by admin_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 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...
by admin_HRWF | Aug 25, 2020 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
In Mexico, LGBT+ people often are subjected to conversion therapy aimed at trying to change their sexual orientation or gender identity, but now lawmakers want it to stop. By Oscar Lopez Thomson Reuters Foundation (17.08.2020) –...
by admin_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...
