Women Rights stories:
Gadhafi hires 200 Italian women as 'models,' tries to convert them
Nov 16th, 2009 - The Seattle Times
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has hosted a soiree in Rome for some 200 young Italian women, but instead of the party they expected the women were given a lecture on Islam and copies of the Quran...Abortion Rights Activists Say Stupak-Pitts Amendment Would Hurt Women's Rights
Nov 9th, 2009 - ABC News
An amendment included in the House health care bill passed this weekend promising to restrict federal funding for abortions has reignited a fiery debate on one of the most controversial issues in the country. The Stupak-Pitts amendment...
"Allison Kilkenny: House Representatives Vote No on Women's Rights, Yes on War" and related posts
Nov 9th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
The House voted yesterday and the anti-women's health Stupak amendment passed 240 to 194, with one member voting present. Sixty four Democrats voted yes on the Stupak amendment...
On another planet: how Italy's women saw Colonel Gaddafi
Jun 12th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
He came as the self-styled "emancipator of women", the world's longest-serving leader who makes much of his all-female bodyguard squad and favourable views towards the opposite sex.
Moussavi: Painter, architect and possibly Iran's next president
Jun 11th, 2009 - CNN
Mir Hossein Moussavi supporters rally in Tehran this week. They are relatively young compared to his rival's. A painter and architect who withdrew from the political front for two decades, Moussavi has emerged with a platter of promises...
Women Rights videos from YouTube:
7:03Women Rights in Middle East with Queen Noor
An interview with Queen Noor of Jordan on the issue of Women rights in the Islamic World and the Middle East by Wolf Blitzer for CNN.
3:00School House Rock - Sufferin' Till Suffrage
Womens rights Sung By Essra Mohawk.. ... school house rock
11:29Everywoman - Women's rights in Iran
Everywoman looks at the plight of women's rights activists in Iran.
2:01Afghan MP Malalai Joya - Women's Rights
Afghan Member of Parliament Malalai Joya speaks about the troubling and declining status of women's rights in Afghanistan. Interview recorded September 2006. More info: www.malalaijoya.com Copyright © 2006 Intrinsic Audiovisual Productions
Women Rights from WikiPedia:
The term women's rights refers to freedoms and entitlements of women and girls of all ages. These rights may or may not be institutionalized, ignored or suppressed by law, local custom, and behavior in a particular society. These liberties are grouped together and differentiated from broader notions of human rights because they often differ from the freedoms inherently possessed by or recognized for men and boys, and because activists for this issue claim an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls.
Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not limited to, the right: to bodily integrity and autonomy; to vote (suffrage); to hold public office; to work; to fair wages or equal pay; to own property; to education; to serve in the military or be conscripted; to enter into legal contracts; and to have marital, parental and religious rights. Women and their supporters have campaigned and in some places continue to campaign for the same rights as men.
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