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Think Your Children Are Being Taught to Make Responsible Choices?
More than two-thirds of federally funded abstinence-only programs distort information and mislead young people by giving them false information about abortion and contraception, particularly about the effectiveness of condoms.
Would Jesus Ban This Ad?
The United Church of Christ wants to spread a message of respect and inclusion for all. But the mainstream media won't let them. Watch the ad that the networks found too "controversial" to air

RU Ashamed?
A physician who performs abortions finds that RU-486, the abortion pill, is safe. What is dangerous is the way society stigmatizes women who take it

December 10, 2004 is International Human Rights Day

International Human Rights Day is an opportunity to celebrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights sets forth human rights and fundamental freedoms for people all over the world, and has a specific impact on the lives of women, by holding their countries accountable for their treatment

Ascent of a Woman
A longtime Republican operative is selling herself to Christian conservatives as a grassroots leader to help promote Bush's judicial nominees

The Vanishing Mothers of Africa
The gender-inequality struggle is the toughest struggle of all; and nowhere is it more keenly felt than in the battle against AIDS

Paralyzed woman walks again after stem cell therapy
A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood.

Portuguese PM rules out suspension of abortion trials
Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has ruled out halting prosecutions of women who break Portugal's tough abortion laws, which only allow the procedure in cases involving rape or where there are serious health concerns.

Women of Rwanda Face Life After the Genocide
Most of those who died were members of the Tutsi minority or sympathetic Hutus, and many were adult and teenage males. As a result, women have become almost 70 percent of the population and have taken a central role in rebuilding the nation.

Genital Mutilation 'On the Increase in Europe'
Young girls born in Europe to immigrant families from Africa are being subjected to ritual genital mutilation, and authorities are doing little to discourage it, a leading women’s rights activist warned.

Chicago Hooters served $275,000 in damages
federal jury awarded $275,000 in damages Tuesday night to a former waitress at a Hooters restaurant in Chicago who alleged she had been sexually harassed by managers and had her privacy invaded by a peephole in a dressing room.

China, India 'face HIV explosion'
CHINA and India are on the brink of an explosion in HIV infections, a US AIDS expert has warned.

Randall Tobias, the US government's global AIDS co-ordinator, said today the Asia-Pacific region had a growing HIV/AIDS problem which was second only to Africa.

Woman found slain had sought extension of protective order
Sarah Crawford pleaded with a judge to make her estranged husband stay away from her. Before and during their five-year marriage, she said in court records, he pounded on her head with his fists, forced her to have sex with him and threatened to kill her "on numerous occasions."

Crawford, 33, was granted a temporary protective order Nov. 1, but the judge declined to extend it at a hearing Nov. 16. Six days later, she was found shot to death in a Charlottesville hotel room.

A Growing Gender Gap Tests College Admissions
When admissions officers for Santa Clara University recruit new freshmen, they do their best to reach the kind of students they'd like to see more of on the Silicon Valley campus: boys.

"We make a special pitch to them to talk about the benefits of Santa Clara, as we do for other underrepresented groups," Charles Nolan, Santa Clara's vice provost for admissions, said of the school's efforts to boost male applicants

View homosexual film,
or school faces lawsuit
Ten months ago, the district settled a lawsuit with the ACLU over the right of a student group, the Gay-Straight Alliance, to meet on campus. The year-long litigation strained relations in the conservative northeast portion of the state. In addition to allowing the group to meet on campus after school, district officials agreed that all students, staff and teachers would be required to receive "tolerance training."
Risky revival of Afghan theater puts women center stage
Barely three years ago, at a time when women in Afghanistan were not permitted even to leave their homes, the idea of a woman performing on stage - and in mixed company! - seemed inconceivable. Any woman who did so risked life and limb.
All the more astonishing, then, that a theater festival opening in Kabul will include a play written by a woman (a teenage schoolgirl, to be precise), with real actresses, about the brutal suppression of women under the country's now-ousted Taliban government.

Woman journo eyes Arafat job
A Jerusalem-based journalist on Sunday became the first woman to announce her intention to run for the post of Palestinian Authority president in the wake of Yasser Arafat's death.
Majeda el-Batsh said she wanted more attention to be paid by the Palestinian government to the needs of the some 220 000 residents of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem rather than just sounding of "slogans".
City offers gays a registry
As the new gay rights battles rage across the American landscape, creating a conflicting, state-by-state patchwork of rules on marriages and domestic partnerships, West Hollywood is among a handful of state and local governments that have been quietly reaching out to gay couples beyond their borders. The city offers to officially sanction unconventional relationships and, just as important, to do it by mail, saving out-of-state partners the cost of a plane ticket.

