International Women's Day

Celebrate Good Times……Yeah Right!

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reader diary by GWMCHstudents, gwmchstudents@gmail.com

March 15, 2011 - 8:20pm (Print)

How did you celebrate International Women’s Day? Did you “celebrate good times?” or Were you a victim of violence?

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Morning Roundup: Planned Parenthood's Truth Tour Underway

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by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check

March 9, 2011 - 11:05am (Print)

Planned Parenthood is touring the country in a hot pink bus to rally support, a march for women's equality in Egypt turns sexually violent, and men in Texas don't want to play politics with forcing ultrasounds. Except that is exactly what they are doing.

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International Women’s Day: Miles to Walk, in the US and Across the Seas

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by Anika Rahman, Ms. Foundation for Women

March 9, 2011 - 9:19am (Print)

2011 marks the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day -- a day for the celebration of women worldwide.

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Planned Parenthood Spends International Women's Day Donating Medical Supplies to Haiti

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by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

March 8, 2010 - 12:43pm (Print)

Haiti gets a special delivery of medical supplies in honor of International Women's Day.

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Get Your Read On: A Reading List for International Women's Day

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

March 8, 2010 - 9:00am (Print)

Happy International Women's Day! RH Realitycheck has partnered with UN Dispatch to celebrate by offering a list of favorite books, articles, and blogs on the themes of women’s rights and human rights. Add your favorites!

Follow Jodi Jacobson on Twitter, @jljacobson

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Want Rights? Just Take Them

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by Gloria Feldt, www.GloriaFeldt.com

March 8, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)

Women need to start assuming equality at all levels as our perfect right, as boys and men are socialized to do from birth.  And then we need to act.

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Take Action for International Women's Day

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reader diary by Jaime-Alexis Fowler, Pathfinder International

March 3, 2010 - 9:36pm (Print)

What would you do to help women this International Women's Day? Click a button? Watch a video? What if that's all you had to do to improve women's lives?

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More Than Words for International Women's Day

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by Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray

March 10, 2009 - 10:36am (Print)

Tremendous progress has been made in recognizing and codifying women's rights internationally. But we've had limited success in realizing those rights.
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International Women's Day: From Crisis to Opportunity

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by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UNFPA

March 9, 2009 - 9:20am (Print)

President Obama's announcement of his intention to work with Congress to release funding for UNFPA shows the world that the United States wants women around the globe to be able to enjoy what women in the United States have already achieved.
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Broken Promises, New Pledges, and Possibilities on Women's Rights in India

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by Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check, Asia

March 6, 2009 - 5:23pm (Print)

India is a country of contrasts in not just the multiplicity of religions and faiths but also cultural contexts. So while in one part of the country a law is formulated to safeguard the rights of women in live-in relationships in another part of the country women are facing physical assaults for being dressed in "western attire."
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