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Undated: Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide, and formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century and feminist movement during the 20th century. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others they are ignored and suppressed. They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys.[1]
Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include the right: to bodily integrity and autonomy; to be free from sexual violence; to vote; to hold public office; to enter into legal contracts; to have equal rights in family law; to work; to fair wages or equal pay; to have reproductive rights; to own property; to education.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_rights
Undated: Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex slavery. They are refused access to education and political participation, and some are trapped in conflicts where rape is perpetrated as a weapon of war. Around the world, deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth are needlessly high, and women are prevented from making deeply personal choices in their private lives. Human Rights Watch is working toward the realization of women’s empowerment and gender equality—protecting the rights and improving the lives of women and girls on the ground.
https://www.hrw.org/topic/womens-rights?ea.client.id=1908&ea.campaign.id=40786&ea.tracking.id=ED2018EVSCgg&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8vbWvc-34gIVW7jACh0Wcgs5EAAYASAAEgKooPD_BwE#
Undated: Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the late 1800s, women worked for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms, and sought to change voting laws in order to allow them to vote.[1] National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts to gain voting rights, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904, Berlin, Germany), and also worked for equal civil rights for women.[2]
Women who owned property gained the right to vote in the Isle of Man in 1881, and in 1893, the British colony of New Zealand granted all women the right to vote.[3] Most independent countries enacted women's suffrage in the interwar era, including Canada in 1917; Britain, Germany, Poland in 1918; Austria and the Netherlands in 1919; and the United States in 1920. Leslie Hume argues that the First World War changed the popular mood:
The women's contribution to the war effort challenged the notion of women's physical and mental inferiority and made it more difficult to maintain that women were, both by constitution and temperament, unfit to vote. If women could work in munitions factories, it seemed both ungrateful and illogical to deny them a place in the polling booth. But the vote was much more than simply a reward for war work; the point was that women's participation in the war helped to dispel the fears that surrounded women's entry into the public arena.[4]
Extended political campaigns by women and their supporters have generally been necessary to gain legislation or constitutional amendments for women's suffrage. In many countries, limited suffrage for women was granted before universal suffrage for men; for instance, literate women or property owners were granted suffrage before all men received it. The United Nations encouraged women's suffrage in the years following World War II, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979) identifies it as a basic right with 189 countries currently being parties to this Convention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage
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Undated: The Trump Administration Wants to Take Away Women's Rights
Healthcare for women, our rights, and our communities are facing unprecedented attacks.
Despite the fact that birth control is essential health care and the key to women’s economic and social advancement, the Trump administration is hell-bent on getting rid of access to it.
Not on our watch.
Planned Parenthood and supporters are fighting back to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or zip code, has access to birth control. The Trump administration continues to attack access to this basic health care — whether through employer-provided health insurance, federal programs like Title X, or Planned Parenthood health centers — and threaten the decades of progress we’ve made.
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/fight-for-birth-control/about
April 25: 100 Days, 100 Ways the Trump Administration Is Harming Women and Families
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2017/04/25/430969/100-days-100-ways-trump-administration-harming-women-families/
-- 2018 --
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Undated: World Report 2018: United States | Human Rights Watch
The strong civil society and democratic institutions of the United States were tested in the first year of the administration of President Donald Trump. Across a range of issues in 2017, the US moved backward on human rights at home and abroad.
Trump has targeted refugees and immigrants, calling them criminals and security threats; emboldened racist politics by equivocating on white nationalism; and consistently championed anti-Muslim ideas and policies. His administration has embraced policies that will roll back access to reproductive health care for women; championed health insurance changes that would leave many more Americans without access to affordable health care; and undermined police accountability for abuse. Trump has also expressed disdain for independent media and for federal courts that have blocked some of his actions. And he has repeatedly coddled autocratic leaders and showed little interest or leadership in pressing for the respect of human rights abroad.
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/united-states
Undated: When women are economically empowered, they re-invest in their families and communities, producing a multiplier effect that spurs economic growth and contributes to global peace and stability. In February 2019, President Trump, established the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative, the first whole-of-government effort to advance global women’s economic empowerment.
W-GDP seeks to reach 50 million women in the developing world by 2025 through U.S. government activities, private-public partnerships, and a new, innovative fund.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wgdp/
January: If you care about women's rights, you care about our Federal courts
Every year, federal courts decide cases that impact critical rights and freedoms for women and girls across America. Federal judges issue rulings that ensure women's access to reproductive healthcare, equal rights in education and the workplace, and protection against sexual assault and violence. Judges play a crutical role in interpreting how statues and constitutional protections affect hundreds of milions of people in our country; girls, women, their children and families, the communities they live and work in, and the opportunities of future generations.
https://afj.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Trump-Nominees_Bad-for-Women.pdf
August 27: Fact Check On Ivanka Trump’s Women’s Equality Day Post
On Sunday, the nation celebrated (sort of) the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, when (white) women were granted the right to vote. Marked on the calendar as “Women’s Equality Day,” the half-baked holiday has been proclaimed by presidents and celebrated on August 26 ever since the 1920 day that the amendment was signed.
Over the weekend, first daughter and White House advisor Ivanka Trump tweeted a message and an image commemorating the day. She wrote, “On #WomensEqualityDay, 98 years ago today, American women were given the right to vote. When women around the globe are empowered to fully and freely participate in all aspects of society, the world will be more safe, just and prosperous for all!”
