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It isn’t justice for Purvi Patel to serve 20 years in prison for an abortion

please sign the petition here Abortion is illegal in the United States. So is having a stillbirth – not officially, perhaps, but thanks to a case in Indiana, we’re halfway there. On Monday, Purvi Patel, a 33 year old woman who says that she had a miscarriage, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for …

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Human traffickers run a huge bakery chain in Athens

The co-owner of a well-known bakery chain denied charges at a criminal court in Athens on Tuesday which claimed that he was the leader of a major sex trafficking ring. According to reports, the accused who was operating this criminal organization with his brother, purposely lured foreign women to Greece and then forced them to work …

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Ανοικτή επιστολή προς τον Αντιπρόεδρο της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής Frans Timmermans

Brussels, 24 March 2015] This morning, the European Women’s Lobby and ILGA-Europe, the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association sent an Open Letter to European Commission Vice President Timmermans and European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality on the topic of the promised EU LGBTI strategy and the …

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A European Union architecture for women’s rights and gender equality

EWL Beijing+20 in March – The equality house : a sustainable and strong European Union architecture for women’s rights and gender equality [Brussels, 2 March 2015] Did you know that only five Member States have a separate designated body for the promotion of equal treatment of women and men ? That in 2012, only two Member States …

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Afghan women carry body of lynched woman to burial

An Afghan woman who was beaten to death by a mob for allegedly burning a copy of the Quran has been buried in Kabul, her coffin carried aloft by women’s rights activists in a rare protest in a male-dominated society. Hundreds of people, shouting “Allah o Akbar” (God is greatest), demanded the government bring the …

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