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	<title>Women's Rights Employment Blog :: Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock &#038; Sipser, LLP</title>
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		<title>UNIFEM and NCRW to Raise Awareness About Violence Against Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US National Committee for UNIFEM and the National Council for Research on Women Join Forces on a National Conference to Promote Efforts Aimed at Ending Violence against Women. The conference is a collaborative initiative between two preeminent organizations working towards ending this global pandemic.

The US National Committee for the United Nations Development Fund for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womensrightsny.com/blog/2010/03/11/violence/</link>
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		<title>Stop Violence Against Women :: Sign the petition</title>
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In the chaos of conflict and disaster, women and girls can suffer unspeakable violence, exploitation and abuse. The odds are against them as they struggle to survive and protect themselves and their families.
Urge Congressional leaders to support the International Violence Against Women Act and ensure that Congress passes it without delay. This legislation will empower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womensrightsny.com/blog/2010/03/09/stop-violence-against-women-sign-the-petition/</link>
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		<title>Alexandra Kollontai on “International Women’s Day”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Source: Radical Notes)

Mezhdunarodnyi den’ rabotnitz, Moscow 1920 — Women’s Day or Working Women’s Day is a day of international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and organisation of proletarian women.
But this is not a special day for women alone. The 8th of March is a historic and memorable day for the workers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womensrightsny.com/blog/2010/03/08/international-women%e2%80%99s-day/</link>
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		<title>New York’s Choking Loophole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dorchen Leidholdt and Jane Manning contribute to New York Times OP-Ed to demand for a statute which will recognize choking as a crime whether or not physical injury is evident. 
By DORCHEN LEIDHOLDT and JANE MANNING

NEW YORKERS have heard a stream of grave accusations this week that our governor tried to obstruct a domestic assault [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womensrightsny.com/blog/2010/03/05/choking/</link>
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		<title>CNN HNN Prime News :: Jennifer Paviglianiti vs Cafe Royale</title>
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		<link>http://womensrightsny.com/blog/2010/03/05/paviglianiti-cnn-hln-prime-news/</link>
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		<title>The O&#8217;Reilly Factor :: Jennifer Paviglianiti vs Cafe Royale</title>
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		<link>http://womensrightsny.com/blog/2010/03/05/the-oreilly-factor-jennifer-paviglianiti-vs-cafe-royale/</link>
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		<title>Jennifer Paviglianiti vs Cafe Royale :: Inside Edition</title>
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		<link>http://womensrightsny.com/blog/2010/03/04/paviglianiti-inside-edition/</link>
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		<title>Lucy Parsons :: Revolutionary Feminist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Saswat Pattanayak 

No legal case in American history has been more cited than The Scottsboro Trial. Nine young African American men, aged 13 and up, were jailed in Scottsboro, Alabama to await trial over an accusation that they had raped two white women on a train in the Spring of 1931. 
The nature of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womensrightsny.com/blog/2010/03/01/lucy-parsons/</link>
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		<title>Long Island Bar Fires Pregnant Bartender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABC News reports on Jennifer Paviglianiti&#8217;s charges of discrimination with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Bartender in Topless Bar Says She Was Discriminated Against for Being Pregnant
By MARY KATHRYN BURKE and BRENNAN MCCORD
When Jennifer Paviglianiti, 29, of Centereach, N.Y., discovered she was pregnant, she hoped to wait until the three-month mark to tell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womensrightsny.com/blog/2010/03/01/bartender/</link>
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		<title>Costs of Caregiver Discrimination Increasing for Employers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Report Says Family Responsibilities Discrimination Cases on the Rise, Cost More
 
Treating employees less favorably because they have family caregiving obligations can land employers in court and result in significant liability, a new report by the Center for WorkLife Law concludes. 
 
Litigation aimed at bias against U.S. workers who care for children or aging parents has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womensrightsny.com/blog/2010/02/25/caregiver-discrimination/</link>
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