Zoe Nicholson is used to playing the long game when it comes to women’s rights. The writer and activist is interviewed throughout Always working from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.a new documentary about the fight for women’s rights 40 years after the hit 1980 film by Dolly Parton, Lily TomlinRead More →
WOMEN opposed to making it easier for trans people to legally change their gender have disrupted the GRA Bill’s latest evidence session at Holyrood, revealing T-shirts calling Nicola Sturgeon a ‘destroyer of human rights’ women”. As Social Security Secretary Shona Robison testified on Tuesday, anti-GRA activists were in public seatsRead More →
“While I welcome international attention on the impact of climate change on women and girls over the past decade, we also need to focus urgently on the serious problem of violence against them which was exacerbated by the climate crisisshe told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Countries discussRead More →
Kendrick Lamar takes its performance very seriously, especially the visual aspect and what it conveys. At this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival in England, the Mr. Morale and the Great WalkthroughThe sa artist may have made his biggest statement yet, assuming the role of Jesus Christ by donning a diamond crown ofRead More →
“It’s not about abortion. It’s about freedom. Why don’t I have the same right to reproductive freedom that a man enjoys every day,” said one pro-choice activist. The local backlash continued to come Friday after the landmark Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The court’s 6-3 vote ends abortionRead More →
Almost as quickly as news arrived Friday morning of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, so too have promises from local political leaders about what they intend to do about it. . “Abortion is safe and legal here in Massachusetts, thanks to the 2020 action by the LegislatureRead More →
Paxton Smith’s 2021 farewell speech at Lake Highlands High School in Dallas was not the same speech she previously shared with school administrators. She dropped the approved speech and advocated for women’s reproductive rights after lawmakers passed Texas’ “Heartbeat Bill.” His plea made news on NPR, YouTubeTV and in TheRead More →
June 22, 2022 | 05:04 UTC Women’s rights activists will demonstrate in Ankara, Turkey, from 8:30 a.m. on June 23. Increased security, likely disruptions; possible clashes. transportation Security TUR Event Women’s rights activists plan to protest outside the State Council building in Ankara on June 23; activists will gather fromRead More →
Ukrainian MPs voted on June 20 to ratify the Istanbul Convention, which is widely recognized as the most far-reaching international treaty against violence against women and domestic violence. The ratification marks a new step in Ukraine’s European integration and underlines Ukraine’s determination to continue the country’s transformation despite the enormousRead More →
The senate of Bremen, a city in Germany, presented the 17th Bremen Solidarity Award to Garment Laborer Union President Rukmini VP in recognition of her activism and contribution to the women’s rights movement. The prize, which includes a grant of 10,000 euros and a sculpture by Bremen artist Bernd Altenstein,Read More →
Far from feminist utopia, progressive politics backed by radical gender activism has created a generation of women too afraid to speak out. In the world of competitive sports, women have been told to “step up” and “shut up” when it comes to biological men standing above them on the podiumRead More →
Feminists said balaclava-clad trans rights activists ‘silenced’ them today in Bristol as tensions between the two groups erupted again. The black-clad crowd were heard shouting ‘trans rights are human rights’ as women’s rights activists held a conference in honor of Father’s Day in College Green. During the clash, the anarchistsRead More →
“In this time of proliferating crises, the international community must pursue proven strategies for peace and stability. Protecting and promoting women’s rights is such a strategy,” he said during the debate, noting the positive role that regional organizations have played in protecting and promoting the key agenda. “A question ofRead More →
Mexico claims to pursue a “feminist” foreign policy. The full truth is that women’s rights cannot be taken for granted in the country itself. Mexico is notorious for its feminicides (see me and Sheila Mysorekar at www.dandc.eu). In 2020, 948 women were murdered, 2.7% more than in 2019. For severalRead More →
Panaji: Social activists and stakeholders have welcomed the decision of the panchayats to pass resolutions to outlaw social practices of isolation and discrimination against widows. They said only education and economic empowerment can bring change. Former chairman of the state women’s commission, Pramod Salgaocar, said local self-governments highlighting injustice toRead More →
