#women&039;s rights movement

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Sikh Community Protests Doctor's Rape and Murder in Jamshedpur

Demonstrators demand stricter laws to protect women across India Large-scale protest held outside district headquarters against Kolkata hospital incident. JAMSHEDPUR – The Sikh community in Jamshedpur staged a robust demonstration outside the district headquarters, protesting the recent rape and murder of a female doctor at R.G. Kar Hospital in Kolkata. A significant number of women joined the…

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Women Empowerment: Breaking Chains and Barriers

Women Empowerment: Breaking Chains and Barriers Women empowerment is a critical issue that affects millions of women across the globe. It is a process that aims to promote gender equality, empower women, and ensure that their rights are protected. Empowering women involves enhancing their capacity to make decisions and control their lives. This article discusses the importance of women…

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Reproductive Justice: The Ongoing Struggle for Bodily Autonomy (Encore)

Today we share excerpts from “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a documentary filled with stories that still resonate today as women face new challenges around reproductive rights and sexual violence.  The documentary tells the stories of the activists of the Women’s Liberation Movement that gained traction in the late 1960s and led to social and policy changes that set women on a path towards…

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Special on International Women's Day 2024 Bliss अंतर्राष्ट्रीय महिला दिवस 2024: थीम, इतिहास, महत्व और बहुत कुछ

International Women’s Day 2024: Theme, history, significance and more अंतर्राष्ट्रीय महिला दिवस (International Women’s Day) इस वर्ष 8 मार्च को विश्व स्तर पर मनाया जाने वाला है, जो महिलाओं की सामाजिक, आर्थिक, सांस्कृतिक और राजनीतिक उपलब्धियों को पहचानने पर केंद्रित है। इस दिन, महिलाओं की उपलब्धियों को सम्मान देने और स्वीकार करने के लिए विश्व स्तर पर कई कार्यक्रम हुए। Happy Women’s Day…

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Beneath the Cobblestones: Boston Rich History

  Betsy’s guest is Daniel Dain, a lawyer, historian, writer, and author. Daniel discusses his new book,” A HISTORY OF BOSTON “.CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY BY PETER VANDERWARKER. Daniel Dain discusses why he wrote this comprehensive informative book about Boston, we discussed how Boston had the first civil rights movement, and the abolition movement, and how the women’s rights movement evolved from…

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The End Of Woman Part II Chapter 6 - A Book Discussion

Today I will discuss the introduction of Part II “The Mean Girls” in The End Of Woman: How Smashing The Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us by Carrie Gress, after which I will delve into Chapter 6 “Gloria And Selling Feminism”. In the introduction of Part II Ms. Gress speaks about how the radical feminist ideas of the 1960/70s had taken quite a strong hold in the 1980s. This was much to my dismay…

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Narges Mohammadi: La Defensora de los Derechos de las Mujeres de Irán Premiada con el Nobel de la Paz

En un acto de desafío a los líderes teocráticos de Teherán y un impulso para los manifestantes antigubernamentales, Narges Mohammadi, la defensora de los derechos de las mujeres de Irán, ganó el Premio Nobel de la Paz el viernes pasado. El comité encargado de otorgar el premio declaró que este reconocimiento honra a quienes están detrás de las recientes manifestaciones sin precedentes en Irán y…

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Quote of the Day - February 24, 2022

Quote of the Day – February 24, 2022

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Remembering the Twins: The 20 Year Rewind

Remembering the Twins: The 20 Year Rewind

This is no happy… anniversary. 20 years ago, that infamous fateful morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dark dignitaries stomped the hell out of American sovereignty with a pair of proverbial steel toe Docs. A series of four coordinated attacks were executed as if by some evil empire stalking us from a watchtower on a stormy bat mountain. An Islamist terrorist group called al-Qaeda took the…

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#OTD in 1918 – The Representation of the People Act (or Fourth Reform Act) is passed giving the right to vote to women aged over 30, who meet property qualifications, in Great Britain and Ireland.

#OTD in 1918 – The Representation of the People Act (or Fourth Reform Act) is passed giving the right to vote to women aged over 30, who meet property qualifications, in Great Britain and Ireland.

The Irish Women’s Franchise League (IWFL) had been established in 1908. Its founders were married couple Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Francis Sheehy Skeffington: she was a gifted academic from a Fenian family; he was a pacifist and feminist who adopted his wife’s name on their marriage, an unheard-of gesture at the time.

The fight for women’s suffrage, the right to vote, had been ongoing in…

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Women’s rights groups call on Biden administration to update Title IX rules for transgender athletes

Women’s rights groups call on Biden administration to update Title IX rules for transgender athletes

More than 50 groups in a letter to President Biden called on the administration to clarify that state sports bans constitute “impermissible sex-based discrimination.” Women’s rights groups call on Biden administration to update Title IX rules for transgender athletes

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China prepares to pass tough legislation to protect women's rights amid criticism of suppressing #MeToo movement

China prepares to pass tough legislation to protect women’s rights amid criticism of suppressing #MeToo movement

China is set to pass a tough new law to protect women’s rights – eliminating discrimination against them at all levels, amid rising cases of domestic violence, sexual assault and suppression of the #MeToo movement. The draft amendment to the ‘Law on the Protection of Women’s Rights and Interests’ was submitted to the Standing Committee of China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress…

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The Once & Future Witches

The Once & Future Witches

This was another book I’d been hearing about for a while, but took me a long time to get around to. In fact it took so long that I had to re-borrow it from Libby (an ebook and audiobook borrowing service for libraries) and once I got it back it took me a couple days to get into, but once I had, I read most of it in about thirty-six hours. It’s 1893 and there’s no such thing as witches. They were…

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Freedom

Freedom There is more to this famous historic Mancunian woman than we thought.Freedom of speech, freedom for all, slavery, the Peterloo Massacre.Born at Sloan Street in Moss side, Manchester, in July 1858. She was the eldest of five daughters; there were also six brothers but unfortunately one died.Emmeline Goulden was the daughter of Robert and Sophia.Her mother, Sophia, was a Manx and the Isle…

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Fannie Lou Hamer: A Catalyst For Civil Rights

Fannie Lou Hamer: A Catalyst For Civil Rights

When people learn about the Civil Rights Movement, they learn about Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks. However, a woman named Fannie Lou Hamer helped form the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement as we know it. While she lived a relatively normal early life, she began to take on a significant role in activism during her early 40s. Her efforts to protest racial discrimination…

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Quote of the Day - February 23, 2021

Quote of the Day – February 23, 2021