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Quick hits: World women’s news

By Grace Published July 6, 2011

The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan may mean women’s rights fall further out of reach.

The United Nations reports that only 11% of sexually assaulted women worldwide report their rape.

The Human Rights Watch urges the Lebanese parliament to criminalize violence against women.

A whole buncha awesome stuff from the UN Women report 2011.

By Grace Published June 27, 2011

Former Speaker of the House and current Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi shared a stage with Speaker John Boehner and former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert at my alma mater, Transylvania University. Poor Nancy! The three discussed “The Role of the Speaker of the House” as part of Henry Clay Week. More here.

Look out– it’s the marriage police! M.P. officer James Robert Ross of Lexington, KY took time out of his busy married life to warn us that marriage is a “wiser choice than cohabitation.” He explains how, according to “various studies,” cohabitors kill their own relationship. For example:
- Cohabitors are less committed and faithful to one another.
- Cohabitors “are less religious, more independent, more liberal and more risk-oriented than non-cohabitors.” That is my favorite reason.

A class of 24 women graduated from the Emerge Kentucky leadership program. Emerge Kentucky is a political leadership training program for Democratic women who are interested in running for public office. Programs like these are sorely needed in this state, which ranks 41st in the nation for proportion of women in the state legislature. Read more here.

In golf news, Eastern Kentucky University student April Emerson won the Women’s Kentucky State Amateur Golf Championship. Also, the Northern Kentucky Women’s Amateur Golf Tournament began today. Read more here and here.