6. Health and Illness

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"In 1969, Barbara Seaman proved that women can talk back to doctors - calmly, rationally, and scientifically. For many of us, women's liberation began at that moment."

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The debate has to examine how environmental improvements to low-income communities lift up the economy, the safety, and the morale - not just locally, but regionally and nationally.

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Zimbabwe needs a new national vision to restore our self-confidence, dignity, and hope.

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Rivera fought a landmark lawsuit, bringing issues of gender identity into the public view, finally winning the right for trans people in Chile to legally change their name and sex.

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Make the Road New York is admired for its consensus-based, collective decision-making, an intensive process that builds strong, trusting relationships, leadership, and shared agreement among members.

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Some methods, like Vaseline, once thought to help, actually make it worse.

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We must grow towards a movement that focuses not only on abortion rights but on a whole range of women's health and justice issues.

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Economic justice is not a stepping stone to the "real" goal, peace, but a fire-in-the-belly issue in its own right.

Summary:Programs run by Native American and Alaska Native women are vital in ensuring the protection and long-term support of Indigenous women who have experienced sexual violence.

Summary:Some Indigenous women interviewed by Amnesty International said they didn't know any women in their community who had not experienced sexual violence.