The first lady's speech was a tour de force on behalf of the rights of women to reach their full potential, the rights of women to be safe from those who would abuse them, and the rights of women to resist, oppose and defeat those who would do them ill.
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Wade and argues to protect the reproductive rights of women.
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Wade, the courts and the rights of women come to the fore?
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Many citizens before me have fought for the equal rights of women.
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Advice to callers will be provided by the charity Rights of Women.
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The rights of women, workers, LGBT citizens and minorities would be upheld.
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Historically, the Court has shown hostility toward the fundamental rights of women.
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Malala Yousafzai continues to fight for the rights of women to be educated.
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I'm voting to protect the rights of women, the LGBTQ+, immigrants and refugees.
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Not just of curtailing women's rights, but namely the rights of women of color.
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On top of that, Pompeo has threatened the rights of women and LGBTI people.
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And we respect the rights of women to make their own health care decisions.
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"While divorce may indeed vindicate the rights of women, as congressmen believed," the Rev.
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The goal: to discuss the civil, social and religious rights of women in America.
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As a parliamentarian and a health minister, she battled for the rights of women.
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"I now have to stand up and fight for the rights of women," she said.
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Politically and professionally, she has spent her career championing the rights of women and minorities.
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Planned Parenthood supports the reproductive health and rights of women in the US and globally.
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"What I am defending is the real rights of women," Schlafly said at the time.
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Is Iran a brutal, murderous, repressive regime that tramples the rights of women and minorities?
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The star shared her own story, and defended the rights of women everywhere, on social media.
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"We think this could advance the rights of women," Ms. Roudy said in a phone interview.
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The helpline will be staffed by Rights of Women legal staff and volunteer women employment lawyers.
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You paved the way for the rights of women and people of color in the workplace.
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It could bring an assault on the hard-won rights of women, immigrants and L.G.B.T. people.
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Human Rights Watch criticized Iran on the death penalty and abuse of rights of women and minorities.
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" They added: "We fully support the rights of women to be empowered to make their own choices.
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The event was hosted by ActionAid, a non-profit that supports the rights of women and girls.
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"I have questions about any legislation that puts a ceiling on the rights of women," Maloney said.
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She's the First advocates for the rights of women around the world to a 12-year education.
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She said the rights of women and girls have always been at the forefront of Clinton's career.
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A first talking point is the most politically charged: the rights of women to control their own bodies.
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That applies in Brazil, Guatemala and Peru and bodes ill for the rights of women and gay people.
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These days, students are taught Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women without ever being apprised of
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NOW focuses on issues including the rights of women with disabilities, reproductive rights, and family law and justice.
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"Advancing the rights of women and girls is the great unfinished business of the 21st century," said Mrs.
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The Afghan constitution ratified in 2004 guarantees the rights of women to work and girls to be educated.
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In addition to jeopardising the rights of women and sexual minorities, the bill also discriminates against religious minorities.
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This is a major problem in our judicial system and it undermines the rights of women and girls.
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"I will maintain, today, yesterday, and tomorrow, I'm going to be fighting for the rights of women," Inslee added.
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We see that laws are enacted to restrict the rights of women, and that armed men patrol the streets.
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You want somebody who is ethical and moral, and part of that is respecting the equal rights of women.
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The rights of women (and men) to participate in public life without fear of harassment or violence is fundamental.
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Last year, winners of the first annual Global Goals Awards highlighted contributors advancing the rights of women and girls.
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"Right now, for me, it's definitely about rights of women," said Ms. Blackerby, a 21-year-old anthropology major.
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There is nothing in the deal about the rights of women, elections, a constitution or the role of religion.
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She fought for the rights of women in her native Australia, but ultimately left science to raise her children.
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Its detractors point out that it badly undermines the rights of women as well as sexual and religious minorities.
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She championed for the rights of women and minorities as the first female dean of U.C. Berkeley's law school.
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"It goes against the Constitution, against medical experts, and against the rights of women across the country," said Sen.
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Kavanaugh's views suggest he'd be open to undermining the equal rights of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
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And there was a lot that they didn't know as Muslim women about the sexual rights of women in Islam.
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The human rights of women and religious freedom operate in concert with all other human rights – universal, indivisible and interdependent.
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If they come with the same mindset, I'm afraid the rights of women will be taken away from them again.
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In addition, a change in long-held patriarchal traditions is also needed to protect the rights of women, Kumar said.
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Banda left Malawi in 2014, seeking refuge on the global stage while advocating for the rights of women and girls.
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We are hopeful that President-elect Trump will use his power to advance the rights of women around the world.
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But Kennedy was moderate to liberal on other issues, including several that particularly affect the rights of women and minorities.
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Ms. Gordon, taking a leaf out of her Bolshevik foresisters' playbook, has been championing the rights of women and children.
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The advice itself will be provided by the charity Rights of Women, which provides legal advice and assistance to women.
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Raising awareness about the rights of women at Yale required making waves, and every bit of progress was hard won.
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The two attended the Women's March in Washington, D.C. last year where she made a speech addressing the rights of women.
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Monica Ramirez is a lawyer and activist working to uphold the human rights of women, children, workers, Latinos/as and immigrants.
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But whatever the nation's contrarian pundits might tell you, if you support the reproductive rights of women, you should be appalled.
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But those values, and the rights of women, were integral to her work and are part of her personal belief system.
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"These policies undermine the fundamental human rights of women and violate decades of settled asylum law," the organization asserts (The Hill).
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He often failed to exercise the principled judgment, leadership, and discretion needed to recognize the constitutional rights of women and girls.
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Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women, died only a few days after her daughter was born.
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A dogged impresario of civil disobedience and political stagecraft, he championed the rights of women, inmates, gay people and conscientious objectors.
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For over two decades, she has fought for the civil and human rights of women, children, workers, Latinos/as, and immigrants.
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Prime Minister Manuel Valls posted a message on Twitter saying the vote was "a major advance" for the rights of women.
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An independent Kurdish state would be a victory for democratic values, national self-determination and the rights of women and minorities.
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She is an active member of Sisters Inside, an organization that advocates for the rights of women and girls in prison.
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As a result of war, violence, and the new Iraqi constitution, the rights of women have been increasingly compromised and reduced.
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She knows what a woman is, and it would be difficult to overstate her commitment to advancing the rights of women.
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"We want to see the rights of women and vulnerable communities heard and responded to in the next five years," he said.
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It's almost like there needs to be legislation that protects the rights of women to be heard in cases of sexual assault.
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CAIR claims it works to protect the rights of women, but it's really about protecting the "right" of men to oppress women.
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The WHO supports health-workers in upholding the rights of women and girls and in working towards the total abandonment of FGM.
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The king has worked through the country's Islamic institutions and civil society to improve the human, civil and political rights of women.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's president sells himself as lifelong champion of the rights of women, who he calls "more honest" than men.
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In 1987, the National Organization for Women declared that Anthony Kennedy would be a "disaster" for the rights of women and minorities.
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This is an outrage, and yet another sign of the Trump Administration's contempt for the reproductive rights of women – especially the underprivileged.
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And still today, the church opposes the rights of women to decide when and whether to have children -- even contraception is forbidden.
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The best part is, RBG is not going anywhere anytime soon — and she won't stop speaking up for the rights of women, either.
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"Facebook has a responsibility on securing and protecting the rights of women and girls," Judy Gitau, a lawyer at Equality Now, told Reuters.
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And, in the last two decades, the avenues to guarantee the rights of women, people with disabilities, and LGBT persons have been expanded.
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A personal film of epochal scope, it spans more than a decade of historic changes regarding gender relations and the rights of women.
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But peace gained at the price of the rights of women is no peace at all, just conflict and oppression by different means.
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The US could also use its public health expertise and diplomatic leverage to pressure countries into protecting the rights of women and girls.
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Here the injury asserted is to the rights of women seeking abortions, not to the rights of physicians and businesses providing those abortions.
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The joint statement acknowledged Saudi reforms, including the announcement last month that restrictions on the rights of women to travel will be lifted.
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King went on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 for her work championing the rights of women and gay people.
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It is now on us to protect the rights of women and marginalized groups, to hold politicians accountable, and to keep Pantsuit Nation going.
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A march on Washington calling for the Trump administration to respect the rights of women is being copied by activists all over the world.
