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 →
On May 14, local women’s rights organization We Trust Women staged a protest in response to the recently leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade if he was approved. “We are here to support abortion justice and reproductive rights for women around the world, especiallyRead 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 →