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15/03/2024

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08/03/2023

Happy International Women's Day!!! 💜

25/07/2021

Fascinating read.
A strong, determined, inspiring woman.

Dr. Frances Kelsey resisted intense industry pressure to approve thalidomide; the drug was the cause of severe birth defects in over 10,000 infants in other countries.

16/05/2021

We agree. 📚🌍

That quote is from my column today. I truly believe that the best leverage we have today to make the world a better place is education. I wish we'd invest more in it. Column is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/opinion/sunday/afghanistan-girls-education.html

10/12/2020

A day to celebrate. Every day. 😊

𝟏𝟎. 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐫 – 𝐌𝐞đ𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐧𝐢 𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚

📍Međunarodni dan ljudskih prava obilježava se svakog 10. decembra, na dan kada je potpisana Opća deklaracija o ljudskim pravima 1948. godine kojim je po prvi put u historiji čovječanstva priznato pravo svih ljudi na “život, slobodu i sigurnost bez ikakvih razlika”.

“𝐒𝐯𝐚 𝐥𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐤𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐜́𝐚 𝐫𝐚đ𝐚𝐣𝐮 𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐧𝐚 𝐢 𝐣𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐚 𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐣𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐯𝐮 𝐢 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐦𝐚. 𝐎𝐧𝐚 𝐬𝐮 𝐨𝐛𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐦 𝐢 𝐬𝐯𝐢𝐣𝐞𝐬̌𝐜́𝐮 𝐢 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐚 𝐣𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐢 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐚 𝐝𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐚𝐣𝐮 𝐮 𝐝𝐮𝐡𝐮 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐯𝐚”, prvi je član Opće deklaracije Ujedinjenih nacija o pravima čovjeka.

📍Donošenje Univerzalne deklaracije o ljudskim pravima je ključni datum u modernoj historiji. Ovim dokumentom se štite građanske, političke, ekonomske, socijalne i kulturne slobode i prava čovjeka – od prava na život i slobodu do prava na dostojanstvo, privatnost, socijalnu sigurnost i udruživanje.

📣Zadaća je svakog pojedinca, kao i zajednice u cjelini, raditi na afirmaciji ljudskih prava i izgradnji društva jednakih mogućnosti. Zadaća je svih nas da se zauzmemo za poštivanje ljudskih prava i osiguramo jednak pristup uživanju temeljnih ljudskih prava svim članovima društva, bez obzira na državljanstvo, prebivalište, spol, dob, nacionalno ili društveno porijeklo, boju kože, vjeru, jezik, ili bilo koji drugi status.

𝐔𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐳̌𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐞 „𝐙̌𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐳𝐚 𝐳̌𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥“ 𝟐𝟔 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢 𝐧𝐚 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐞đ𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐮 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚 𝐳̌𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝐳𝐚𝐬̌𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢 𝐢 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐣𝐢 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐡 𝐠𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐚 𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢 𝐩𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐣𝐬̌𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐮 𝐧𝐣𝐢𝐡𝐨𝐯𝐨𝐠 𝐞𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐤𝐨𝐠, 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜̌𝐤𝐨𝐠 𝐢 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐬̌𝐭𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐳̌𝐚𝐣𝐚 𝐢 𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐣𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐮 𝐥𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚.

28/11/2020

UN Women announces the theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021 (IWD 2021) as, “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.”

08/11/2020

Congratulations!
🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🤍🇺🇸💙

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will assume office, alongside President-elect Joe Biden, on January 20, 2021.

19/09/2020

Yes. They. Do.

19/09/2020

A champion of women’s rights and equality, a true “shero” has been lost. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s influence on American politics and modern culture inspired women in the United States and throughout the world.
RIP RBG.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, died today of pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. One of the Court's main advocates for advancing women's rights under the law, Ginsburg was famous for breaking gender barriers and delivering searing dissents. Appointed to the Court in 1993, she served more than 27 years, at times as the lone woman on the Court. From the time she entered Harvard Law School in 1956 as one of nine women in a class of 500, Ginsburg was a pioneering advocate for women's rights. As she once observed in an interview: "I was a law school teacher, and that's how I regard my role here with my colleagues [on the Court], who haven't had the experience of growing up female and don't fully appreciate the arbitrary barriers that have been put in women's way."

