by HRWF | Nov 30, 2022 | Human Rights in the World
Victims of rape, castration found during exhumation in liberated Izyum Russian occupying forces tortured a minor girl and a boy and brutally killed them in Izyum, Kharkiv Region, according to the results of an exhumation carried out by Ukrainian law- enforcement...
by HRWF | Nov 19, 2022 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
New stricter rape law to be reviewed Recent rulings led to reduce some jail sentences; judges accused of ‘misapplying the law’ By Graham Keeley Euronews (16.11.2022) – https://bit.ly/3Vca60E – Spain is to review a new law to give victims of...
by HRWF | Oct 26, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Femicide Observatory records 86 killings of women and girls in September, the highest monthly total since 2017. By Megan Janetsky Al Jazeera (20.10.2020) – https://bit.ly/34t1USc – Letica Estacio hoped the wave of gender-based violence that...
by HRWF | Oct 13, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Move comes after nationwide demonstrations sparked by series of sexual assaults. By Hannah Ellis-Petersen The Guardian (12.10.2020) – https://bit.ly/2H0T84M – Bangladesh will introduce the death penalty for rape cases, after several...
by HRWF | Sep 29, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
The 19-year-old victim was gang raped by four men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras town, about 100km from New Delhi. Al Jazeera (29.09.2020) – https://bit.ly/34cR2GZ – A woman died in hospital in the Indian capital, New Delhi, on Tuesday, weeks after...