Tag: women’s rights

Peniel E. Joseph: The US Supreme Court is about to take a huge step away from racial justice

The leaked opinion draft, authored by conservative justice Samuel Alito, overturns the landmark 1973 ruling as well as the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision that placed stricter rules on abortion rights, but upheld the constitutionality of Roe. The draft, in the strength of its language, also illustrates the court’s ideological turn – despite conservative… Read More Peniel E. Joseph: The US Supreme Court is about to take a huge step away from racial justice

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SUZAN KANOO: Systemic Change Is Coming to the Arab World Thanks to Gen Z Women

Even as the pace of modernization in the Arab world shows some signs of acceleration, we all must recognize that deep-rooted cultural norms around women’s roles and rights are slow to evolve. Guess who is going to change that? The women of Generation Z. I was an Arab Muslim girl in an American school in… Read More SUZAN KANOO: Systemic Change Is Coming to the Arab World Thanks to Gen Z Women

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US ‘dark money’ groups spend millions overseas in support of campaigns to limit or ban rights for women and LGBTQ people

US conservative groups behind a Supreme Court legal battle that could shape the future of American abortion rights have spent at least $28m around the world between 2016 and 2019 on campaigns against women’s and LGBT rights, openDemocracy reveals today. They have also received almost $100m from 2016 to 2020 from anonymous donors, funnelled through two leading US charities… Read More US ‘dark money’ groups spend millions overseas in support of campaigns to limit or ban rights for women and LGBTQ people

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Heather Barr: For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of ‘Vice and Virtue’

There is no better symbol for the disappearance of women’s rights in Afghanistan than the end of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the return of the Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. When the Taliban on September 7 announced their new interim government, the vice and virtue ministry featured on the list, with… Read More Heather Barr: For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of ‘Vice and Virtue’

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Anita Hill on sexual harassment and survival: ‘You have to think: what is my life for?’

In the pantheon of women shamed for exposing the actions of high-profile men – before Christine Blasey Ford in 2018 and Monica Lewinsky in 1998 – there was Anita Hill. In 1991, the US president, George HW Bush, nominated Clarence Thomas to the supreme court. Senate hearings for his confirmation were completed without incident, until an interview… Read More Anita Hill on sexual harassment and survival: ‘You have to think: what is my life for?’

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Afghan women stage protest in Kabul after Taliban crack down on women's rights – video report

More than a dozen women staged a protest in Kabul on Sunday, holding up signs calling for the participation of women in public life. The protest came as female government employees in Kabul were told to stay home, with work only allowed for those who cannot be replaced by men. The order was given by… Read More Afghan women stage protest in Kabul after Taliban crack down on women's rights – video report

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Theocratic Christianity has come to Texas / Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Texas GOP governor's 'deep ignorance' on abortion

The anti-choice movement is just one part of a larger effort by Christian fundamentalists to covertly turn the U.S. into a more theocratic state. Anti-choice politics are driven by a small and shrinking group of hard-right white evangelicals who wish to foist their religious views on the majority, in violation of the First Amendment-enshrined value of free… Read More Theocratic Christianity has come to Texas / Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Texas GOP governor's 'deep ignorance' on abortion

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Women stage protest in Taliban-controlled Kabul

A group of Afghan women activists staged a small protest in Taliban-controlled Kabul Friday calling for equal rights and full participation in political life, CNN has confirmed. In spite of the risk, a group called the Women’s Political Participation Network marched on the street in front of Afghanistan’s Finance Ministry, chanting slogans and holding signs… Read More Women stage protest in Taliban-controlled Kabul

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