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women’s rights
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40 Days for Life
Read more: 40 Days for LifeThere have now been ten coordinated 40 Days for Life campaigns since 2007, mobilizing people of faith and conscience in 440 cities across the United States and Canada, plus cities in Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belize, Denmark, England, Georgia, Germany, Ireland,…
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Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque
Read more: Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed BurlesqueChlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed BurlesqueYou’ve never taken a sex-ed class like this one!First performed in the 2009 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, followed by a run in Washington, DC in 2010, and in New York in 2012, CHLAMYDIA DELL’ARTE: A SEX-ED BURLESQUE is…
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It’s MY Body
Read more: It’s MY BodyIt’s My Body! was initially a project for Stephen Duncombe’s Media Activism class during Spring 2012. We designed and developed the concept for the class, but have yet to set up the actual website. The images below show the site’s…
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Mama’s Day Our Way
Read more: Mama’s Day Our WayBy Latoya Peterson, Racialicious Looking for a way to celebrate the folks who raised you–but from a slightly different perspective than you would get down at Hallmark? The good people over at Strong Families (a project of Forward Together/Asian Communities…
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Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on Women
Read more: Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on WomenBy Lauren Barbato, Ms Magazine Blog “I find this onslaught of anti-women legislation repulsive,” says 23-year-old Amanda Velez. “These proposed laws condescend to a level where women are treated as something much less than human.” A resident of Elizabethtown, Kentucky,…
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Morocco protest against rape-marriage law
Read more: Morocco protest against rape-marriage lawBy Nora Fakim, BBC News Several hundred women’s rights activists have demonstrated outside Morocco’s parliament to demand the repeal of a law on sexual violence. Morocco’s penal code allows a rapist to marry his victim if she is a minor…
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Ovary Funny: Womens’ Rights Project Hopes to Have Members of Congress In Stitches
Read more: Ovary Funny: Womens’ Rights Project Hopes to Have Members of Congress In StitchesBY MIRANDA NEUBAUER | Friday, March 30 2012 Calling itself “Government Free VJJ,” a group started by three women after a conversation on Twitter is hosting an organizing initiative asking women to knit — or crochet! — a uterus for each man…
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Angered by Unsafe City, Gurgaon Women Call for a ‘Girlcott’
Read more: Angered by Unsafe City, Gurgaon Women Call for a ‘Girlcott’India Ink [Blog] The New York Times Global Edition April 4, 2012 By Neha Thirani The women of Gurgaon, angered by the recent incidents of violent crimes against women in the outsourcing boom town, are calling for a “Girlcott.” From…