Issues
News and Resources
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Intercept the Traffickers
12/10/2012 Help intercept the traffickers at this year's Super Bowl, on February 3, 2013.
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Celebrate 16 Days of Activism
12/07/2012 The Center for Global Women’s Leadership (CGWL) announced the campaign’s newest project, “What does security mean to you?” The goal is to collect short videos and written statements responding to that question.
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Violence in Gaza: What United Methodist Women Supports in Israel-Palestine
11/29/2012 We grieve over this and call on United Methodist women to keep the conflict in your prayers and thoughts. United Methodist Women supports many projects in Israel-Palestine.
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Day of the Girl
10/08/2012 In December 2011 the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution to establish October 11 as the "International Day of the Girl Child." United Methodist Women encourages members to participate in the inaugural Day of the Girl this October 11 to help better the lives of girls around the world.
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Electing Candidates Committed to Positively Transforming the Lives of Women, Girls and Families
08/28/2012 We come to you this month with a different format for our Action Alert in preparation for this year’s elections. We have provided a “2012 Candidate Checklist: A Questionnaire for Candidates Seeking Election” for you to use while following this year’s election. We hope you will use the Checklist as a tool to assess whether a candidate’s positions reflect your values.
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Suppression of Voting Rights: A Threat to Democracy
07/30/2012 State laws requiring voter identification unfairly impact the ability of women, minority groups, older adults and younger adults to vote in the coming election.
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Women's Legislative Priorities
06/29/2012 While women are vastly outnumbered in Congress, they can play a significant role in adopting legislation to forward women’s interests.
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Woman Power: Election 2012
06/12/2012 In the 2012 presidential election, the role of women and women’s rights will be hotly contested. Stances on the crucial issues of women’s reproductive rights will continue to be battled across party lines and take up large portions of the media’s attention, while both candidates resoundingly declare themselves the champion of America’s women.
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The 2013 Federal Budget: A Presidential Proposal
04/05/2012 President Barack Obama's federal budget proposal requests $3.8 trillion in spending on infrastructure, education and manufacturing while raising taxes on the wealthy and cutting funding to most other domestic agencies and the Department of Defense.
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Act to Make Women Safe Now
02/22/2012 The Violence Against Women Act supports cost-saving measures for effective response to crimes of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault and dating violence.
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