Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Daughters of Somalia campaign to end female genital mutilation UN (04.02.2022) – https://bit.ly/3HyfvbZ – In Somalia, over 90 per cent or more of girls and women, have been subjected to female genital mutilation, or FGM. Despite the practice having...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM EU Delegation to the UN in Geneva (04.02.2022) – https://bit.ly/3sgkszY – Ahead of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, 6 February 2022, High Representative of the Union for...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
130 women rights groups call on the government to criminalize FGM Equality Now (01.02.2022 – https://bit.ly/3uprQLZ – Following yet another tragic death in Sierra Leone due to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), women’s rights organizations across the...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Saudi women activists launch campaign against home detention and male guardianship Using the #HomeDetainees hashtag, the Twitter campaign is aimed at raising awareness about the conditions of women, targeting the male guardianship system (husband, father or...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
UN experts decry Taliban measures to “steadily erase” Afghan women & girls from public life UN (17.01.2022) – https://bit.ly/3KnpRxh – Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Indonesian woman flogged 100 times for adultery, partner gets 15 Channel News Asia (13.01.2022) – https://bit.ly/3tlEY4i – An Indonesian woman was flogged 100 times on Thursday (Jan 13) in conservative Aceh province for adultery while her male partner, who...