009-07-02
For more information on going top-free and women's rights, check out the Topfree Equal Rights Association online at www.tera.ca.
Pakistan Christian Post: John Dayal writes to Minority Minister for urgent rehabilitati ... 2009-07-02
Ending gender-bias and upholding the rights of women in reforms in Christian Personal Laws: Christian Women more than a decade ago led a campaign ...
Fayette Daily News: July 4th: a day to remember Thomas Jefferson's powerful words 2009-07-02
From Frederick Douglass to Susan B. Anthony to MLK to Cesar Chavez, America's history is filled with heroes who insisted that Jefferson meant what he wrote.
2009-07-02: Headlines
Washington Times: Opinionated Prejean, Ireland shatter myth 2009-07-02
She unabashedly says her faith guides her in everything she does and that it's possible to be for women's rights and also be pro-life.
Town Hall: Today in History - July 2 2009-07-02
In 1979, the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin was released to the public. In 1989, former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko died in Moscow at age 79.
Edmonton: A checkered history of Canadian feminism - Metro Canda 2009-07-02
... she saw a link between human rights and women's rights, but that belief wasn't absolute: mcclung supported eugenics and believed “young, simple-minded ...
Town Hall: Blaming the Burqa 2009-07-02
But more importantly, if you're an advocate for women's rights or religious freedom, you'd want a stake in the global war on terrorism and Islamic extremism ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Alice L. Cochran, historian and professor at Webster University, dies 2009-07-02
Ms. Cochran was a firm believer in women's rights and broke many glass ceilings, Scarpinato said. While at Webster, she challenged the policy that ...
ISRIA: UN: Daily Press Briefing (issued 1 July 2009) 2009-07-02
... said that “it is not a lack of knowledge that is hindering progress; it is a lack of political will to protect the health and rights of women”.
Mumbai Newsline: Rape chargesheet still pending, TISS student back in US 2009-07-02
... the police can record their testimony before the magistrate and a statement could be used during trial,” said women's rights activist Flavia Agne ...
TwoCircles.net: Violence against women and religion 2009-07-02
I hope Muslim intellectuals and supporters of women's rights within Qur'anic framework would go for ijtihad (intellectual exertion for fresh approach) as ...
Fiji Broadcasting Corporation Ltd: Address specific women issues 2009-07-02
The consultations for began today and this document will be the Government's policy in implementing women's rights and issues over the next 10 years.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Thanks to Rochester Area Community Foundation Supporters 2009-07-02
Dr. David Anderson/Sankofa and Barbara Blaisdell portrayed abolitionist Frederick Douglass and suffragist Susan B. Anthony and mingled with the guests ...
Monsters and Critics.com: Berlusconi to host G8 on shaky ground (Feature) 2009-07-02
Meanwhile, Italian women's rights activists have launched an online petition calling on female spouses of G8 leaders - including Michelle Obama and Carl ...
?????????: Vice Minister Zhao Baige Met with President of Australian Hum ... 2009-07-01
... the project of safeguarding the reproductive health rights of women in middle and west China had carried out various project activities such ...
Devon 24: LEGEND: Honour for suffragette who became 11 times Mayor of Honiton 2009-07-01
Her role in the women's rights movement was significant and she was an invited guest at suffragette Emeline Pankhurst's funeral.
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald: 'Act your age' is a message that really gets around 2009-07-01
... spread since 1969, when 74 percent of those surveyed saw "major differences between the generations over the Vietnam War and civil and women's rights.
Herald.ie: Testing times for polling power 2009-07-01
While we deplore the absence of women's rights in certain countries, we tend to forget that some of those rights were absent not too long ...
Hürriyet: AKP's reforms a la carte 2009-07-01
Human rights, whether minority rights, religious rights or women's rights, have become a top priority in international relations.
ISRIA: UN: Investing in Women's Health can 'save the Lives of Half ... 2009-07-01
Together, let us advance the rights of women and girls, and empower them as highly productive members of society capable of contributing to economic ...
Contra Costa Times: People: Walnut Creek's 'Russell the Love Muscle' set for 'Big Brother' 2009-07-01
1979: The Susan B. Anthony dollar coin was released to the public. 1996: Electricity and phone service were knocked out for millions of customers ...
