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...
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...