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"Denying the rights of women and girls is not only wrong in itself," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement on Monday.
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On January 21, an estimated 200,000 people (according to this Facebook event) will march together in protest and unity for the rights of women.
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Meanwhile, the 2020 Democrats all vigorously denounced the Alabama law, characterizing it as a dangerous encroachment on the rights of women in this country.
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"This is a resounding victory for the rights of women in El Salvador," Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International's Americas director, said about the verdict.
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William Godwin, her father, founded philosophical anarchism; Mary Wollstonecraft, her mother, was an early feminist who wrote The Vindication of the Rights of Women.
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How should they weigh Franken's long service of progressive causes, including the rights of women, against his ugly and immature treatment of individual women?
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Schlafly's attack on the proposed amendment was based on the premise that the rights of women already were well protected by the U.S. Constitution.
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Jose Miguel Vivanco, director for the Americas at Human Rights Watch, said that Argentina had a "historic opportunity" to protect the rights of women.
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"They're choosing instead to abandon the fight for the health and human rights of women and girls around the world," she wrote on Twitter.
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"Constitutional rights of women, those issues are going to be on the ballot on the midterm and Judge Kavanaugh underscores those issues," he added.
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Movements advocating for the rights of women, Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and LGBTQ communities fundamentally transformed our national political, social and cultural landscape.
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Mubalama, an advocate for the rights of women impacted by conflict, blogs to call for more respect and justice for women in Congolese society.
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"We have an urgent imperative to stand up for human rights of women and girls around the world and here at home," Clinton said.
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In a statement, she said she wanted to "make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community and freedom of expression."
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This resulted in her being excluded from child protection laws as well as the 2013 amendments that protect the rights of women with disabilities.
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In this country (and in Congress) we have extreme right-wing Christians who want nothing more than to take away the rights of women.
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For the past century, the edges of the parties have been defined by a debate about the political role and constitutional rights of women.
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Meghan, who addressed the people after Harry, said advocating for the rights of women and girls was a cause very close to her heart.
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Demands like freedom of speech and the rights of women and religious minorities have, for the most part, been either absent or vaguely implied.
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Just like men should protest for the rights of women and heterosexuals for the rights of homosexuals, non-Muslims should defend the rights of Muslims.
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The country's social inequality is again on the rise, and so is vehement, violent conservatism that further compromises the rights of women, gays, and transsexuals.
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This agreement puts the rights of women and LGBTQ Brits in danger and concerned citizens are reaching out to their representatives to combat the deal.
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For secular human-rights advocates, this was an an unacceptable assault on the rights of women and LGBT people who were likely to be affected.
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The Gender Justice Uncovered Awards recognize court decisions that affect the rights of women and girls around the world, in both good and bad ways.
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It caps off a shocking Supreme Court term, which saw the justices threaten the rights of women, LGBTQ people, Muslims, and now public service workers.
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Unlike originalists, non-originalists recognize that the Constitution must take account of the changed understanding in our society of the status and rights of women.
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The Center for Reproductive Rights uses litigation and advocacy to fight for the rights of women to have access to quality reproductive health and resources.
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At home and abroad, we should prioritize the rights of women and empower them with the information and services to protect themselves and their families.
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" The five emphasized their "joint commitment to the protection and promotion of the rights of women and girls, and more generally of universal human rights.
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She also served as an equal employment opportunity counselor at NASA, where she championed the rights of women and people of color in the workplace.
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Ignoring the rights of women, gay people and people of color is both morally wrong and politically stupid if your aspiration is an inclusive populism.
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"The maniac in Malacanang has proved that he had no qualms violating the rights of women," Ms. Salvador said, referring to the president's executive mansion.
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Deeba Syed, a senior legal officer at Rights of Women, said the purpose of the line is to empower women to utilize their legal rights.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft (1791) Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1848) Ain't I a Woman?
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This week, we are taking regulatory action to secure the reproductive rights of women in New York state no matter what happens at the federal level.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In her long career defending the rights of women, indigenous people and ethnic minorities, Sultana Kamal has faced numerous threats and intimidation.
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Final talks between the state and temple priests broke down after the secular government said it would defend the rights of women to enter the site.
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"It is a crime which seriously violates human rights of women and should never be tolerated," Okinawa governor Takeshi Onaga told reporters at a press conference.
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News reports warn that the U.S. seeks to decrease the rights of women and girls by taking away an international "right" to abortion in UN resolutions.
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Tun Cho, the mother of six children, told NBC she runs to demand the rights of women, and has completed similar runs in Guatemala and Spain.
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Out of the rubble and against all odds, they are trying to rebuild a new and free Syria that defends the rights of women and girls.
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Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has garnered praise for expanding rights of women in the country, allowing them to drive and attend sports events.
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Among other recommendations accepted by Mr. Ghani was a demand that any postwar government honor the Afghan Constitution and protect the rights of women and children.
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Crown Prince Mohammed has spoken of a more modern Saudi Arabia, at least when it comes to the role of religion and the rights of women.
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Amendments made to criminal law in 2013 also included provisions to safeguard the rights of women and girls with disabilities and facilitate their participation in proceedings.
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A feminist icon and Holocaust survivor who spent a year in Nazi death camps, Simone Veil championed the rights of women and forever altered French society.
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Do you see this project as having a new significance given the current administration's focus on restricting the reproductive rights of women and other people with uteruses?
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"There is still a long way to go to eliminate this harmful practice that violates the rights of women and girls," the U.N. said in a statement.
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In many countries, engaging with highly influential faith communities and religious leaders on issues affecting women can be an effective means for advancing the rights of women.
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Similar laws have been proposed in more than a dozen other states as Republican-controlled legislatures push to restrict the rights of women to terminate their pregnancies.
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Despite the fact that music is now legal, the Taliban's corrosive influence on the rights of women and girls has polluted their continued battle for education access.
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"We will discuss in the jirga that the gains, particularly the rights of women and freedom of speech are not up for debate or concession," Daudzai said.
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As a member of Congress, I worry about the rights of women as more and more government policies redefine "sex" to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Still, that doesn't sound like a great perspective for a judge -- especially one whose job will entail deciding cases about the rights of women across the country.
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We therefore wish to reiterate our joint commitment to the protection and promotion of the rights of women and girls, and more generally of universal human rights.
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It was produced in conjunction with the Global Fund For Women, an international organization that advocates for gender equality and the human rights of women and girls.
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While every woman I spoke to supported the rights of women to wear more liberalized fashion trends, most remained in black abayas — including at the fashion shows.
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They will surely remember which politicians took the high road and stood up for the rights of women, especially women of color, and which ones did not.
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Talk is cheap and much needs to be done to prove that the Haqqanis are serious about peace, much less honoring the rights of women and minorities.
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Sumitra Visvanathan, executive director of Kuala Lumpur-based Women's Aid Organisation, said amending the law would protect the rights of women and the best interests of children.
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The advice service will be provided by British charity Rights of Women, which said sexual harassment in the workplace was at "epidemic levels" but remained a hidden issue.
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"Customary law needs to be reformed, as it does not adequately protect the rights of women or community members from powerful members of their own community," he said.
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"Customary law needs to be reformed, as it does not adequately protect the rights of women or community members from powerful members of their own community," he said.
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Rapper Nicki Minaj on Tuesday canceled her performance in Saudi Arabia, citing her "support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community and freedom of expression," CNN reports.
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Deeba Syed, Senior Legal Officer at Rights of Women, believes the advice line will support women who need information on how to hold employers and harassers to account.
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Improving the lives and rights of women remains a major challenge in Afghanistan nearly 15 years after a U.S.-backed military campaign ousted the Taliban's hardline Islamist regime.
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This is the route that artist Adrita Das has taken as she's pushed for the rights of women and the LGBTQ communities in her home country of India.
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Judge Kavanaugh has hired more women law clerks than almost any other federal Court of Appeals judge, and he is obviously very sympathetic to the rights of women.
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"The old arrangement in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh encouraged corruption, nepotism but there was injustice when it came to rights of women, children, Dalits, tribal communities," Modi said.
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"The old arrangement in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh encouraged corruption, nepotism but there was injustice when it came to rights of women, children, Dalits, tribal communities," said Modi.
