by admin_HRWF | Feb 15, 2021 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
France’s government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse, amid growing public pressure and a wave of online testimonies about rape and other sexual violence by parents and authority figures. By...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 25, 2021 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
A report by the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (2020) See https://bit.ly/2M9pVHr Table of contents Glossary Foreword Executive Summary Key Findings Recommendations Overview of the Research Defining Conflict-Related Sexual Slavery Links Between...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 30, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Players demand end to sexual abuse in sport. HRW (24.11.2020) – https://bit.ly/37kfGqH – Football’s lifetime ban for Haitian soccer federation president Yves Jean-Bart is an important step forward to protect children and young women athletes in...
by admin_HRWF | Aug 31, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Women’s rights campaigners say new law will help ensure girls have equal rights to an education. By Farai Shawn Matiashe Thomson Reuters Foundation (25.08.2020) – https://tmsnrt.rs/3hNgYhN – Zimbabwe has made it illegal for schools to expel pupils...
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...
