The Hidden Epidemic: Exploring the Widespread Violence Against Women in Yemen Nada Foundation in UK -
The war against VD during World War II. EDIT: ((Wow, is this getting a lot of responses. Just to add my two cents, this doesn’t seem particularly sexist to me. Yes, it focuses on women as carriers of...
It's not about babies, religion, or moral highground, it's about misogyny.
How do we wage war against the Jezebel Spirit? We must first examine ourselves and renounce this spirit by removing her from the thrones of our own hearts.
These images of people stopping to make a peaceful gesture or to help someone in need remind us that, even in the midst of violence and political conflict, our capacity for compassion and understanding can still shine through. In all of these situations, large groups of people found that protest, peaceful or otherwise, was the only way to get their voices heard. But despite the violence, people still chose to help each other. It's comforting to see that even the worst situations can sometimes bring out the best in us.
Gather round for some stories of excellent women from recent and ancient history who lived all over the world.
The 36 year civil war (1960-1996) that ravaged Guatemala left more than 200,000 people dead and at least 100,000 women raped: most of the victims were Mayan. Finally, the sexual violence perpetrated against Mayan women is being investigated as part of the genocide proceedings taking place in Spanish tribunals.
The decorated war correspondent Christina Lamb (Farewell Kabul, I Am Malala) has written a harrowing history of what war does to women. Our Bodies, Their Battlefield is her attempt to tell the true story of the injustices down to women in wartime. And shamefully, rape and sexual violence have become commonplace in many modern conflicts as a weapon of terror and humiliation, and as a way of carrying out ethnic cleansing.
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After 25 years of financial, physical and verbal abuse, Lucy joins anti-domestic abuse groups in urging women to focus on their financial independence and security.
Dr. Marie Equi was a fiercely independent Oregon physician who was engaged in the political turmoil and social change of the late nineteenth and early twentiet…
'Difret' tells the amazing true story of two Ethiopian women
"Do hormones drive women's votes?" That headline is not from a newspaper published in 1892 or 1922, but from CNN online in 2012. Posted just last week, th...
Some men think they can get away with vulgarity because they're on the 'correct' side on social issues; others tire of being bullied by the language police, writes Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal.
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Learn about fascinating stories and discoveries throughout history, from the ancient world to the modern era.
In the past decade or so, knitting has had a huge resurgence as a craft. The internet connected far-flung knitters to each other, a few celebrities picked up needles and yarn, Stitch ‘n’ Bitch was…
