Topic: Human Rights
American Airlines Rejects Female Passenger Because Political Pro-Choice T-Shirt is "Inappropriate"
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
May 22, 2012 - 10:29pm (Print)
In a country where anti-choice protestors are given free rein to harass and threaten women and doctors and parade gruesome doctored photos in every public square, a woman is asked to leave a plane because of a political pro-choice t-shirt.
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Bei Bei Shuai: Out on Bail, But Far From Free
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
May 22, 2012 - 2:23pm (Print)
Bei Bei Shuai was released on bail today after more than a year in an Indianapolis jail for being so depressed during pregnancy that she attempted suicide. She survived the suicide attempt but lost her baby — and her ordeal is not over yet.
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Why the Women’s Rights Movement Must Listen to Sex Workers
by Chi Mgbako
May 22, 2012 - 8:49am (Print)
To label and disregard sex workers as “victims” who cannot comprehend their true “enslavement” is condescending, disempowering, and untrue.
The United States: Where Pregnancy is Probationary and Your Body Is a Crime Scene
May 16, 2012 - 7:26pm (Print)
Bei Bei Shuai's case means that all pregnant women are potential criminals and that their bodies can be treated as potential crime scenes. How the "pro-life" movement is threatening to imprison a depressed woman for up to 45 years for attempting suicide.
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Despite Progress, Forced-Adoption Practices Persist Throughout the United States
May 15, 2012 - 10:35am (Print)
This has been a good year so far for an international community of mothers seeking redress for millions of forced adoptions that took place in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.
The Mainstreaming of Gay
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
May 13, 2012 - 9:23pm (Print)
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Fighting Back Against Hyatt's War on Mamas
Hyatt Hotels, a global corporation, has been engaging in its own war on women... their own workers. This Mama’s Day, I want to recognize an incredible group of women who are fighting back to demand better treatment for themselves and their co-workers.
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Remembering Bei Bei Shuai on Mama's Day
Almost two months ago, I wrote about Bei Bei Shuai on my blog, Radical Doula. Now it’s Mama’s Day, and Bei Bei is still in prison.
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Christian Men Want Their Kingdom Back, and They Won't Stop Until They've Gotten It
May 8, 2012 - 4:11am (Print)
I finally realized that fundamentalists don’t give a hoot about Adam and Eve populating the world. What they care about is keeping the Eve and the Apple story alive. That way, they can blame women for all the evils of the world.
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Prosecutions of HIV-Positive Sex Workers: Bad Human Rights and Bad Public Health
by Cheryl Overs, Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights.
May 7, 2012 - 2:46am (Print)
Greece has been in the news for prosecuting HIV positive sex workers and posting the women's photographs on the Internet. The Greek health authorities and many other governments and local authorities that have taken similar actions against sex workers have both the human rights and the public health very wrong.
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