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” 5 years after the Civil War, which resulted in 600,000 dead American soldiers
Women's Rights
From Afghanistan to Syria: Women’s Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA
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March 07, 2020
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 2019: Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, “A Justification for War”
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March 08, 2019
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
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.
Struggling for Gender Equality in East Africa: Researches and Experiences
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February 18, 2021
COVID-19 Pandemic Dealt Women a Painful Blow
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February 02, 2021
For Women in Qatar, Lockdown Is Nothing New
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May 21, 2020
Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
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March 11, 2020
Globalization and Women’s Rights: Economic Restructuring, Women’s Experiences and Responses to “Neoliberal Shocks”
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March 08, 2020
International Women’s Day: Syria says YES to Women, and NO to Wahhabis
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March 08, 2020
Challenging Orthodoxies: Alabama’s Anti-Abortion Law
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May 21, 2019
Japan, A “Necessary Evil”? Keeping Women Out of Medical Schools Won’t Fix What Ails the Japanese Medical Profession
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April 01, 2019
Plight of Women in Indian Prisons
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March 14, 2019
Further Reflections on Women’s Suffrage and African Emancipation
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February 25, 2019
Another Defeat for Imperialist Feminism in Nicaragua
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January 22, 2019
New Arab Women-centered Films Are Not Just About Women
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November 14, 2018
How Many More Women Are There?
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September 26, 2018
Why Education Isn’t the Only Solution: An Overview of Female Employment in Morocco and the Region
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July 24, 2018
India Ranked at Top as the Most Dangerous Country for Women
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July 18, 2018
Canadian News Fabricators regarding the So-called “Syrian Opposition”
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June 06, 2018
Israeli Oncologists’ Letter: Let Gaza Cancer Patients Out!
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June 04, 2018
Arab Women Authors Narrate More than Women’s Experience
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May 25, 2018
Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Record, Raises Number of Beheadings by 70%, Lack of Basic Freedoms for Women and Girls
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April 23, 2018
March for Eight Billion Lives. “US Wars and Domestic Gun Violence are Intertwined.” Interview with Riva Enteen
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March 30, 2018
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
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March 08, 2018
The Historic Role That Soviet Women Played in Defeating the Nazis in World War II
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March 08, 2018
US War Crimes against Women: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA): Interview
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March 08, 2018
Women’s Rights in Syria
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February 19, 2018
French Artists Rebuff #MeToo Witch-hunt
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January 10, 2018
The “Me Too Movement”, Sexual Politics and Unnatural Justice
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December 15, 2017
Violence against Women: Why the UN Secretary-General Got It Wrong
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December 06, 2017
The Hollywood Accusations of Sexual Harassment: A City on a Hill, or The Weinstein Effect
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December 03, 2017
Margaret Mead: Where Are You Now?
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December 01, 2017
Underage Marriage in Iraq: Changes to Marriage Law Just Another Erosion of Iraqi Women’s Rights
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November 10, 2017
America’s War of Terror against Real Democracy: Assad Must Stay!
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October 29, 2017
The Weinstein Empire: Extreme as “Normal”
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October 25, 2017
As a Muslim Woman in Canada, I Understand Quebec’s Burqa Law
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October 21, 2017
Childcare Now! The Struggle for Quality, Universal Childcare
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October 20, 2017
Mainstream Media Islamophobia and Women’s Rights in Muslim Countries
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October 20, 2017
Harvey Weinstein and the Politics of Hollywood
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October 18, 2017
Here’s Why Allowing Saudi Women to Drive Is Very Dangerous
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October 03, 2017
Nepal: Women’s Art and Politics
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August 12, 2017
Women’s Art and Other Work in Nepal’s Hill Country
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August 04, 2017
Nepal Hill Art and Women’s Traditions
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July 31, 2017
ANC Policy Conference Sets Course for Ruling Party in South Africa
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July 09, 2017
No Joke: U.N. Elects Saudi Arabia to Women’s Rights Commission, For 2018-2022 Term
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April 24, 2017
The US has Committed heinous Crimes in Afghanistan: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
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April 07, 2017
Amazing Women Scientists We Never Knew
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March 15, 2017
We Need to Talk about Women: The Problem with Western Liberal ‘Feminists’
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March 10, 2017
Palestinian Women – One for All, All for One
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March 08, 2017
Amy Ashwood Garvey: A Forerunner in Pan-Africanist Feminism of the 20th Century
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February 28, 2017
US Supreme Court, From Rights to Repentance: Norma McCorvey and Roe v Wade
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February 24, 2017
19th Century Protest and the Matchgirls Strike (1888): Annie Besant, London’s First Wonder Woman
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February 11, 2017
Women’s Rights and US Hegemony: From Afghanistan to Syria
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February 01, 2017
Women’s March for Misogyny?
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January 26, 2017
What is the Link between One of Hillary Clinton’s largest Donors and the Women’s March?
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January 23, 2017
Nepalese Women: Symbols of Historical Achievements and Political Leadership
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January 18, 2017
Election 2016: On Empire and Feminism. Whatever the Outcome, “99% of Us are Going to be Big Losers… The Only Way to Win is to Organize and Oppose the policies of US Empire”
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November 08, 2016
Freedom Flotilla: Zaytouna-Oliva Departs for Gaza, Amal-Hope II to Follow Soon
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September 29, 2016
Demography and Italy’s Fertility Campaign
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September 23, 2016
Hillary Clinton: The Anti-Woman ‘Feminist’
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August 21, 2016
The “Hatred of Life”: The World System which is Threatening All of Us
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August 16, 2016
Will Israel allow Palestine’s Olympic Gear to reach Brazil? Confiscates Athletes Equipment and Uniforms
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August 03, 2016
Women as Pawns in the Political War Game
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June 24, 2016
Boat to Gaza, Break the Illegal Israeli Blockade
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June 22, 2016
Pedophilia and Sex Slavery and Violence in Cambodia
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June 17, 2016
Syrian Women Denounce USAID Funded ‘White Helmets’ in Syria
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June 09, 2016
Pan-Africanism and Women’s Rights
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May 25, 2016
Michel Temer’s All-Male Cabinet Enrages Brazilian Feminists
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May 18, 2016
Endless War is on the Drawing Board: Hillary Clinton Throws Women “Under Bus” for Corporate Cronies
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April 16, 2016
Gaza: Launching the “Women’s Boat to Gaza” Campaign
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March 09, 2016
When Afghan Women Were Free
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March 09, 2016
With Women’s Rights on the Line, Groups Demand Supreme Court #StoptheSham
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March 02, 2016
Women’s Rights in the Republic of Ireland: The Politics of Abortion and the Irish National Election
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February 24, 2016
U.S. Military White Paper Describes Wearing Hijab as “Passive Terrorism”
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February 24, 2016
Race, Gender, and Class Politics in the US Primaries
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February 24, 2016
Turkey Exploiting Syrian Refugee Adults and Children in Cheap Labour Industrial Sweatshops
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February 02, 2016
Cameron and Britain’s Muslim Women
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January 26, 2016
Egypt: “Before and After the Spring Revolution”. Portraits of “Women Who Fight Back”
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December 04, 2015
Capitalism at Work. Widespread Hardship: “What’s More Important? The Dignity of Women or another Billion Dollars for the Banksters”?
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November 29, 2015
The Assassination of Sandra Bland and the Struggle against State Repression
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July 27, 2015
The Council on Foreign Relations Uses Afghan Women’s Rights as an Imperial Propaganda Tool
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July 08, 2015
Women and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
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May 21, 2015