WRIC Protest with Women’s March on Washington
Graphic by WRIC Yue Zhang (AP has the copyrights to first two pictures) …
Forum on the Rights of Chinese Women & Children Photos
Source from WRIC 03/16/2016 March 15, 2016, two NGO organizations Women’s Rights in China (WRIC) and Women’s Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF) collaborated to hold “Form on the Rights of Chinese Women and Children” in New York. Nearly a hundred attendants including US-based human rights activists, scholars and journalists…
Delving Deep Inside Amy Schumer
By Nian Hu The significance of society’s inability to find women funny It is a (supposedly) well-established fact that women just aren’t funny. As a result, it’s tough being a woman in comedy. Take Amy Schumer, comedian du jour. A talented and unabashed stand up comic and sketch writer, it’s easy to see why…
Down with the Dad Bod
By Nian Hu Loosening standards for men while tightening standards for women What makes a man “hot”?”? If we take a look at the list of the sexiest men alive—a list that includes actors Channing Tatum, Ryan Reynolds, and Chris Hemsworth—we notice that they all have a similar body type, with glistening washboard abs…
Slut
By Nian Hu The double standard of male and female sexuality If you’re a woman, chances are you’ve been called a slut. Women who have slept with 10 men have been called sluts. Women who have slept with one man have been called sluts. Women who have never had sex have been called sluts.…
Are You On Your Period?
By Nian Hu, a student at Harvard The stigmatization of menstruation Call it the crimson wave, Aunt Flo, or cousin red—call it anything but what it actually is. Menstruation, the process by which the body sheds the lining of the uterus through the vagina, is all too familiar to any woman of childbearing age.…
Letter to UN Women from the Defense Attorneys for the Feminist Five
By Defense Attorneys for the Feminist Five in China Sept 23, 2015 The Honorable UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and the Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, We are a group…
105 Feminists Calling on the Release of Women’s Rights/ Human Rights Lawyers
By WRIC 26th August, 2015 Since the crackdowns began on 9th July, 2015, 17 human rights lawyers, lawyers’ assistants and law firm staff have remained in detention. Although “verdict” has been given by CCTV and the state media that these people are “guilty of defending human…
Jiangling Li: Forced Abortion, a Permanent Scar on Women
Source: WRIC, Translator by Yang Yu 05-29-2012 Li Jiangli (left) talked about her experience of forced abortion with other women Women’s Right in China held…