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While Gorsuch was not the most controversial or conservative name on Donald Trump’s short list of nominees, that doesn’t mean he will be a safe Supreme Court justice for many Americans whose rights hang in the balance.
The hashtag #NotMyBossBusiness is going strong on Twitter as critics decry a dangerous precedent that targets women and gives employers control over healthcare.
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The U.S., U.K., Israel and China are reportedly moving in to help a rescue effort being demanded by street demonstrators and hashtag activists around the world. BBC reports Nigeria is ready to negotiate with the extremist Boko Haram.
In Jordan, critics are finding shortfalls in the local press coverage of a March “honor” killing. To fill the void in reporting, one advocacy group, No Honor in Crime, publishes profiles of the victims to humanize them in ways local press reports do not.
Girls are far more likely to wind up being criminalized for “status offenses” that would be overlooked in adults, so let’s start right there and support a bill introduced in February. Too many of the girls we criminalize are traumatized victims who need help, not punishment.
“Now we are going to be very attentive to what is going to happen and we are going to work with the Ministry of Justice,” one safety activist said after Karzai refused to sign a law that would have kept perpetrators of domestic abuse from facing justice.
The Senate’s anti-filibuster vote in November does not guarantee that Obama will be able to appoint well-qualified women and minority men to the bench. Obstructionists are still up to their tricks and every bit of citizen involvement is needed.
Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous places to be transgender. But as lawmakers try to change that, transgender women who are deported confront a social backlash that makes their homeland more fearful than ever. The first of four stories.
The recent murder of Amy Lord in Massachusetts and Ariel Castro’s sexual enslavement of three young women in Ohio expose serious lapses in the way crimes targeting women are handled.
Traditional leaders adjudicate household violence and land inheritance for the majority of rural women in the developing world. Increasingly, human rights activists want them to give women a better shake.