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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 ...
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 ...
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]
England's men's cricket team is set to face Afghanistan on Feb. 26 in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy group stage. However, women's rights activists have called for ...
Women's Voices Now (WVN) is an American non-profit organization that "uses film to drive positive social change that advances girls' and women's rights globally". [1] It organizes online short film festivals and other activities in its mission to "amplif[y] the voices of all women by promoting the free expression of women's struggles for civil, economic, political, and gender rights worldwide".
1994 – The Violence Against Women Act funds services for victims of rape and domestic violence and allows women to seek civil rights remedies for gender-related crimes. Six years later, the ...
Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. 'Free the Nipple' movement: Women can now legally ...
The timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. The changes include actual law reforms, as well as other formal changes (e.g., reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents ).