Women’s Rights
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Poland abortion ruling sparks ‘women’s strike’
Crowds have protested in several cities for the seventh-day running against the decision that outlawed terminations on the grounds of…
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India’s caste system is under scrutiny after the mysterious cremation of an alleged rape victim
It had been two weeks since a 19-year-old woman had been allegedly raped and assaulted by four men from her…
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Indian police accused of cremating alleged rape victim against family wishes and religious custom
This article contains references to rape and sexual assault. SBS News Indian police were accused Wednesday of cremating the body…
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Vale Susan Ryan, pioneer Labor feminist who showed big, difficult policy changes can, and should, be made
In 1983, new Prime Minister Bob Hawke appointed Ryan Minister for Education and Youth Affairs and Minister Assisting the Prime…
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Susan Ryan, former minister, age discrimination commissioner, dies aged 77
Ms Ryan served as a minister in Bob Hawke’s Labor government, holding titles including special minister of state, minister for…
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‘If you call 000 … I will send you back to your country’: how COVID-19 has trapped temporary visa holders
It was also feared that, at the same time, conditions would prevent women from coming forward. Authors The Conversation We…
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Beenham Valley Road
Six years on, the wheels of justice are finally starting to turn. Mayeta Clark Australian Story It was code 2:…
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The teen activists who have stopped hundreds of child marriages in Bangladesh
When Dola Akter Reba was only 12, ‘matchmakers’ in the neighbourhood came knocking on her mother’s door, believing the young…
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A 5-Decade-Long Friendship That Began With A Phone Call
It argued that the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause applied to women. Nina Totenberg npr I didn’t understand some of…
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Coercive control: why is this form of intimate terrorism still legal?
Also known as “intimate terrorism”, coercive control is both a predictor of murder and an insidious and private form of…
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Coroner demands culturally-safe support for women after suicide ‘cluster’
Normally he’d attend two a year, but within months a suicide cluster among vulnerable migrant women of South Asian background…
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Women facing violence need protection — and their visa status shouldn’t matter
Visa status shouldn’t get in the way of that. Gina Rushton Crikey The following story contains descriptions of domestic violence.…
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Time to admit our national shame
Those who think that anger dies have never met Phil Cleary – whose sister, Vicki, was murdered 33 years ago…
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‘Polarised’ debate on gender recognition is harming UK, says equalities chief
The departing chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said the polarising debate around transgender rights will be…
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Poland to withdraw from treaty on violence against women
Poland will begin the process of withdrawing from a treaty to prevent violence against women, which the right-wing government in…
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Olga Neubert was refused family violence order before her murder by estranged husband
The coronial investigation into the murder of Olga Baraquio Neubert found that Tasmania Police refused her request for an FVO…
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