There are five main project areas that FORGE is now working on: Education, Economic Development, Health Education, Women’s Empowerment and Community Enrichment.
Women's rights activist Zahira Kamal had been chosen in an internal election to replace him as minister in the government of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), but Abed Rabbo refused to step down, and instead left the party.
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The 1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at The Greens Country Club in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States that was part of Tier III of the 1999 WTA Tour.
Lower Austrian state councillor Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek was seen as the most likely women's minister, with Styrian MP Elisabeth Grossmann also a possibility.
The company has affiliations with the American Association of Women Dentists, American Dental Association, American Student Dental Association, Dental Trade Alliance, National Dental Association, British Dental Health Foundation, and Australian Dental Industry Association among others.
For the past six years, Andrea has been a part of the world’s best women's paddler team, Team Bradley, the seven-time winner (as of 2012) of Na Wahine O Ke Kai race, the challenging 42-mile channel crossing women’s OC6 - six-man canoe race.
After a journey of 24 days crossing the Andes to a region where white women had never before traveled, they arrived in Puerto Maldonado, a small village in the Amazon basin, situated between two large rivers, the Madre de Dios and the Tambopata, along which all communication took place.
On holidays (Muhammad's birthday and baptism, Ramadan, Tabaski) women dance to drums in various little corners around town.
The Bangladeshi delegation consisted of four officials and four competitors: two men and two women, who took part in three different sports—athletics, boxing and swimming.
Chewing gum magnate and Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley decided, in 1942, to start a women's professional baseball league, concerned that the 1943 Major League Baseball season might be canceled because of World War II.
The event featured representatives from joshi promotions All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), GAEA Japan, Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP), and Ladies Legend Pro Wrestling (LLPW), as well as puroresu promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (which had a large women's division at the time).
In July 2009, caBIG announced a collaboration with the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation to build an online cohort of women willing to participate in clinical trials.
The women's K-1 500 metres event was an individual kayaking event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics program.
She helped change the movement of women in the fashion industry, along with Donna Karan and Liz Claiborne.
Among his other works are Puen Pang (1987), about two sisters in love with the same man; Muen and Rid (1994), a true story from Rama IV-era Siam about a woman who petitioned King Mongkut to make equal rights for women; and Tawipob (1990), the first film adaptation of a novel by Thommayanti, about a modern-day socialite who time travels back to Rama V-era Siam and becomes involved in the political and diplomatic intrigue of the day.
In June 2007 Daisy was one of two Victorian Women's Football League representatives in the E J Whitten Legends Game where she played again such football legends as Scott Cummings, Nick Holland, Mick Martyn and Nicky Winmar.
He was named NJCAA New England Women's Basketball Coach of the Year nine times, Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) Coach of the Year six times, NJCAA District Coach of the Year three times and Converse District One Coach of the Year in 1994.
The single follows the same basic tune of the original song, and focuses on typically expensive and glamorous objects that the women of the group are wanting, such as diamonds, rubies, expensive cars such as Bentleys and designer clothes such as Gucci.
McCaffery’s wife, Margaret, was a standout women’s basketball player from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The updated Betty Grable-type subject, was a fashionable glamor figure that Lichtenstein used for a symbolic value that ranks her with "iconoclastic female figures, including Manet's Olympia, 1863, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 and de Kooning's three series of Women".
Other varieties which remained popular were the 1828 ‘Félicité-Perpétue’ - Perpetua and Felicity were two Christian women martyred for their faith in Carthage in AD203.
In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the following year moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced his profession in partnership with William Dennison, Jr. (who was to become Governor of Ohio in 1860).
Other broadcasts that Rowe has been a part of with her time at ESPN include play-by-play for Women's World Cup matches, coverage of the Running of the Bulls, coverage of swimming, and broadcasts of track & field events.
People also visit the town to buy brightly colored hand-woven fabrics made by the native Mazatec women, and to consume the endemic entheogenic fungi, especially the Psilocybe mushrooms.
