(Berlin) – Kyrgyz police detained around 70 activists, mostly women, for hours on March 8, 2020 without telling them the reasons for their detention or giving them access to lawyers, Human Rights Watch said today. . The activists had themselves been attacked during the peaceful International Women’s Day march inRead More →
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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Spain on Sunday evening to participate in walks across the country for International Women’s Day. The reasons for the protest were the same as those which inspired the mass protests of the past two years: gender-based violence, the gender payRead More →
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Lina al-Hathloul about her sister, Loujain, who was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for her women’s rights activism. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This week, a group of feminist activists in Saudi Arabia are due back in court. Among them is Loujain al-Hathloul. The group was jailed inRead More →