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Biden promotes abortion policies on International Women's Day
Promoting abortion rights on International Women's Day, President Joe Biden says that "every person deserves the chance to live up... Read more
How Did Abortion Become a ‘Woman’s Right’? Legal Scholar Lists 3 Factors
Modern feminism is “corrupted” by abortion and “eating away at itself,” according to one legal scholar. Read more
How the Church in Chile is helping women victims of domestic violence
The Vicariate for Social Pastoral Care of Caritas in the Archdiocese of Santiago takes in every year hundreds of women... Read more
In North Carolina, more changes for disputed bathroom law
North Carolina has modified its law on gender identity and the use of bathrooms and locker rooms, after facing pressure... Read more
NC governor: Separate men and women's restrooms is a matter of privacy
North Carolina’s governor is standing firm against the U.S. Justice Department’s claim that it is unlawful and discriminatory to require... Read more
Trans rights over women's rights? What's at stake in the bathroom bills
Few can forget the media furor over Caitlyn Jenner's cover story in Vanity Fair last year. Read more
Report: Baby girls are being targeted for abortion in the West
The problem of sex-selective abortion is not limited to China and India, but is increasing in communities within Western countries,... Read more
Two years after Boko Haram's schoolgirl kidnappings, has anything changed?
Two years ago, radical Islamists with the militant group Boko Haram stormed a school in Chibok, Nigeria, kidnapping 276 teen... Read more
Why China's two-child policy won't alter its human rights horrors
The dark nature of abortion and choice come into sharp relief when considering the human rights abuses which result from... Read more
China replaces one-child policy with two-child policy
The Chinese government has moved its cap on the number of children per family from one to two, the state’s... Read more
Why no one wants to talk about China's female suicide problem
Zhang Xihuan doesn't know what was going through her mind when she swallowed a mouthful of the pesticide stored behind... Read more
Want to empower women? Support mothers, politician argues
Ahead of a conference discussing the presence of women in the 2015 development agenda, organizers said goals fall short of... Read more
UK push to ban gender-based abortions hailed as pro-woman
The British Parliament's move to ban sex-selective abortion is a move to defend women's rights – including the right to... Read more
UK prime minister denounces sex-selective abortions as 'appalling'
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has criticized sex-selective abortion as “simply an appalling practice,” and said the British government will... Read more
