Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Patriarch Kirill proposes stripping private clinics of right to receive female patients for abortions Interfax Religion (17.05.2022) – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has come up with an initiative to prohibit private clinics from performing the...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Female student in Nigeria beaten to death over ‘blasphemy’ Witnesses say police failed to disperse mob of fellow students in Sokoto who set victim on fire following WhatsApp comments The Guardian (12.05.2022) – https://bit.ly/39P3fI6 – A female student...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Taliban order Afghan women to wear burqa in public The militants took back control of the country in August last year, promising a softer rule than their previous stint in power between 1996 and 2001, which was marked by human rights abuses. Times Now...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
“Beauty Ban”: Severe restrictions on women’s appearance, ability to travel By Farangis Najibullah RFE/RL (04.05.2022) – https://bit.ly/3P16a0x – In Turkmenistan, women are no longer allowed to wear “tight-fitting” clothes, dye...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Femicide – 125 women killed by men March 2021 – 2022 See the full list and pictures HERE By Joan Smith Telegraph (03.03.2022) – https://bit.ly/3s0VHbq – Some of their faces are familiar, but dozens more we are seeing for the first...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Trial of female circumcision: a mother sentenced The court has decided: the law takes precedence over tradition. TV5 Monde (05.04.2022) – https://bit.ly/3xjxjFH – Jurors and magistrates have decided: the law takes precedence over tradition. In Le Mans, a...