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Womens Issu News
5 hours ago
Sara's story is an extraordinary one of loss, survival and, at the end, the remarkable bonds between us allNearly 11 years have passed since I last broke my own rule and wrote in this place about something deeply personal. Then, in the summer of 2001, it was the birth of my first child and the artic[...]
7 hours ago
The latest fashion in child-rearing is about regulating the behaviour of women, not benefiting childrenWas it just a few weeks ago that Time ran a cover story claiming women were poised to become "the richer sex" – getting more education than men, working up a storm and, in one out of four marriag[...]
7 hours ago
On-air mistake occurred in report on Twitter users who allegedly revealed identity of footballer Ched Evans's victimNorth Wales police have referred Sky News to the Crown Prosecution Service and the attorney general's office following the accidental broadcast of a rape victim's name.Officers from No[...]
8 hours ago
The Disneyfication of gay marriage in Japan does the country's civil partnership campaign few favoursNews that a lesbian couple will be allowed to "perform" a non-legally binding commitment ceremony in Tokyo Disneyland is being celebrated as a victory for the burgeoning civil partnership campaign in[...]
10 hours ago
While £30m has been found to help people build their own homes, the project diverts attention from the most acute needUndeterred by the embarrassments of Gordon Brown's celebrity appointments, the coalition government has continued to link policy to famous figures in the hope their ideas will gain [...]
19 hours ago
Fees to access maintenance collect by replacement to Child Support Agency also penalises women, says committeePlans to charge single parents for access to the replacement for the Child Support Agency could worsen child poverty, MPs have warned.The public accounts committee also expressed concern tha[...]
1 day ago
I object to same-sex marriage because I believe in social pluralism, not fancy-free individualismI will be the first to accept that homosexual people have suffered discrimination and sometimes worse through the decades and that the churches have, at times, been complicit in this. There is much penan[...]
1 day ago
For the first time, the French cabinet has an equal number of men and women, thanks to increased parity in higher educationNicolas Sarkozy promised a parity government in 2007, but failed to deliver. Five years later, newly elected president François Hollande has just done it. For the first time, F[...]
1 day ago
Woman says she was defending herself, but a jury – and the prosecutor now on George Zimmerman's case – disagreedIt took 45 days for police to arrest George Zimmerman, who invoked Florida's controversial stand-your-ground law when he shot an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin. When Marissa Alexande[...]
1 day ago
Disneyland emerges as unlikely champion of lesbian and gay rights after Tokyo resort allows same-sex ceremoniesDays after Barack Obama gave his public backing to gay marriages in the US, Mickey Mouse has emerged as the unlikely champion of same-sex unions in Japan.Tokyo Disneyland said this week it[...]
1 day ago
In accordance with the permission of the Ministry of Justice they met with KESK Women Secretary Canan Çalağan, member of the Education and Science Workers' Union (Eğitim-Sen) Branch No.1 Hatice Beydilli, the Health and Social Service Workers Union ...
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1 day ago
The United Nations entity mandated to promote gender equality today announced the members that will be part of a group that will facilitate dialogue between civil society and the agency.
2 days ago
Individual insolvency rate in Wansbeck is 57 per 10,000 adults, as the overall figure for England and Wales fell to 27.1 in 2011 from a peak of 31.1 in 2009The Wansbeck area of Northumberland has officially been named the bankruptcy capital of England, in a list that also features parts of Cornwall [...]
2 days ago
In 1958, the American idea of the teenager hit Britain. Pathé News caught early examples of this strange new breed at large in London's SohoThis may seem very familiar. That's because it's been chopped and edited into dozens of historical documentaries, as a seminal piece of documentary footage. An[...]
2 days ago
Judge questions systems at Ashness House home after jailing resident Serif Aslan for murder of 15-year-old Kasey GordonA private care home has been criticised by a judge as he sentenced a mentally ill resident to life for killing a schoolboy.Serif Aslan had not been taking his anti-psychotic medicat[...]
2 days ago
An estimated 1.5 million U.S. adults have the autoimmune disorder. Complications include heart problems, lung disease and osteoporosis.
American Medical Association via Zibb.com News 2 days ago
The head of the United Nations entity mandated to promote gender equality today welcomed the increase in women's representation in Algeria's new parliament as a result of elections held last week, and stressed that it represented a step towards democratic reform and gender equality.
2 days ago
Deaths from cancer in Britain have fallen 40% in people aged 50 to 59, according to figures produced by Cancer Research UKDeaths from cancer among 50-somethings have fallen to their lowest level in 40 years, thanks to better diagnosis, fewer people smoking and new drugs improving patients' chances o[...]
3 days ago
Are lads' mags, tabloids or the porn industry doing a better job of informing us which women we're allowed to call 'sexy', and what our sexual preferences should be?It's almost impossible to know which women are sexy. Until now I've had to discreetly compare lovers to the life-sized cardboard cut-ou[...]
3 days ago
There is no contradiction between delivering high returns to investors and addressing society's most pressing unmet needsCapitalism is the greatest engine for prosperity the world has ever seen and part of its success lies in its capacity to adapt. The historical fact, too often overlooked in our an[...]
3 days ago
Andrea Sutcliffe, of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, on funding cuts, maintaining a diverse talent pool and its new website for people looking for social careIntegration of health and social care, that long-sought nirvana, can now be brokered across a north London breakfast table. On one s[...]
3 days ago
Money isn't the only thing charities require: from learning to sign to giving blood, you can still make a differencePeople are still giving money to charity – a survey by Foresters shows 90% donated cash in 2011 – but times are tough, and increasing numbers of people are preferring to find other[...]
4 days ago
Conservatives' concerns about marriage seem to be based on a past that is fabricated from their own anxieties and obsessions'Throughout history and in virtually all human societies marriage has always been the union of a man and a woman." So says the Coalition for Marriage, whose petition against sa[...]
4 days ago
Sketch: Health secretary tells nurses the NHS must do better. You could have heard a bedpan fall in Tredegar hospitalHow different things might have been if Andrew Lansley, not Jeremy Hunt, had been appointed culture secretary in 2010. Instead of addressing the Royal College of Nursing's conference [...]
4 days ago
I first met Michael Butler (obituary, 7 May) when I was 10, and in a proper fix. My father and older brother had died, and my mother wanted me to attend Christ's Hospital, Horsham, a boarding school where almost every pupil receives a bursary.Though I did not meet the conditions of any specific awar[...]
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3 weeks ago
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is expected to come up for reauthorization in the Senate next week. (We previously wrote about this bill back in January.) The protections the reauthorized bill would offer for all women, regardless of their circumstances, are crucial. VAWA establishes a [...]
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