Phil Schofield discusses Sarah Everard’s vigil this morning The two sisters Mrs Henry and Mrs Smallman were stabbed to death in Fryent Country Park and their bodies were discovered by family members on June 7, 2020. The march was organized by the Women’s Equality Party who said: ‘Women are betrayedRead More →
KABUL: The list of Taliban violations of women’s and girls’ rights is long and growing, said Heather Barr, Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch (HRW), as she raised concerns growing concerns about the violation of rights in the country. When the Taliban announced last month that women and girlsRead More →
The list of violations of the rights of women and girls by the Taliban is long and growing, said Heather Barr, Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch (HRW), as she raised growing concerns regarding the violation of rights in the country. When the Taliban announced last month that womenRead More →
Representatives of women’s rights organizations and opposition politicians gathered outside the Council of State, Turkey’s highest administrative court, in Ankara on Tuesday morning for the upcoming hearing on the annulment of Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, Turkish media reported. The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violenceRead More →
The leaders of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party were each given a cash bail of 1 million shillings. The six female leaders are; MP Hon Adeke Anna, Deputy Mayor Doreen Nyanjura, Wokuri Madanda, Nanyonjo Susan, Miriam Kizito and Amony Alice. Activists in court They were arrested lastRead More →
The Polish government, where a near-total ban on abortion is in place, faces accusations of creating a “pregnancy registry” as the country increases the amount of digitally recorded medical data on patients. Women’s rights advocates and opposition politicians fear women will face unprecedented scrutiny given the conservative views of aRead More →
The automatic association of equality and democracy has led to the rise of “genderwashing” Elin Bjarnegård, Pär Zetterberg, foreign policy June 06, 2022, 12:10 p.m. Last modification: June 06, 2022, 12:12 p.m. Rwandan President Paul Kagame poses for a photo with members of the Rwandan Parliament. PHOTO: FLICKR ACCOUNT OFRead More →
WOMEN’S rights campaigners have slammed Johnny Depp’s victory in a multi-million pound libel case at a protest ahead of his rock concert in Glasgow. Activists unfurled a banner outside the city’s Royal Concert Hall reading: “The verdict was not ‘justice’, it was silence.” 3 Activists protest outside Depp’s concertCredit: SteveRead More →
“Being a gender champion is the same as being the champion of justice and human rights,” proclaimed the 2016 Gender Champion award winner during his acceptance speech. The country he leads has the highest share of lower house legislative seats held by women in the world at 61 percent. ButRead More →
Until her statue was unveiled in downtown Congleton, many people had not heard of the name Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy. Yet she can be counted among the pioneers of the women’s rights movement in the UK. Spending much of her life in the Cheshire town, she fought for better education forRead More →
Adell Ghadiya was in the country where she is now hiding because she was delivering equipment and materials for a women’s trade school when Kabul fell last summer, Behrens said. Since then, she has been trapped in limbo. Adell Ghadiya does not want the country where she is hiding toRead More →
Amnesty International has urged Morocco to investigate allegations that security forces assaulted female activists in the country, two of whom claim to have been sexually assaulted. The rights group alleged that Moroccan police and plainclothes agents beat the women with sticks and punched and kicked them. [Getty] Human rights groupRead More →
The cost of sanitary clothing undermines women’s rights BY SHARON BUWERIMWEGENDER activists have expressed concern over the prohibitive cost of sanitary garments, saying they compromise women’s sexual and reproductive health rights. With galloping inflation, the prices of basic necessities and services exploding, hygiene clothing has not been spared. A packRead More →
In recent weeks, they have issued decrees requiring women to cover their faces except their eyes, including TV presenters, and banning girls from school after sixth grade. At the same time, Afghanistan has seen persistent shelling and other attacks on civilians, often targeting the predominantly Shia Muslim Hazara ethnic minority.Read More →
Loose Women star Denise Welch has hit back at a critical viewer who slammed her ‘expensive’ segment on the ITV show. During an episode this week, people got to see the 64-year-old in sunny Los Angeles as she gave a glimpse of some lavish homes in Hollywood. However, it seemsRead More →
Peshawar – Representatives of a civil society organization have called for the protection of the rights of women workers in factories and business premises and stressed the need to strictly enforce all relevant laws and regulations in this regard. Speakers while expressing their views during an introductory session about WorkingRead More →
