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WORLD: Tai Ji Men & UN Day on the Elimination of Violence against Women

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...

INDONESIA: Hijab rules in state schools are raising rights concerns

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...

INDONESIA: Indonesian police arrest Christian in forced marriage case

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...

FRANCE seeks to establish age of consent at 15 for sexual relations

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...

PAKISTAN: Virginity tests for female rape survivors outlawed by Pakistani court

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...
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