Italy will become the first country in Europe to offer paid menstrual leave for those with dysmenorrhea. Pakistan to crack down on “vani” cases: a 400-year-old custom where fathers sell their female…
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Native Women’s Association of Canada gives the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and girls a failing grade. An open letter further criticizes the process and progress to date as “disorganized, haphazard…
On Friday, Ontario-born filmmaker, Joshua M. Ferguson, applied to change his sex designation on his birth certificate from male to “non-binary.” A spokesperson for the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services told…
Infant mortality in the US is at a historical low, but maternal mortality rates are higher than in any other developed country, and they are rising. The Canadian Senate committee on Legal…
Facebook has censored the page of Women on Web, an organization that helps women obtain abortion pills, claiming the page violated its policy against the “promotion or encouragement of drug use.” Basil…
Women Help Women, an international advocacy group, has launched a website offering US women help if they perform their own medical abortions. Man on trial for murder argues that his girlfriend accidentally…
New Hampshire State Rep Robert Fisher under fire for the creation of “The Red Pill” forum on Reddit, one of the internet’s foulest misogyny cesspools. “Feminists are obsessed with rape because we…
Hypatia’s editor, Sally Scholz, stands behind the journal’s decision to publish Rebecca Tuvel’s article, “In Defense of Transracialism.” She told The Chronicle, that she believes it is “utterly inappropriate for editors to…
What’s Current: Toronto police sergeant on trial for sexually assaulting two women in his police car
In Toronto, two women testified against Christopher Heard, a police sergeant, who is accused of sexually assaulting the women in his police car after offering them rides home. Heard took the stand…
An amendment in the GOP health care reform bill will allow states to deny coverage for “preexisting conditions,” including sexual assault, postpartum depression, cesarean sections, and domestic violence. The bill has passed…
William Shatner says feminism is “great,” so long as it doesn’t discuss “toxic masculinity,” which is “misandry.”
Climate change — characterized by an increase in extreme weather and natural disasters — increases trafficking, prostitution, and violence against women throughout Asia. The situation in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan offers one…
Hypatia — a feminist philosophy journal — retracts article about “transracialism” and issues an apology after backlash. https://www.facebook.com/hypatia.editorialoffice/posts/1852550825032876 Trump plans to end Michelle Obama’s girls education program. Are artificial wombs revolutionary…
Donald Trump has appointed an anti-abortion campaigner and “Public Enemy #1” of reproductive rights, Charmaine Yoest, to a senior post at the Department of Health and Human Services. Yoest is the former…
Thai woman saw her abusive boyfriend broadcast the murder of their 11-month-old daughter on Facebook Live. Caitlyn Jenner to BBC Woman’s Hour: “I am firmly on the side of womanhood, but I…