SunHerald.com (press release): Assistant Attorney General Ron Weich Announces Leadership Team ... 2009-07-01
Edward Kennedy on his Judiciary Committee staff and his chief advisor on women's rights issues. Appelbaum received her BA summa cum laude from ...
????(???): Korean Women's Status Still Low Among OECD Nations 2009-07-01
Yet these countries have a low index for women's rights, while advanced countries such as Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the United States have a rate under 5 ...
Progressive.org: Al Franken 2009-07-01
My guest this week is Julie Bolz, a women's rights and human rights activist, who has built or repaired dozens ...
Broadway World: REC Presents Four Staged Readings In Summer Festival '09 ... 2009-07-01
This early 20th Century comedy pits a greedy general and prime minister against women's rights activists, the fear of foreign invasion, the consequences ...
EurekAlert (press release): Cancer geneticist Janet Davison Rowley to receive $500000 Gruber ... 2009-07-01
The Gruber International Prize Program honors contemporary individuals in the fields of Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Justice and Women's Right ...
San Jose Mercury News: West Valley area Daughters of the American Revolution have deep ... 2009-07-01
Former first lady Laura Bush, Red Cross founder Clara Barton, suffragist Susan B. Anthony, Nancy Wark of Los Gatos, Saratogan Sally Neubauer and Campbell ...
Voice of America: Tanzanian Singer Called The Voice of Her Generation 2009-07-01
Her hit song, “Mr. Politician,” was well received by the Tanzanian public because it speaks to issues like politics and women's rights.
Opposing Views: Call For Women Worldwide to Support Women's Rights in Iran 2009-07-01
By Code Pink , Women For Peace - 13 Hours Ago WASHINGTON — Inspired by Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi's brave promise last week to represent ...
Mormon Times: Mormons singing, writing and speaking out 2009-07-01
... headscarf in state schools and other public buildings, it set off a heated debate over religious expression and women's rights in a secular state.
Media Monitors Network: The rights of refugee women and children in Islam 2009-07-01
The rights of the women and children of the host country are the same as the rights of women and children who are taking refuge there [8: 75].
World Pulse: VOF MONTH 1 (“Young and Bold Bernice!”) 2009-07-01
Young reporter, UNICEF Digital Diarist, young people and women's rights advocate are the multi-tasked roles that Bernice Akuamoah plays in her quest ...
Examiner.com: Neda's Legacy: Death has a heart in our work life existence 2009-07-01
The haunting images of Neda represent not only the attempt to silence those opposed to the current Iranian regime, but also the voices and rights of women ...
The Gazette (Montreal): The Great One among 60 recipients of Order of Canada 2009-07-01
The Afghan champion of human and women's rights is a medical doctor, who chairs the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.
Spiegel Online: 'This Iranian Form of Theocracy Has Failed' 2009-07-01
I plead for a truly Islamic and democratic state, a state that respects human dignity and does not refuse the rights of women, a state where people c ...
University of Rochester Newsroom: Rochester's Civil Rights Struggle Preserved On New University ... 2009-07-01
... Frederick Douglass Papers, the Susan B. Anthony Papers, the Rochester Race Riot Papers, the Franklin Florence Papers, and the Rocky Simmons Photographs.
Huffington Post: A Woman's Place, in Lebanon 2009-07-01
... but we must start from somewhere, and we should start now. Nadya Khalife is a researcher in the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch.
DAWN.com: A question of human rights 2009-07-01
There is a link between maternal mortality and the rights of women. — AFP/File Photo The list of human rights recognised by ...
DAWN.com: The great burqa debate 2009-07-01
A founder of a women's rights group, Ms Amara has called the burqa 'a coffin that kills individual liberties', and a sign of the 'political exploitation ...
Charleston Gazette: John Warner: Left equals rights 2009-07-01
To this creed we have added the principles of economic and ecological justice, human rights, rights of women and children, global warming, slavery, warf ...
Syracuse.com: Gloria Steinem hosts fundraiser for Gage Foundation - The Post-Standard 2009-07-01
MatildaJoslynGage.org: Matilda Joslyn Gage was the third leader in the suffrage triumvirate with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Town Hall: Taxpayer-Funded Abortions Coming Soon 2009-07-01
Joy Yearout, communications director for the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group, was hopeful that the Subcommittee would reverse Obama' ...