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You're giving as much as you can to advocacy organizations that work full time to protect the environment, the poor, the victims of prejudice, the rights of women.
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"We are particularly interested in legislative and policy reforms undertaken in recent years and the impact on the enjoyment of human rights of women in Samoa," she said.
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To counter the backlash Brazil's LGBT+ politicians are forming new alliances with unions and other social movements, including those defending the rights of women, black and indigenous people.
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One in ten teenage boys say they don't know what the word "feminist" means, and 16 percent believe it means favouring the rights of women over those of men.
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Atwood's novel has become an increasingly relevant read in recent years, about the rise of a totalitarian theocracy that strips away the rights of women in the near future.
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" She added that "the rights of women and girls is something that's very close to my heart and a cause I've spent the majority of my life advocating for.
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She's gone to the mat for the rights of women in music, for her own right to make and live by her rules, and for control over her career.
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It's an elitist, exclusive club where the rights of women are championed only if you are certain brand of woman and only if it suits a liberal political agenda.
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The 37-year old Yekaterina Gordon declared her intention to run in a YouTube video Monday, saying she plans to focus on defending the rights of women and children.
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If you talked about health care, protecting the rights of women to choose or whether taxes should go up or down, you were not likely to get any coverage.
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The debate only appears to be strictly about the rights of women versus the rights of the unborn; deeper, historic, social complexities of female sexuality are all but lost.
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"Clinton has spent her entire life as a social-justice activist, fighting for the rights of women, children, families, the disabled, farmers, veterans and the LGBTQ community," it said.
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First, will the Taliban agree to abide by the Afghan constitution that was ratified in 2004 and guarantees the rights of women to work and girls to be educated?
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Zarifa Ghafari, the mayor of the Afghan town of Maidan Shar, directly implored the top US diplomat to ensure that the Afghan peace process upholds the rights of women.
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Fundamental is a new YouTube Originals docuseries in collaboration with the Global Fund For Women, the world's leading foundation for gender equality and human rights of women and girls.
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She challenged the scientific establishment in her native Australia and fought for the rights of women in the workplace, but ultimately left science to raise her children full time.
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After making the jump out to Washington, D.C. from the West Coast, I started my career focused on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls.
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There was a great, interesting book written a couple hundred years ago called A Vindication of the Rights of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft, which we quote in the book.
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The film issues a proclamation, These women "got the Murdochs to put the rights of women above profits, however temporarily," and asserts, ominously, that they won't be the last.
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Let's pass it and say that there's no space between the rights of all human beings and the rights of women under the laws of the United States of America.
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We need more people to stand up the way you have stood up for the rights of women, for justice, for the rights of minorities, for the rights of everyone.
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On the emotive issue of women's rights, Stanikzai said the Taliban were committed to all rights of women "that have been given to them by the sacred religion of Islam".
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Patti Solis Doyle, Clinton's 220006 presidential campaign manager, said ahead of Clinton's comments that her silence was "disappointing" given her long-standing work on the rights of women and girls.
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But to revolutionize our approach, we must first hold our policymakers accountable to their U.S. global commitment to protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls.
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The thing about being Gloria Steinem is that you never stop, even after you've spent more than half a century advocating for the rights of women all over the world.
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The United States almost had its first female President, who, however flawed as a candidate, would certainly have protected the fundamental rights of women, among other now newly vulnerable groups.
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Research from Project Drawdown shows that securing the rights of women and girls can have a positive impact on the atmosphere, comparable to wind turbines, solar panels, or forests. Why?
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Though I walked alongside people of diverse political persuasions, I felt empowered by a common purpose -- a world in which the rights of women and girls are protected and respected.
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Seventy years had passed since the Seneca Falls Convention, where hundreds of people had gathered in upstate New York to discuss the rights of women, including the right to vote.
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But something that has gone overlooked and under-discussed is the fact that the TPP will tie the United States to countries that do not value the rights of women.
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It took a great deal of rebellious effort from the 1960s onward to enhance the rights of women and gays and diminish the influence of organized religion, Protestant and Catholic.
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Pledging to continue on the course set by Mullah Mansour, he promised to strengthen justice, help the injured and the poor and guarantee the rights of women under Sharia law.
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We're already seeing the rights of women being eroded, but given the Red Pill's instrumental role in getting Trump elected, there's no telling where radical online misogyny may lead us next.
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While some new rights for Saudi women have been secured, including the ability of women to obtain drivers' licenses, strict guardianship laws still restrict the rights of women in the country.
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Even before she was sworn-in in August 1993, she had already spent her career fighting for the rights of women and minorities She helped create the ACLU Women's Rights Project.
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The rights of women in Afghanistan have come a long way since the Taliban were removed from power in 2001; prior to that, they were excluded from public life almost entirely.
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Trump attacked the Clinton Foundation for accepting millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia and other countries criticized by the United States for not protecting the rights of women and gay people.
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" He went on, "This is a policy to end one of the stronger spiritual forces of the revolution, which is an awakening of consciousness and of the historical rights of women.
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At times, the American government has conceded that the "roadmap" to the future of Afghanistan, including the freedoms and rights of women, will be a decision for Afghans themselves to make.
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Fierce and outspoken like so many Puerto Rican mujeres before her, Mark-Viverito is a staunch progressive whose mission has been to defend the rights of women, immigrants, and city workers.
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This not only silences us, it also puts beyond the pale of liberalism a basic concern for human rights and the individual rights of women abused in the name of Islam.
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Given the Taliban's dismal track record about the rights of women and girls, it's hard to believe that these rights wouldn't be curtailed or even abolished in a future Taliban utopia.
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Jenn played a critical part in ensuring that the needs, demands and rights of women and girls in emergencies were front and center, particularly impacting the 85033 London Family Planning Summit.
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Liberals and progressives should not find it difficult to join conservatives in championing the rights of women in Iran, particularly women removing their headscarves in public and courageously facing the consequences.
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New York lawmakers should also be ready to stand by the rights of women, under assault by Washington lawmakers seeking to roll back access not only to abortion but even to contraception.
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"I defend the rights of women to decide what to do with their bodies, but then I saw with the eyes of a mother this microcephaly issue," she told Motherboard in Portuguese.
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The head of Burkina Faso's High Council for Communications, Nathalie Some, called in a statement for people in advertising, the media and the arts to protect the rights of women and girls.
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"If we are doing our job as an organization — standing up and fighting to protect the rights of women and girls — then we are always going to get some pushback," Bucaria says.
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All we have seen prior is an endless war in which two of the three factions have no tolerance for dissent, the rights of religious minorities, or for the rights of women.
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" However, "when a major male rock star who could do anything at all with his life decides to focus on the rights of women and girls worldwide - well, all that's worth celebrating.
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So much is contained in and riding on "Radical Women," it can be tempting to value it foremost as a sociopolitical statement, especially when the rights of women are under aggressive attack.
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You would have expected that in 2017 the rights of women and girls to be the masters of their own bodies and their own sexual lives would be something matter-of-fact.
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She noted that the Taliban said it had accepted "the Islamic rights of women" but had a very different and constrained view of women's rights compared with less hard-line Islamic scholars.
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I'm protesting with adult entertainers in Baton Rouge TODAY, Sunday, December 9th at 4pm, against a sexist law (SB468) passed by Louisiana state legislators that infringes on the constitutional rights of women.
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But when a consumer brand makes a commitment to donate a portion of its sales to companies championing the rights of women, immigrants, and LGBTQ community members across the country — we're buying in.
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But many on the left oppose religious exemptions that impede the rights of women and minorities, while many on the right—as this book disturbingly documents—deny that Islam is even worth protecting. ■
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Mr. Trump has shown little regard for promoting the rights of women, minorities, or marginalized groups in the United States; it is unlikely that he would show greater support for these groups abroad.
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After championing the rights of women and indigenous peoples, he now finds himself at daggers drawn with Ms Wilson-Raybould, who is both female and a member of the We Wai Kai nation.
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Rage Donate, a website developed in the last week, offers users a way to donate quickly and easily to organizations advocating for the rights of women, Muslim Americans, immigrants and people of color.
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This attack is not just on one media organization or one group of women, it has set back the rights of women and press freedom that we have worked for all these years.
