BBC:Some women in countries where abortion is restricted are using the internet to buy medication enabling them to abort a pregnancy at home, the BBC has learned. Women in Northern Ireland and over 70 countries with restrictions have used one of the main websites, Women on Web. This is one of the best examples of why we do not need stricy abortion laws. Women, if they want/need and abortion will h...

This site provides free access to a 13 page Eurobarometer flash report (EB 266)which was published in March 2009. It presents the results of a public opinion survey conducted (mainly by telephone) on a sample of more than 35,000 women and 5,500 men, with the aim of discovering the perception that women have of politics in general, their image of the European Union, attitudes towards the European P...

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Women between the ages of 15 and 44 are at greater risk from rape and domestic violence than from cancer, traffic accidents, war and malaria, says the UN. It says violence against women has been reported in every international or non-international warzone and that half of all women murdered are killed by their current or former partner. You can read more on the BBC here

Today we have published Women and Recession, a report considering the impacts that this downturn will have for women in formal employment. While we are not arguing that women will be affected more than men we highlight that women will be hit more by this downturn than previous recessions, and that...

Judith Maltby, the Chaplain of Corpus Christi College in Oxford, has written a piece for the Guardian’s Comment is Free section on their web. In it she unfortunately demonstrates a lack of real engagement with the theological objections of those who oppose women’s ordination and consecration and indeed shows how she simply won’t engage with

Finjan, a supplier of secure web gateway products, has announced that its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) discovered examples of obfuscated code embedded not only in HTML-webpages on legitimate websites, but also in rich-content files.

How goes the crusade? Not well: Earlier this year a report by Womankind, Taking Stock: Afghan Women and Girls Seven Years On, revealed that violent attacks against women, usually in a domestic setting, are at epidemic proportions – 87 per cent of women complain of such abuse, and half of it is sexual. More than 60

Nine phrases women use and what they mean (courtesy of Jonathan Stobart): 1. Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up. 2. Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house. 3. Nothing: This is the ...

More than 500 women will meet at Labour Women’s Conference to discuss what women want and to demand action from the Government to stop women bearing the brunt of government cuts. Labour women are coming together at a crucial time to discuss the fact that women are being hit twice as hard as men by the tax and welfare changes being brought in by this Government. Changes to women’s pensi...