Emily May is the co-founder and Executive Director of Hollaback!, a global movement dedicated to stopping street harassment. She has a roster of awards and acclamations that will make your mouth water and her devotion to empowering women and LGTBQ… Read More ›
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Progress in obtaining justice for abused women in Afghanistan has stalled. See New York Times. Human Rights Campaign released its 2014 Corporate Equality Index. Morocco’s Islamist-led government is under fire for excluding women from drafting a proposed legislation to combat violence… Read More ›
Queer India Zindabad! (Long Live Queer India!)
It had been barely twenty-four hours after International Human Rights Day when the Supreme Court of India overturned a 2009 ruling by the Delhi High Court, declaring homosexual intercourse between consenting adults a criminal act. In this upsetting judgment, the… Read More ›
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Republicans went to great lengths to block the confirmation of a feminist, pro-choice Federal judicial nominee. See Mother Jones. NARAL exposes Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) in a kickass new Tumblr. Aloha! Hawaii will become the 16th state to pass marriage… Read More ›
Women Around the Globe: News Roundup
Three teens in Chicago not only raped a 12 year old girl, but posted a video of it to Facebook. See Salon. A new Human Rights Watch report shows that women’s arrests for “moral crimes” in Afghanistan have increased by… Read More ›