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 →