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...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
AFGHANISTAN: World leaders choose closer Taliban ties, betray Afghan women The world had a chance in Doha to stand up to the Taliban, but its failure to do so left Afghanistan’s rulers stronger than ever By Chris Fitzgerald SCMP (04.07.2024) – The world...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
EIGE (01.01.2024) – Ten years ago, EIGE introduced the Gender Equality Index as a marker for the status quo of gender equality in the EU. Each edition came with more or less the same conclusion: progress is at a snail’s pace. However, in this year’s edition we...