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In my work every day, I watched as a well-organized, well-funded movement waged legal and political war against laws and customs intended to protect the rights of women and LGBTQ people.
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There is no question that the assault on the rights of women --i n legislatures, in the courts, from the White House, and now at their neighborhood Walgreens -- is real and it's brutal.
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Robles-Roman, now CEO of Legal Momentum, which fights for the legal rights of women, said laws must keep up with technology and ensure children can be protected in an increasingly digital world.
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"This clearly seems to be an attempt to roll back the reproductive rights of women in Slovakia," said Monica Costa Riba, a women's rights expert at Amnesty International, a signatory to the letter.
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She will have the opportunity to make a statement to the nation and the world on behalf of the rights of women, and the right of young people to be protected from predators.
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She has used her traumatic experience -- kidnapped, enslaved and raped by ISIS fighters -- to become an advocate for the Yazidi minority in Iraq and to fight for the rights of women and refugees.
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Its progressive wing, represented by the Republican Left of Catalonia, a political party founded in the 1930s, has a proud history of standing up for the rights of women, workers and sexual minorities.
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It's a perfect metaphor for white feminism, which supposedly advocates for the rights of women while very narrowly defining those rights to conveniently leave out women of color and women in the LGBTQAI community.
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FGM, internationally recognized as a violation of the human rights of women and girls, can cause severe bleeding and other health issues, infections, infertility and complications in childbirth, according to the World Health Organization.
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People can't stop talking about the story because it's horrifying and feels disturbingly close to home during this particular moment in American history, when the rights of women, minorities, and migrants are under seige.
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And, of course, Sims' justification for his actions, based on trying to "defend the constitutional rights of women," flew directly in the face of his bullying other women trying to exercise their constitutional rights.
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Her family said she had been affected deeply by the civil rights movement and had later participated in the antiwar movement and efforts to advance the rights of women, Puerto Ricans and black artists.
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He encouraged his students to be involved in advocating for the rights of women, refugees and minority groups, and to ground it all in the Jewish value of "tikkun olam," or healing the world.
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"Quebec for the last 50 years has been fighting against the power of religion in public institutions," said Diane Guilbault, the vice president of the advocacy group For the Rights of Women in Quebec.
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"We want to push so that men stand side by side with the rights of women," said Teresa Inchaustegui, director of the Women's Institute of Mexico City, "to move safely and free from violence."
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In a video statement in response to the petition, Cho Kuk, a senior presidential adviser, said the administration hoped to "find a new balance" in a debate about the rights of women and fetuses.
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Mr. Schneiderman promoted the rights of women to choose what we do with our own bodies, and then is accused of personally turning sexual interactions into violent, degrading acts done to his female partners.
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"Marielle was an outspoken and courageous advocate for victims of police abuse and a tireless defender of the rights of women and Afro-Brazilians," said Maria Laura Canineu, Brazil director at Human Rights Watch.
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Valeria Guerrero Kessleman, 25, an Ecuadorian activist for the rights of women and girls, said Thunberg was a great example of how the youth can put the eyes of the world on an issue.
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"I am proud to be a woman, and to the end of my years I shall uphold the rights of women in all professional work and in all honorable endeavors," Bonheur once said to Klumpke.
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It is not a coincidence, for instance, that the degrading of Pastrana's gender and race happened at a time in the 19th-century when the rights of women and non-white people were under debate.
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It aims for that goal by focusing on the rights of women, because our societal framework — our laws, our systems, our cultural standards — simply doesn't function for women the same way it does for men.
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Beyond being unusual for a congressional committee to release an unconfirmed statement, it's also "patently offensive," says Jennifer Becker, deputy legal director at Legal Momentum, a nonprofit working on behalf of legal rights of women.
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Gillibrand, 52, had earned a reputation as a strong advocate for the rights of women and survivors even before the #MeToo era — though her office isn't immune to criticisms that it mishandles sexual assault allegations.
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While nominally more pro-choice than other political parties in Northern Ireland, some criticize the party for its failure to commit to the rights of women for fear of jeopardising their anti-choice voter base.
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The scandal battered Trudeau's image as a youthful progressive at the helm of a government that had vowed to be open and transparent and, among other things, elevate the rights of women and aboriginal people.
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We call on all our colleagues in Congress to stand with us on these amendments and put an end to the political game that is jeopardizing the health and rights of women around the world.
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"The palace said that Markle also spoke with Mrwetyana's mother and has taken other private trips "to deepen her understanding of the current situation and continue to advocate for the rights of women and girls.
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"This poorly conceived bill is not medically appropriate, and without question, it threatens both the health and the constitutional rights of women in Indiana," said a letter from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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ZURICH/GENEVA (Reuters) - Women from across Swiss society plan to take to the streets this Friday for a nationwide strike aimed at highlighting the country's poor record on defending the rights of women and families.
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He's said the United States would have been better off stopping at 10 amendments to the Constitution -- ignoring the reality that those abolishing slavery and establishing the voting rights of women and minorities came later.
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Whether its pious declarations were ever actually about more than securing Southern votes or limiting the rights of women and minorities has always been questionable, but at least in theory the party took federalism seriously.
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Hundreds of protesters, mostly women, took to the streets in support of the teenager, shouting "Shame!" and "Rapists to jail," and accusing the police and the judiciary of failing to protect the rights of women.
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In the debate on Thursday night, there was almost no discussion of American goals for the country, like building a democracy or protecting the rights of women — objectives that were staples of past Democratic campaigns.
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In the debate on Thursday night, there was almost no discussion of American goals for the country, like building a democracy or protecting the rights of women — objectives that were staples of past Democratic campaigns.
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In most of these countries, the rights of women, LGBTQ+ and other members of minority communities remain under continuous threat, especially in autocratic societies with few governmental checks and balances to protect artists and journalists.
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Democrats win when they loudly and proudly declare that women's rights are human rights, and the rights of women to control their bodies and raise healthy, safe families are not up for compromise or debate.
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Here's the one-line takeaway each of the candidates want voters to have after their town hall: Gillibrand: An advocate for the rights of women during her Senate tenureInslee: Climate change isn't an environmental issue.
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Today, Trump and his people — including Kavanaugh and those who confirmed him — continue to use their power to steadily erode the rights of women, of LGBTQIA+ people, of workers, of immigrants, of communities of color.
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"Lynch wrote that Title VII "was intended to secure the rights of women to equal protection in employment" and that Congress "did not then prohibit, and alas has not since prohibited, discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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Several local women's rights groups filed a complaint against Duterte at the the Philippine Commission on Human Rights on April 20, accusing him of violating the Philippine Republic Act 9710 that protects the rights of women.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. rapper Nicki Minaj said on Tuesday that she was pulling out of a planned concert in Saudi Arabia next week, citing her support for the rights of women and the LGBTQ community.
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More importantly, the Court recognized that this case is about more than just privacy, but also sexual integrity and the rights of women to exercise meaningful autonomy over their bodies, including visual access to our bodies.
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If certain forms of feminism have arisen which we must consider inadequate, we must nonetheless see in the women's movement the working of the Spirit for a clearer recognition of the dignity and rights of women.
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Strikes and other labor-focused protests are one way to fight for the rights of women stuck working in lousy, low-paying jobs, or who struggle to balance their paid work with their unpaid family responsibilities.
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"By striking out on December 12th we demonstrate our collective power as citizens and our determination to act as a check against any effort to erode the rights of women," the New York Facebook event reads.
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"Laura has dedicated her life to advancing literacy and education, advocating for human rights, and yes, standing up for the rights of women and girls to learn and participate fully in society," Clinton said of Bush.
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The Senate should vigorously scrutinize Pompeo's record on human rights, including his support of torture, opposition to the admission of refugees, displays of hostility to Muslims and threats to the rights of women and LGBTI people.
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The first lady spoke about the rights of women to better their lives in whatever manner they choose, and to be treated by men with the respect that should be offered to every other human being.
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While Mukagasana praised her own country for improving the rights of women, many of whom were raped during the genocide, she says powerful states and international bodies like the United Nations are failing those in need.
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But it's still a significant step forward for the rights of women and girls around the world — a step reproductive rights advocates have criticized President Obama for failing to take during his eight years in office.