PBS: The Mailbag 2009-07-01
Thinking, caring people need to turn in all of the terrorists who are restricting women's rights. Kudos to PBS for having a non-sectarian policy!
The Times: Win Tickets to the Encounters Documentary Film Festival 2009-07-01
The line-up features 40 documentary films covering a myriad of issues such as women's rights, history and politics from local and international film maker ...
Philadelphia Inquirer: Iranian actress as a defiant witness 2009-07-01
Aghdashloo, who has campaigned for women's rights in the Middle East, said she was born to play Zahra in the new film. "When he first called me about ...
Perham Enterprise Bulletin: 'Freedom' exhibit arrives at Perham museum--in time ... 2009-07-01
... Lincoln's handwritten notes of speeches, and letters by leading figures such as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King.
Daily Kos: 'Personhood' rears its ugly head again 2009-07-01
They have convinced themselves that America backs their march towards reducing rights of women and gays, and turning this country into a theocracy.
Political Affairs Magazine: “From Something Evil Good May Come”: Sojourner Truth and the Civil War 2009-07-01
[1] Almost all Americans know Sojourner Truth as a tireless fighter for African American and women's rights. Born a slave in Ulster County ...
DAWN.com: Up for barter 2009-07-01
The great paradox is that these incidents abound at a time when women's rights' awareness is at an all-time high across the globe. The prime culprit rema ...
Time Out Chicago: Photo: Ed Alcock 2009-07-01
An outspoken proponent for women's rights since her groundbreaking 1991 debut, Moussoulou (“women”), she's translated success into a UN ambassadorship ...
eTaiwan News: AIT mum on visa issues related to ex-president's daughter 2009-07-01
The opposition Democratic Progressive Party's (dpp's) Women's Affairs Department mobilized 51 women's rights advocacy groups Wednesday to issue a statement ...
Huffington Post: Beyond the Burqa: To Help Women, Leaders Should Dig Deeper th ... 2009-07-01
There's no doubt that religion and tradition can and do have a negative impact on women's rights across the board. According to the World Health ...
CPJ Press Freedom Online: Special Report: Daniel Ortega's Media War 2009-07-01
Notable among them were priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal, 83, convicted in August on a trumped-up defamation charge, and the women's rights activist ...
Wayne Independent: Congressman tells TWI he will run against Specter 2009-07-01
One folder contained 12 sheets comparing Sestak and Specter in a scorecard format on a slew of issues including women's rights, veterans affair ...
Los Altos Town Crier: Fourth of July fun 2009-07-01
... themselves and their bikes, wagons and scooters; and to dress up like Uncle Sam, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Susan B. Anthony or Betsy Ross.
Daily Nation: What's in the land policy paper? 2009-07-01
A mechanism for addressing issues relating to pastoral land, coastal region, rights of women, children, internally displaced persons, informal settlement ...
UN News Centre: UN and World Bank voice concerns about funding for family planning 2009-07-01
“It is not a lack of knowledge that is hindering progress; it is a lack of political will to protect the health and rights of women,” she stated.
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas: UN-Sponsored Service Connects Journalists with Experts Around ... 2009-07-01
... analysts and academics who have expertise in many topics, including politics, law, education, women's rights, human rights, terrorism, globalizati ...
ReliefWeb (press release): Complex situation in Afghanistan could be turning point, ... 2009-07-01
... France was concerned about the human rights situation and urged the Government to strengthen efforts to protect and promote the rights of women.
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription): Cancer Researcher at U. of Chicago Wins $500000 Genetics Prize 2009-07-01
The Gruber International Prize Program awards prizes annually in cosmology, genetics, neuroscience, justice, and women's rights. —Erica R. Hendry.
2009-07-01: Headlines
Town Hall: Taxpayer-Funded Abortions Coming Soon 2009-07-01
Joy Yearout communications director for the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group, was hopeful that the Subcommittee would reverse Obama's directive ...
Sydney Morning Herald: Dust in the eyes of the world 2009-07-01
She was also a passionate advocate for women's rights and political speaking came easily. In Kabul in December 2003 for the national assembly to decide ...
DAWN.com: A question of human rights 2009-07-01
There is a link between maternal mortality and the rights of women. — AFP/File Photo The list of human rights recognised by ...
