NEW YORK {WOMENSENEWS}-- If you're working at Burger King, 22, and have three children, you don't make enough. You're part of a low-wage work force that is predominantly female and--as of a few months ago--starting to protest.
LONDON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- It will take something close to a miracle to stop average temperatures rising more than 2 degrees and sea level rise down to 3 feet because of climate change.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Which corporations are financing whose campaigns? What are their political surrogates saying about Planned Parenthood and rape? Should we boycott? After 2012 these are big civil rights questions for women to consider.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- For Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu apartheid, or institutionalized segregation of Palestinians, is less threatening than full-fledged Palestinian independence.
TEL AVIV, Israel (WOMENSENEWS) A U.N. resolution passed over 10 years ago requires women's involvement in conflict resolutions. But that has little bearing on the Israel-Palestine conflict, where women are far from the power roles on either side.
NEW DELHI {WOMENSENEWS}-- Spurred by cash incentives, state workers in the state of Rajasthan offer prizes to women to undergo tubal ligation in mass sterilization drives. Critics call it a coercive process that restricts women's right to know their contraceptive choices.
BANGALORE, India {WOMENSENEWS}-- The high mortality rates of pregnant women in India are a big topic of policy concern. But what about Ireland? An Indian woman just lost her life there because of that country's criminalization of abortion. At home her life would have been saved.
PARIS, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The downgrading of its debt by Moody's led to a further downgrade of the eurozone's two bailout funds. France is becoming part of the euro's problem, rather than part of a solution.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Findings compare 1993 and 2010 and offer no explanation of the sharp decrease in crimes that include rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- The new health care law covers preventive care but leaves open the question of who will provide it to women: general practitioners or ob-gyns? And who decides?
VIENNA, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Britain found key allies in Germany, Holland and Sweden to support its call for real cuts in planned future spending during talks on the next EU budget.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The latest military clash between Israel and the Palestinians has relegated the emergence of a Palestinian state to desert mirage.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- In the face of government inaction, health groups and medical organizations are intensifying their warnings about the harm posed to women and babies by environmental contaminants.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- After providing Obama the bulk of their votes, women are in a position to ask for a roster of policy rewards, from labor protections for domestic workers to rapid implementation of health reform.
LONDON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- With a lot of major events grabbing attention, one big story not in the forefront is Japan, which could be gestating the next global disaster.
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