by HRWF | Sep 17, 2023 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Muslim students’ robes are latest fault line for French identity When the French education minister declared that the abayas favored by some Muslim women “can no longer be worn in schools,” he stoked a fierce debate over the country’s secular ideals. By Roger...
by HRWF | Jul 16, 2023 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Taliban unmoved by UN call to lift bans on Afghan women & girls By Ayaz Gul VOA (22.06.2023) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rejected a fresh call Thursday from the United Nations to remove what it says are “punishing restrictions” on the impoverished...
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...