Radio Guantánamo: Honduran lawyers demand the coup d'etat 2009-07-01
... Ministry there are Victor Fernandez, president of the Association of Prosecutors of Honduras, and Claudia Herrmansdorfer, Center for Women's Rights.
Diboll Free Press: Thirty years of Diboll Free Press clippings 2009-06-30
Five hundred million of the new Susan B. Anthony dollar coins are issued by the Federal Reserve Banks. Newly installed officers of the Burke Masonic Lodge ...
The Daily News Online: Batavia graduates look ahead 2009-06-30
... Henry Silberstern, and civil and women's rights pioneers Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, rose above often bleakly-negative circumstances.
Examiner.com: Pagan religion takeover - extending to the Quakers? 2009-06-30
Susan B. Anthony was a Unitarian Quaker. The author, Matthew Streib, also refers to the most traditional of the branches of the Society of Friends ...
Philadelphia Inquirer: Iranian actress as a defiant witness 2009-06-30
Aghdashloo, who has campaigned for women's rights in the Middle East, said she was born to play Zahra in the new film. "When he first called me about ...
ChinaCSR.com: Chengdu To Protect Women's Rights With New Law 2009-06-30
Chengdu, the capital city of China's Sichuan province, has included the drafting of a new rule dedicated to the protection of women's rights into ...
Examiner.com: Feel the Freedom at the National Constitution Center 2009-06-30
Visitors to the Constitution Center will discover how Lincoln and other great contributors to the United States' legacy, like Susan B. Anthony and Frederick ...
Pakistan Daily: “Thanks Gd for not making me a Gentile, a Woman or a Slave ... 2009-06-30
Now, I guess, it would be a waste of time to enlighten the “leading Women's Rights expert” – that women also participated in the Islamic Revolution (1979)
New York Times: Videocam in Hand, a French Filmmaker Sifts Her Memories 2009-06-30
... the Other Doesn't,” a 1977 fiction about two friends set against the backdrop of the women's rights movement, or “Vagabond,” a critically acclaimed 1985 ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Laser show celebrates Rochester heroes 2009-06-30
... from opera singer Rene Fleming and The Chesterfield Kings to Olympic track star Jennifer Stuczynski, George Eastman and Susan B. Anthony.
Olean Times Herald: As one journey ends for Olean grads, another begins 2009-06-30
... University of Rochester Frederick Douglas and Susan B. Anthony Scholarship, Olean High School 20 Point Letter, Honor Roll - Senior Year: 3 quarter ...
Daily Racing Form (registration): Dance Gal Dance finds good spot 2009-06-30
Light Tactic will be making her seventh straight appearance in a statebred stakes, following a fourth-place finish last month in the Susan B. Anthony ...
Catholic News Agency: Obama's new budget for DC allows taxpayer funding for abortions 2009-06-30
“The Dornan Amendment is commonsense policy that should be retained by Congress,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of the Susan B. Anthony List ...
U.S. News & World Report: Sarkozy's Right About Islamic Debasement: The Burkha Is an Offense ... 2009-06-30
I see the refusal to adopt western dress codes as an affront to women's rights. Suffragists, feminists and women's rights advocates did not fight for ...
2009-06-30: Headlines
Examiner.com: Pagan religion takeover - extending to the Quakers? 2009-06-30
Susan B. Anthony was a Unitarian Quaker. The author, Matthew Streib, also refers to the most traditional of the branches of the Society of Friends ...
Philadelphia Inquirer: Defiant witness 2009-06-30
Aghdashloo, who has campaigned for women's rights in the Middle East, said she was born to play Zahra in the new film. "When he first called me about ...
The Daily News Online: Batavia graduates look ahead 2009-06-30
... Henry Silberstern, and civil and women's rights pioneers Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, rose above often bleakly-negative circumstances.
Richmond.com: Who's the Farrahist? 2009-06-30
The Angels were powerful and intelligent women in the age of Women's Rights, and with Farrah, we also had a red bathing-suited sex symbol who told us th ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Laser show celebrates Rochester heroes 2009-06-30
... from opera singer Rene Fleming and The Chesterfield Kings to Olympic track star Jennifer Stuczynski, George Eastman and Susan B. Anthony.
Examiner.com: Feel the Freedom at the National Constitution Center 2009-06-30
Visitors to the Constitution Center will discover how Lincoln and other great contributors to the United States' legacy, like Susan B. Anthony and Frederick ...
