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Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that lack of access to abortion violates a woman’s human rights. Advocates see it as an important shift that may change how other mainstream human rights groups treat reproductive rights.
Five Latina hotel maids in New York City have filed sex bias claims under a new law making their claims easier to prove.
Young women turned out in surprisingly strong numbers to demonstrate for a woman’s right to chose. But will they vote? Efforts are now underway to spur those young people beyond the National Mall and on to the ballot box.
After four years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, an Upper East Side domestic worker in New York escaped her employers. Now, she has filed a civil suit against them, only to find that as a diplomat, he has immunity.
A Filipina domestic worker sued her employers for back wages after two years of toil for $1.60 an hour. She is one of thousands of immigrant women employed in U.S. households without government oversight or labor protections.
This month, a mobile sexual-assault response team will open in The Bronx. The program adds New York to the growing list of cities that is trying to reach rape victims faster and deliver a full range of medical and advocacy services under one roof.
Gillian Caldwell, executive director of WITNESS, uses and promotes documentary video to shed light on human rights abuses worldwide. Her 1997 work on sex slavery spurred passage of the U.S. anti-trafficking law of 2000.
Husband-hunting advice books create the impression that single women are single-mindedly set on nuptials. But research and statistics show that many women are increasingly choosey about who and when to marry.
James Brown was arrested for domestic violence two months after women’s rights advocates lodged a protest with the prestigious Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, objecting to Brown’s inclusion among the 2003 honorees.
Five years after the fatal poisoning of Michigan teen Samantha Reid by a so-called date-rape drug, these types of narcotics remain widely available in the United States despite crackdowns.