Etiqueta: mujeres
‘Jurisdictional maze’ hinders investigation of sexual violence against Native women, informe dice
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Amnesty International has called on the US government to fully restore tribal jurisdiction over crimes on Native lands in the face of staggeringly high rates of sexual violence against Native women, according to a rep...
Women almost twice as likely to be trapped in crashed vehicle, hallazgos del estudio
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Women are almost twice as likely as men to become trapped in a motor vehicle after a crash and they also sustain different patterns of injury, los datos sugieren. The research – the first large UK study to compare sex diff...
Prejudices that led to witch-hunts still affect women today, says historian
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Prejudices that led to witch-hunts hundreds of years ago have not disappeared and women are still on the receiving end of men’s anger, a leading historian has said. Writing in the Radio Times, Lucy Worsley, a historia...
Locking up pregnant women damages mothers and children – yet the UK does it
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Some images never leave you: one that plays itself out in my mind is that of a teenage girl discovered in bed one morning curled up, bloody, with her baby, who is dead. She had given birth without assistance. Otro:...
Kimmel on baby formula shortage: ‘Never been a better time to force women to have kids’
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Jimmy Kimmel opened Tuesday’s show with the national shortage on baby formula, which has left parents desperate and led authorities to warn people not to try to make their own recipe. “I don’t know – I’m sure the iver...
Adidas sports bra ads banned in UK for objectifying women
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An Adidas campaign featuring dozens of sets of breasts to promote the diversity of its range of sports bras has been banned by the UK advertising watchdog for using explicit nudity and appearing where children could s...
What Latin American feminists can teach American women about the abortion fight
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When news leaked of the possible overturning of Roe v Wade, tweets and commentaries began circulating calling for people in the United States to learn from experiences in Argentina, México, and Colombia – countries th...
Las vacunas covid son seguras para las mujeres embarazadas y reducen el riesgo de muerte fetal, dice reseña
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Los médicos han enfatizado la importancia de las vacunas contra el covid para las mujeres embarazadas después de que una revisión importante descubrió que las inyecciones no solo eran seguras, pero redujo el riesgo de muerte fetal por 15%. Investigadores en St George's, Universidad ...
‘The Taliban know they need us’: the Afghan hospitals run by women
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Few places in Afghanistan are run by women. Public life and business are male-dominated and, since the Taliban’s takeover, even more women have vanished from view. While some say they are stuck in conservative societa...
Taliban order all Afghan women to wear burqa
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Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders have issued an order that all Afghan women should wear the all-covering burqa in public. The move confirms the worst fears of rights activists and is likely to further complicate Taliban ...
Killed by abortion laws: five women whose stories we must never forget
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Savita Halappanavar was 31 years old when she died of blood poisoning nearly a week after she arrived at University Hospital Galway (UHG) in Ireland complaining of intense back pain. Halappanavar, a dentist from Karna...
Women know how choice and freedom feel – and we will never give that up
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To All Those Who Dare Rob Us of Our Bodily Choice, I ask you: What is it about our bodies that makes you so afraid, so insecure, so cruel and punishing? Is it their singular autonomy or mere existence? Is it their cap...
Shove over, stale males! Meet the working-class women storming TV
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Television is meant to be for everybody – but it isn’t. How can it be when, after nearly a century, it remains predominantly male, stale and middle-class? Por décadas, the industry has been talking about nurturing wor...
‘The threat of abuse and violence is still a daily part of the job’: the bereaved women fighting to protect gig economy drivers
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Corte francesa reproduce cintas de asesinatos de Bataclan a pedido de sobreviviente 17 febrero 2021, Gabriel Bringye kissed his fiancee goodbye, and assured her he wouldn’t work late. Horas después, police were at the door of their east London home. He had been killed on the job, lur...
Black women making a mark in the arts goes back at least a generation
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Bernardine Evaristo rightly highlights the way that Black female artists, writers and actors are finally getting public attention (‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph of older B...
Police officer who pursued women he met on duty for sex jailed
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A former police officer who had sex with vulnerable women and pursued inappropriate relationships after meeting them in the course of his duties has been jailed for three years. Oliver Perry-Smith was described as a “...