Women's Rights & Gender Equality
UK: Supreme Court backs ‘biological’ definition of woman BBC (15.04.2025) – Judges at the UK Supreme Court have unanimously ruled that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law. It marks the culmination of a long-running legal battle...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
DRC: Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city By Joost Bastmeijer, Saskia Houttuin and Mark Townsend The Guardian...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Russia : Religious issues and persecution: Bimonthly Digest January 16-31 31.01.2025 – In the Orenburg region, the court liquidated the church of Evangelical Christians Sova – On January 29, 2025, it became known that the Orenburg Regional Court...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
AFGHANISTAN: Taliban assault on women’s rights reaches a new level The Islamist fundamentalists in power are demanding that NGOs operating in the country get rid of their female staff. They are also ordering kitchen windows to be blocked to conceal their female...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
BELARUS: Gender inequality, domestic and state violence, multi-faceted repression By Olga Karach, director of Nash Dom, for Human Rights Without Frontiers Nash Dom (04.12.2024) – The situation for women in Belarus is dire, and it cannot be understood without...
