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In partnership with others, including survivor advocates from across the country, I have been campaigning state by state for years to change our own out of date minimum age of marriage laws. The most recent victory in New York was a hard-won battle but I am happy that my home state has finally enacted Naila’s Law and set the minimum age of marriage at 18 without exceptions—only the sixth state in the U.S. to do so. This has made me feel like I can heal.
Operation Period is a nonprofit that has coined the term “menstrual freedom” to embody their message as an organization. This means taking on systems of oppression and injustice that hinder menstruators in hope of achieving a better world.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: the benefits of ranked-choice voting for women candidates and voters; Michelle Wu was sworn in as mayor of Boston; could Vermont elect its first woman member of Congress? and more!
Conversations at the UN climate change conference COP 26 explored the disproportionate impact that climate change has on women, as well as how women can become more involved in climate policies.
“Despite the huge impact of agriculture on emissions, and the huge potential of land use for both mitigation and adaptation, it still receives far too little attention; and gender is consistently given minimal attention or altogether left out in conversations about agriculture and land use planning and management in particular, relative to climate conversations overall,” Beth Roberts, the director of Landesa’s Center for Women’s Land Rights, told Ms.
Beginning November 25, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and running until December 10, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence will commence.
To promote awareness of the violence against women around the world, the organization UN Women is holding virtual events on empowerment.
Narges Mohammadi, vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran, has been held in solitary confinement on and off from 1998 and 2020 for her human rights advocacy. On Tuesday night, Mohammadi was arrested by Iranian security forces during a ceremony honoring a victim of Iran’s deadly response to November 2019 protests. She was taken to the notorious Evin prison.
Since her release in October 2020, Narges has tried to draw attention to the practice of “white torture”—a form of solitary confinement—in Evin and other Iranian prisons. That is the topic of this article—the first she has written in English.
However disconnected we may feel personally from the climate crisis, there is a role that each of us has to play. Here are three action points for each and every one of us.
Women are at the forefront of local, national and global environmental movements as both the greatest victims and greatest fighters of climate change—yet men continue to make most of the decisions to combat the destruction that they themselves designed.
Multi-generational female environmental activists react to the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 26, their thoughts on what needs to be done to combat environmental destruction, and their idea of real, sustainable global change.
Efforts from scientists trying to identify “gay genes” are part of a longstanding, problematic tradition of research focused on how minority groups are genetically different.
It’s high time we moved the fight for LGBTQ+ recognition and survival away from the ‘nature versus nurture’ debate and into new directions.