TheParliament.com: Swedish EU presidency 'must promote women's rights' 2009-06-29
Wallström told TheParliament.com she was confident women's rights would be high on the agenda when her country takes over the rotating presidency ...
Wall Street Journal: The Abandonment of Democracy 2009-06-29
Building alliances, fighting terror, stopping disease, promoting women's rights, nurturing prosperity—but hardly a peep about elections, human right ...
Look To The Stars: Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston and Sheryl Crow Campaign ... 2009-06-29
omnipeace, a Los Angeles-based fashion brand that donates 25% of its profits towards efforts to end extreme poverty in Africa by 2025, has launched a new ...
Pakistan Daily: Iran and the women's rights Expert 2009-06-29
Now, I guess, it would be a waste of time to enlighten the “leading Women's Rights expert” – that women also participated in the Islamic Revolution (1979)
Canada.com: Afghan women battle heavy odds in struggle for freedom, dignity. 2009-06-29
President Hamid Karzai scrapped the law after an international outcry, though some advocates of women's rights worry male lawmakers will only find other ...
Asbury Park Press: Back from the mysterious Far North 2009-06-29
We've tried the Susan B. Anthony and the Sacagawea coins, but neither ever really took off, I think mainly because dollar bills are lighter and easier ...
San Francisco Chronicle: Iranian women lead the protests 2009-06-29
Today, 62 percent of all Iranian university students are women, rates of divorce initiated by women have accelerated, and women's rights have become ...
Examiner.com: A few of my favorite historical 'queers' 2009-06-29
Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She gave 75 to 100 speeches every year on women's rights for 45 years.
Baltimore Sun: Will NOW leader bring movement new focus? 2009-06-29
"Women's rights advocates have a real friend in the White House." She speaks with energy and enthusiasm about the rather daunting task of unpacking all ...
Torrington Register Citizen: MATT DERIENZO: Second annual Diaper Drive aids area's youngest ... 2009-06-29
Across town, the Susan B. Anthony Project welcomes a woman into its shelter who, faced with escalating violence at home, finally fled with her young child.
Phillyist: I've Got a Baby and Ten Dollars... Now What? 2009-06-29
... who, along with fellow freedom fighters Fredrick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, used the Fourth of July to unite people across races and creeds.
MiamiHerald.com: Palin's PAC sends out appeal as reporting deadline looms 2009-06-29
... voices of the strong men and women upon whose shoulders we stand, including Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony and former Secretary William H. Seward.
DAWN.com: Burka & women's liberation 2009-06-29
Using women as a litmus test for whether a certain interpretation of religion is 'acceptable' is one of the worst things that can happen to women's rights.
Christian Science Monitor: Iran releases five British embassy employees 2009-06-29
"A more open, engaged Iran is one that will want more choices about relations with the outside world, about women's rights, about political rights.
CBS News: Supreme Court Won't Touch Bible Club Case 2009-06-29
... PM PDT "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." --Susan B. Anthony.
Stillwater Gazette: McDonald: Should the US intervene wherever rights are violated? 2009-06-29
A recent column on the abuse of women's rights was headlined: "Outrage at Taliban's Influence." She didn't mention it, but we often hear that there ...
Rome Sentinel: Essays about courage are winners in character contest 2009-06-29
Obenchain referred to the lives of Susan B. Anthony and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as examples of courageously adhering to convictions.
CNN International: Commentary: Iran's sons and daughters will win 2009-06-29
... confused or puppets of the West; rather, they are loyal patriots and genuine supporters of democratic reforms, including human and women's rights.
Success Magazine: Profiles in Greatness: Frederick Douglass 2009-06-29
He participated in the first women's rights convention in 1848 at Seneca Falls, NY, along with Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Huffington Post: Stoning Soraya, Murdering Neda, and the Hope of Muslim Women 2009-06-29
Although Muslim groups are increasingly promoting women's rights and educating Muslims regarding Islamic law, we must do more.
2009-06-29: Headlines
Wall Street Journal: Arrests in Iran Raise Ire of U.K. 2009-06-29
"A more open, engaged Iran is one that will want more choices about relations with the outside world, about women's rights, about political rights.
guardian.co.uk: Study: Generation gap in US largest since 1960s 2009-06-29
... when about 74 percent reported major differences in an era of generational conflicts over the Vietnam War and civil and women's rights.
