Women's Rights & Gender Equality
AFGHANISTAN: Taliban assault on women’s rights reaches a new level The Islamist fundamentalists in power are demanding that NGOs operating in the country get rid of their female staff. They are also ordering kitchen windows to be blocked to conceal their female...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
AFGHANISTAN: Freedom of Religion or Belief in Afghanistan: The Taliban’s Grave Threats to Women and Girls By Fatema Ahmadi Forb Women’s Alliance (17.09.2024) – Under the Taliban, women in Afghanistan face unprecedented threats. According to UN experts, women...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
IRAQ: The European Parliament considers the revision of Law 188/1959 would endanger the future of women Human Rights Without Frontiers denounces the legislative process of the Iraqi Parliament aiming at dramatically reducing women’s and girls’ rights HRWF (14.10.2024)...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
IRAQ: Parliament poised to legalize child marriage Sweeping bill imperils women’s, children’s rights Human Rights Watch (16.08.2024) – Iraq’s parliament is moving forward an amendment to the country’s Personal Status Law that would allow Iraqi religious...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
IRAQ: Assault on family law: Iraq moving further from democracy? By Cathrin Schaer Deutsche Welle (14.08.2024) – Conservative politicians want Iraqi family law to be defined by religious rules and plan to change Iraq’s liberal Personal Status Law. The...
