Women's Rights

Women’s Rights and Social Justice: Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 Anti-War Mother’s Day Proclamation, A Day of Peace By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, May 12, 2024
Julia Ward Howe was a humanist who cared about suffering people, a feminist, a social justice activist & suffragette, and it was because of her anti-war commitment that she wrote the famous “Mother’s Day Proclamation” in the wake of the Civil War
From Afghanistan to Syria: Women’s Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA By Julie Lévesque, March 08, 2024
Western heads of state, UN officials, military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women subjected to the yoke of the Taliban.
Women’s Day 2024: Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, “A Justification for War” By Felicity Arbuthnot, March 06, 2024
Remember the deluge of political concern over the subjugation of Afghan women at the time of the October 2001 invasion? The tsunami of documentaries, articles, books on their plight, contributing to the justification of another invasion
Women’s Day 2023: Post Slavery Feminist Thought and the Pan-African Struggle (1892-1927): From Anna J. Cooper to Addie W. Hunton By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 08, 2022
It was in 1892 that Cooper would produce her seminal work entitled “A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South.” The book is considered a milestone in African women’s social and political philosophy.
Devastating Assault on Women’s Health in America By Prof. Claudia Chaufan, March 12, 2011
The Middle East’s Feminist Revolution By Dr. Naomi Wolf, March 09, 2011
The Revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg By Sheila Rowbotham, March 08, 2011
Canada and the Dignity of Haitian Women By Prof Michael Keefer, December 12, 2010
Women’s Rights in the USA: On the Amazing Strides of American Women By Sherwood Ross, November 22, 2010
War Frenzy and Women’s Rights By Prof Sunera Thobani, October 28, 2010
France. Ban on Muslim Burka: A Cynical Ploy to Stoke Islamophobia By Finian Cunningham, May 13, 2010
How the US Occupation of Iraq Destroy and Undermine Women’s Rights By Dahr Jamail and Abdu Rahman, March 15, 2010
How China Views America: The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009 By China's Information Office of the State Council, March 14, 2010
Flashback: “Women’s Day” By Alexandra Kollontai, March 08, 2010
100 Years Ago: Women’s Day (1910-2010) By Megan Cornish, March 08, 2010
Soldiers Are Being Forced to Choose Between Their Children And the Military, And They’re Paying the Price In Jailtime By Dahr Jamail, January 26, 2010
Afghanistan’s bravest woman calls on US to leave By Amy Littlefield, November 19, 2009
U.S.: Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan By Dahr Jamail, November 14, 2009
The Gaza War’s Effect on Women By Stephen Lendman, October 07, 2009
Poverty and Destitution in India: Farmers sell wives after crops fail By Dielle D'Souza, September 13, 2009
Dubai, New Destination on Trafficking Map By Claudia Ciobanu, August 16, 2009
Mothers’ Day: In the Name of Womanhood and Humanity By David Swanson, May 08, 2009
Culture of Unpunished Sexual Assault in U.S. Military By Dahr Jamail, April 30, 2009
The Status of Women in Karzai’s Afghanistan By John W. Warnock, April 14, 2009
Perpetuating Afghanistan’s Cycle of Violence By Scott Taylor, April 01, 2009
On International Women’s Day, the Suffering of Palestinian Women Continues By Global Research, March 08, 2009
Human Rights in Israel and Occupied Palestine By Stephen Lendman, March 04, 2009
The only Palestinian woman in Israel’s parliament By Jonathan Cook, February 24, 2009
Declaration of the Assembly of Social Movements at the World Social Forum 2009 By Assembly of the Social Movements, February 04, 2009
Muslim and Jewish Women: Vigil and Speakout against Slaughter in Gaza By Global Research, January 18, 2009
Children of Gaza, Run to the Angels By Suzanne Baroud, January 10, 2009
Obama: Ratify the Women’s Convention Soon By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, December 05, 2008
Abortion: The Government’s Choice? Women’s Reproductive Rights in the New America By William John Cox, October 27, 2008
Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women’s rights By Kim Sengupta, February 02, 2008
Deterioration of Iraqi Women’s Rights and Living Conditions Under Occupation By Prof Souad N. Al-Azzawi, January 13, 2008
“In the State of Israel the Jewish mother is disappearing” By Nurit Peled-Elhanan, January 04, 2008
Sex slavery and Israel’s failure to fight the growing trade By Emile Tayyip, November 29, 2007
Gender Savagery in Guatemala By Michael Parenti and Lucia Muñoz, July 13, 2007
Worldwide Mobilization: Second update on efforts to stop the Summary execution of three Iraqi women By Global Research, March 03, 2007
US-installed Iraqi government imposes a culture of death and derogation of women’s rights By Hana Al-Bayaty, February 28, 2007
Iraq: Abduction of Women on the Rise By Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily, December 12, 2006
IRAQ: Widows Become the Silent Tragedy By Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily, December 07, 2006
VIDEO: Massacre of Palestinian Women and Children By Global Research, November 10, 2006
Genetically Modified Seeds: Women in India take on Monsanto By Arun Shrivastava, October 09, 2006
UNITED KINGDOM: Bring our boys home! By Women against the war, June 04, 2006
Rachel’s Words Live On: Each Palestinian has a special place in their heart for Rachel Corrie. By Remi Kanazi, March 31, 2006
Women and War: A First-Hand Perspective By Sonia Nettnin, March 26, 2006
Violence against women in Iraq under US Occupation By Global Research, March 17, 2006
Voice Carry: Extrajudicial Killings of Children By Chris Floyd, February 06, 2006
How the US Erase Women’s Rights in Iraq By Ghali Hassan, October 07, 2005
Cindy Sheehan: Mother of Soldier Slain in Iraq Speaks Out By Kay Liss, August 28, 2005
Women of the new Iraq By Haifaa Zangana, August 16, 2005
Iraqi Women Under US Occupation By Ghali Hassan, May 06, 2005