The Guardian • women's rights
Issue #2115
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Ever since the 1989 coup that brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power, Sudanese women have endured decades of oppression, with their political, social, economic, and...
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Issue #2045
Sydney marches for International Working Women’s Day
Participants at this year’s rally came from all over to gather on the steps of Sydney’s Town Hall despite train network chaos. Women and their...
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Issue #2042
IWD Quiz
Can you identify these women? Over centuries of struggle many women have played a leading role, whether it be against slavery, racism, exploitation, sexism or...
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Issue #2109
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Julia Clare Marino “I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man; I will not … If he [Abbott] wants to know...
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Issue #2182
Women’s rights ‘regressing worldwide’
As an increase in conflicts leads to a significant spike in gender-based violence, women across the world face a “justice gap” with discriminatory laws reported...
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Issue #2109
Angela Davis in Queensland
The Queensland branches of the Communist Party of Australia conducted a successful and fruitful National Education Class this June in Nambour. Besides analysing the Communist...
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Issue #2046
IWD SA
In her welcome at Fidel’s, a venue belonging to the Workers’ Club, Sally Mitchell, president of the Port Adelaide Workers’ Club and the Port Adelaide...
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Issue #2107
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Looking back over sixty years, women have made some progress, but we still have a long way to go. My activities in the women’s movement...
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Issue #2111
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In 1907, Justice Higgins awarded women 54 per cent of the male basic wage, taking into consideration the need of a male (breadwinner) to provide...
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Issue #2054
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Skye Dannaher On Tuesday 11th April, the Western Australian branch of the Australian Nursing Federation was compared to Hitler at an Industrial Relations Commission hearing,...
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Issue #2082
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On 24 August 2023, Greek officials took action to break up a suspected criminal group engaged in human trafficking and illicit adoptions. The focal point...
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Issue #2114
GLOBAL BRIEFS
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Hundreds of Dominicans demonstrated in front of the National Palace, Santo Domingo, demanding improvements to the Criminal Code. The protesters wanted a modern...
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Issue #2048
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Elle Be In 2020, a bipartisan effort in New South Wales finally achieved success in the long-standing struggle for the legalisation of abortion. The change...
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Issue #2132
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The struggle for women’s liberation has been long and hard. Over more than a century gains have gradually been made. The gender pay gap has...
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Issue #2047
WEASEL WORDS
Warrior /ˈwriər/ (for) What comes to your mind when you hear the word “warrior?” Conan the Barbarian? Boadacea, with cool pagan woad painted on her...
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Issue #2195
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Israel has a significant problem with violence against women. The Israel Observatory on Femicide is the leading monitoring body tracking killings of women across Israel....
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Issue #2105
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The case that Brittany Higgins brought against Bruce Lehrmann exposed the inadequacy of our legal system when it comes to giving women a ‘fair go’...
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Issue #2134
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Women and children are already dying as a result of the Musk/Trump administration shutdown of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). According to Abby...
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Issue #2139
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Coalition leader Peter Dutton’s reputation on women’s issues has taken another hit. This time it is for his attack on women employed in the Australian...
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Issue #2143
UN women’s conferences
Nairobi 1985 The first International Women’s Conference I attended was the third World Forum held in Nairobi Kenya in 1985. There were two sites, one...
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Issue #2132
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UKRAINE: Multiple Ukrainian media outlets have issued urgent appeals for emergency donations after US President Donald Trump suspended US foreign aid programs. Nine out of...
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Issue #2121
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Progressive reforms under capitalism can never be taken for granted. The struggle for wage rises and workplace gains needs to be maintained or they will...
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Issue #2155
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Q: What has the Liberal Party learned about respecting women? A: Absolutely nothing. It was back to school for our Federal politicians with parliament resuming...
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Issue #2167
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A woman is set to be Japan’s first female Prime Minister. A woman has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Wow! The so-called ‘glass ceiling’ is...
