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Raise Dough For Girl Talk This Friday by Eating Food…
January 23, 2012
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This Friday, please help support Girl Talk by eating at Pompei. Mention Girl Talk when you pay and we will receive 20% of everything sold. It’s simple! Eat and we make some money. Please spread the word… You can download the flier here.
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This is the Girl Talk blog. Girl Talk is a biweekly program that works with girls who are incarcerated at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
Justice for Girls
- FDA approves Plan B for girls as young as 15 April 30, 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it would allow the Plan B One-Step contraceptive to be sold without a prescription to girls as young as 15 years of age. The announcement partially reverses a December 2011 decision that prevented the sale of the emergency contraceptive to all females of reproductive age, which was […]
- Monday last day for morning-after pill appeal May 13, 2013The government is running out of time to try to halt implementation of a federal judge's ruling that would lift age restrictions for women and girls wanting to buy the morning-after pill. U.S. District ...
- Lowering the age of consent to 13 is absurd May 21, 2013By Katie Russell Barbara Hewson's ill-informed and damaging online article regarding Operation Yewtree was shocking on many levels, not least because it came from an apparently 'top' barrister. By opening with the assertion that ongoing legal investigations pose 'a far graver … Continue reading →
- Girls as young as six raped by Congolese soldiers in Minova: U.N. May 8, 2013By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo troops raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as 6, in the country's volatile east after they fled from advancing M23 rebels in late November, according to a U.N. report released on Wednesday. The majority of the rapes by the Congolese army (FARDC) occurred in Minov […]
- Girls as young as 6 raped by Congolese soldiers in Minova: UN May 8, 2013By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo troops raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as 6, in the country's volatile east after they fled from advancing M23 rebels in late November, according to a U.N. report released on Wednesday. The majority of the rapes by the Congolese army (FARDC) occurred in Minov […]
- $60K payment for ejecting kids with skin condition May 9, 2013A Detroit-area restaurant will pay $60,000 for telling a family to leave because the children had a genetic skin condition, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday. The department sued the Golden ...
- The Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University Hosts Delegates from Northern Iraq to Reduce Violence ... April 26, 2013Combatting violence against women in Iraq spawns higher education partnership between Vanguard University and University of Duhok. Visit to California includes training with 12th District Court Judge David O. Carter, OC Juvenile Justice Douglas Hatchimonji, OC Juvenile Services, OC Child Abuse Special Teams (CAST) and Westminster Police DepartmentCosta Mesa, […]
- Monday is deadline for govt. to file appeal of morning-after pill unrestricted sales ruling May 13, 2013NEW YORK, N.Y. - The government is running out of time to try to halt implementation of a federal judge's ruling that would lift age restrictions for women and girls wanting to buy the morning-after pill.
- Girls as young as six raped by Congolese soldiers: U.N. May 8, 2013By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo troops raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as six, in the country's volatile east after they fled from advancing M23 rebels in late November, according to a U.N. report released on Wednesday. The majority of the rapes by the Congolese army (FARDC) occurred in the […]
- San Quentin Prison Is No Place for Innocent Men (Op-Ed) May 9, 2013Lawyers and supporters for the California Innocence Project are walking 660 miles from San Diego to Sacramento, California, to personally deliver clemency petitions to Governor Jerry Brown for the release of the California 12, a dozen inmates who have strong cases of factual innocence. Follow their progress on TakePart.
