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The IRC (International Rescue Committee) is seriously concerned about females rights in Afghanistan. Females should be able to work, go to school, and move freely. As of August 2021, the response plan funding for women and girls has drastically diminished making them more prone to violence, child labor, and forced marriages. Since international support has slowly been fading away, almost 1 million children will miss out on education.

Despite the article referring to women and young girls distinctly why choose to rename your bookmark and pointedly refer to them as females rather than as the article intends? Your article covers rather dehumanizing issues so it strikes me as odd that out of all this your choice was to choose a word you could apply to any non human mammal rather than the women of Afghanistan. Did you not think that the article used the language "women and girls" for the reason of both humanization and to clarify that perhaps the rights of a female mammal weren't at stake here but the human population that happens to be female?

This article discusses the Hindu practice of Sati, in which the widow voluntarily gets burned alive at her husband's funeral pyre. In the Hindu religion, people can only reach enlightenment if they are a female, so many females burned themselves alive in hopes of achieving enlightenment.

Going over the debate of whether women should have the equal opportunity to join the elite ranks of the Navy SEALs. This tells how some former and current members of the community support this move, and disagree with it all together.

Ashley Crossman describes different possible theories for a possible explanation to the cultural differences between males and females.

Offers a study about how deployment to combat zones increases the divorce rate. The longer and more often a military service member is deployed, the higher the risk of a divorce. Female military members are at a higher risk. Couples with children facing a lower risk of divorce.

Mexico city has a town Tenancingo known for human trafficking. It's so close to home that it's time for more attention to be put toward human trafficking. Taking young girls as young as 12 is horrifying. There are young girls in the united states that deal with being trafficked as well. These are mothers, daughters, nieces, and people who don't need to be put through such a traumatizing event. When human trafficking is brought up corruption comes to mind as well. There comanly seem to be police, judges, and political figures within trafficking. These girls need help but it's hard to see where the help will come from.

First hand account of women from Central America who was forced into prostitution. Talks about Central America being a big hub for abduction of female victims.

First hand account of women abducted in Central America and forced into prostitution. Talks about how Central America is a big hub for female abductions.

As the deadline looms, nearly all of the state's 41 abortion clinics have shut their doors-and a few are still fighting to stay open. The passing of HB 2 means a lot of new red tape to the women already struggling with female health care in Texas.

Witty female activists are jumping on the Men's Rights bandwagon and taking leadership. This article explains who these woman are and why they got involved.

The supreme court ruled that ceos of large corporations can deny their female employees birth control. Ceos have the right to deny women birth control because of their own personal beliefs. Many women have struggled to afford birth control.

There are many social justice issues when it comes to females being discriminated against solely due to gender. Unfortunately, it seems more common than not for a woman to experience violence. This website points out some of the different gender-based violence taken against females.

Its unfortunate that we still have a problem with gender rights and making awareness of this topic definitely helps fight it!

Gender equality still remains a big factor in women lives when it comes to career choices. In the article it compares the level of consideration between males and females when they pick their careers. This issue isn't going unnoticed by the press however and top influence's are doing their best to improve women's comfort ability and confidence when it comes to career choices.

I hate to admit, being a woman in society is definitely challenging in numerous ways. It's horrible that a person's gender determines if they qualify for the job or not. Although, throughout the years I believe people have improved and for the most part, people have stopped becoming so simple minded. Women are finally given the credit that they deserve.

I think its important that we consider that its Gender Equality and not Female Equality. Both sides of the fence face the same descrimination. I am personally in a position where I am more than qualified to move up, but am noticing that only women are being promoted. There are struggles on both sides.

Prison Pet Partnership is a program at a women's prison set up to help people with disabilities. It uses animals that are rescued to help rehabilitate female inmates through vocational learning. The program teaches women inmates how to groom the homeless animals in order prepare them to be placed as service animals for disabled people. The program helps the inmates learn new skills, the animals find homes, and the disabled population.

The U.S. Roman Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter that would criticize abortion and end the disgrace of having an abortion under law.

