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A fighter from the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria ISIS waves a flag in Raqqa, Syria on June 29, 2014.ReutersBy Charlotte AlterOctober 13, 2014 12:30 PM EDTThe militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria ISIS appeared to defend its enslaveme stanley cup nt of women on Sunday in the latest edition of its English-language online magazine.An article in the fourth issue of Dabiq said the practice of taking women and girls of the enemy is firmly established in the Quran and allowed under the strict laws by which they claim to abide. Anyone who criticized the group taking of women and girls as sex slaves, the article continued, would be criticizing Islam and mocking stanley cup the Prophet Muhammed. Analysts and journalists, among others, began to parse out its contents on Twitter.The publication came as Human Rights Watch HRW published an extensive report on ISIS sexual enslavement of women, specifically of the Yezidi minority in Iraq. The organization interviewed 76 Yezidis displaced in Duhok, Zakho, Erbil and other areas of Iraqi Kurdistan. They reported that ISIS wa stanley cup s holding 366 of their relatives.One 17-year old girl who escaped told HRW that a big bearded man picked her out from a group of detainees in Mosul. You are mine, he said.More Must-Reads from TIMEHow the Economy is Doing in the Swing StatesHarris Battles For the Bro VoteOur Guide to Voting in the 2024 ElectionMel Robbins Will Make You Do ItWhy Vinegar Is So Good for YouYou Isbg Read John Kasich s Speech to AIPAC
By Mahita GajananDecember 8, 2016 5:20 PM ESTCourtney Peters-Manning decided it was time to run for office immediately after the 2016 election election results came in. Upset by the incredibly divisive rhetoric coming from all sides of the political spectrum during the campaign year, Peters-Manning, 39, felt inspired to do more.The election was a kick in the pants that I had to step up and be more involved, she said.She signed up for an incubator program with She Should Run, an organization that trains w asics omen f ugg or public leadership adidas campus roles, becoming one of more than 4,500 women who have decided to run for office through the program since the election. The just-launched incubator is designed to build a community of women interested in entering politics and provide them with the tools to do so, the group co-founder and CEO Erin Loos Cutraro said.Women remain the vast minority in government positions in the U.S., making up only about one-fifth of Congress despite accounting for more than half of the population in the country. Representation is paltry at the state level as well, with the proportion of women in state legislatures at just 24.8% going into 2017, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.Cutraro, who was not expecting more than a couple hundred women to kickstart their political careers through the incubator, said mobilizing the thousands of women who joined is a welcome challenge. The incubator will