Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Tai Ji Men & UN Day on the Elimination of Violence against Women CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, and Human Rights Without Frontiers organized on November 25, 2022, one of their bi-monthly webinars discussing the Tai Ji Men case, with a special...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Hijab rules are raising rights concerns UCA News (05.08.2022) – https://bit.ly/3bEyNSB – A recent case of forcing a student to wear a hijab at a state school has renewed concerns about a “rights violation” in Indonesia, which also targets religious...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Activists say police action is rare in an area where the practice has almost become a tradition By Konradus Epa UCAnews (12.02.2021) – https://bit.ly/3rSrSHI – Police in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province have charged a Christian man...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
France’s government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse, amid growing public pressure and a wave of online testimonies about rape and other sexual violence by parents and authority figures. By...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Haroon Janjua WUNRN (04.02.2021) – https://bit.ly/3jwOSZQ – 6 January 2021, a Pakistani court has outlawed the practice of subjecting female rape survivors to a virginity test in an unprecedented ruling. Lahore’s high court ruled on Monday...
