by admin_HRWF | Sep 29, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Reuters (24.09.2020) – https://reut.rs/3kS9afG – In Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, rights activist Maryam Durani has found a fresh outlet for her decades of advocacy – a new fitness centre for women. Durani, 36, is a fierce...
by admin_HRWF | Jul 14, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
The threat of violence against women is escalating amid coronavirus lockdowns around the globe. But one region that has lived through a military clampdown for nearly a year – Indian-administered Kashmir – could have foretold the surge. By Safina Nabi The...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 25, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Statement for International Widows Day by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. UN Women (23.06.2020) – https://bit.ly/31n2pfk – Over the past several months, we have seen the...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 25, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
GCHR (22.06.2020) – https://bit.ly/2VyzBgz – The world has been facing a pandemic that left prisoners including human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience very vulnerable among other populations in the Gulf region and neighbouring countries. Since...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 9, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Kenya’s Matrimonial Property Act, which is discriminatory towards women and inconsistent with the country’s constitution, means few married women own land. Less than five percent of all land title deeds in Kenya are held jointly by women and only one...
