by admin_HRWF | Nov 28, 2018 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Olivia Jackson and Elizabeth Lane Miller World Watch Monitor (26.11.2018) – https://bit.ly/2See1JZ – Five new reports – about Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Colombia and the Central African Republic – unmask the multiple domestic, societal and state dynamics...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 21, 2018 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Jonathan Stempel Reuters (21.11.2018) – https://reut.rs/2BpI0cj– A federal judge in Detroit on Tuesday declared unconstitutional a U.S. law banning female genital mutilation, and also dismissed several charges against two doctors and others in the...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 21, 2018 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Funding comes as figures show international efforts to expand family planning services by 2020 are falling far short of targets By Liz Ford The Guardian (13.11.2018) – https://bit.ly/2B4BV4P– The UK government has launched a £200m programme to increase...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 21, 2018 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Heather Chen BBC (20.11.2018) – https://bbc.in/2TxRDwE– Islamic law, also known as Sharia, is often associated by critics with harsh punishments and hardline attitudes. But one of Malaysia’s first female Sharia high court judges says her role...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 14, 2018 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Euan McKirdy and Jake Kwon CNN (1.11.2018) – https://cnn.it/2PxVSJl– Harrowing accounts of widespread sexual abuse allegedly carried out by North Korean officials against ordinary women have been laid out in a new report, that details evidence of a...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 14, 2018 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Imelda Cortez, 20, faces trial in country where abortion is illegal under all circumstances By Nina Lakhani The Guardian (12.11.2018) – https://bit.ly/2Pq5MNQ– A rape victim is facing 20 years in jail charged with attempted murder, after she gave birth...
