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Women’s Rights



Women’s rights are human rights. Legal and ethical rights should not be limited due to sex or gender, and women the world over fight for the right to live free from violence and discrimination, to have access to education, to own property, to work and earn an equal wage to men, to vote, to have access to health care, and to have control over our bodies and independent movement from place to place. Women and girls face gender-discriminatory treatment, policies, and cultural norms that routinely deny them of some or many of these rights. Increasing and protecting women’s rights has been shown to make the world a better place in economic, social, sustainability, and development arenas. The more equity we all have as global citizens, the more we can use our collective power and creativity to solve our problems.

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What Islam Really Says About Women | Alaa Murabit

Alaa Murabit's family moved from Canada to Libya when she was 15. Before, she’d felt equal to her brothers, but in this new environment she sensed big prohibitions on what she could accomplish.

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Indios

Filled with powerful imagery, this poem relates the tragic story of Indios, a native woman falsely accused of the death of her children.

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A Timely Collection of Vital Writing by Audre Lorde

In her public appearances, Audre Lorde famously introduced herself the same way: “I am a Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.”

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FindCenterA right delayed is a right denied.

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Challenging Religious & Patriarchal Structures | Sherin Khankan | TEDxLausanneWomen

Sherin speaks as she's a female Imam and shares the stories left untold about psychological violence and religious control, and how to break the circle of shame, loneliness and abuse.

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The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

For decades—and especially now, in these times of crisis—people around the world have found guidance, humor, and unity in Gloria Steinem’s gift for creating quotes that offer hope and inspire action.

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Daisy Khan, Sr. Joan Chittister Talk Women in Leadership from Interfaith Perspectives

Because leaders are not ordained in Islam but rather chosen by the community, Khan said, there have been many Muslim women leaders in history. - Jason Mast

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FindCenterMasses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.

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Sister Joan Chittister at TEDxWomen 2012

Sister Joan Chittister talks about new ideas in faith and contemporary science that are challenging the traditional hierarchical view of women's place and role in society.

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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in...

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