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Hundreds of people, mostly women, took to the streets in support of the teenager, chanting slogans against the police and judiciary, accusing them of failing to protect the rights of women, as well as their bodies.
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" Ursela Ojeda, a policy adviser in Washington for the Women's Refugee Commission, an organization seeking to protect the rights of women and children displaced by conflict and crisis, called the actions of the militia "highly problematic.
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"The Trump administration has been whittling away at the basic rights of women and children since they came into office," said Michelle Brané, director of the migrant rights and justice program at the Women's Refugee Commission.
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Better known as the "Moral Monday's Movement," we brought together a coalition of 200 organizations, clergy, and impacted people to resist these attacks and others on the rights of women, labor, immigrants and the LGBTQ community.
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The latest examples are Columbia University canceling talks on the rights of women at its global center in Beijing, and Yale University making the decision to remove a course about dissent at its campus in Singapore.
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Over the past two years, my colleagues and I have been surveying attitudes toward gender equality in Arab societies, with a close eye on how men, in particular, see the changing roles and rights of women.
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Herma Hill Kay, who pushed for the rights of women and minorities as the first female dean of the University of California at Berkeley's law school, died on June 10 at her home in San Francisco.
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" Judge Gerard Lynch led the dissenting opinion, saying Congress did not intend to ban anti-gay discrimination when the legislation was drafted, but "was intended to secure the rights of women to equal protection in employment.
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Because now, under the Trump administration and a conservative-majority Supreme Court, their alliance with these far-right groups could have lasting, widespread consequences for trans civil rights — and for the rights of women in general.
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"The Duchess (of Sussex) has taken private visits and meetings over the last two days to deepen her understanding of the current situation and continue to advocate for the rights of women and girls," it said.
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Clinton holds an edge over Trump on handling several issues, including foreign policy, immigration, trade with other countries, nominating justices to the Supreme Court, and issues relating to the rights of women and of gays and lesbians.
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And while she took to the job with enthusiasm and skill, she has always reserved her greatest passion and vision for domestic issues: health care, family issues, and promoting the rights of women and social justice generally.
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And at a time when many in the West are struggling to contain the deeply invasive ways in which social media affects the rights of women and children, TikTok's appeal adds a new dimension to the debate.
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The follow-up to the Women's March is a chance for women and their allies to "act together for equity, justice and the human rights of women and all gender-oppressed people," according to the protest's website.
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The story of June (Moss), renamed Offred by the show's oppressive society of Gilead, reflected many Americans' current anxieties about eroding rights (of women, of minority groups), a looming threat of war, religious intolerance, and environmental threats.
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Prior to the sexual assault accusation, Kavanaugh's nomination had already received a great deal of pushback from Democrats and those who feel he could negatively impact the rights of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
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When he treats Planned Parenthood as a political enemy and acts against rights of women that so many hold dear, he alarms and offends these women who will be super-motivated to vote for Democrats in November.
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Nan Aron, of the liberal Alliance for Justice, said that her group considered many of Mr. Trump's nominees to be "extremists" — hostile to the rights of women, minority groups and workers, and unduly favorable to the wealthy.
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Such a war on sex trafficking neatly advances the Trump administration's broader goals: expanding the power and reach of law enforcement; enriching dubious private charities; and reasserting its dominance over the rights of women, immigrants, and workers.
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The SOAWR members - which come from countries such as Tunisia, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya - said addressing the protection and rights of women and girls in the family was the integral to the advancement of women.
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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat, said he would not defend the abortion ban because he believes it would undermine the rights of women, according to a letter from his office to Reynolds and four cabinet members.
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Buttigieg then framed his sexuality as something that makes him want to fight harder for the rights of women and people of color, because he knows that people who are not gay fought for his right to marry.
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BTS's announcement came only a week after American rapper Nicki Minaj cancelled a scheduled performance in the country, saying it was important for her to support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community and freedom of expression.
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As we move into an era where Washington is threatening to stifle the voices and roll back the rights of women, people of color, immigrants, and the LGBTQ community, among others, these questions are more important than ever.
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But I still don't want to rep a brand started by (and sharing a name with) someone I believe is enabling a president who has threatened the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, and other marginalized groups.
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Black, Latino, Asian and gay candidates, ballot measures defending the rights of women, immigrants, and LGBTQ people, or helping working people — these are the campaigns that refresh the passions of progressives and keep them active in electoral politics.
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As a result, the European Union has limited competence and there are currently no legal enforcement procedures that the EU institutions can employ to protect the reproductive rights of women in EU member states or to prevent retrogression.
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The evangelicals have, despite some success in curbing the rights of women and the LGBTQ community, largely failed at securing the prize that brought them together as a movement in the first place: a complete ban on abortion.
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Knowing that a man who has been so intent on enacting policies that limit the rights of women, queer people, and people of color was watching this same maudlin spectacle of patriotism made me feel a little queasy.
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AYAAN HIRSI ALI ANSWERS: I think this is a good way to approach the subject of Shariah and in particular the attitudes of many Muslims to the rights of women, the L.G.B.T. community, blasphemy laws, apostasy and dissent.
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Serra Sippel is the president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) and leads the organization's advocacy efforts to advance gender equality by promoting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls globally.
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Clinton argued that the court should "stand on the side of the American people," which she clarified meant siding with the rights of women, backing LGBT rights, and moving against the Citizens United ruling on money in elections.
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Mindful of the issue of gender equity, Mr. Guterres has promised parity in making appointments to senior posts, but has not been more specific about how he would advance the rights of women through the work of the organization.
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Until recently, she was employed by Legal Momentum in New York City (formerly the Legal Women's Defense and Education Fund) where she fought for the rights of women working in traditionally male dominated fields, such as firefighting and construction.
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As countries around the world seek to strengthen the rights of women, support should focus on organizations attacking this problem from all sides: protecting victims and fostering confident, capable female advocates who will shape society and the legal system.
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The case before the court had been brought by Natalia Bernal, a Colombian law professor who lives in France and who argued that abortion amounts to a form of torture and violates the rights of women and unborn children.
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"Please explain to me how it serves the cause of women to kneecap a senator who has consistently stood up for the economic and human rights of women since the time that Elizabeth Warren was a Republican," Ball said.
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When pressed by the justices, the ACLU's counsel said such a change would secure rights for transgender employees, but it would not result in men demanding access to women's privacy spaces or affect the rights of women in sports.
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" Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a woman's rights activist, has said, "It is one thing to respect other cultures and religions, and quite another to turn a blind eye to cultural practices that violate the human rights of women and girls.
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Any peace deal acceptable to the West and the Afghan government would mean recognizing the fundamentals of the Afghan Constitution — guaranteeing civil rights that conflict with the Taliban's interpretation of Shariah, especially where the rights of women are concerned.
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He is in a position to dictate this country's policy, and he has consistently said that if he gets his way, that policy will be aggressively and radically opposed to immigrants, gay people, and the reproductive rights of women.
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Booker called Sessions' record "concerning in a number of ways," citing his opposition to bipartisan criminal justice reform and immigration reform, criticism of the Voting Rights Act and his "failure to defend the civil rights of women, minorities, and LGBT Americans."
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On the issues, Clinton has a "strong lead" on the economy, health care, and the rights of women and minorities, while Trump has a "significant edge" on national security and anti-terrorism, said Penn, who is managing partner at Stagwell Group.
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Outside groups that criticized many of Trump's nominees as unqualified and hostile to the rights of women, workers, LGBT people, and the environment took heart from the handful of failed nominations they spent significant energy and financial resources trying to defeat.
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This Saturday, people will take to the streets all over the country, once again demanding the rights of women to be seen as equals, to achieve their dreams, to pursue careers of their choosing, to be free of sexual harassment.
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"We have worked with elders from different parts of the country to ensure that they are at the center of guarding the rights of women who are being disinherited and thrown off their property," Maleche told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The issue isn't whether Pence has a business dinner with a woman or even whether he hires enough women—the problem with Pence is that he has devoted a significant part of his political life to annihilating the rights of women.
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Wade; she's called the Alabama law an "existential threat to the human rights of women;" and she pledges to undo a gag rule the Trump administration instituted barring physicians who receive federal funding from providing patients with information about abortions.
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"Walmart hurts local communities, has a terrible track record for human rights violation in its supply chain, actively restricts the right to unionize, stands against the rights of women, and refuses to provide basic healthcare for its employees," one commenter wrote.