San Francisco Chronicle: Iranian women lead the protests 2009-06-29
Today, 62 percent of all Iranian university students are women, rates of divorce initiated by women have accelerated, and women's rights have become ...
Pakistan Daily: Iran and the women's rights Expert 2009-06-29
Now, I guess, it would be a waste of time to enlighten the “leading Women's Rights expert” – that women also participated in the Islamic Revolution (1979)
Canada.com: Afghan women battle heavy odds in struggle for freedom, dignity 2009-06-28
President Hamid Karzai scrapped the law after an international outcry, though some advocates of women's rights worry male lawmakers will only find other ...
Boston Herald: Angelic poster girl left serious legacy 2009-06-28
And as a woman who embodied much of what feminism disdained, she nonetheless brought massive attention to issues central to women's rights: the brutality ...
The Daily Star: Rights of women and children 2009-06-28
... in this meeting Meher Afroz Chumki MP and Shirin Sharmin MP stressed on the need for establishing the rights of women and children.
Houston Chronicle: Iran has a long history of of feminist political action 2009-06-27
Women's rights continued to expand from the early 1900s to the 1970s, due largely in part to the focus of women's activists and the support of the Irani ...
New York Times: Iran's Second Sex 2009-06-27
Islam has a lot to say about the rights of women; the mullahs of Qom have lots of training in how to say the opposite of what they said before.
Pottstown Mercury: Diversity is a good thing 2009-06-27
Recently read a magazine about a Queen's school — Susan B. Anthony, where a diverse community reached afar came to the praise of fallen assistant principal ...
Reuters: Afghan Shi'ites demand ratification of women's law 2009-06-27
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who approved the law earlier this year, was forced to review the decision after Western leaders and Afghan women's right ...
2009-06-28: Headlines
The Tennessean: 'Older' generation gets up to speed with online networks 2009-06-28
Baby boomers, credited with shepherding in earth-shattering eras such as the civil rights movement and the rise of women's rights, now face the daunting ...
Canada.com: Afghan women battle heavy odds in struggle for freedom, dignity 2009-06-28
President Hamid Karzai scrapped the law after an international outcry, though some advocates of women's rights worry male lawmakers will only find other ...
Washington Post: Role of Women In Iran Protest Kindles Hope 2009-06-28
Many hope it will have a crossover effect on the struggle for women's rights in their own countries and help shatter Western perceptions of Middle Eastern ...
Houston Chronicle: Limited options US must be careful not to undermine Irani ... 2009-06-28
... rule of Shah Reza Pahlavi and helped pave the way for the rise of the Islamic revolutionaries who now curb civil liberties and women's rights.
Boston Herald: Angelic poster girl left serious legacy 2009-06-28
And as a woman who embodied much of what feminism disdained, she nonetheless brought massive attention to issues central to women's rights: the brutality ...
The Daily Star: Rights of women and children 2009-06-28
... in this meeting Meher Afroz Chumki MP and Shirin Sharmin MP stressed on the need for establishing the rights of women and children.
Expatica Germany: 20/06/2009France divided over calls to ban burka 2009-06-27
A group of lawmakers is calling for a special inquiry into whether women who wear the burka or the niqab undermine French secularism and women's rights.
Reuters: Afghan Shi'ites demand ratification of women's law 2009-06-27
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who approved the law earlier this year, was forced to review the decision after Western leaders and Afghan women's right ...
Pottstown Mercury: Diversity is a good thing 2009-06-27
Recently read a magazine about a Queen's school — Susan B. Anthony, where a diverse community reached afar came to the praise of fallen assistant principal ...
New York Times: Iran's Second Sex 2009-06-27
Islam has a lot to say about the rights of women; the mullahs of Qom have lots of training in how to say the opposite of what they said before.
Inter Press Service: RIGHTS-PARAGUAY: Justice System Tackles Gender Violence 2009-06-27
That assessment "revealed that the men and women that work in the justice system have little sensitivity towards gender issues and the human rights of women ...
Houston Chronicle: Iran has a long history of of feminist political action 2009-06-27
Women's rights continued to expand from the early 1900s to the 1970s, due largely in part to the focus of women's activists and the support of the Irani ...