Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Taliban ‘ban’ contraceptives for women-‘haram’ in sharia Women in Afghanistan have said that midwives have refused to provide contraceptives where they previously would have By Umang Sharma First Post (10.02.2023) – The Taliban have allegedly stopped...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Polish parliament rejects abortion bill A bill to legalise abortion has been rejected by right-wing MPs, making Poland one of the few European countries with very strict abortion laws. By Bartosz Sieniawski Euractiv (24.06.2022) – https://bit.ly/3NoatRw –...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Patriarch Kirill proposes stripping private clinics of right to receive female patients for abortions Interfax Religion (17.05.2022) – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has come up with an initiative to prohibit private clinics from performing the...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Haroon Janjua WUNRN (04.02.2021) – https://bit.ly/3jwOSZQ – 6 January 2021, a Pakistani court has outlawed the practice of subjecting female rape survivors to a virginity test in an unprecedented ruling. Lahore’s high court ruled on Monday...
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Euronews with AFP, AP (28.01.2021) – https://bit.ly/39tFrqU – New anti-government protests broke out in Polish cities on Wednesday, shortly after the country’s top court confirmed its highly divisive ruling that will further tighten the predominantly...
