Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Female genital mutilation: ‘Women circumcise little girls for men’ By Assiya HAMZA France 24 (06.02.2023) – In France, nearly 125,000 women have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). The fight against this practice has led to the creation of...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers order NGOs to prevent women from working at their jobs as protests spread Radio Free Europe (24.12.2022) – https://bit.ly/3HYo17n – In the latest assault on women’s rights, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ordered all...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Taliban ban Afghan women from university education Higher education ministry issues indefinite order three months after thousands sat entrance exams By Hikmat Noori The Guardian (20.12.2022) – https://bit.ly/3jwm0F2 – Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
IRAN removed from UN women’s rights body over protest crackdown The United Nations on Wednesday voted to remove Iran from a women’s rights body over Tehran’s brutal crackdown of women-led protests. France 24 (14.12.2022) – Following a campaign...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Iranians asking whether to abolish or continue headscarf requirement Middle East Monitor (18.11.2022) – https://bit.ly/3GuI5NU – Iran – Following the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini this September, the controversy over Iran’s headscarf...