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The ILS Law College, Pune, India is pleased to host the inaugural...
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Iranian Women Now Barred From Numerous College Majors Including Engineering,...
Iranian Women Now Barred From Numerous College Majors Including Engineering, Nuclear Physics, Computer Science, English Literature, Archaeology and Business. From the BBC News: More than 30...
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Yxta Maya Murray on “Anglo-American Radical Feminism’s Constitutionalism in...
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“IKEA Regrets Women Erased From Saudi Catalog”
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“Women in China Face Rising University Entry Barriers”
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African Probate & Prolicy Initiative at U Miami School of Law
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All-woman team from Ethiopia looks to compete in Jessup moot competition
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Israel Faces a New Front of Segregation
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CFP: Transnational Queer Activism
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French in an Uproar about Judith Butler’s Gender Theories
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New Book Announcement: “Gender and Violence in Haiti”
New Book Announcement: “Gender and Violence in Haiti” Rutgers University Press has published a new book by Benedetta Faedi Duramy (Golden Gate). Here is the publisher’s description of Gender and...
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#BringBackOurDaughters, #BringBackOurGirls
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The Swedish Women’s Lobby makes its views on surrogacy known in Surrogacy: A Global Trade in Women’s Bodies, over at mercatonet.com. Here is an excerpt: The Swedish Women’s Lobby strongly opposes...
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I have so many basic factual questions about this story concerning the frozen sperm of an Auckland, New Zealand teenager: Promising young film-maker Cameron Duncan banked sperm at age 15 before...
View ArticleThe Battered Woman Syndrome In Canadian Criminal Law
Elizabeth A. Sheehy, University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, has published Defending Battered Women on Trial, at Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons From the Transcripts 1 (Vancouver: UBC...
View ArticleSecular Governments, Religious Courts, and Women’s Rights in Canada, the UK,...
Marie Ashe, Suffolk University Law School, and Anissa Helie, John Jay College of Criminal Jsutice, have published Realities of Religio-Legalism: Religious Courts and Women’s Rights in Canada, the...
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