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The rights of women have always — since the beginning of time, men in general have been threatened by the power of women, and have always tried to find a way to regulate, control, or figure us out in some way.
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Many of her signature Megyn Kelly moments came when she pushed for the rights of women in the workplace, such as when Mike Gallagher called Kelly's maternity leave a "racket" and she invited him on her show to excoriate him.
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It not only helps guarantee the rights of women living in New York; it's a much needed affirmation of reproductive rights at a time when they're under siege across the U.S. In 1970, three years before the Supreme Court's Roe v.
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Rainer's movie is on the front lines of intersectionality (a term coined in 1989 by the legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw) in its connection of the struggles for the rights of women, African-Americans, homosexuals, the aged, the disabled, and the poor.
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She went to China, gave an amazing speech in China about women's rights being fundamental human rights, and became an ambassador on behalf of women and the causes of women, and the civil liberties and civil rights of women and girls.
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The United States alone has spent over $85033 billion for gender-related programs in Afghanistan, and improving the status and rights of women in Afghanistan has been a top American and coalition priority since the beginning of the reconstruction effort.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly defended his administration's actions in Kashmir, saying in a Thursday speech marking India's 1947 independence from the British Empire that the "old arrangement" undermined the rights of women, children, and other marginalized communities.
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Debates drawn along these same fault lines (and remarkably similar electoral maps) churn on in the United States, and still, we hear the same excuses for those who do not support the full human rights of women and people of color.
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Kavanaugh is now on the verge of joining the highest court in the land and would be passing judgement on life and death issues — and very possibly on issues of sexual assault, harassment or the rights of women and girls.
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"I had the privilege of meeting Marie twice and I knew that Marie was very, very committed to rights of women and girls," Lennox, 63, reveals in an exclusive featurette about her song, which also includes footage from the film.
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Iowa's Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, turned to the More Society to defend the law after Tom Miller, the state's Democratic attorney general, said last month he would not do so because he believes it would undermine the rights of women.
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Though he has received a hero's welcome from Democrats for his role in the midterms, Mr. Bloomberg is plainly an uncomfortable match for a progressive coalition passionately animated by concern for economic inequality and the civil rights of women and minorities.
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"Geert Wilders is not claiming to be against liberal democracy but claims to defend liberal democracy, he claims to defend rights of women," says Anton Pelinka, a professor of political science and nationalism at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
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Twenty-three years later, the country is a darling of international donors, praised for its advances in health care and education, as well as for improving the rights of women, who make up a majority of the cabinet and Parliament.
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In other appearances at awards shows and on talk shows, Mr. Franco said that he supported the rights of women to call attention to acts of sexual misconduct, while contending that his own accusers had made inaccurate claims about him.
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" Writing about how women's rights in Afghanistan would look if foreign forces left, Haqqani envisioned an "Islamic system" in which "the rights of women that are granted by Islam — from the right to education to the right to work — are protected.
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" Echoing those sentiments, the male signatories of Wednesday's ad wrote that, "we are speaking out today in favor of a just process, and for the rights of women like Dr. Blasey Ford to be heard fully, fairly, and with respect.
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But he has transformed himself into a leading progressive voice for the rights of women and undocumented immigrants, a constant and cutting critic of the tactics of Republicans and a singular figure lamenting the flow of undisclosed money into American politics.
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"On International Women's Day, March 8th, women and our allies will act together for equity, justice and the human rights of women and all gender-oppressed people, through a one-day demonstration of economic solidarity," organizers of Women's March say on their website.
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The woman's view of the proper relations between the sexes harks back to a time before the rights of women were enshrined in law, when men like Mr B could by and large have their way with the women of their choosing.
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The act was a meant to highlight the Vatican's "infringement of the rights of women to their own bodies," according to a statement from the international feminist organization Femen, who claimed the would-be thief, Ukrainian activist Alisa Vinogradova, as its member.
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Health has always been political, but now, more than ever, as the rights of women, people of color, disabled people, and those in the LGBTQ community have come under siege, we have a responsibility to focus our anger, and transform it into change.
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If these women vote in direct proportion to their opinions, ambitions, hopes and dreams, they will change America and fire a cannon shot for the rights of women and justice for all that will be heard across the Republic and around the world.
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On women, his 22019 campaign site lists rights of women as one of his top issues, yet a quick review of his record reveals that Sanders is a passive enabler of the status quo at best and an outright fraud at worst.
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So when the lawmaker told his wife that they weren't going to the inaugural on January 20, she told him that in fact they were going to DC -- but to march for the rights of women, immigrants, low income workers and LGBT people.
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In other countries, to proclaim oneself a feminist is taken to mean that you are a person who defends the rights of women to live as they like, to have equal rights and opportunities, and to be in charge of their sexuality.
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"The Tehran Derby is one of the most important matches of the year," one of the Tehran-based activists behind Open Stadiums, an organization fighting for the rights of women to watch sporting events in stadiums like Azadi, wrote me in an email.
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Although the letter addressed the "unforgivable act that violated the dignity and human rights of women," it claims Japan was not the only country guilty of "sex on the battlefield," citing other nations such as the United States, Great Britain and Germany.
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" Similarly, Emily Ratajkowski told Diet Prada she declined to attend MDL Beast because, "It is very important to me to make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, freedom of expression and the right to a free press.
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TOKYO/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Women in the Asia-Pacific region expressed dismay on Thursday about the U.S. presidential campaign's focus on the emotional topic of sexual harassment, saying it shows both democracy and the rights of women in America have some way to go.
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While I appreciate the response from business leaders like Reid Hoffman, who highlighted the depth of the issue in his piece on "The Human Rights of Women Entrepreneurs," and offered some very cogent, well-thought-out solutions, he is missing the point.
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"When I was 12 years old I did recur on the Cosby Show but regardless of whether I had been on the show or not, I would have been there today protesting on behalf of Femen and for the rights of women worldwide," Rochelle concluded.
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According to Equality Now, a nonprofit that advocates for the rights of women and girls globally, there was an 82% spike in reported rapes of children between 2015 and 2016 in India, while another 133,000 rape cases were pending trial in the same time period.
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"The Department of Health and Human Services has sent a clear signal that it doesn't intend to protect the rights of women and LGBTQ individuals," the Democratic National Committee LGBTQ media director Lucas Acosta and women's media director Elizabeth Renda said in a joint statement.
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The Repeal debate only appears to be strictly about the rights of women versus the rights of the unborn; deeper, historic, social complexities of female sexuality are all but lost in competing images that attempt to humanize women or endow the unborn with language.
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House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) called the court's decision "a grave step backwards" in the fight to advance the rights of women.
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They will rue the day if they impose a show trial hearing for a few hours, followed by a fixed party-line vote of Republicans that would demean the rights of women and the search for justice by wielding their power without seeking the truth.
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From the enormous turnout of black voters in the Alabama Senate race to the women in Hollywood standing up for the rights of women everywhere, there is a huge surge of activism and engagement that can build and shape a better future for America.
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In committing to the Taliban to end the American military presence and drop sanctions, the United States also sacrificed its remaining leverage to help the government in intra-Afghan negotiations achieve critical shared objectives, like protecting democratic gains and preserving the rights of women.
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While the "what were you wearing" defense has come to light these days as inappropriate and offensive grounds to infringe upon the rights of women in free society, it must be noted that Syeh seems to have boundary issues when it comes to the Louvre.
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"As I've said publicly, the Taliban are untrustworthy; their doctrine is irreconcilable with modernity and the rights of women; and in practice, they're incapable of summoning the necessary internal controls and organizational discipline needed to implement a far-flung agreement like this," Allen added.
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Although it is clear he has fundamental disagreements with much of the Republican establishment, he seems to approach hot topics like climate change and the reproductive rights of women with a measure of restraint, deliberately showing respect for opposing viewpoints even when they frustrate him.
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Warnice Robinson, who was imprisoned for shoplifting, shared her story for Amnesty International's 1999 report "Not Part of My Sentence: Violations of the Human Rights of Women in Custody": If passed, the new legislation would also require prisons to give female inmates free tampons and sanitary napkins.
