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New York City lawmakers have agreed to propose legislation to protect child models. They hope the new law will take effect before fashion week in September. Media advocates have pressed this issue over the past year.
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New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has made public the state’s Women’s Equality Act. But sexual harassment continues to be a concern around the world.
In her new post at the Wikimedia Foundation the prolific contributor and open-culture advocate welcomes the soul-searching caused by the latest scandal over the online encyclopedia’s treatment of women. “That’s how it should work,” she says.
Durante casi una década, los visados que podrían ayudar a las mujeres inmigrantes maltratadas eran restringidos por la falla del Servicio de Inmigración y Ciudadanía de los EE.UU. en emitir los reglamentos de aplicación. Ahora el retraso se está reduciendo rápidamente. Esta es la primera de dos historias.
A tiny percent of Jakarta’s nearly 33,000 female sex workers use condoms reliably, according to government data. But will a condom distribution plan succeed this time around? And will it really help stop the spread of HIV-AIDS?
When the Bush Administration decided to withhold $34 million from a U.N. agency focused on reproductive health, Jane Roberts and Lois Abraham took matters into their own hands. An excerpt from Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas D. Kristof’s “Half the Sky.”
The images of grinning female soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners are shocking and famous. Some say they challenge the notion that women are more peaceful than men. Others point to a susceptible minority within a violent military culture.
A conference to define the forces creating the global demand for sexual services, which helps drive the sex slave trade, is underway in Chicago. Experts are focusing on a wide range of factors that may be driving up demand.
A proposal died in Congress to permit U.S. military women to pay for abortions in overseas military hospitals with their own money. For now, those opting for abortions still must return to the U. S. or risk a procedure at a private overseas facility.
Roma women are banding together to fight the triple bias that increases their rates of poverty and shortens their life span by as much as 17 years. The new organization of Roma women is the first to involve representatives from across Europe.