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Issue #2088
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Since the events of 7 October the people of the western world have been subject to an unceasing propaganda campaign aimed at getting us to...
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Issue #2149
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Medical misogyny has recently gained significant attention. Rightly so. This describes a pervasive inequality in women’s experience of the health system. Government inquiries, including the...
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Issue #2146
The Elegance of Smriti Mandhana
It was a surprise to me to learn that Smriti Mandhana, who opens the batting for India’s women’s cricket team and is the team captain,...
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Issue #2130
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One of the key policy areas of South Korea’s Minjung Party (translated as “Progressive Party”) is fighting for women’s rights, feminism, and the rights of...
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Issue #2203
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No matter who you are in Australia, you’ve felt the effects of the patriarchy. The system of gender-based inequity runs so deep in our society...
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Issue #2123
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Abortion has been decriminalised in every state and territory of Australia after decades of intense struggle. Western Australia was the last states to do so...
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Issue #2105
GLOBAL BRIEFS
KENYA: Biden promised to designate Kenya as the USA’s first “major non-NATO ally” in sub-Saharan Africa as Kenyan President William Ruto arrived in Washington for...
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Issue #2137
Lianghui 2025
What is China’s “Two Sessions,” or “Lianghui”? China has a socialist people’s congressional system. Liang (two) Hui (sessions) is the meeting of the two most...
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Issue #2157
‘And ain’t I a woman?’
Tom Pearson revisits two landmark books: Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch and Angela Davis’ Women, Race & Class. These two books were published a decade...
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Issue #2168
Beijing declaration 30 years on: how far have women come?
The Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, China in 1995. It was the biggest UN forum ever held with over 34,000 delegates...
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Issue #2142
Obituary for Maria Hilario
In late February this year, the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) lost a great campaigner, worker, enthusiast, for women’s rights, and more recently Cuba, Venezuela...
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Issue #2119
Indigenous health
More than a year after the release of Coroner Wilson’s findings regarding the deaths of three Aboriginal women in the remote Queensland town of Doomadgee,...
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Issue #2105
Queensland Unions: LNP views of women antiquated, unsupported
Queensland Unions, the peak body representing 400,000 Queensland workers, says Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes’ comments that employers would be “reluctant to hire or promote women”...
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Issue #2119
Good news for sexual harassment victims
The union movement has welcomed the Senate’s passage of the government’s Costs Protection Bill, which will make it easier for victim-survivors of workplace sexual harassment...
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Issue #2184
International women’s action campaigns
In South Australia women have been celebrating 110 years of Women’s contributions to global peace and justice as part of International Women’s Day. The Women’s...
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Issue #2120
Indigenous Health
First Nations healthcare today is still fraught with discriminatory practices which have harmful impacts on communities. The gender pain gap – women are more likely...
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Issue #2135
ACTIVE IN STRUGGLE
The Communist Party highlights the importance of women being active in struggle to improve their employment prospects and their conditions of work, taking a stand...
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Issue #2123
EDITORIAL
The Russian Revolution in 1917 changed forever our understanding of what ordinary men and women can – and did – achieve in building a nationalised,...
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Issue #2185
Feminist activists arrested and raided by Victoria Police
On the morning of 27 March, Victorian Police conducted raids on 8 homes targeting a group of feminist activists in response to a stunt pulled...
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Issue #2138
IWD Luncheon Adelaide
First Nations artist and writer, Tabith Lean, an eloquent advocate for criminalised women, recounted not only her own devastating personal experiences on first being incarcerated,...
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Issue #2206
Thorpe seeks to end shackling during childbirth
Senator Lidia Thorpe has two bills before parliament that seek to prohibit practices that are frankly deplorable. These comprise of shackling incarcerated or detained women...
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Issue #2140
EDITORIAL
Time is a funny thing. Conservative Australians love to live in the past when it comes to ANZAC day and the Kokoda Trail. Those events...
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