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...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Taliban unmoved by UN call to lift bans on Afghan women & girls By Ayaz Gul VOA (22.06.2023) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rejected a fresh call Thursday from the United Nations to remove what it says are “punishing restrictions” on the impoverished...
