Feeling disgruntled about the state of women’s rights in the Western Hemisphere? Read these predictions for 2010 by a Saudi women’s rights advocate.

“Women will get the right to drive and start driving cars in Saudi, of course with certain restrictions,” Wajiha Al-Huwaidar says.
“I also predict we will have another woman as a minister and [...]

“Poverty is the world’s worst human rights crisis,” declares Irene Khan in The Unheard Truth – Poverty and Human Rights.
Khan, secretary general of Amnesty International from 2001 to 2009, recognizes “discrimination, state repression, corruption, insecurity, and violence” as human rights abuses.
She also discusses issues such as the right to safe motherhood and says violence against [...]

Ellenville, NY, is more than 200 miles from Seneca Falls, the heart of the women’s rights movement, and both are on the New York State Women’s Heritage Trail.
Ellenville residents call their deteriorating Hunt Memorial Building the “heart of the village” and point to its historical significance to the women’s temperance and suffrage movements. The [...]

On Jan. 16 Catherine Hardee hopped on her bike in Cairo and took off down paved roads that will give way to others made of gravel and sand. Eventually she’ll pedal on no roads at all. When she hops off her bike in Cape Town on May 15 she will have biked 75 miles per [...]

In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and several friends wondered who would chair their First Woman’s Rights Convention. Lucretia recalled that “when the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society held its first meeting a few years ago, we asked a colored man to conduct it. Since Negroes, idiots and women are classed together in legal documents, [...]