Negi's involvement and the Gold inspired the successful 2007 Shahrukh Khan film about women's field hockey, Chak De India.
JJ Hones (born December 10, 1987) is a former Stanford Cardinal women's basketball player.
As of 2013, Farmers major offerings include Women's Fashion, Men's Fashion and Mercery, Lingerie, Serviced Comestics, Health & Beauty, Accessories, Children's, Kitchen and Tabletop, Small Appliances, Manchester, and Furniture.
His sisters Jocelyne and Monique, both born 1989 (twins), both won silver medals with Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and are currently both forwards with the women's NCAA team at the University of North Dakota.
In recognition of her contribution, in 2007 the Aussie Hearts sponsored her to go to Australia where she conducted many clinics and showed her AAGPBL PowerPoint presentation to hundreds of Aussie women ball players.
Jessie Barr (born 24 July 1989 in Waterford, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish athlete who will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay.
For her bravery, Prince Józef Poniatowski awarded her the medal of Virtuti Militari; Joanna was the first female soldier to be awarded the decoration and one of the first women in the world to receive a military award for bravery in battle.
She was named, along with Alexandria Karlsen as one of several women connected with Philadelphia businessman Andrew Yao, who was convicted of bankruptcy fraud, and later plead guilty to ten counts of fraud and money laundering for lying about and concealing gambling expenditures and extravagant gifts to former Playboy and Penthouse models.
Katherine Washington is a former American women's basketball player, who played on the first two U.S. women's national teams, earning world championships in 1953 and 1957.
The town is the birthplace of the highest ranked Hungarian tennis player Ágnes Szávay (at one time ranked 13th in the world), who has won five WTA titles.
She toured nationally with Sister Spit, a group of women writers that also included such well-regarded authors as Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles, Lynn Breedlove, Sini Anderson and others.
More recent former residents of Lauderdale Mansions South have included Kathryn Flett, Observer TV critic and star of the BBC’s ‘Grumpy Old Women’ series, and Mary McCartney, celebrity photographer and daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney.
Since its adoption, the basic model of an athlete or equipment used for the sport in silhouette flanked by red and blue has also been incorporated in the logos of the National Basketball Association (with Jerry West as its player model), Women's National Basketball Association, Arena Football League, American Hockey League, National Lacrosse League, Indy Racing League, and Major League Gaming.
At the 2006 European Championships in Władysławowo, Poland she won gold in the Women's 58 kg with 237 kg in total, breaking three European records.
″Lou Lou″, as her teammmates called her, is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York and unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
The future marked a key turning point for Mexican American women, as the Chicano Movement and Civil Rights Movement was emerging, and women's role in society was beginning to change.
On June 29, 2002, Romulo Antonio Braschi, the founder of a schismatic community, attempted to confer priestly ordination on the following Catholic women : Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Müller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White.
Organizations that Dr Lafaie has been a member of, such as Jamiat Islami, have been criticised by groups such as the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan and Support Association for the Women of Afghanistan, and as a consequence Lafaie has been targeted by several of these groups.
After moving to New York City and later Boston in the early 1900s and using the byline Ruby Ross Goodnow (her first married name), she wrote fiction, poetry, and articles about interior design for The Delineator, a popular women's magazine, where her editor was Theodore Dreiser.
and Albertina Sisulu to protest the requirement that women carry pass books as part of the pass laws.
For many women of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Baroque periods to live a life completely retired from the world implied that they could live a life not only fully committed to God, but it also meant that they were able to devote time to their own writing, to their community and perhaps they could even have a place in the administration of their own convents.
Warwick Hostel expanded and moved to Studley Castle in Warwickshire in 1903, becoming Studley Horticultural & Agricultural College for Women.
Sunalini Menon has BSc and MSc degrees in food and nutrition from the Women's Christian College, which she attended between 1966 and 1971.
The Women's 800m Freestyle event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Monday, July 17, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.
Published by conservative publisher World Ahead Publishing on May 31, 2005, it recounts the stories of seven women who crossed paths with Bill Clinton: Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Elizabeth Gracen, Juanita Broaddrick, and Sally Perdue.
