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He Was Demoted for Harassing Women. Now He’s the Front-Runner for President. In Costa Rica’s runoff on Sunday, voters will decide between a candidate found to have sexually harassed junior employees at the World Bank and a former president once accused of corruption.

"We want, I think, as a country for everyone to believe that they can do things like sit on the Supreme Court," Jackson told California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "And so having meaningful numbers of women and people of colour, I think, matters. I also think it supports public confidence in the judiciary when you have different people because we have such a diverse society."

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson defends judicial, sentencing record | CBC News U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, in the first day of questioning from senators, forcefully defended herself from accusations from at least two Republicans that she handed out lenient sentences to defendants convicted of possessing child po*******hy.

"Last September, a lawsuit asking the Constitutional Court of Colombia to decriminalize abortion was filed by the Causa Justa — or Just Cause — movement, a coalition of which the Center for Reproductive Rights is a part. We argued that abortion is essential health care that should not be regulated in the penal system. The court also asked Congress to create regulations to apply the ruling. In a transformative shift for the majority-Catholic country, we are now the third country in Latin America to decriminalize abortion in the last year, behind Mexico and Argentina"

Opinion | The Key Argument on Abortion That Changed Everything in Colombia A decade ago, few could have imagined that Latin America would become a benchmark for advances in sexual and reproductive rights.

LNFB McGill is so excited to finally share the photos from the 2022 Photo Campaign with you all!!

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LNFB McGill est super excité d'enfin pouvoir vous dévoiler les photos de la campagne photo 2022!

"Some of them are taking care of kids, some of them are helping the army, some of them are joining the army. Ukrainian women know how to put up a good fight. They are beautiful and resilient. They are stubborn, persistent, hardworking and most importantly, very brave,"

'They are beautiful and resilient': Ukrainian women celebrated on International Women's Day International Women's Day is a day that is widely celebrated across Ukraine, but this year, Ukrainian women are taking up arms to defend their homeland.

"Women – in uniform and not – have been central to efforts to counter Russian aggression since 2014, when Moscow decided to annex Crimea and threw its support behind separatists in the Donbass region. Women now make up almost 10% of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, serve alongside men in combat positions, and are ensured “equal rights” with their male counterparts under a 2018 law. Since 2019, they have been able to study in military colleges to achieve higher ranks."

‘We want to keep Ukraine free.’ Why women rise in Ukraine army. Some stereotypes persist, but gender roles have been evolving fast in Ukraine’s military, amid a conflict with Russia that has simmered since 2014.

LNFB McGill is extending it's deadline to submit your photo for the photo campaign to March 1st!
Please click on the link below to participate!
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DBFC McGill repousse la date limite pour soumettre sa photo au 1er mars!

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Just a friendly reminder that the McGill 2022 Photo Campaign is underway! You still have one week to submit your photo. Please visit the link below in order to participate and visit our Event Page to see last year’s photo campaign! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Women who are leaders across an array of disciplines, from politics to tech to deep-sea and space exploration — and more — share their experiences, their challenges and their advice.

These Women Found Creative Ways to Overcome the Barriers in Front of Them

Don't forget to register for our event with WLMP!

SIGN UP IS NOW LIVE for the McGill chapter of Law Needs Feminism Because X WLMP event: Confronting Imposter Syndrome.

The speakers will be sharing their own personal experiences as well as discussing various strategies for combating imposter syndrome in law school & the legal profession. This bilingual event will be taking place via Zoom and will be directed towards all women, trans, non-binary, and Two Spirit individuals in the McGill Faculty of Law and WLMP network.

To register for the event, please fill out the following Google Form: https://forms.gle/YGdrB8qxFFBrKjdp9.

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