Photo source: Rob Kall – DC BY 2.0 “There really is no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or preferably the inaudible. -Arundhati Roy Older women in conservative African societies have found the women’s movement liberating, refreshing and affirming. Liberating because it showed us thatRead More →
The United Nations Security Council has expressed “deep concern” over the Taliban’s order forcing women to cover their faces in public, including on television. The United Nations Security Council has called on the Taliban to “swiftly reverse” policies restricting the human rights and freedoms of Afghan women, in a unanimouslyRead More →
The list of Indian Women Activists 2022 is endless with the names of countless women who stood up for their rights and those of others despite fear of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and countless days in jail. They are women who have spoken about the lives of othersRead More →
A few days after a woman stripped naked and protested rape on the Cannes red carpet, a group of women activists are once again taking advantage of this prestigious event to raise awareness against male violence. A group of women wearing black clothes walked the red carpet with a whiteRead More →
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Life is getting harder and harder for Afghan women. Since the extremist group Taliban took power last August, they have mounted an all-out assault on women’s rights, imposing arcane restrictions on women’s movements, ability to work and dress. Despite promising to respect women’s rights, including the right to work andRead More →
Vice President Kamala Harris has sought to rally doctors, nurses and abortion rights advocates in the White House ahead of the overturning of the long-awaited Supreme Court opinion Roe vs. Wade. Although the Supreme Court has yet to issue its official decision, Harris asserted that the leaked draft, if madeRead More →
Attachments During the 2014 invasion of eastern Ukraine, violence against women and girls, especially domestic violence and sexual violence, increased rapidly. Since February 2022, the situation has deteriorated to alarming new levels. Pervasive and exacerbated violence against Ukrainian women and girls is a consequence of the war, with women andRead More →
Every week, small groups of women meet in homes across Kerala, discussing everything from micro-credit schemes to organic farming and food processing. On May 17, Kudumbashree, Kerala’s flagship program for women empowerment and poverty eradication, turned 25 years old. Launched in 1998 by the then CPI(M)-led government in Kerala asRead More →
Adapted from a blog post by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women Olesia Bondar, Director of the Ukrainian Women’s Fund (UWF), spoke with the UN Trust Fund about how the current crisis is affecting Ukrainian women and girls, and the key role civil society and women’s rightsRead More →
In December 2006, while still in Corporate America, I was working around the clock with my team to complete a major eleven month project for the CEO of the company. It was bitingly cold; as my colleague and I drove home in the wee hours of the morning through theRead More →
By Deepa Parent | – (OpenDemocracy.net) – “You are all cowardly women for protesting the burqa. Why don’t you want to cover your body? You are not Muslim,” a female Taliban fighter shouted at Zoya* as she led a march of 20 women in Kabul on Tuesday. Zoya, 38, aRead More →
Foreign Ministers from 15 countries expressed in a statement their “deep” concerns about the restrictions on girls’ access to education in Afghanistan and called on the “Taliban to respect the right to education and to respect their commitments to reopen schools for all female students. ” The statement was issuedRead More →
About ten years ago I attended a meeting of the Colorado Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice where the speaker chastised the members for continuing to advocate for abortion rights when he was not obviously no longer needed. The matter was settled, the speaker insisted to the crowd of clergy andRead More →
Dr. Huma Baqai May 15, 2022. 10:15 a.m. Afghanistan is a deeply patriarchal and conservative society. Women largely dress very conventionally, and even young girls wear the hijab. However, Afghan women under Taliban 2.0 again face repression and marginalization, aimed at reversing the visibility, freedom and empowerment that Afghan womenRead More →
Several hundred people filled the lawn in front of the Duval County Courthouse Saturday afternoon as they demonstrated in favor of abortion rights during the “People’s Rally Against Abortion.” Organized by the Jacksonville Women’s Marchan activist organization led by a woman in Jacksonville, the protest joined many more planned acrossRead More →
By Jamila Bey, Special at AFRO The first Monday in May became known as Met Gala Monday, and during and after the event, which carried what usually dominates social media and news. Normally, we could still talk about what Lizzo, Megan Thee Stallion and Alicia Keys wore. But who couldRead More →
