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Wednesday April 19th, 2017Wednesday April 19th, 2017

What American Women Can Learn From Liberia’s Female President

By Lucy Feldman – April 14, 2017 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf rode a powerful wave of feminism to lead her country Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only female presidential candidate in recent memory to run against a man with popular appeal but little to no political experience. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf faced off against professional football player George …

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Wednesday January 18th, 2017

Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Trump, the Republican controlled Congress and the War on Women

By NY brit expat Monday Jan 16, 2017 For those that have been watching the right-wing war on women for at least a decade, people may think that all we are going to see is a continuation of the attacks on women’s reproductive rights. While it is also a continuation, what is happening now actually …

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Friday January 13th, 2017

A Hopeful Story for the New Year From Women Wage Peace

By Orna Raz* 2016 was not a very good year for Israel, and we have become even more isolated in the world. So when I arrived to Oxford, for an international symposium on Women’s Leadership, I was worried that as an Israeli I would not be welcome.. But the women who attended the conference from …

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Tuesday December 20th, 2016

Women in Black, Belgrade: State blessing for violence against human rights defenders

Pocuca Case Verdict On December 14th 2016 Court in Belgrade acquits Radomir Pocuca for threats and endangering safety of Women in Black activists. Radomir Pocuca in March 2014th urged hooligans to attack activists of Women in Black during their street action. At that time Pocuca was a high official of Anti-Terrorist Unit of Serbian Police. …

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Tuesday December 13th, 2016Tuesday December 13th, 2016

The Forgotten Horror of Ravensbrück, the Nazi Concentration Camp for Women

by Mary McGill – Dec 5 2016 Proposed by Zoe Kokalou Seventy years ago In 1946, a group of female guards stood trial for war crimes committed at an all-women concentration camp. Seventy years on, why does Ravensbrück remain a footnote in history? Seventy-years ago on December 5, 1946, the Hamburg Ravensbrück war crimes trials …

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