India commissioned the first batch of women fighter pilots in June 2016, and over a year later the Indian Navy inducted its first female pilots to join its aviation branch. Women pilots in the Navy were initially restricted to fixed-wing aircraft operated from the shore. In a first for the […]
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That’s how the United Nations characterizes the violence against women that, based on past evidence, has been exacerbated by coronavirus lockdowns. (Image credit: Carlos Garcia Granthon/Fotoholica Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Source link
In recent years, traditional all-male clubs stemming from the gentlemen’s clubs of the Enlightenment era have come under severe pressure in several Nordic countries, including Finland, for their perceived lack of equality. While today most people think of ‘gentleman’s clubs’ as seedy adults-only venues featuring strippers, the term originally applied […]
Peggy Bouva (center) and Maartje Duin (right) with Bouva’s cousin Jessica Bouva (left) at the Museum van Loon in Amsterdam. Duin and Bouva spent two years researching their shared family history, which delved into the Dutch slave trade. They teamed up to produce a popular podcast exploring the colonial legacy […]
Last weekend, up to 1,000 protesters, most of whom were women, gathered in the centre of the Belarusian capital to protest against police violence during the initial days of anti-government rallies across the country. Up to 4,000 women have reportedly gathered on Saturday in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, to […]
Anti-government protesters hold a sign with a picture depicting Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya as a card that trumps an ace on Aug. 23 in Minsk. Misha Friedman/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Misha Friedman/Getty Images Anti-government protesters hold a sign with a picture depicting Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya […]
The wife of an Australian Football League star who caused his club to be fined 45,000 Australian dollars for posting a photo from a spa break has spoken of the abuse she received, with her father accusing the league of negligence. Brooke Cotchin, the wife of Richmond captain Trent Cotchin, was […]
President Trump delivered his RNC acceptance speech outside the White House on Thursday night. Trump mocked creepy Joe Biden. Advertisement – story continues below “For 47 years, Joe Biden took the donations of blue collar workers, gave them hugs — and even kisses…” Trump said. Trump is correct. TRENDING: You […]
The theme of the third day of the ongoing Republican National Convention is reportedly “Land of Heroes”, with speakers praising US President Donald Trump’s commitments to “law and order”, outlining his support for “heroes” and claiming that Democrats are “trying to undermine police while allowing violence to consume their cities”. […]
This was weird.Kamala Harris delivered her DNC virtual convention speech on Wednesay night from somewhere. After she was done there was dead silence and then some women only on a screen appeared and she waved at them.It did not look like they could see her because they did not react. […]
One hundred years to the day after women first won the right to vote in America, and the country is in a weird, dark place. There’s a kind of brutal symmetry between 1920, when the mass exodus of women from the home and into the workforce supercharged the movement, and […]
Apart from worsening an already dire economic situation in Gaza, the outbreak of the pandemic has also led to a spike in domestic violence cases. And while authorities in Gaza turn a blind eye to the suffering of those who need protection, some say they need to take matters into […]
The Democrat convention nominating Joe Biden for president in Milwaukee will kick off Monday night with four Republican speakers: Former Ohio Governor John Kasich, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, former Rep. Susan Molinari (NY) and 2010 GOP nominee for California governor Meg Whitman. The theme for the Republicans […]
Citing health concerns, the president of the National Organization for Women stepped down Sunday, amid a flurry of allegations of racism at the nation’s oldest and largest feminist organization. In an email to the NOW board, state presidents, and staff on Sunday night, President Toni Van Pelt announced she would […]
What a disappointment Kamala Harris is, not to the progressives who are falling in line if not in love, but to Donald Trump, who has no strong women around him and knows little about the type, except that he can’t really stand them. As late as Sunday night returning from […]
Five women are said to be at the top of former Obama Vice President Joe Biden’s list of potential vice presidential running mates, according to a report by NBC News citing sources “familiar with the matter.” Biden, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, has taken advantage of the month delay […]
Two women in their seventies who were attacked by Antifa terrorists Thursday night as they tried to defend the East Precinct of the Portland Bureau of Police spoke to local TV station KGW about the attacks. One woman had her face concealed from the TV camera during her interview, apparently […]
The 15-member Council for the Economy has never had a female appointee since it was formed in 2014. The appointment of six women to the body that oversees the Vatican’s finances is the most significant move Pope Francis has made in his commitment to giving more leadership roles in the […]
It’s safe to say that Samuel Trelawney Hughes did not handle rejection well. The 31-year-old British-born California resident was indicted Tuesday on charges that he used fake identities to terrorize women he met at networking events or at work who were not interested in meeting with him again. The threatening […]
Shamima Begum, left the UK in 2015 to join terrorists in Syria, where she lived under its rule for more than three years. In February last year the former Home Secretary Sajid Javid revoked her British citizenship due to national security concerns. Begum has since taken legal action to reverse […]
In June angry Black Lives Matter leftists tore down the statue of Hans Christian Heg in Madison, Wisconsin. They beheaded the statue and then threw it in a lake.Hans Christian Heg was an abolitionist who gave his life to end slavery in America. The protesters are idiots. During their rioting […]
Major shifts in the way economies function around the world can be expected as a result of significant reductions in the global population owing to rising ‘infertility’, according to a forecast which examined 195 countries. An overall drop in the global population by the year 2100, forecasted by two dozen researchers […]
They’re speaking out and leading protests to learn the fate of fathers and brothers who are among the many hundreds of disappeared Pakistanis — most of them men. Are they making a difference? (Image credit: Mahnoor Khan) Source link