Placeholder while loading article actions It is clear that the goal of the anti-abortion movement to overthrow Roe vs. Wade is about to succeed. But it’s not just about returning abortion regulation to the states. As soon as the court has rendered the decision in deer in 1973, anti-abortion lawmakersRead More →
Many businesses’ success depends on raising finance. To get business finance and capital, women-owned firms confront unique hurdles. Although women controlled over 40% of firms in the US by 2019, almost 99% of new venture money went to male founders in 2020. Women entrepreneurs face more challenges than males inRead More →
The recent convergence of Roe v. Wade and Mother’s Day inevitably connects with the feminist movement and Gloria Steinem. And thinking of this iconic woman is reminiscent of Dorothy Pitman Hughes and that classic photo of them, fists in the air, claiming victory for women of all walks of life.Read More →
The Delhi High Court’s split verdict on the criminalization of marital rape is a ‘tragedy’ but ‘still a step forward’, said several women activists who expressed hope that the Supreme Court would take a broader look at the issue so that married women are not discriminated against when applying existingRead More →
On May 2, 2022, Americans learned that the United States Supreme Court was about to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that has protected an American woman’s right to abortion for more than forty years. Politico magazine published a leaked version of a draft majority opinion authored byRead More →
In February, a 15-year-old girl was charged with killing her newborn baby after giving birth alone at a home in Malaysia’s eastern state of Terengganu. The baby was found to have wounds on her body, including what appeared to be a stab wound. When the police arrested the girl, sheRead More →
What is politics and what is art can hardly be separated in the works of Sara Nabil. The Afghan artist – who now lives in Germany – processes her own experience of oppression, escape and search for identity in her work. Through photographs and performances, she describes how women inRead More →
The Taliban have ordered women in Afghanistan to cover themselves from head to toe and only go out in the company of male chaperones, intensifying the worst aspects of the misogynistic rule they first displayed in power and that they swore not to repeat this time. A decree issued onRead More →
LONDON (Reuters) – Pakistani Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai reacted on Monday to an order by the Afghan Taliban government to force women to cover their faces in public, saying the Taliban want to erase girls and women of all public life in Afghanistan. Malala, who is also an education activist,Read More →
“No to compulsory hijab,” chanted the women’s movement for justice and freedom in response to the Taliban’s plan to make the hijab compulsory. On Monday, May 9, members of the movement held a rally in the Afghan capital Kabul, declaring the compulsory “misogyny” of the hijab that has plunged societyRead More →
Republicans are poised for a massive midterm red wave that could continue through the next presidential election. As the COVID panic subsides and the harsh economic reality of our response begins to sink in, 50% of respondents to a new CNN poll said “the economy” was their number one concern,Read More →
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Former US President Donald Trump is being blamed after a years-long Republican offensive against women’s abortion rights appears to have gained traction in the US Supreme Court. A draft court memo, written by Judge Samuel Alito, makes it clear that the Conservative majority is set to overturn the landmark 1973Read More →
Placeholder while loading article actions If you were brought up on 1970s feminism, as I was, the linguistic shift to phrases like “people who give birth” and “having wombs” was a bit shocking. We grew up with “women’s liberation”, “women’s issues” and “women’s rights”; now, suddenly, these questions and theseRead More →
“This is what our current situation demands: that women stand up and fight, not only for their rights, but for the liberation of the nation to which they belong.” By AIRA MARIE SIGUENZA and SHARLYN VIVOBulatlat.com MANILA — Arlene Brosas, who currently serves as a lawmaker for the Gabriela Women’sRead More →
Abortion is more divisive in America than any culture war. The positions are deeply rooted, fueled by moral or religious convictions, and leave no room for compromise. The Supreme Court’s draft opinion leaked this week unsurprisingly enraged pro-choicers. Protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court; references to the dystopian novel byRead More →
WASHINGTON — If you were raised on 1970s feminism, like me, the linguistic shift to phrases like “people giving birth” and “having wombs” has been a little shocking. We grew up on ‘women’s liberation’, ‘women’s issues’ and ‘women’s rights’; now, suddenly, these questions and these rights seem to belong toRead More →
