Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Beheading of 17-year-old shocks Iran, renews debate about violence against women By Golnaz Esfandiari Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (08.02.2022) – https://bit.ly/3BcFjIs – After Sajjad Heydari beheaded his 17-year-old wife, Mona Heydari, he...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Indonesian woman flogged 100 times for adultery, partner gets 15 Channel News Asia (13.01.2022) – https://bit.ly/3tlEY4i – An Indonesian woman was flogged 100 times on Thursday (Jan 13) in conservative Aceh province for adultery while her male partner, who...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
France 24 (05.05.2021) – https://bit.ly/3h3wubX – A 31-year-old French mother of three was burned alive by her husband, who chased her down the street and shot her in the legs before dousing her in a flammable liquid and setting her alight, police said...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
The Herat Department of Women’s Affairs on Wednesday said that Taliban fighters publicly lashed a woman from Oba district over reports that she had an affair with a man. Tolo News (14.04.2021) – https://bit.ly/2Qq7tge – The video footage, which was...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Aník Gevers, Elizabeth Dartnall, Alessandra Guedes, and Claudia García-Moreno UNICEF (07.04.2021) – https://bit.ly/3txkzqf – There is growing global recognition of the intersections between violence against women and violence against children....