My mother was born to an unwed 15 year old in 1940. My mother was given away in adoption to a family member. My grandmother wanted to have my mom (she had fallen in love with a service man who was killed in German) but her mom wanted her to have an abortion. It was illegal in those days and my grandmother refused to go to the "special doctor." So she was shipped away to a home for girls like her in Chicago to have my mom. My story is different then most. I am a product of a saved baby. Without my grandmother fighting for my mom, myself, my brother, my children, we would be dead. It is harder to speak to a child that survived abortion. No one has the right to tell me that we do not have the right to live. I am so grateful that abortion was illegal. I am so grateful that my beautiful children are alive.We are blessed.

Whenever this issue comes up one thing always pops into my head. My body, my choice. I am a female that was born and raised in the Catholic church and had to listen to this stuff for years. It never made sense to me why so many people try revoking this right from women. If you don't support it, fine. However, to take the option away from women who do want abortion as an option opens up even more negative doors. When women do not have a safe environment to discuss these options and the operation itself is made illegal then women who are desperate are more likely to go to back alley doctors or try to perform their own abortion. This often leads to more deaths among women whether it be from a botched, cheap operation or a horrific infection. It should also be noted that each woman is different. They might want the option of abortion for various reasons. Perhaps something is wrong with the child, and the doctors note it won't live past a couple of days, maybe the woman was raped and ended up pregnant, perhaps the fetus was dying and was also killing the mother, perhaps the woman just doesn't want children. You never know the circumstances of why a woman chooses to have an abortion, and they should never be judged for it or have that right revoked.

Since 1972 the ACLU has been working to secure gender equality and ensure that all women and girls are able to lead lives of dignity, free from violence and discrimination, including discrimination based on gender stereotypes.

The fact that women and other people in our country and other countries have to even fight to be equal is disgusting. We are all the same and deserve to be treated the same. The fight must continue.

It is crazy to think that in 2017 that we as humans can't treat one another the same as you would want to be treated yourself. I am not a woman but I do have a wife and daughter that I would hate/despise if they were treated any less than myself for any reason.

Human trafficking is a social justice issue and needs some light shined on it. Individuals, whether they are male or female, are being stripped of their rights and being taken advantage of.

This site gives plenty of different resources and facts to know about human trafficking. Talks about a survivors experience, statistics , laws, etc.

The president of Ikea U.S., recently described how important parental leave is to their employees. As they are a home store, he wants all of his employees to have plenty of time to set their home up to bring home their baby girl or boy with no stress. The company has a strong belief against inequity. Whether you are a male or female, homosexual or heterosexual, adoptive parents, or biological parents, the business provides the proper leave everyone deserves.

This article discusses the shared and unshared views about female discrimination in the workplace between men and women. Around one-third of todays' working women admit to have experienced some form of discrimination within their work place, and statistics show that there is a large lack of balance when it comes to how many men and how many women hold the highest jobs within the country.

As claimed by the World Bank, as of our present day, more than a billion people live not even on one dollar a day. Around 70% of them are females, and about half of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lives through it all at that level of income. Around every 4 seconds, one child dies out in the world due to a poverty issue.

Mainly talks about rare instances that happen and a father ends up paying child support. Goes into different examples of these kinds of cases from other states. Also, mentions how Arizona pursue child support cases and treats them differently from custody arrangements.

This is appalling. The woman should be charged. Its sad that many look away when its a male that is a rape victim. They deserve to get justice and not get charged for child support. The victim should have a say on what they want if they want to be involved or not, but I feel like they shouldn't have to deal with their rapist.

Wow this is another disturbing article! The fact of the matter is that men alone have it very very hard when it comes to their rights as fathers. And in instances like this, even harder. The fact that he got served with papers years later is very sad. That mother clearly just wants to collect money. But what would she even tell her daughter about her dad? That she had sex with a 14 year old boy?? This is so disturbing and there should be laws in place for situations like this and for fathers in general.

A 17-year-old gay male student has been suspended from a public high school in Texas for wearing fingernail polish. The polish would have been perfectly acceptable if the student were female. Some argue that the very idea that very short skirts or pants are distracting is inherently sexist