Seven dwarves strike to save Snow White
The Seven Dwarves are threatening to strike at a Christmas market in Germany after Snow White was sacked for posing naked.
Model Samira, 22, has played the part of Snow White for the past five years at the annual Christmas market in the ancient city of Dresden.

Some women object to airport patdowns
-- Rhonda Gaynier, a New York real-estate lawyer, was flying home from Tampa, Fla., in mid-October and passing through airport security when she was asked to step aside for additional screening.

What happened next shocked her: Using an open hand, a security agent touched her shoulders, under her arms, around her waist, across her bra strap, and between her breasts, Gaynier said _ all in front of other passengers.

Female sex drug to undergo FDA review
On Thursday a U.S. Food and Drug Administration committee will review Intrinsa, which could be the first prescription medication to win approval for female sexual dysfunction.

Cultures Clash Over Women’s Rights
With women comprising 40 per cent of the voters in last month’s presidential election, and a female candidate placed 6th in a field of 18, there are encouraging signs, from a western viewpoint, that the status of women in Afghanistan is improving.
But from the point of view of a leading mullah in Kabul province, the infiltration of western values into Afghan culture is a discouraging development that is corrupting society.

Future bleak for babies born of rape
In the troubled province of Darfur, pro-government Arab militias called the janjaweed have raped countless black African women in a campaign that the Bush administration has called genocide
Now, their babies are emerging across this tableau of human suffering. They are outcasts in a war-scarred society where rape is a source of shame and a father's identity defines the child

Here, Kiddie, Kiddie
How drug companies are pushing ADHD drugs for children by funding researchers and advocacy groups – and ignoring the studies which question their claims
In Africa, FGM Checks into Hospitals
Traditional practitioners of FGM in Africa have begun to back out of the business. That doesn't mean it is over. Now many female teens are checked into hospitals under the pretext of an illness and a doctor performs the illegal procedure.
Chilean Women Celebrate Gaining Right to Divorce
As Chile became one of the last countries to enact a law that makes divorce legal many women are celebrating their newfound ability to leave abusive mates and enjoy more legal and financial independence
Texas Governor Stays Execution of Newton
Frances Newton--who narrowly escaped execution yesterday--is one of 50 U.S. women currently on death row. A new ACLU report says they often face worse conditions and legal treatment than male inmates on death row

Sex Drugs for Women Flood the Market
A growing number of women are taking drugs and supplements meant to jump-start their sex lives. But do these products really work? Or are they little more than sexual snake oil?
Turkey Tells Its Girls: 'Let's Go to School'
Many Turkish girls are going to school for the first time, thanks to a push by UNICEF and the government. One is 9-year-old Eylem Irmak, whose older sister, mother and grandmother never had that chance.

UK sex workers debate law change
Women working in the sex industry around the world will debate proposed changes to the UK prostitution laws at a conference on Saturday

Japan sounds alarm on birth rate
The Japanese government says urgent policy changes are needed to persuade women to have more children.

Who will be beautiful in future?
It seems that the older we get as a society, the harder we are all trying to look youthful.
Muslim women concerned about Domestic Violence
Hajia Hajara Telly, Northern Regional President of Muslim Women Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has described the Domestic Violence Bill as a good document aimed at reducing violence among families, particularly in marriages.

She however, called for a critical scrutiny and review on aspects of the Bill that talks about marital rape to suit the Muslim brethren to promote goodwill among Muslims

Illegal abortion pills could kill women
In the past 18 months four illegal abortions have been reported to the Abortion Supervisory Committee - the first cases since it started monitoring abortions in 1976, the Sunday Star-Times reported yesterday.
In one of the cases a woman almost died from heavy bleeding after taking an abortion pill bought over the internet.

Middle East ; Saudi women to participate in municipal elections
Middle East News, A Saudi Arabian justice ministry advisor said on Saturday that women can participate in the kingdom’s upcoming municipal elections as long as their participation doesn’t violate Islamic laws.

The daily Okaz quoted Sheik Abdel Mohsen Obeikan as saying: "If women fully respected the Sharia (Islamic law), there is no reason to stop them from participating in the elections.

Pregnant women who take slimming pills 'are more likely to have gay children'
Women who take slimming and thyroid pills during pregnancy are substantially more likely to have homosexual children, according to research

Ani DiFranco, Folksinger and Entrepreneur

One of the most prolific women in music and a seasoned professional at 34, Ani DiFranco has worked hard to achieve some amazing accomplishments in the music world while maintaining her integrity and connection to her audience.

Ministry punished for lesbian pastor
An urban ministry that aids the poor and homeless had its official recognition removed by Lutheran church officials in a dispute over an associate pastor who is in a lesbian relationship.

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