To read more about Justice Ginsburg's extraordinary life and impact -- and discover books and films to share her powerful story with children and teen -- visit our blog post, "A Mighty Justice," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=18772

To introduce kids to the trailblazing Justice Ginsburg, we highly recommend the board book "I Look Up To... Ruth Bader Ginsburg" for ages 2 to 4 (https://www.amightygirl.com/i-look-up-to-ruth-bader-ginsburg), the picture books for ages 5 to 9 "I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark" (https://www.amightygirl.com/i-dissent) and "No Truth Without Ruth" (https://www.amightygirl.com/no-truth-without-ruth), the early chapter book "You Should Meet: Ruth Bader Ginsburg" for ages 6 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/you-should-meet-rbg), and the in-depth picture book biography "Ruth Objects: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" for ages 6 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/ruth-objects)

For older kids, we recommend the illustrated biography "Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/who-is-ruth-bader-ginsburg), the new graphic novel for ages 9 and up "Becoming RBG" (https://www.amightygirl.com/becoming-rbg), and "Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work" for ages 13 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/dissenter-on-the-bench)

For adults inspired by Justice Ginsburg, we recommend the excellent biography "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" (https://www.amightygirl.com/notorious-rbg), her memoir "My Own Words" (https://www.amightygirl.com/my-own-words-rbg), and the photo-filled biography "The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg" (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-unstoppable-ruth-bader-ginsburg)

There are also two films about Ginsburg, both of which can be streamed: the feature film "On the Basis of S*x" (https://amzn.to/2RETz6H) and the documentary "RBG" (https://amzn.to/3hIbLXJ)

27/08/2020

💜🗽💜🗽💜🗽💜🗽💜🗽💜🗽💜🗽💜🗽

To commemorate 100 years since the passing of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women the right to vote, the original torch of the Statue of Liberty will be lit in the colors of the National Women’s Party flag: purple, white and gold. According to members of the National Woman's Party, the color gold was described as “the color of light and life, is as the torch that guides our purpose, pure and unswerving.” Purple represented “the color of loyalty, constancy to purpose, unswerving steadfastness to a cause.”

The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World carries her light forward much like the light that carried forward the suffrage movement of the 1800's and early 1900's. On this monumental occasion, other National Park sites will also share in the initiative by lighting structures purple and gold.

[IMAGE Description: The original torch of the Statue of Liberty with the glass and copper flame is aglow with purple and gold lights. A jet black night sky and the back of an illuminated Statue of Liberty is in the background.]

25/07/2020

Yes.
Worth watching all ten minutes.
On the House Floor in the United States, Representative AOC eloquently rejects Representative Yoho’s empty apology after he hurled expletives at her in front of witnesses on the steps of the nation’s capital.
So very well put, as she thanks him for showing the world that you can be a powerful man, married, with daughters, and still accost women without remorse and with a sense of impunity. As we know, this issue isn’t exclusive to the United States.

“Treating people with dignity and respect makes a decent man.” -Rep. AOC

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Responds to Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL): "I do not need Representative Yoho to apologize to me. Clearly he does not want to. Cl...

18/07/2020

Wow. Walz.

Born Margareeta Johanna Konttra Niiranen in Tornio, Finland, in 1861, Maggie Walz came to the United States at the age of twenty. Walz was a homesteader, a suffragist, and so much more. She filed a claim under the Homestead Act for 160 acres of land on Drummond Island, located in Michigan.

Shortly after arriving, Walz worked as a correspondent for Finnish language papers, and served as an interpreter. She was also an active leader in the Women’s Rights movement, and founded the Calumet Suomen Nais-Yhdistys (Calumet Finnish Woman’s Society), dedicated to the advancement of women. Walz was responsible for the publication of the society’s newspaper, the Naisten Lehti (Women’s Paper), which was distributed nationally.

In 1887, Walz returned to Europe, to bring back 14 Finnish women, for whom she obtained work. By 1905, she had come to be referred to as “Leader of Her People in the West.” She became a federal land agent, and then established a Finnish homesteader colony on the island. Maggie’s Drummond Island colony was a stunning success. The Detroit Free Press reported that as of November 1911, there were “five settlements, with a combined population of probably a thousand.” The main settlement on the island was Kreetan, the Finnish word for Maggie – named after Walz.

Learn more about Maggie Walz on our website.
www.nps.gov/people/maggie-walz.htm



(Photo Credit: NPS Image, Keweenaw NHP Archives, Foster--Studio Portraits--01--Maggie J. Walz-- Calumet--ca 1900)