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WEBSep 8, 2024 · By Alejandra Ospina. . Loreen Arbus Accessibility is Fundamental Program. . September 10, 2024. The rapid expansion of online and remote education has been a game-changer, particularly for women with disabilities who have long been excluded from traditional educational settings.
ONE BILLION RISING ANNOUNCES 2022 CAMPAIGN THEME: RISE …
WEBJul 1, 2024 · One Billion Rising, an initiative of V-Day, has announced the ONE BILLION RISING 2022 theme and campaign: RISE for the Bodies of All Women, Girls & the Earth.The campaign addresses the devastating consequences of the ongoing vicious systems of patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism and racism in the world today and the destructive battle for power fought over women’s bodies and the body of the ...
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Board of Directors – Women's eNews
WEBAmbassador Alice Dear, Board Chair, Africanist, businesswoman and former banker, is President of A.M. Dear and Associates, a consulting boutique promoting private sector investment and public-private partnerships in Africa. She also lends her voice and talents to advocate on behalf of women’s empowerment and gender equity as critical components to economic development. President William ...
The Truth About the Sex Trade: Entry into the Life - Women's eNews
WEBAug 13, 2019 · The Life Story: Moments of Change is a groundbreaking new website and film project supported by NoVo Foundation that shines a light on the stories and experiences of women in the sex trade—also referred to as “the Life”—in an effort to provide better solutions that can prevent all girls and all women, cis, trans, and gender non-conforming, from being exploited in the first place, as ...
Run, Mommy, Run – Women's eNews
WEBJul 1, 2024 · By Talia Carner Uncategorized February 19, 2003. (WOMENSENEWS)–After two years on the run to save her son from a father she believed was abusing him, Jennifer Siefke was arrested in Montana following a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Web site. After her arrest, Siefke was quoted by …
For Better or Worse, 'Sister-Swapping' Persists - Women's eNews
WEBSep 12, 2016 · For Better or Worse, ‘Sister-Swapping’ Persists. Berdel–also known as sister swapping and parallel weddings–is dwindling but still practiced. One woman says the tribal custom, which is controlled by a male elder, may have led to her wedding, but it’s not what she wants for her daughters. By Bijoyeta Das Arts & Culture March 19, 2010.
Night of Terror Leads to Women’s Vote in 1917
WEBJul 1, 2024 · Whittaker and his workhouse guards greeted 33 returning protestors on what has become known as the infamous "Night of Terror," November 14, 1917. Forty-four club-wielding men beat, kicked, dragged and choked their charges, which included at least one 73-year-old woman. Women were lifted into the air and flung to the ground.
Abortion Without Borders: Standing with Polish Women
WEBJul 23, 2024 · The women of Poland, thousands and thousands of them, pouring into the streets, disrupting business as usual and denouncing the government’s new ban on abortion. They carried symbols of red thunderbolts, umbrellas and wire coal hangers – hangers! A universal symbol of dangerous, illegal abortions which they refused to accept.
In NYC Hospital, Women of Color Are About to Start ... - Women's …
WEBJun 28, 2021 · Meet the two Mayo Clinic-trained “heart sisters” who will lead the sessions. Coral Robinson (left) and Roxanne Watson (right) at the WomenHeart symposium at the Mayo Clinic in October 2015. NEW YORK (Women’s eNews) — Coral Robinson, 72, had a heart attack in 2002. As a registered nurse, she realized she …