{WOMENSENEWS}-- Lawyer Angeli Rasbury pleads her case for why viewers should question the love choices of the TV show's lead character, Olivia Pope, and the negative messages they reinforce about relationships and sexuality when it comes to race.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 14 (UPI) -- Republicans are losing U.S. elections they could win by slavishly clinging to untenable solutions for skyrocketing federal healthcare costs that voters reject.
LONDON, March 14 (UPI) -- The international community should act to prevent a catastrophe and ensure that the story of the residents of Camp Liberty in Iraq does not go down as tragedy.
WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- As U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration begin a second term, they face powerfully transformed political landscapes at home and abroad.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- As the battle to preserve reproductive freedom heats up, abortion-rights advocates are increasingly embracing the quest for "reproductive justice." Younger activists predict 2013 will be the year "choice" fades out.
HERNDON, Va., March 12 (UPI) -- The next leader of Venezuela will have to deal with the issues created by the presidency of Hugo Chavez.
QUEZON CITY, Philippines {WOMENSENEWS}-- Catholic opposition has kept a Philippines birth-control law passed in 2012 from reaching the women in shanties, where the birth rate is booming. Our reporter visits a woman who wanted three children and wound up with eight, aged 2 to 21.
BRUSSELS, March 11 (UPI) -- Maybe the British aren't quite as isolated when to comes to the European Union as the conventional wisdom in Brussels likes to think.
SOWETO, South Africa {WOMENSENEWS}-- Charlotte Maxeke, Lilian Ngoyi and Helen Joseph are some of the leaders extolled in a small exhibit at the Apartheid Museum that pays rare tribute to those who fought pass cards. Current-day leaders, meanwhile, are battling HIV, violence and fear.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 8 (UPI) -- Economists expect U.S. gross domestic product growth to rebound and moderate jobs creation to continue.
UNITED NATIONS {WOMENSENEWS}-- Traditional leaders adjudicate household violence and land inheritance for the majority of rural women in the developing world. Increasingly, human rights activists want them to give women a better shake.
WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) -- The author says the International Court of Justice should be move from The Hague since Dutch authorities refuse to follow rule of law regarding Joris Demmink
{WOMENSENEWS}-- The men who gather in Boston on March 7 are doing the right thing. But we can't stop the violence against women unless we get all those male bystanders to start jumping in.
DUBLIN, Ireland {WOMENSENEWS}-- As the Anglo-Irish troubles recede in Northern Ireland, some safety advocates say police have more time for doing something about domestic violence. Police calls spiked in the first half of 2102, according to a recent report.
ZURICH, Switzerland, March 4 (UPI) -- Two overwhelming facts about women today are that the world is facing a remarkable shortage of females and that they are becoming the better-educated gender.
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