by admin_HRWF | Feb 23, 2021 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Nazia Parveen and Aamna Mohdin WUNRN (18.02.2021) – https://bit.ly/2ZHWzDu – Safeguarding policies introduced to protect women and girls against female genital mutilation (FGM) are instead eroding trust and alienating African diaspora...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 18, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
UK legislator Baroness Helena Kennedy demands world leaders shun G20 meeting in Riyadh over jailed women activists. Al Jazeera (12.11.2020) – https://bit.ly/3f8jaQx – A report released by a member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords has called on...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 17, 2020 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
Trans man Freddy McConnell’s bid to be named the father rather than the mother on his child’s birth certificate was rejected by Britain’s Supreme Court. By Rachel Savage Thomson Reuters Foundation (16.11.2020) –...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 7, 2020 | Human Rights in the World
Court of appeal dismisses Home Office’s case against lesbian asylum seeker known as PN. By Diane Taylor The Guardian (28.09.2020) – https://bit.ly/3deq8CE – The Home Office has lost a case in the court of appeal against a 27-year-old lesbian...
by admin_HRWF | Sep 30, 2020 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
Britain’s government has dropped plans to let transgender people change gender legally without a medical diagnosis, after two years of heated debate. By Rachel Savage Thomson Reuters Foundation (22.09.2020) – https://bit.ly/3iburiQ –...