Women's Rights & Gender Equality
China’s birth rate is declining so Beijing is encouraging couples to have more children, but employers are worried about extra maternity costs. China still exceeds the global average participation rate for women in the workplace at 60 per cent in 2019, but the rate...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Relatives have alleged the babies at mother and baby homes were mistreated because they were born to unmarried women. Al Jazeera (12.01.2021) – https://bit.ly/3i783Zv – One of the Catholic Church’s darkest chapters will be revisited on Tuesday when...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president for women and family affairs, dedicated the move to ‘worthy and patient Iranian women’ in a tweet. By Maziar Motamedi Al Jazeera (04.01.2021) – https://bit.ly/35dPcqk – The government of Iran’s President...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Supporters says charges against Zara Kay, who has had her passport confiscated, are ‘politically motivated’. By Daniel Hurst The Guardian (03.01.2021) – https://bit.ly/393rFK8 – An Australian ex-Muslim women’s rights activist faces...