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FIGO works to enable every woman to achieve active participation in her own health and rights, and the highest possible standards of health. It is financed by dues of member societies, grants, and educational activities. FIGO's work covers many critical aspects of obstetrics and gynaecology and women's health and rights, including: adolescent ...
Harriet Katherine Wistrich (born 1960) [1] is an English solicitor and radical feminist who specialises in human-rights cases, particularly cases involving women who have been sexually assaulted or who have killed their violent partners. [2] [3] She works for Birnberg Pierce & Partners in London. [4] She was Liberty's Human Rights Lawyer of the ...
The Welfare of Women global health programme is a new initiative by The Global Library of Women's Medicine and is an attempt to try and provide health professionals globally with immediate access to the latest, state-of-the-art, information on women's health and on the 'best practice' management of relevant clinical conditions. [citation needed]
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others ...
Netflix has set its latest collaboration with London-based Pitch Productions titled The Figo Affair (El Caso Figo), a feature-length documentary centred around the story of Ballon d’Or winning ...
Transgender rights Limit participation in women’s sports . Trump has repeatedly referred to transgender women as men, vowing to his supporters that he will ensure transgender women cannot ...
In the United States, A Day Without a Woman was a general strike held on 8 March 2017 and organized by two different groups—the 2017 Women's March and a separate International Women's Strike movement. The two groups asked that women not work that day to protest the policies of the administration of Donald Trump, encouraging women to refrain ...
A women-only art space exploring themes of misogyny was at center of two controversies this year: a discrimination ruling, after a disgruntled man was denied entry, and the discovery that three of ...