As a Roe activist, a woman who was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a Harris campaign ad
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 22-year-old woman who Supporters of abortion rights after she was raped by her stepfather as a child, tells her story in a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Hadley Duvall says in a…
Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei in hospital after arson attack | Olympic News
Rebecca Cheptegie, who took part in the Olympic marathon last month, suffered burns to 75 percent of her body after a brutal attack by her boyfriend, police said. A Ugandan Olympic runner was hospitalized in Kenya after she was set…
Abandoned by Biden and Harris, Afghan women suffer under the Taliban
Vice President Kamala Harris should be held accountable for the devastating cruelty unleashed by the administration’s decisions. Taliban impose stricter moral rules for women and dismiss beardless soldiers Shortly after the third anniversary of the Taliban’s seizure of power, we…
Overwhelming majority of US women ages 18 to 49 support legal abortion • NC Newsline
While abortion remains one of the most contentious issues between the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, a new poll finds that regardless of political affiliation, nearly 15 percent of women of childbearing age have had an abortion at some point…
Israeli women fight for gender equality in the Gaza war
Bazy Rubin from Efrat is one of thousands of Israeli wives whose lives were turned upside down when their husbands were called up for military reserve service following the October 7 Hamas attack. For more stories from The Media…
Taliban reject UN concerns over laws banning women from appearing in public and wearing no makeup
ISLAMABAD (AP) – The Taliban on Monday rejected concerns and criticism from the United Nations new laws on vice and virtue which prohibit women in Afghanistan from uncovering their faces and speaking in public places. Rosa Otunbayevawho heads the UN…
Today’s young women and girls are ready for a female president
Barbara Simon | Specially for the Rockford Register Star The tower of the Rockford Women’s Suffrage Plaza features two famous activists: Rockford women’s rights activist Kate F. O’Connor and Rockford civil rights activist Constance Goode. Each of these women fought…
That’s why women are wearing white at the DNC on Thursday
CHICAGO (AP) — If you think you see a lot of women in white on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, you don’t have to move your television. When the female delegates and their supporters arrived…
Indian doctors return to work, but protests against doctor’s rape and murder continue | Sexual assault news
India’s Supreme Court orders doctors to return to work and assures that safety measures will be implemented within two weeks. In India, some doctors have returned to work after an 11-day strike following the brutal rape and murder of a…
In South Africa, patriarchal law denies some women the right to own their own home | Women’s rights news
Johannesburg, South Africa – For more than a decade, Johanna Motlhamme has been fighting to get her family home back after it was sold under her nose, leaving her and her four children without their rightful inheritance. The 74-year-old’s plight…