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A large, stable majority of Americans favours keeping abortion legal in the first two trimesters and banning it thereafter, with some medical exemptions: a position that balances the rights of women with the intuition that a fetus able to survive outside the womb deserves some legal protection.
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"While I want nothing more than to bring my show to fans in Saudi Arabia, after better educating myself on the issues, I believe it is important for me to make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community and freedom of expression."
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We could have stopped him, and by not doing so, we've compromised the safety of America, the safety of Muslims across the world, the lives of Latinos, the protection of the LGBT community, the security of African-Americans, and the rights of women in the United States.
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The Trump-era Republicans have made screamingly clear what should have been obvious for a long time: The G.O.P. is no longer a comfortable home for anyone who cares about the rights of women — or of minorities, immigrants, L.G.B.T. people, and the poor — or about the Constitution.
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After the ratification of the United States Constitution, which required states to write their own election laws, the voting rights of women were revoked everywhere except for New Jersey, where apparently everything was legal—until 1807, when the Garden State got around to ending women's suffrage, too.
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Since 2011, Mr. Alam has been pursuing the tragic case of Kalpana Chakma, a young activist for the rights of women and the indigenous Pahari people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in southeastern Bangladesh, who disappeared after her abduction by an army lieutenant in June 1996.
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"The case in Alabama is chilling because it represents the real-life consequences of anti-choice 'personhood' policies, which, by design, seek to demote the fundamental rights of women, and are a stepping stone in the anti-choice movement's ultimate goal of criminalizing abortion and punishing women," she said.
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"The Women's March on Washington aims to send a message to all levels of government and the incoming Presidential administration, that we stand together in solidarity and expect elected leaders to act to protect the rights of women, their families and their communities," officials said in the statement.
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I can't help but be reminded of Patricia Arquette's naive demand that LGBT people and people of color need to go to bat for the rights of women in Hollywood, as if those same communities do not also include women who advocate on behalf of themselves all the time.
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It's garbage and yet as America and the world prepares to possibly have not one, but two men accused of sexual assault sitting in an office making laws regarding the rights of women, white man's guilt is going to be haunting all of us for years to come.
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Officials said in a statement, "The Women's March on Washington aims to send a message to all levels of government and the incoming Presidential administration, that we stand together in solidarity and expect elected leaders to act to protect the rights of women, their families and their communities."
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Defending herself against the shocked reaction she received from many media outlets following a joke she made about ex-husband Wiz Khalifa "putting his babies" on her face (and yes, that means just what you think it means), Rose defended the rights of women to embrace their sexuality.
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" Andrea Blieden, U.S. general manager of The Body Shop tells CNBC Make It that "access to reproductive health care is recognized as a human right" and says the letter emphasizes the company's outlook that it is essential U.S. law "respect, protect and fulfill the human rights of women.
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"The Women's March on Washington aims to send a message to all levels of government and the incoming Presidential administration, that we stand together in solidarity and expect elected leaders to act to protect the rights of women, their families and their communities," officials added in a statement.
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While we should all be fighting every day of the year for the social, political and economic equality of women, International Women's Day is an official occasion to celebrate how far we have come in advancing the rights of women and how far we still have to go.
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The Day Without A Woman website claims to stand for "the human rights of women," and yet they side-step the reality that tens of millions of American women consider abortion to be an egregious human rights violation against hundreds of thousands of females annually and millions more globally.
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The right is within one Supreme Court vote of destroying a woman's right to choose, which would be disastrous for the rights of women, and ruling that the entire ObamaCare program is unconstitutional, which would create havoc and devastation for countless millions of Americans who need medical care.
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"The statement also confirmed that Markle has made other private visits, outside of the formal tour schedule: "The Duchess has taken private visits and meetings over the last two days to deepen her understanding of the current situation and continue to advocate for the rights of women and girls.
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State Department officials called the newly truncated reports "streamlined," but a recent analysis from Oxfam demonstrated the 2017 report is not statistically significantly shorter than its 2016 counterpart, but the reporting on the rights of women and girls and LGBTQ individuals was either erased completely or significantly truncated.
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KEN LEFKOWITZ Medford, N.J. To the Editor: Not included in your long list of reasons for endorsing Hillary Clinton was one of the most important: Her nominees to the Supreme Court will likely support the rights of women, children, minorities and those with little political or economic power.
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" She added, "While I want nothing more than to bring my show to fans in Saudi Arabia, after better educating myself on the issues, I believe it is important for me to make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community and freedom of expression.
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On the sidelines of an event for Equality League, an advocacy group for the rights of women in sports, in New York last year, I introduced her to Jessica Howard, a three-time national champion gymnast and whistleblower who was among the first to report Nassar to the press.
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The first question is why a majority of white women voters chose Trump, a bully who has demeaned a long list of women who met his disfavor, over Clinton, who would have been the first woman president and has been a lifetime champion of the rights of women.
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The northern Utah woman told BuzzFeed News that she hopes the church will respond with a policy to protect the rights of women to breastfeed as they see fit at church, adding that such practices are common in congregations outside the US. In the meantime, she has decided to compromise.
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He has taken action to secure the reproductive rights of women in New York State no matter what happens at the federal level, worked to eliminate the pay gap in New York—which, at 89 cents on the dollar, is the smallest in the country, but is still too high.
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As much as I detest Trump's nasty rhetoric, I equally dislike Clinton's record, be it her email scandal, the continued rise of terrorism since her tenure as secretary of state, the Benghazi scandal, or her foundation's hypocritical ties to oppressive regimes that suppress the rights of women and LGBTQ people.
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Claire McCaskillClaire Conner McCaskillEx-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Ocasio-Cortez blasts NYT editor for suggesting Tlaib, Omar aren't representative of Midwest Trump nominees meet fiercest opposition from Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand MORE (D-Mo.), who has championed the rights of women in the military, told The Hill.
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Moon said the issue involves "the entire world" and human rights of women as a whole, and pledged the South Korean government will respect the women as the main parties of the issue, and pursue commemorative projects to restore their honor and dignity including discovery, preservation and propagation of records.
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Mr. Franco has continued to appear at award ceremonies (like the National Board of Review gala on Tuesday) and on television talk shows, awkwardly explaining that he supports the rights of women to call out acts of sexual misconduct while asserting that his accusers have made inaccurate claims about him.
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Pryor died in 2015, and so she could have hardly intended this posthumously published book to suggest any parallels between Lincoln's ambivalent politics and contemporary efforts to limit suffrage, spread fake news and eliminate federal efforts to protect the civil rights of women, African-Americans and the poorest wage earners.
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Attorney General Sessions has made clear, through his other actions and words, that he does not fully recognize the rights of women and LGBT individuals, so it is unsurprising he fails to acknowledge their right to seek asylum, which is enshrined under our laws, including the Refugee Act of 1980.
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As tales of hideous attacks on women flood my newsfeed daily — the essentially unpunished Stanford rape, the Bill Cosby charges, the Sharia law stonings of victims who have "brought shame" to their families, the state of Texas attacking the rights of women seeking legal abortion — I feel a bubbling within me beyond description.
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And we have an opportunity now to assemble a coalition of the civilized people, those who respect civilization, the rights of women, the rights to protest, to be able to reassert our leadership all across this globe again and make sure this century is going to be the best we've ever seen.
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"While I want nothing more than to bring my show to fans in Saudi Arabia, after better educating myself on the issues, I believe it is important for me to make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community and freedom of expression," the "Starships" singer said in a statement.
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For the many years that she has worked in Washington — as Clinton's chief of staff when she was first lady and as the first U.S. ambassador-at-large for Global Women's Issues, appointed by President Obama in 2009 — Verveer has been a stalwart proponent and defender of the rights of women and children.
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I want to see millions of us marching out there for our rights, and I want to see us out there marching for the rights of women like Dajerria Becton, who was body-slammed by a cop while she was in her swimsuit for simply existing as a young, vocal black girl.
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This section was previously included for each one of the 195 countries covered by this comprehensive assessment of the state of human rights around the world With his confirmation now settled, Secretary of State Pompeo should understand — and reverse — his predecessor's dramatic about-face in U.S. efforts to protect the rights of women.
