COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – No one has heard from Jane Mudder in over three years – and her sisters want answers. Shirley Bierwerth and Lynn Sanford drove hundreds of miles across the Midwest to speak in person to El Paso County Sheriff’s detectives about their missing sister. “She hasn’t …
Read More »AVOW prepares to host the annual Women’s Campaign Institute
FORT WAYNE, Indiana (WANE) – Advancing Voice of Women (AVOW) is preparing to host its annual Institute for Women Campaign this summer. “Our goal is to make the voices of women heard in public life, in the community and through civil conversations,” said Nicole Keesling of AVOW. Keesling said the …
Read More »Brexit: EU women fear losing jobs and housing due to UK IT glitch | Consumer affairs
Women who have applied for European Settlement Status in the UK under their married name may find it difficult to access employment and housing due to a government computer anomaly, it has been learned . Many were unable to prove their status to boards and employers because they were wrongly …
Read More »New Hampshire man sentenced to 21 years in prison for sex trafficking of a minor and other offenses | Takeover bid
A New Hampshire man was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release for sex trafficking a minor, operating a prostitution business and maintaining drug-related premises. The court also ordered $ 20,800 in restitution to the victims. After a three-day trial in March 2019, …
Read More »Haneen Hossam: TikToker, 19, jailed for human trafficking after telling women to win online
Two Egyptian TikTokers were arrested just two days after a Cairo court sentenced them to years in prison on human trafficking charges. One of the women arrested is Haneen Hossam, who was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison. The other TikToker has been identified as Mawada Eladhm or …
Read More »The provocations of Janet Malcolm | The nation
Janet Malcolm. (Photo by Nina Subin) Last spring, halfway through a course on writing biographies, I gave my students an excerpt from Janet Malcolm’s book The silent woman, his study of the marriage of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath and the challenges it posed to Plath biographers. During our discussion …
Read More »Supreme Court rules against NCAA in unanimous antitrust case
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday against the NCAA in a landmark antitrust case that specifically challenged the association’s ability to impose national limits on athlete benefits related to education, but had more broadly raised doubts about its ability to limit benefits. The decision will end the association’s national limits …
Read More »Woman to be tried in France for the murder of her stepfather after years of abuse | France
On Monday, a Frenchwoman, Valérie Bacot, will appear in court to be tried for the murder of her stepfather who became a husband. She admitted to shooting him and thinks she should be punished. In her defense, she should tell the audience of Chalon-sur-Saône in Burgundy how Daniel “Dany” Polette …
Read More »Assam government renounces MFI loans for poor women: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday he was determined to keep his election promise to provide relief and incentives to poor women who had taken out loans from various microfinance institutions ( IMF). The government has had ongoing discussions with MFIs, as a result of which the …
Read More »Relative peace gives Iraq a chance to build a functioning state
June 19, 2021 SSINCE Overthrow of Saddam Hussein, a bloodied despot, Iraq has gone from crisis to civil war and vice versa. Today, as the country prepares for elections in October, many Iraqis say they are too disgusted to vote. What good is it, they ask, when the government they …
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