Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Gambia moves toward overturning landmark ban on female genital cutting Lawmakers in the West African country voted to advance a bill repealing a 2015 ban. If it passes the final round of voting, Gambia will become the first nation to roll back protections against the...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
UK: Britain, Equality and the EU: A ‘Progress Report’ after the Brexit By Cecilia Jastrzembska HRWF (30.01.2024) – On 26 January, the Young European Movement UK and European Parliamentary Liaison Office organized in London a roundtable discussion on the...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
EIGE (01.01.2024) – Ten years ago, EIGE introduced the Gender Equality Index as a marker for the status quo of gender equality in the EU. Each edition came with more or less the same conclusion: progress is at a snail’s pace. However, in this year’s edition we...
Human Rights in the World, Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Taliban arrest women for ‘bad hijab’ in first crackdown since return in power A Taliban spokesman says authorities have arrested women in the Afghan capital Kabul for wearing “bad hijab.” ABC News (04.01.2023) – The Taliban have arrested women in the Afghan...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Sakharov Prize and Nobel Peace Prize for 2 Iranian Women Mahsa Amini Protest (Wikimedia) HRWF (12.12.2023) – Two Iranian women, Mahsa Amini and Narges Mohammadi, are being honored this year because they fight for women’s rights in their country, the one for the...