1913: Kate Gordon organizes the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, where suffragists plan to lobby state legislatures for laws that will enfranchise white women only.
On December 21, 2003 the bishop of the Ternopil-Zboriv eparchy, Mykhaylo Sabryha, and Abbot Gregory Planchak of the Monastery of St. Theodor the Studite blessed the women’s monastery of the Presentation of Mary in Velyki Birky.
It was organised by FIDE and was played in a match format between the defending champion and a challenger, determined via the FIDE Grand Prix series.
The joint laureated were: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni politician Tawakkul Karman "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work".
A baby is abandoned at the United Nations headquarters in New York by a mother who has heard the UN's Frank Larrimore speak out on behalf of women's rights.
She joined the The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (Norsk Kvinnesaksforening) and became an active contributor in the press on women's rights.
In 1878 he married the Berlin actress Gertrude Hedwig Anna Dohm (1855–1942), whose mother was the famous Berlin advocate of women’s rights Hedwig Dohm (1831–1919).
Ali-Naqi Vasiri (better known as Colonel Ali-Naqi Vasiri) is one of the seven children of Musa Khan Vaziri (a prominent official in the Persian Cossack Brigade) and Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi, a notable Iranian writer, satirist and one of the pioneering figures in the women's movement of Iran; her book Ma'ayeb al-Rejal (Failings of Men, also translated as Vices of Men) is considered by some as the first declaration of women's rights in the modern history of Iran.
In 25 October 2013 Anjali was awarded Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur `Knight in the order of the legions of Honor' which is the highest award from the France presented to her by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Minister of Women's Rights for France.
Married to Dhanvanthi Rama Rau, of Kashmiri Brahmin descent and a leader in the Indian women's rights movement who was the International President of Planned Parenthood, their younger daughter Santha Rama Rau became a travel writer, marrying and settling in the United States.
In 1970, Sandler joined Representative Edith Green's Subcommittee on Higher Education and sat in on the Congressional hearings where women's rights were discussed.
A five-year, $10 million grant to Human Rights Watch in support of the advocacy organization's strategic plan and new initiatives in its Africa and Women's Rights divisions.
Cecilia Makiwane (1880-1919) was the first African registered professional nurse in South Africa and an early activist in the struggle for women’s rights in the first anti-women’s pass campaign during the Apartheid regime.
Mitchell's aunt, Jane Swisshelm, was a noted journalist, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate who published the first newspaper in St. Cloud, Minnesota—The Saint Cloud Visitor.
The Conference for the Codification of International Law, held at The Hague in 1930, drew protests from international women's rights groups, yet the League declined to include legislation enforcing married women's nationality rights.
From the 1980s onwards, Duygu Asena became a leader of movement for women’s rights and status in Turkey with her publications in the media.
When she was widowed she inherited land in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis in Paris, giving her a secure income with which she helped promote women's rights and the rights of workers.
Flower and Fox were friends with unmarried couple, politician and philosopher John Stuart Mill and women's rights advocate Harriet Taylor.
Elizabeth Smith Miller (1842–1911), advocate and financial supporter of the women's rights movement
Angela Davis, civil and women’s rights activist, was the featured speaker in 2003, and in honour of the Haitian Bicentennial, University of Virginia political scientist Robert Fatton, Jr., and prize-winning author Edwidge Danticat spoke in 2004.
She also served on Nixon's Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities.
Fulton County was also home to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a central pioneer in the women's rights movement in America.
During the early 1980s she worked for Australia Asia Worker Links, promoting research and study tours in South Korea, The Philippines,Japan and Hong Kong, focusing on union, human, indigenous and women's rights in those countries, and encouraging Australian companies active in Asia to maintain proper standards of care.
Harriet Hardy, birth name of Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), English philosopher and women's rights advocate
It only partially portrays the role of Lucy Stone, a pioneering women's rights advocate and a leader of the AWSA, a rival to the NWSA led by Stanton and Anthony.
