Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Newsline (16.04.2021) – https://bit.ly/3ejcnog – In an interview with Le Monde, the political scientist Bérengère Marques-Pereira worried about violations of abortion rights in Europe and condemned the “ethical political colonization” of the Catholic...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
After years of unsuccessfully campaigning for an anti-FGM law in Mali, rights groups file complaint at the ECOWAS court By Nita Bhalia Thomson Reuters Foundation (12.04.2021) – https://tmsnrt.rs/32W4j6l – Mali’s failure to outlaw female...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Most of the 28 countries in Africa where FGM is endemic have banned FGM, although enforcement is generally weak By Menna A. Farouk Thomson Reuters Foundation (26.04.2021) – https://tmsnrt.rs/2R3Bl1K – Egypt has toughened penalties for female...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Novinite (16.04.2021) – https://bit.ly/3sOZztL – The so called “Istanbul Convention” once seemed relatively uncontroversial: a 25-page document meant to reduce violence against women across Europe. But a decade later, the initiative, known as...
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...
