by admin_HRWF | Dec 14, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Optimistic growth forecasts threatened as men’s games are given priority. By John Duerden Nikkei Asia (10.12.2020) – https://s.nikkei.com/382tjLx – This year started promisingly for women’s sport in the Asia-Pacific. On March 8,...
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 | Sep 29, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Reuters (24.09.2020) – https://reut.rs/3kS9afG – In Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, rights activist Maryam Durani has found a fresh outlet for her decades of advocacy – a new fitness centre for women. Durani, 36, is a fierce...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 14, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Vasco Cotovio CNN (12.01.2020) – https://cnn.it/2Re9pVt – Iran’s sole female Olympic medalist, Kimia Alizadeh, has announced that she’s permanently left her country for Europe. “Let me start with a greeting, a farewell or...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 6, 2019 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
Transgender athletes at all levels of sport are winning medals, spurring a contentious debate over the future of gendered competition. By Christie Aschwanden WIRED (29.10.2019) – https://bit.ly/34DQdWf – Transgender athletes are having a...
