by admin_HRWF | Feb 20, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Pablo Gorondi The Washington Post (11.02.2019) – https://wapo.st/2SdLeVt- Hungary is facing “many interconnected human rights challenges,” including laws targeting civic groups, backsliding on women’s rights and the systematic detention of...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 20, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
United Nations agencies are calling on States and regional organizations across Europe to take urgent action to ensure that thousands of currently stateless children are given the support and protection they deserve. UN News (14.02.2019) –...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 14, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Cases come as rights advocates warn such arguments are increasingly being ‘weaponised’ against women’s and LGBT equality. By Nandini Archer and Claire Provost OpenDemocracy.net (12.02.2019) – https://bit.ly/2GNjHYK- Doctors and lawyers in at least...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 14, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Briana Bierschbach MPR News (12.02.2019) – https://bit.ly/2GrCxFt- Kaohly Her was a teenager when an older man caught a glimpse of her at a community event. The next day, his family called her father to ask for her hand in marriage. “I remember...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 14, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
VOA News (12.02.2019) – https://bit.ly/2tlNrUN- A Jordanian lawmaker praised for her role in abolishing a law that let rapists off the hook if they married their victims has targeted child marriage as her next challenge. Nearly 10,500 girls in Jordan were...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 6, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
A woman who mutilated her three-year-old daughter has become the first person in the UK to be found guilty of female genital mutilation (FGM). BBC (01.02.2019) – https://bbc.in/2GdZMSK – The 37-year-old mother from east London wept in the dock as...
