World
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Ugandan Women Address Court Over Maternal Mortality
More than 100 women die during childbirth each week in Uganda, a heartbreaking statistic that has energized activists to go to the Supreme Court in...
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Badminton Shelves Rule Requiring Women Wear Skirts
When the Badminton World Federation (BWF) was looking to raise its profile and glamorize its image last year, it wrote into the official rulebook that...
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House to Review Bill Targeting Sex-Selective Abortions
On Wednesday, May 30, the United States House of Representatives will consider the “Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act.” Known as “PRENDA,” the latest version of the bill...
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What do HPV completion rates say about women’s access to health care?
By Gwen Emmons After a difficult fight to approve the HPV vaccine (and defend it from opponents who claimed the vaccine causes promiscuity, “mental retardation,” and...
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Global Voice Hall Holds First Forum to Discuss Political Roles of Arab Women
The Global Voice Hall (GVH) held its first forum in Kuwait titled ‘The Absence of Women in Politics….’ on Sunday at the Graduates Society. The...
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What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’
By Theresa Warburton and Joshua Cerretti We’re white feminists. We aren’t white just because our ancestors were mostly European. We are white because we regularly...
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Palm Wine! The Birth Of A Movement
By Osazeme O, founding member of Palm Wine When discussing LGBTQ human rights on the African continent, the argument typically falls somewhere along the spectrum of...
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Reflections on Manny-gayte
By Theresa Runstedtler I’ve been a fervent Pacquiao fan for many years but “Manny-gayte” has left me feeling uneasy about my loyalty to him in...
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Migrant Kidnappings Frequent Along US/Mexico Border
The kidnapping of migrants who travel through Mexico on their way to the United States has become a “systematic and generalized” practice by organized crime...
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Excerpts from "Jumping the Jahru"
By Nina Sharma Jones That Dress That dress? It’s so heavy it could kill you. It will cost as much as an SUV, shouldn’t run...
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Curb HIV With Female Circumcision And Shaving Heads, Says Zimbabwe Politician
A Zimbabwean politician has sparked outrage by suggesting the spread of HIV can be curbed if women shave their heads, stop bathing and deliberately make...
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Taliban Poetry Collection Sparks Controversy
Poetry of the Taliban, a soon-to-be-released collection of poetry written by Taliban fighters, faced a storm of criticism this past week. The book’s editors —...
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The Endless Baptism
The Endless Baptism For Palestine For the last few months, I’ve been working on a series of essays on Palestine. I’ve now written and erased...
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Reflections on the Palestinian Hunger Strike and Our Collective Liberation
By Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Hunger strikes have historically been used as a form of non-violent civil disobedience and protest. Liberation movements in the United States protesting...
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Meteors
to sleep all day in loving arms or call my mother and hear her say Bushra? I was thinking of you right now to...
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For Vijay
Dear Mummy, Thank you for living life with such joy even when life itself has not be generous to you. Thank you for teaching us...
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TFW Forum on Women Filmmakers (Day 3)
TFW is excited to highlight the inventive work of several phenomenal women filmmakers in a three-day forum that ends today. Carmen Torres, tiona m., Aishah Shahidah Simmons,...
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Women Filmmakers Forum: Pratibha Parmar
Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar has an exemplary track record for her passionate commitment to making films with integrity and illuminating untold stories with visual flair and...