Women's Rights & Gender Equality
CHINA: North Korean women as victims of Chinese sexual abuse By Sloane Thor, Edited by Diletta De Luca HRNK (18.09.2025) – In recent years, dozens and hundreds of North Koreans have escaped their homeland and made the perilous passage across the Tumen River into...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
SOLOMON ISLANDS review to end child marriage, raise minimum age to 18 Christian Daily International (15.08.2025) – The Solomon Islands Government has begun reviewing its child-marriage law, with plans to consider raising the legal age to 18 — a move welcomed by...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Police arrest 11 suspects over ‘honor killing’ of newlywed couple in Pakistan By Abdul Sattar AP News (21.07.2025) – Police in southwestern Pakistan arrested 11 suspects after a video went viral, showing a young couple fatally shot for marrying without their...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
UNITED NATIONS: Current critiques of the WHO policy on female genital mutilation By Brian D Earp & Sara Johnsdotter Source: National Library of Medicine/ USA HRWF (20.06.2025) – Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) or Female Genital Cutting (FGC). How should this...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
IRAQ: Iraq’s legal crisis through the lens of its Personal Status Law (PSL) By Anne Harper (*) ICLRS (22.05.2025) – On 21 January 2025, Iraq’s legislature adopted a law that will highly likely subject Iraqi women and girls to human rights violations, based...
