Femicide: The Greatest Human Rights Violation for Women in Honduras

From Honduras Weekly : The femicide epidemic continues unabated in Honduras, with the discovery in the past week of the bodies of 12 women n...

Elizabeth I - Virgin Queen? She was a right royal minx!

From Mail Online : The England that the first Queen Elizabeth reigned over so gloriously for 45 years was obsessed with sex and awash with p...

An Anglo-Indian Tale

From IBN Live : During the earlier period of the East India Company in India, it was a common practice for British men to take Indian women ...

The Family, Koseki, and the Individual

From the Asia-Pacific Journal - Japan Focus : On 14 February, Kayama Emi and Watanabe Tsuguo filed an administrative appeal to have the reje...

In Search of Cleopatra

From CBS News : She has been celebrated in film, immortalized in paintings and sculpture. And more than 2,000 years after she lived, Queen C...

Victims of Mennonite “Old Colonies” in Bolivia

From Mennonite Weekly Review : In a trial that ended with eight convictions Aug. 25 in a Bolivian court, prosecutors said that in 2005 a vet...

Anniversary of 19th Amendment

From Campbell Patch : Today is the 91st anniversary of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution taking effect, giving women the right to vo...

Christine Cole Catley

From the New Zealand Herald : I was told she was a publisher and writer, but it would have been more accurate to say she was a general force...

Archaic Laws Regarding Women Repealled

From RedBank : When governing bodies enact legislation in any era, it’s done with the expressed interest, one can only hope, in being not on...

Queen Hatshepsut's Flacon

From Eureka Alert : The corpus delicti is a plain flacon from among the possessions of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who lived around 1450 B.C., whic...

Pictish History at Fortingall

From the Courier : Excavations have begun at Fortingall village in Highland Perthshire, where the remains of an ancient Pictish monastery ar...

Bothaina Kamel - Next Egyptian President?

From Ynetnews : The first female presidential candidate in Egypt’s history is a big-mouthed celebrity who comes from the media world. She ...

New Turkish Governor - Esengül Civelek

The Daily News : A female governor has been appointed for just the second time in the history of the Turkish Republic following a decision s...

The Pendle Witch Child

From BBC News : In recent years children as young as three have given evidence in court cases, but in the past children under 14 were seen a...

Sheilah Coley - Newark's New Police Chief

From Baristanet : Last week, on Tuesday morning at Newark’s communication headquarters, Mayor Cory Booker formally announced Chief Coley as ...

Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories

From the World News : It is perhaps an inevitable irony that a recent spate of anti-Nakba polemic in Israel has placed the topic firmly on t...

Women In & Beyond the Pakistan Movement

From the Express Tribune : Partaking in the Pakistan Movement was of a great historical significance for Muslim women of the subcontinent wh...

Notorious Australian Women

From the Sydney Morning Herald : Australians have made heroes of bushranger Ned Kelly, mutineer Fletcher Christian and cricketer Shane Warne...

First Ladies of Rome

From The Independent : As Anneliese Freisenbruch admits in this excellent history, most of the Ancient Roman women discussed in her book ...

Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko Arrested

From Yahoo News : France on Thursday said it had summoned the Ukrainian ambassador in Paris to express its "serious concern" over ...

Underbelly Razor - When Women Ruled Crime

It is 1927 and feared vice queens Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh are battling for control of the underworld in a crime war that will scar Aus...

Three Female Conservationalists

From High Country News : In the beginning, there was only water as far as the eye could see, according to the Chemehuevi Indians, who once t...

Farewell White Mouse

F rom ABC News: Nancy Wake biographer Peter FitzSimons knew Australia's 'force of nature' better than most. "I've dealt...

The Truth About The Picts

From an article by Ian Johnston of The Independent : The Picts have long been regarded as enigmatic savages who fought off Rome's legi...

Venetian Lazzaretto

A lazaretto or lazaret is a quarantine station for maritime travellers. Lazarets can be ships permanently at anchor, isolated islands, o...

Women's Status & Life In Iran

Article in the Kurdish Globe by Sara Saye: Iran has thousands years of civilization, and the country played a great role in social, politic...

Pakistan's First Female Foreign Minister

From Al Arabiya News : On July 20th, Pakistan's first female Foreign Minister was sworn in. The Political inheritance and feudalism in S...

Les Enfants X - The Sous X Law

From the Independent : The rights of a child to know its parents are written into international law, but in France that doesn't mean ver...

Farewell Cha Cha

From Christian Post : Annette Charles, best known for her role as Cha Cha DiGregorio in “Grease,” has died at the age of 63. Her death comes...

Real Downton Abbey

From the Mail Online : To the young men who lay in their hospital beds, badly wounded, burned and traumatised by the horror of the trenches,...