Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Gambia moves toward overturning landmark ban on female genital cutting Lawmakers in the West African country voted to advance a bill repealing a 2015 ban. If it passes the final round of voting, Gambia will become the first nation to roll back protections against the...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
AFGHANISTAN: On International Women’s Day, do not forget Afghan women and girls Five women flogged In February, the Taliban’s High Court stated that 13 individuals, including five women, should be sentenced to flogging in Bamyan province Sources indicate that the...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
UK: Britain, Equality and the EU: A ‘Progress Report’ after the Brexit By Cecilia Jastrzembska HRWF (30.01.2024) – On 26 January, the Young European Movement UK and European Parliamentary Liaison Office organized in London a roundtable discussion on the...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
EIGE (01.01.2024) – Ten years ago, EIGE introduced the Gender Equality Index as a marker for the status quo of gender equality in the EU. Each edition came with more or less the same conclusion: progress is at a snail’s pace. However, in this year’s edition we...
Human Rights in the World, Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Taliban arrest women for ‘bad hijab’ in first crackdown since return in power A Taliban spokesman says authorities have arrested women in the Afghan capital Kabul for wearing “bad hijab.” ABC News (04.01.2023) – The Taliban have arrested women in the Afghan...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Sakharov Prize and Nobel Peace Prize for 2 Iranian Women Mahsa Amini Protest (Wikimedia) HRWF (12.12.2023) – Two Iranian women, Mahsa Amini and Narges Mohammadi, are being honored this year because they fight for women’s rights in their country, the one for the...