With a leaked draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade and the abortion protections she has guaranteed for half a century, women’s rights advocates have pledged to fight for freedom. “I hear people literally every hour,” Jesse Mermell said Wednesday. Mermell previously worked forRead More →
While the United States Supreme Court appears poised to overturn the landmark decision that gave women the constitutional right to access abortion, courts in many other parts of the world have taken the opposite direction. In February, Colombia’s Constitutional Court legalized abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy, partRead More →
As the right to a legal abortion in the United States risks being removed, women and activists in Canada are watching the heated debates south of the border while bracing for what may be linked here. “It seems that the [U.S.] Supreme Court Justices Set to Disqualify Roe v. WadeRead More →
Women’s Rights Network Northern Ireland (WRN NI) have reported to the PSNI the defacement of the billboard, which has been erected between the M2 and M3 motorways in central Belfast. The WRNNI believes that women are defined by biology and opposes measures to allow men with genitalia but who identifyRead More →
Women’s Rights Network Northern Ireland (WRN NI) have reported to the PSNI the defacement of the billboard, which has been erected between the M2 and M3 motorways in central Belfast. The WRNNI believes that women are defined by biology and opposes measures to allow men with genitalia but who identifyRead More →
My daughter is likely to grow up – in America – with fewer rights than her mother. Let it sink in. Late Monday night, a draft opinion from the United States Supreme Court was leaked — a phenomenon that had never happened before — that showed the court was preparingRead More →
As the world turned to the fashion show that became the Met Gala red carpet, the United States Supreme Court was quietly hosting its own forum. According to documents acquired by Politico, the Court wrote an opinion to quash Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that sets the precedent toRead More →
NNA | Update: 03 May 2022 09:04 STI Kabul [Afghanistan]May 3 (ANI): The US special envoy said that “the Muslim world must defend the rights of Afghan women and girls”, local media reported.The remarks by Rina Amiri, the US special envoy for Afghan women, girls and human rights, came afterRead More →
As women’s rights suffer in Afghanistan, we should look to other countries in the region for inspiration. From the Taliban reneging on their promise to provide an education for girls, Iran elected to a four-year term on the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and International Women’s Day protestersRead More →
Since the Taliban took power, women have been deprived of their basic rights, including adequate food, the right to work and the opportunity to complete their education. Hezbollah reporter Khan captured footage of women trapped in cages and fighting for food in his home in Afghanistan. “Currently the Taliban areRead More →
On Saturday, a Cairo court found journalist and writer Rasha Azab not guilty on charges of insulting, defaming and willfully harming film director Islam Azazi. The case dates back to December 2020 when the online blog Daftar Hekayat released anonymous testimonies from six survivors who said Islam sexually assaulted them,Read More →
Photo: Twitter @morcativakfi Representatives of Turkish women’s rights organizations and lawyers will meet early on April 28 outside the Council of State, Turkey’s highest administrative court, in Ankara, before the court announces its decision on the appeal requesting the cancellation of Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, Turkey Minute reported,Read More →
Critical gender activist Mia Ashton has sent a letter to 3,000 school trustees across Canada expressing deep concern over policies allowing schools to hide a child’s transgender leanings from their parents. Ashton is an Ottawa-based spokesperson for the organization Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (caWsbr), which aims to uphold women’s rightsRead More →
Two Minute Masterpiece: Remarkable Story of Women’s Rights Activist Mary Slessor Schedule An icon of a desktop calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across it. Caret A right-pointing solid arrow icon. E-mail An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of Facebook’s “f” mark.Read More →
DUNCANUTHERLAND…as we work for women’s rights in our countries — we must choose to challenge People’s National Party (PNP) Women’s Movement Public Relations Officer, Patricia Duncan Sutherland, urges Jamaican women to continue to fight economic, societal and other inequalities. Talk with the Jamaica Observer Ahead of the movement’s 2021 conference,Read More →
IranSource April 21, 2022 Ableism exists online among Iranian women’s rights activists. It needs to be fixed. By Ahou Koutchesfahani Iranian women’s rights activism is very present and visible on social media with countless hashtags, images and videos circulating online and going viral to regularly draw attention to important causes,Read More →