The trouble is that women weren’t “given” the right to vote. They demanded it. They fought for it. They won it, and they only won it for some of them.
https://forward.com/schmooze/409040/fact-check-on-ivanka-trumps-womens-equality-day-post/
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December 11: Middle Eastern Women’s Coalition Endorses President Donald Trump
MUSLIM, JEWISH & CHRISTIAN MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN AND CHILD BRIDE WANT TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY WILL ENDORSE PRESIDENT TRUMP
An international coalition of Women’s Rights activists will host a high profile Speakers’ Forum and News Conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on December 11 to raise awareness about barbaric abuse of women and child brides under Sharia Law, and to express their unwavering support for President Donald Trump, who champions their cause.
“We are bringing women from all across the country and all over the world to raise our unified voices in support of President Donald Trump,” said coalition president Rabia Kazan. “President Obama created ISIS and encouraged Sharia Law throughout the Middle East, and for eight years he turned a deaf ear to our cries. Finally, there is hope for us because of President Trump. He is changing the game. He is the only one fighting for us, and for our human rights.”
The Middle Eastern Women’s Coalition wants to reform the barbaric practices of child marriages, genital mutilations, honor killings and dress code restrictions by initiating a cultural and religious revolution throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. They believe that only President Trump has both the will and the international stature to do that.
The Press Club gathering will feature female anti-abuse crusaders from America as well as Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Libya and Kurdistan – all countries that allow or endorse Sharia Law. The stellar panel of prominent women speakers, [includes many] whom at one time risked their lives to escape from oppressive conditions in their own native countries ...
https://www.press.org/events/middle-eastern-women%E2%80%99s-coalition-endorses-president-donald-trump
-- 2019 --
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Undated: The Trump Administration Wants to Take Away Women's Rights
Healthcare for women, our rights, and our communities are facing unprecedented attacks.
Despite the fact that birth control is essential health care and the key to women’s economic and social advancement, the Trump administration is hell-bent on getting rid of access to it.
Not on our watch.
Planned Parenthood and supporters are fighting back to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or zip code, has access to birth control. The Trump administration continues to attack access to this basic health care — whether through employer-provided health insurance, federal programs like Title X, or Planned Parenthood health centers — and threaten the decades of progress we’ve made.
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/fight-for-birth-control/about
April 15: Trump's anti-abortion agenda emboldened an all-out war on women's rights in dozens of states
Pro-lifers think they now have the Supreme Court votes to overturn Roe v. Wade. And they're setting up the legal fights to get there.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-anti-abortion-agenda-emboldened-all-out-war-women-ncna994661
April 29: Three Rulings Block Trump’s Latest Anti-Woman Attacks
Much time, energy, and money has been spent fighting the Trump Administration’s efforts to undermine gender equity. But women aren’t just playing defense.
https://progressive.org/dispatches/three-rulings-block-trumps-latest-anti-woman-attacks-pettway-190429/
May 14: What's behind the absurd gamble on women's rights and health
Last week, Georgia joined the ranks of states in a sudden rush to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, as early as six weeks after conception -- before a woman may even know that she is pregnant. Kentucky, Mississippi, and Ohio passed similar laws this year. Alabama is taking its fight against choice even further, with a bill that not only bans abortions but makes it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion.
Why the rush to pass legislation that will face an inevitable challenge from civil liberties, civil rights, and womens' rights organizations? Because anti-choice legislators believe they will face a friendly bench in the [conservative-leaning] Supreme Court.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/opinions/georgia-alabama-abortion-bills-carliss-chatman/index.html
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May 20: How the Trump Administration’s Contraception Rules Trample Women’s Constitutional Rights
Three years have passed since access to birth control was before the Supreme Court. But now the issue has returned in force to the circuit courts of appeals as 15 states challenge extreme contraception rollback rules created by the Trump administration. The new rules, if upheld, could eliminate contraception insurance coverage for millions of women nationwide. Oral argument will be held tomorrow in the Third Circuit and on June 6 in the Ninth Circuit.
Already, medical groups, business groups, and more are weighing in with their own arguments in more than a dozen amicus briefs, making their case against these rules that trample women’s constitutional rights and the ideals of religious pluralism.
https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/how-the-trump-administrations-contraception-rules-trample-womens-constitutional-rights/
May 24: Black Trans Women Are Being Murdered in the Streets. Now the Trump Administration Wants to Turn Us Away From Shelters and Health Care.
It has been a horrific week for transgender and non-binary people. Muhlaysia Booker, Claire Legato, and Michelle Simone are Black trans women who have been murdered in the past week. At least five Black trans women have been killed so far in 2019.
On Wednesday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to give federally funded shelters a license to discriminate and turn away transgender people. The policy move is seen by many transgender and non-binary people as an act of violence on our community and our lives.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/black-trans-women-are-being-murdered-streets-now-trump
Ongoing: Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks
https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/
May 25: Pelosi Statement on Trump Administration Assault on Women & Transgender Americans
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/52419-2/
May 25: Protesters demand end to killings of transgender women, Trump rollbacks
At least 26 transgender women were reported killed in 2018 and 29 in 2017, according to an LGBT advocacy group
http://news.trust.org//item/20190525004714-zykv8/
-- 2020 --
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