This week Maloney proposes global women’s rights office; new FBI network allows instant wiretaps on any communication device; FBI spied on Coretta Scott King for years after MLK’s death; GenderPAC releases new report on gender discrimination in schools; immigrant hotel workers win victory; sectarian violence twice as deadly this year in Iraq; female suicides increase in Iraqi Kurdistan; Saudi women prepare their case to practice law; Tajikistan sees its first battered women’s shelter; brothel raids in England reveal network of trafficked women forced into sex work; gay/women commerce groups to cooperate; Iowa’s first gay marriage; U.S. maternal death rate reaches highest level in decades, rate for African-American women 3:1; ovary removal raises risk for Parkinson’s Disease; a tribute by our Featured Feisty Aphrodite and much, much more.
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Correction: It was announced that this weekend Amy Goodman was coming to Denver, she will in fact be in Denver on Saturday, September 15. For more information click here.
