by HRWF | Mar 16, 2023 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Taliban ‘ban’ contraceptives for women-‘haram’ in sharia Women in Afghanistan have said that midwives have refused to provide contraceptives where they previously would have By Umang Sharma First Post (10.02.2023) – The Taliban have allegedly stopped...
by HRWF | Mar 7, 2023 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
One girl dead, 400 schoolgirls poisoned, amidst attacks on schools On UN Women’s Right Day, Human Rights Without Frontiers urges the UN to send an investigation mission. Unfettered acts of terror against school girls raise questions of government complicity ...
by HRWF | Feb 21, 2023 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Analysis of feminists’ prejudice against religious minority women By Mariz Tadros IPS UN Bureau (17.02.2023) – Since researching the experiences of gender discrimination against women in poverty who belong to religious minorities, many fellow feminists have...
by HRWF | Feb 7, 2023 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Female genital mutilation: ‘Women circumcise little girls for men’ By Assiya HAMZA France 24 (06.02.2023) – In France, nearly 125,000 women have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). The fight against this practice has led to the creation of...
by HRWF | Dec 26, 2022 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers order NGOs to prevent women from working at their jobs as protests spread Radio Free Europe (24.12.2022) – https://bit.ly/3HYo17n – In the latest assault on women’s rights, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ordered all...
by HRWF | Dec 26, 2022 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Taliban ban Afghan women from university education Higher education ministry issues indefinite order three months after thousands sat entrance exams By Hikmat Noori The Guardian (20.12.2022) – https://bit.ly/3jwm0F2 – Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers...
