Union leader Linda Chavez-Thompson urges local union officers to personally contact each union member about the anti-labor stances of fellow Texan Bush. Click here for Spanish version.
Ten years ago, women’s rights were considered separate from and secondary to civil and human rights. Today, gender is becoming a key factor in civil and human rights campaigns and legislation, but there’s still resistance to special protections.
The Republican Convention of spun sugar centrism, compassion and inclusiveness failed to mask the very real and bitter aftertaste of religious fundamentalism, Victorian sexual mores and intolerance.
In this, the first of five essays taking stock of this incredible Women’s Summer, a key leader in the international women’s rights movement assesses the pragmatic Beijing + Five session where women fought hard against the forces of backwardness.
Prepare to weep and smile. This week, Women’s Enews will host commentaries from brilliant writers on Beijing + Five, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the war crimes trials at The Hague and the Republican and Democratic national conventions.
Just nine of the U.S. Senators are women, and 13 percent of the House is female. Those numbers are both historically high and shamefully low, say the women. True, opponents and media may dismiss them, but it’s lack of money that cripples them.
A federal jury awarded $745 million in damages to 11 Bosnian women who testified about the use of systematic rape as a calculated crime of war. They almost certainly won’t collect, but they had the bleak satisfaction of telling the world about evil.
She arrives here full of hope. She marries and becomes a mother. The right to stay here depends, however, on her husband’s cooperation. He doesn’t cooperate, but he does begin to beat her and taunt her because of her legal vulnerability.
The California delegation is brimming with powerful women lawmakers who will preside over the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in a way their Republican sisters would envy.
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