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Danny Davis of Illinois "I cannot in good conscience stand silently by and watch generations of struggle for equal rights, for civil, human and voting rights, for the rights of women, for social and economic justice be undone from the highest office in the land," Davis said, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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As the leading constituent of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, led by Maryam Rajavi who espouses a democratic and secular Iran, it has put forth a ten-point plan for the future of the country that includes a commitment to secularism, democracy, regional non-intervention, and the rights of women and minorities.
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The rights of women and others across America were burglarized when Senate Republicans refused to even consider the nomination of Judge Merrick GarlandMerrick Brian GarlandLaw professor: Court-packing should be 'last resort' Here's how senators can overcome their hyperpartisanship with judicial nominees McConnell campaign criticized for tombstone with challenger's name MORE to the Supreme Court.
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"There is absolutely no inconsistency between defending the right to [same-sex] marriage, defining the rights of women to control their own bodies, standing up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and demanding safe working conditions, a living wage, sick leave," Biden said at a political dinner in New Hampshire last year.
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And while this has been the case under prior administrations, it's also clear that, for Trump and his congressional allies, such a war on sex trafficking neatly advances their broader goals: expanding the power and reach of law enforcement; enriching dubious private charities; and reasserting their dominance over the rights of women, immigrants, and workers.
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"The governor has fought for and delivered critical legislation to protect the rights of women everywhere — from nation-leading reforms to combat sexual harassment in the workplace to ending the horrific, exploitive practice of sextortion to the landmark enough is enough law and taking firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers," she said.
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However, taken literally the same scripture can be used to reduce the inheritance and legal rights of women, enforce certain ritualistic clothing and practices on women but make them either a choice or non-existent for men, ban women from marrying non-Muslims but extend that right to men... the list went on and on in my mind.
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On the transcendent matter of the rights of women, the fate of American women should not be determined by Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who are all conservative men, Senate Republican leaders who are all conservative men, a Supreme Court majority of five conservative Republican men, and a Republican president whose attitudes about women are legendary.
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She played a central role in bringing China and India to the table for the first time on climate change, leading to last year's Paris accord; in opening Burma to the world and taking the initial steps that resulted in normalized relations with Cuba; and in advancing the rights of women and girls around the globe.
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But "it would be right to ask how much any of these improvements really matter if you are interested in protecting the rights of women and girls to get health care, are concerned about junk policies eroding pre-existing condition protections, or barriers being put up to prevent people from accessing Medicaid if they lose their jobs," Slavitt added.
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I am confident that, liberated from foreign domination and interference, we together will find a way to build an Islamic system in which all Afghans have equal rights, where the rights of women that are granted by Islam — from the right to education to the right to work — are protected, and where merit is the basis for equal opportunity.
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Ending the fighting would require the Taliban and the Afghan government to resolve major issues, including the formation of a future government, how power will be shared, and how to protect the gains in basic rights over the past 18 years, including rights of women who were confined to their homes during the Taliban's oppressive years in power.
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She is a committed progressive on many issues, including the rights of women and minorities; gun laws (she would expand background checks, close gun-show and Internet-sales loopholes, and repeal legislation that immunizes the gun industry from liability litigation); and, more recently, immigration (where she favors comprehensive reform, a pathway to citizenship, and an end to family detention).
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Her work feels newly relevant in our current political moment, when anti-choice policies have brought conversations about reproductive health and the rights of women and other people with uteruses back into the forefront of our collective cultural dialogue, and amidst revived feminist movements like the Women's March, #MeToo, and the "women's wave" of the 220 midterms and 22020 Presidential race.
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The gathering of Afghan leaders and international diplomats coincides with U.S. efforts to push for peace with the group even while violence rages across Afghanistan.. "We seek a peace agreement in which the Afghan Taliban would be included in a democratic and inclusive society," Ghani said, adding that any deal must fulfill certain conditions, including respecting the constitutional rights of women.
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Some $28 trillion could be added to the global annual gross domestic product by 2025 should women play the same role as men in the labor market, according to research cited by the U.N. The summit will pick up on momentum generated by the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals last year to achieve progress for the rights of women, organizers said.
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But Anna and others like her have shown me that isn't true — at least for some brave individuals in the West who cherish the values we Syrian democrats stand for: the protection of individual and religious freedoms, the rights of women and our particular vision of democracy, which empowers local and state governments rather than concentrating all authority in a distant capital.
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"Given the historic role that the LPGA [Ladies Professional Golf Association] has played in advancing the rights of women, and the severity of Mr. Trump's words and actions over many years, we would encourage you to move the 2017 tournament to a course that isn't associated with Mr. Trump," the senators wrote in the letter to USGA chief executive Mike Davis.
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Organizations should not be disqualified from receiving U.S. assistance because they use their own funds to provide health services and information that are legal in their home country and legal in the U.S. Supporters of global health and development, women's rights, gender equality and free speech oppose the harmful global gag rule and reject efforts to undermine the health and rights of women around the world.
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At a moment when support for the rights of women is surging across the nation and around the world in what may someday be called the Female Century, it would be an epic tragedy if attacks against the legal rights of American women succeed with support from every Republican woman in the United States Senate, including those who call themselves moderate and pro-choice.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Wednesday issued a statement honoring America's commitment to the rights of women and girls in honor of the International Day of the Girl.
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During the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, US officials were clear that upholding the Afghan Constitution -- which protects the rights of women -- was a requirement for the US. Critics have expressed concerns that those rights could be diminished under the terms of the agreement, particularly if the United States moves forward with the full withdrawal of troops outlined in the deal.
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But DeConnick and De Landro started writing and sketching their story at least two years before the United States elected a president who bragged about sexually assaulting women, before laws were enacted to keep certain women out of certain restrooms, and before President Donald Trump began taking steps to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would impact and stifle the reproductive rights of women.
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Title VII of that law, which made it illegal for employers to discriminate "because of sex", has been interpreted to uphold the rights of women to be hired for a so-called "man's job"; to get promotions without having to wear make-up or behave "more femininely"; to work in offices where sexual favours are not an implicit job requirement; and not to be passed over for a position because they have young children.
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"If you see a colleague being sexually harassed, or hear comments about women that are demeaning or derogatory, say something in that moment," Noreen A. Farrell, executive director of Equal Rights Advocates, tells CNBC Make It. Rather than hesitating, Farrell, whose organization advocates for the civil rights of women and girls, says a simple comment like, "That is making me uncomfortable," can show the harasser and the person being harassed that you're aware of what just happened.
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Rather, it's much more likely that the court will do what the Fifth Circuit did: reinterpret the precedent to its liking; credit the Fifth Circuit's charges that abortion practice in Louisiana was sloppy and dangerous rather than the District Court's precise findings that the safety record of abortion in the state was "excellent"; or pretend, as the appeals court did, that insignificant differences between Texas and Louisiana justify a completely different outcome when it comes to the constitutional rights of women.
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Quite the contrary, the goal is the avoidance of war through the establishment of a new, democratic system of government — one that is defined by Maryam Rajavi's 10-point plan for the future of the country, a plan that calls for free and fair elections, peaceful relations between Iran and its neighbors, safeguards for the rights of women and minorities, and all of the essential principles that advocates of diplomacy should wish to see take root in the Middle East.
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Secondly, the role of the international community in supporting aspirations like securing and expanding the gains for women in human rights there, that are not just American policy objectives, they are human rights objectives that are consistent with what the community of nations wants to see and I believe what the Afghan people want; and our own responsibility because of the fact that we changed the trajectory of that country, to ensure that there is no backsliding, especially when it comes to the rights of women.
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For example, according to Karl Heinzen's 1891 book, The Rights of Women and Their Sexual Relations, women shouldn't get too comfortable in their skin before their sexual premiere because nothing drives the boys wild like a heaping dollop of self-shame: "This 'shame' is...a natural consequence of an emotional affection upon entering a new life...it has nothing to do with the consciousness or the fear of seeing something improper disclosed, is an ornament to every woman, and its absence is a proof of dullness and coarseness," Heinzen writes.
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"We object to the Commission's stated purpose, which we find harmful to the global effort to protect the rights of all people and a waste of resources; the Commission's make-up, which lacks ideological diversity and appears to reflect a clear interest in limiting human rights, including the rights of women and LGBTQI individuals; and the process by which the Commission came into being and is being administered, which has sidelined human rights experts in the State Department's own Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL)," the letter said.
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