On 23 December, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, accused Jalal, along with women's rights campaigner Virisila Buadromo, of having published his personal e-mail address and mobile telephone number in newspapers, which was creating difficulties for him.
Friedrich plays the role of Johannes Schlüter, a character who works absurd jobs in every episode (for example as speaker on women's rights for the Christian Social Union of Bavaria, bush pilot, or peddler of flags ready to be burned by protesters), and is interviewed by Kaupp.
In 1982 Goldsmith and NOW controversially endorsed Frank Lautenberg, the male, Democratic Senate opponent of New Jersey Republican feminist Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick, due to Fenwick's support of Reagan's economic agenda, despite her pro-women's rights stances.
Julia Bullard Nelson (1842–1914) was an American temperance and women's rights activist from Red Wing, Minnesota.
This inequality galvanized Clay's older sisters, Mary, Annie, and Sallie into joining the women's rights movement, and Laura followed.
Laura de Force Gordon (née Laura de Force; August 17, 1838, North East, Pennsylvania – April 5, 1907, Lodi, California) was an American lawyer, editor, and a prominent campaigner for women’s rights in the American West.
Bell, far ahead of his time in support of social equality and a strong supporter of women's rights, encouraged Grosvenor's mother and grandmother to march in 1913 on the U.S. capital in support of women's right to vote.
Two of those were related to women's rights: Article 340 called for the same reduction of punishment for women as perpetrator in honour killings, and the Khuloe law gave women the right to file for divorce without giving a reason in return for her wedding dowry.
With Agnes O'Farrelly she campaigned for women's rights in the university.
Emily Langton Massingberd (1847–1897), women's rights campaigner and temperance activist
Alice "May" Moss, CBE (27 April 1869 – 18 July 1948) was an Australian welfare worker and women's rights activist.
In a piece published in The Guardian in July 2012, she argued that Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the French minister for women's rights, "has let down Muslim voters" by not introducing measures such as "women-only swimming sessions in public pools".
She is also vice-chair of the advisory committee of the Women's Rights Watch Project of Human Rights Watch.
National Assembly of Women, a British organisation campaigning for women's rights
Ryan was one of a party of gentlemen entertained by Robert Emmet Odlum, brother of women's rights activist Charlotte Odlum Smith, on the morning of May 19, 1885, the day he jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge and was killed.
In 1885, Boyton was involved in the fatal leap from Brooklyn Bridge of Robert Emmet Odlum, brother of women's rights activist Charlotte Odlum Smith.
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Smith Melton gathered experts in peace and women's rights from around the world (including Isabel Allende, the Chilean novelist; Susan Collin Marks, the Australian-born co-founder of Search for Common Ground; and Fatima Gailani, the Afghan head of the Red Crescent) to discern a women's response to the September 11 attacks.
Prada Group used tactics of low human rights jurisdiction of women’s rights in Japan instead of taking a responsible action as multinational corporation.
Marie Bonnevial (1841-1918), teacher and activist of the League of Women's Rights
She also argues for Saudi authorities to loosen male guardianship restrictions on women, but her position on women’s rights is framed within the context of Islam.
Harriet Taylor Mill, a 19th century philosopher and women's rights advocate
Gloria Feldt, author, women's rights advocate, former CEO and president of Planned Parenthood
As Thomas’ wife, Mary Ann, was a major force in organizing the Seneca Falls Convention, an early and influential women's rights convention.
Letitia "Tish" Sommers (Cambria, California, 1914-1985) was an American author, a women's rights activist, and the co-founder and first President of the Older Women's League.
In one anecdote, he suggested he had seen the ghost of Mrs Emily Langton Massingberd, the women's rights campaigner, at Gunby Hall in Lincolnshire.
They also aim to improve women’s rights, people affected by HIV, indigenous peoples, sexual minorities, and others who are disadvantaged in some way.
Werewomen in the form of wolves are a popular theme in modern popular fiction and the idea was also used in Victorian fiction to explore the issue of women's rights and women's sexuality in, for instance, the The Were-Wolf, by Clemence Housman and works by Frederick Marryat.