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(ANTIMEDIA) Saudi Arabia was just appointed to the U.N.’s women’s rights commission, a troubling development considering the country’s historical and current treatment of women.

Signs read, “This is the # of sexual assault survivors on campus.” Had university policies failed so miserably over the last ten years? We asked the friendly folks at the information booth: is this number for real? Are there really 3,192 sexual assault victims on campus?

Karlie Kloss, the supermodel, Instagram star, business woman, YouTube sensation, and coder, has decided to tackle the gender wage gap. The gap is real insofar as men and women tend to choose different lines of work, and there are many reasons why people may do that, but culture is a big one. This is what Kloss seeks to change.

These days, the briefest mention of the word 'gender' is enough to spark a conversational battle. However, if we can move beyond stereotypes, everyone might learn a thing or two about biology and the nature of our society.

(MPN) Saudi Arabia, a kingdom that’s been allied with the United States since 1933, has been directly involved in bringing about one of the most horrifying famines in history in the country of Yemen. But this may be news to you if you’ve only been watching mainstream coverage of the situation – and there hasn’t been much of that coverage in the first place.

Roderick Kaine is an American who has a degree in biochemistry, and he has done professional research in both Biology and Neuroscience. After moving on from this work, he has focused on writing and independent scholarship. Around 2010, Roderick began his work on his book, Smart and SeXy, which describes the biologically based cognitive differences between the sexes by using the latest research in neuroscience and genetics. Smart and SeXy was published in 2016. He has been active in the neoreactionary movement since 2014, where he writes under the name Atavisionary.

(ANTIMEDIA) According to UNICEF, women and children fleeing Libya for Europe are being beaten, raped, and starved in “living hellholes” in Libya, as reported by the Guardian.
Children are reportedly being sexually abused, forced into prostitution, and held for ransom for months in squalid, overcrowded detention centers.

In north-east India's mountainous state of Meghalaya, youngest daughters inherit the land – and the ancient food heritage of their mothers
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(ANTIWAR) While the US is still insisting there is “no evidence” of any civilians killed in Friday’s attacks on the Helmand Province, the United Nations has conducted a preliminary assessment, and found at least 18 civilians killed in the US airstrikes, overwhelmingly women and children.

Preparing a 20th anniversary edition of my first book helped me realize that environmentalism and feminism both began as reasonable social movements. But then they turned intolerant and extremist.