Women's Rights and Gender Equality

Women and girls around the world experience discrimination and ill-treatment in both their personal and public lives at an alarming rate. Sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) can take many forms including but not limited to intimate partner violence, forced marriage, and sex trafficking, and women face challenges in the workplace and education as well as in exercising their reproductive rights. The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women is an international bill protecting the rights of women worldwide, and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights forbids sex-based discrimination in the EU. However, some countries have legal frameworks that actively aid sex-based discrimination or allow SGBV to occur with impunity. Even in countries with legal protections, many challenges remain in the implementation of these laws and in facilitating true empowerment.

HRWF advocates for the rights of all women and girls to live free from persecution and violence, and promotes the equality of men and women within all spheres of society.

AFGHANISTAN: Taliban ‘ban’ contraceptives for women-‘haram’ in sharia

Taliban ‘ban’ contraceptives for women-‘haram’ in sharia Women in Afghanistan have said that midwives have refused to provide contraceptives where they previously would have By Umang Sharma    First Post (10.02.2023) - The Taliban have allegedly stopped selling...

IRAN: One girl dead, 400 schoolgirls poisoned, amidst attacks on schools

One girl dead, 400 schoolgirls poisoned, amidst attacks on schools On UN Women’s Right Day, Human Rights Without Frontiers urges the UN to send an investigation mission. Unfettered acts of terror against school girls raise questions of government complicity    ...

WORLD: Analysis of feminists’ prejudice against religious minority women

Analysis of feminists’ prejudice against religious minority women By Mariz Tadros   IPS UN Bureau (17.02.2023) - Since researching the experiences of gender discrimination against women in poverty who belong to religious minorities, many fellow feminists have turned...

FRANCE: Female genital mutilation – ‘Women circumcise little girls for men’

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 psychological and...

AFGHANISTAN’s Taliban rulers order NGOs to prevent women from working

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 domestic and...

AFGHANISTAN: Taliban ban Afghan women from university education

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 have ordered...

IRAN removed from UN women’s rights body over protest crackdown

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 led by the United...

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

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...

IRAN: Iranians asking whether to abolish or keep headscarf

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 requirement resurfaced,...

SPAIN: New stricter rape law to be reviewed after rulings reducing jail sentences

New stricter rape law to be reviewed Recent rulings led to reduce some jail sentences; judges accused of ‘misapplying the law’   By Graham Keeley   Euronews (16.11.2022) - https://bit.ly/3Vca60E - Spain is to review a new law to give victims of sexual...

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