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b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing December 8th, is: (more…)

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b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing December 7th, is: (more…)

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b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing December 6th, is: (more…)

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WAD08

Did you miss International World AIDS day on December 1st?

 Time to catch up. In the Bay Area the subject of HIV/AIDS has been with us since it’s first discovery. In commemorating the day, here’s what CA Representative Jackie Speier had to SAY.

The National Woman’s Law Center released something similar.

WAD08: AIDS Still Increasingly Wears a Woman’s Face

December 05, 2008

By Candace Webb, Outreach Manager

National Women’s Law Center

[This week, we marked the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, but also the first World AIDS Day we observed since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its controversial new HIV incidence data -– revealing the HIV epidemic in the United States is far worse than we previously thought….]

http://www.womenstake.org/2008/12/wad08-aids-still-increasingly-wears-a-womans-face.html

Really, in this new world, if you haven’t learned to bring your rubbers by this time, what should we think of you?

 

I Own My Vote, PUMA, The Denver Group, Just Say No Deal

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b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing December 5th, is: (more…)

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Iowa’s 1998 Defense of Marriage Act is about to be tested in the State Supreme Court. (more…)

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b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing December 4th, is: (more…)

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b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing December 2nd, is: (more…)

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160206 – Update: Lohana Berkins died this week. ILGA has this to say:

We mourn the loss of Lohana Berkins

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Each year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing December 1st, is:

081201 – Lohana Berkins

Argentina

Travesti* Activist

Lohana is an Argentine activist and the founder of ALITT (Asociación Lucha por la Identidad Travesti y Transexual/Association Fighting for Travesti / Transexual Identity). In addition to having run for legislative seats for left wing parties in Argentina, Lohana has organized prisoners, prostitutes, travestis, feminists, gay men, lesbians and poor youth to combat abuses. (more…)

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b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing November 29th, is: (more…)

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