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TAKE ACTION: Help Keep Shelters Open and Expand Services to Survivors of Domestic Abuse
By Rightswire · Posted on August 11, 2010 at 1:43 pm ·  Filed under Headlines, Take Action
Topics: Women's Rights

The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA), a vital source of funding for programs that aid survivors of domestic abuse, expired in 2008 and desperately... Read more »

Is Environmental Injustice Morphing Little Girls’ Bodies?
By Michelle Chen · Posted on August 10, 2010 at 12:27 pm ·  Filed under Feeds, Headlines, Highlight
Topics: Children's Rights, Environment, Gender Equality, Health, Racial Equality, Women's Rights
Is Environmental Injustice Morphing Little Girls’ Bodies?

The beginning of adolescence is a tough time for any girl. It’s harder when you’re growing up in a tough neighborhood and go to a rough school. And it’s... Read more »

San Francisco Chronicle Calls for Passage of UAFA
By rtiven · Posted on April 1, 2009 at 9:41 am ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Civil and Political Rights, Immigration, Legislation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights, Women's Rights
San Francisco Chronicle Calls for Passage of UAFA

As readers of this blog know too well, barring a miracle, the family of American citizen Jaylynn Mercado will be ripped apart on Friday when her partner of 23 years... Read more »

Balancing Race and Gender: LDF Women Pioneers
By The Editors · Posted on March 31, 2009 at 2:57 pm ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Civil and Political Rights, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Human Rights Leaders, Women's Rights
Balancing Race and Gender: LDF Women Pioneers

By Stacey Patton Much of the history of the Civil Rights Movement has focused heavily on the stories of great men like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood... Read more »

What can the harm reduction movement teach us about reproductive justice?
By Repo Repro · Posted on March 17, 2009 at 2:30 pm ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Civil and Political Rights, Education, Reproductive Rights, Women's Rights

          Drug policy has benefited from the harm reduction movement’s innovative approach to improving personal safety.  The application of a harm reduction... Read more »

U.S. women should be grateful for Obama
By Mary Shaw · Posted on March 8, 2009 at 6:50 am ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Women's Rights

I am writing this on March 8 — International Women’s Day. And on this day I am thinking about the status of women in these United States of America,... Read more »

TAKE ACTION: Stop Violence Against Women
By Rightswire · Posted on March 1, 2009 at 11:52 am ·  Filed under Take Action
Topics: Women's Rights
TAKE ACTION: Stop Violence Against Women

Every day, millions of women and girls across the world are beaten and abused. They are someone’s mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends. Many are abused in... Read more »

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