Afghan women and girls take part in a protest outside the Ministry of Education in Kabul on March 26, 2022, demanding the reopening of high schools for girls. (Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP via Getty Images) To subscribe to The nation Subscribe now for as low as $2 per month! Thank youRead More →
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two inmates who become pregnant at a women’s prison in central Jersey are erasing the ‘trope’ that ‘transgender women are women’, a women’s rights activist said on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on Tuesday. Kara Dansky of the Women’s Human Rights Campaign was reactingRead More →
The exhibit is a visual representation of missing and murdered women; red robes hang outside with educational signs to provide information, display statistics and access resources about this important movement. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) – YWCA Lower Cape Fear and its Advocacy and Racial Justice Committee announcesRead More →
Gillian Philip’s contract was terminated in 2020 for supporting women’s rights. She files a complaint with the Labor Court that she should not have been discriminated against for holding and expressing gender-critical views. Please donate to support this important legal case and please share with others who may wish toRead More →
In the 19th century, Lucretia Mott made her mark on America as a pioneering abolitionist and suffragist – who demanded equal rights for all. National Portrait Gallery/Wikimedia CommonsLucretia Coffin Mott (1793 – 1880). Painting by Joseph Kyle. In Quaker religion, men and women are considered equal in the sight ofRead More →
A Lanarkshire councilor has become embroiled in a row with a women’s rights group over transgender issues. Gender critical group the Sole Sisters say they are “absolutely shocked” by comments from Janine Calikes, who is running to represent Rutherglen Central and North for the second time. SNP candidate Ms CalikesRead More →
Women demonstrate in Istanbul against Turkey’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, March 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/ERDEM SAHIN The prosecutor’s office filed a complaint on Wednesday, seeking to shut down the We Will Stop Femicide platform, Turkey’s leading women’s NGO, for allegedly “acting against the law and against morals”. TheRead More →
When the non-governmental organization Global Rights recently staged a commissioned performance of the play “Beere” based on the historical account of the Egba women’s revolt, the historical drama resonates with the renewed call for quality and to women’s political participation in Nigeria. Yinka Olatunbosun reports In prelude to the dramaRead More →
Lorna Slater’s remarks, made as a jab at the BBC, have been described as ‘grossly offensive’ Scottish Minister Lorna Slater has sparked fury after she compared women’s rights activists to racists and anti-Semites. Ms Slater, one of Nicola Sturgeon’s coalition ministers and a member of the Scottish Green Party, madeRead More →
Women’s rights activists are like ANTI-SEMITES, says Scottish minister: fury at Lorna Slater’s ‘grossly offensive’ comparison between feminists fighting against trans rights laws and racists Lorna Slater is a minister in Nicola Sturgeon’s government under the Green-SNP deal Ms Slater, 46, spoke out after feminists criticized new sex reassignment legislationRead More →
Feminists who fear a sweeping overhaul of transgender laws in Scotland will threaten their rights and safety have been likened to racists and anti-Semites by a cabinet minister in Nicola Sturgeon’s government. Lorna Slater, who won a ministerial post last year as part of the SNP’s coalition pact with theRead More →
Sajid Javid must tell the NHS to protect women-only hospital wards (Image: GETTY) Indeed, he must explain to a health service that his job is to protect not only the rights of women, but also their dignity and, above all, their safety. Javid told the NHS this week to takeRead More →
A transgender scholar has outraged Woman’s Hour listeners with an interview full of “incredible nonsense” in which she gave convoluted answers about feminism and the “natural organic type” of women. Grace Lavery is a British professor of English and gender studies at the University of California, Berkeley, who wrote aRead More →
By Chris Fitzgerald* The Taliban systematically remove women and girls from social life in Afghanistan by denying their basic human rights. This makes their ability to work, learn and live a meaningful life increasingly difficult. It comes after the Taliban took control of the country quickly last year, culminating inRead More →
The Taliban systematically remove women and girls from social life in Afghanistan by denying their basic human rights. This makes their ability to work, learn and live a meaningful life increasingly difficult. It comes after the Taliban took control of the country quickly last year, culminating in the capture ofRead More →
