by HRWF | Jan 6, 2021 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president for women and family affairs, dedicated the move to ‘worthy and patient Iranian women’ in a tweet. By Maziar Motamedi Al Jazeera (04.01.2021) – https://bit.ly/35dPcqk – The government of Iran’s President...
by HRWF | Sep 14, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
One of two suspects arrested amid demonstrations over handling of probe into attack on mother travelling with children. Al Jazeera (13.09.2020) – https://bit.ly/3kfZNGp – Pakistani police say they have arrested one of two suspects in the rape of a...
by 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 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 HRWF | Aug 24, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Abdi Sheikh Reuters (20.08.2020) – https://reut.rs/34sZ9ko – Hafsa was married off at 13 by her father to a man who paid $100. She and her mother say she was beaten and raped for two years before they convinced him to divorce her. “The man...
