Harriman was a progressive socialite and advocate for organized labor and the right of women to vote.
They are ideologically aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood and recently launched along with their powerful allies in France a pan-European campaign to assert the right of women to wear the veil.
The right of Muslim women to cover themselves is fiercely debated in France, which has a significant Muslim minority but also a staunchly secular constitution.
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He was one of the architects of its 2007 draft policy platform, which formally opposed the right of Christians and women to be president.
The mainstream Victorian view of the right balance between men and women was essentially one of separate spheres.
Dr Williams will be succeeded by the Bishop of Durham, the Right Reverend Justin Welby - who has said the ordination of women bishops will go ahead.
"I now believe that for the mission of God to the people of England it is right for women to take up their place in this House of Bishops sitting before you now, " he told the synod.
Hillary Clinton is scheduled to deliver a speech on the second day of the convention, which is also the 88th anniversary of the day women were granted the right to vote.
Compared to the Taliban, whose neo-medieval policies include the banning of soccer and refusing women the right to work outside the home, the government espouses a forward-looking and temperate brand of Islam.
Wal-Mart argued, and the dissenters agreed, that by certifying a class of hundreds of thousands of employees the majority had stripped Wal-Mart of its right to hold individual hearings on whether women had been the victims of discrimination.
"It's a great feather in our caps and ensures the eyes of the world is focused on Wales right before the beginning of the Olympics, " said former Wales women's captain and chair of Sport Wales Laura McAllister.
Indeed, poor education is at once the result and the cause of the continuing gender-gap that deprives women of their right to take charge of their lives.
Lord Hurd, a former home secretary and former chairman of the Prison Reform Trust, also believes that jail is not the right answer for many of these women.
The Guatemalan government is also moving in the right direction to address the problem of violence against women.
And also I'm concerned about the right of womans--women in this constitution.
And for her singular efforts in championing the right to life of Muslim women and girls, she has been reviled by the Left as an anti-Islamic bigot.
When the right of honest men and women to own guns is legally upheld, the risk that a potential victim might effectively defend himself rises dramatically, making criminals significantly warier to strike.
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The new feminists are right to be frustrated about the pace of women's progress in business.
Instead of acknowledging that radical Islam is the problem, we elected a president who blames America, whose idea of freedom is the right for women to suffer in silence behind a veil and who counts among his mentors and friends those who damn our country or believe that our own government staged the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
Instead of acknowledging that radical Islam is the problem, we elected a president who blames America, whose idea of freedom is the right for women to suffer in silence behind a veil -- and who counts among his mentors and friends those who damn our country or believe that our own government staged the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
The continued right wing attempts to limit reproductive rights of women, and the recent response from the left to require men who use Viagra to have psychiatric evaluations, prostate exams and cardiac stress tests, begs the question again: should politics have a role in healthcare?
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Morally, it is the inalienable right of honest men and women to own guns for any reason they choose hunting, collecting, and above all, self-defense.
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The Bishop of Norwich, the Right Reverend Graham James, said those Church members who were in favour of women bishops, but who had voted against the move because of concerns over the provisions for traditionalist parishes, were central to finding a solution.
Tunisia, where the father of independence, Habib Bourguiba, granted women the right to divorce and encouraged them to get a higher education as far back as the 1960s, is a case in point.
She called for further research into the issue - saying that women had the right to know the full consequences of the operation before opting to undergo it.
It should not be the concern of the state, and no religion has a right to degrade women or erode their human dignity.
Wade, " said Edward Lazarus -- a former law clerk for Blackmun and an author of "Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court"-- "is that it's necessary for the equality of women, rather than grounding it in the privacy right.
Over 50 years since the founding of United Nations and nearly 100 since women won the right to vote in the U.S., the international agency has put women in the spotlight this week with the official launch of UN Women which coincided with the 55th session of the Commission on the Status of Women .
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