by admin_HRWF | Aug 31, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Golnaz Esfandiari RFE/RL (25.08.2020) – https://bit.ly/32EJNGV – For 14 years, former Iranian journalist Sara Omatali kept quiet about the time she says a prominent painter sexually assaulted her. Last week, the U.S.-based educator broke...
by admin_HRWF | Apr 24, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Measure on sexual violence in conflict passes after Trump administration threatened to veto document over references to reproductive health By Liz Ford The Guardian (23.04.2019) – https://bit.ly/2VY7HbW- The UN has backed a resolution on combatting rape...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 8, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
The court’s decision could pave the way for a law that criminalizes marital rape in Morocco. Morocco World News (29.12.2018) -https://bit.ly/2H1KNx6- The Tangier Court of Appeals has sentenced a husband to two years in jail for raping his wife. The court also...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 14, 2018 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Euan McKirdy and Jake Kwon CNN (1.11.2018) – https://cnn.it/2PxVSJl- Harrowing accounts of widespread sexual abuse allegedly carried out by North Korean officials against ordinary women have been laid out in a new report, that details evidence of a...
by admin_HRWF | Sep 12, 2018 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Sex outside of marriage in Mauritania is officially punishable by flogging, jail time, or in cases of adultery, death by stoning By Nellie Peyton Thomson Reuters Foundation (05.09.2018) – https://tmsnrt.rs/2x4Jh68- Women raped in Mauritania are...
