Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In particular, it provides men and women with "the same right to enter into marriage, the same right freely to choose a spouse," "the same rights and responsibilities during marriage and at its dissolution," "the same rights and responsibilities as parents," "the same rights to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their ...
The organization joined the emerging civil rights movement and participated fully in the drive to enact and promote the 1960s' anti-poverty and civil rights programs. The NCJW renewed its commitment to women's rights and reproductive rights as the revitalized women's movement took shape in the 1960s and 1970s.
1980 – The New Jersey Supreme Court held that a mentally disabled woman has the right to be sterilized under the privacy rights of both the New Jersey and Federal Constitutions; however, the incompetent must be represented by counsel and the court may only authorize the sterilization if there is clear and convincing evidence the sterilization ...
Section 3 originally required that the state legislatures elect the members of the Senate, but the Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, provides for the direct election of senators. Section 3 lays out various other rules for the Senate, including a provision that establishes the vice president of the United States as the president of the ...
Since the beginning of the Gaza war in 2023, the Israeli military and authorities have been charged with committing war crimes, such as indiscriminate attacks on civilians in densely populated areas (including bombings of hospitals and medical facilities, refugee camps, schools and educational institutions, and municipal services); genocide; forced evacuations; the torture and executions of ...
Lastly, the Code's establishment on public stelae was supposedly intended to increase access to justice. Whether or not this was true, suggesting that a wronged man have the stele read aloud to him (lines 3240'–3254') [ note 1 ] is a concrete measure in this direction, given the inaccessibility of scribal education in the Old Babylonian period.
The Women's Auxiliary Air Force was the female auxiliary of the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War.Established in 1941, it began with an initial draft of 200 women, [1] reaching a peak strength of about 3,800, [2] with a total of about 4,750 women passing through its ranks, of who more than 100 achieved commissioned officer rank.