For Ruth Serwotka, the lowest point came on February 13, 2020. She was making coffee when Lisa Nandy, then a Labor leadership candidate, was asked on the radio about Woman’s Place UK, the grassroots campaign organization which Serwotka helped found three years ago. earlier. “She refused to say that weRead More →
A demonstration led by the Committee for the right to abortion and against the abuse of sterilization (CARASA). (Photo courtesy of Meredith Tax) To subscribe to The nation Subscribe now for as low as $2 per month! Thank you for registering for The nationweekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up.Read More →
On April 4, Yale announced that Reshma Saujani LAW ’02, an advocate for women’s economic and academic empowerment and founder of Girls Who Code, will speak at this year’s class day. Sarah Cook and Anika Seth 01:09, 05 April 2022 Staff journalists Wikimedia Commons Reshma Saujani LAW ’02, founder ofRead More →
Justyna Wydrzyńska, 47, a mother of three who has been helping women access abortions for more than 15 years, is due to stand trial in Poland this week for breaking the country’s strict abortion law. She could be jailed for up to three years if convicted of providing abortion pillsRead More →
Mumsnet readers rally behind campaign to protect women’s rights as they praise trio lobbying local election candidates on gender issues Maya Forstater, Caroline Ffiske and Heather Binning are behind the campaign They urge voters to ask politicians about their stance on gender politics The campaign has received support from RosieRead More →
The UK Research Center hosted a dialogue on Saturday on “Understanding Slogans, Expression and Visualization: Aurat March & Beyond”, in which experts, women’s rights activists and Aurat March organizers discussed the slogans of the Aurat march and the future course of action. Discussing arguably the most famous slogan “Mera JismRead More →
Due to sexual harassment, she was fired from a senior position at the World Bank. Now economist Rodrigo Chaves, who ran as a populist outsider in an election marred by anti-establishment sentiment, is leading the race to become Costa Rica’s next president on Sunday. It is an unexpected rise inRead More →
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Amid an ongoing debate over transgender athletes, a women’s rights group called out the Biden administration on Thursday after the White House announced new policies aimed at expanding the rights of transgender Americans. The Biden administration issued a statement announcing new actionsRead More →
Change things that seem impossible to change. by David Miller Loveland, Ohio – In 1940, an international women’s movement got on a boat. The last ship before Hitler invaded Holland. They arrived in America, “in the blink of an eye” in April of that year. Loveland’s Holy Grail became aRead More →
In depth: Women activists in the MENA region are among the most affected by the use of Pegasus spyware, which threatens their personal and professional reputation. Now they demand accountability. Hala al-Ahed was alarmed when she received a message from Apple. The telecommunications giant informed her that she may haveRead More →
Dozens of civil society activists from across Afghanistan gathered in Kabul to discuss vital issues including the education and employment rights of Afghan women, saying the Islamic Emirate must hear its voice citizens. The participants stressed that national unity is one of the priorities of Afghanistan and that the leadersRead More →
Paris-Geneva-Ankara, March 30, 2022 – In the early hours of March 16, 2022, police raided the homes of 24 women’s rights defenders and activists in Diyarbakır, and arbitrarily detained them. On March 18, 2022, 11 of them were arrested. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT), theRead More →
A Liberian women’s rights activist and winner of the 2022 International Women of Courage Award, Ms Facia Harris, has expressed deep sadness over the suspicious death of Ms Princess Cooper, the young woman recently found dead in the fence housing the materials store of Fawaz construction at ELWA Junction inRead More →
A Liberian women’s rights activist and winner of the 2022 International Women of Courage Award, Ms Facia Harris, has expressed deep sadness over the suspicious death of Ms Princess Cooper, the young woman recently found dead in the fence housing the materials store of Fawaz construction at ELWA Junction inRead More →
Women and Gender Studies Fellow Roshan Mashal looks towards the Central Library March 23 in front of the Science and Engineering Research and Innovation building. Mashal evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021. Photo by Ward Sakeik Fleeing Afghanistan meant leaving behind her home and the people she was close to, butRead More →
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement and is also the first woman to appear on a U.S. Mint coin; So who was Susan B. Anthony and where was she from? How did she becomeRead More →