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Women Only Bus
GUATEMALA Women-Only Buses Against Sexual Harassment By Danilo Valladares Credit:Danilo Valladares/IPS "We are all safer here; it's great because this way there are no men groping you," Jaqueline Escobar, a sales executive, told IPS on a bus that is exclusively for...
Get Up Stand Up
It is difficult not to smirk over a man that carries the name Weiner and who is then led around so publicly by his own. How is it men in public positions imagine they can get away with such behavior? Public representatives will continue such behavior toward women...
Lose the Shoes
This ad, which ran in YOU magazine for shoe stores located throughout South Africa has been pulled. YOU magazine editor wrote, "To our readers: thank you for taking the time to show your support against the abuse of animals." What is not clearly voiced in the...
Take Your Foot off My Neck
By Charlotte Taft from Reality Check I am furious. As the Director of the Abortion Care Network, a non-profit organization that supports independent abortion providers and challenges stigma, I know more than I want to about the recent attacks on women’s reproductive...
Turkey: He Loves You, Then Beats You
As told by Gauri van Gulik, researcher and advocate, Women's Rights Division Photo Caption: A Turkish woman shouts slogans on March 8, 2009 in Istanbul where more than 5,000 women gathered to mark International Women's Day. Purple symbolizes feminism in Turkey....
Saudi Woman Exposes Hate & Is Jailed
The Saudi woman attempting to expose the bias and wanting other Saudi people to join her in a protest next month will stay in jail for another 10 days while authorities decide her fate. Manal al-Sharif, a 32-year-old woman, featured in the video above was to be...
Frisk the Powerful
With the growing discrepancy between rich and poor, we are witnessing more privilege in action. While privilege is typically enjoyed by rich, white males it is also shared with wealthy, white females, moneyed people of color, and all those born into the ruling class....
Kanazawa is a Loon
We encourage readers to contact Psychology Today and ask them to discontinue running shoddy science written by one Kanazawa, who claims to be an Economics Professor. His articles are hateful, discriminatory and simply don't add up. Write Features editor: Andrea...
Preventing Democracy?
Watch Chomsky Here Speaking at the 25th anniversary celebration of the national media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky analyzes the U.S. response to the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle...