"It's Not Normal!" Sexual Exploitation, Harassment, and Abuse in Secondary Schools in Senegal In Senegal, girls face high levels of sexual and gender-based violence, including sexual exploitation, harassment and abuse, by teachers and other school officials. Unfortunately, these girls have few options for justice. Such cases are not often . Learn More
Older Women Spend Twice as Much Time on Unpaid Work as Do Older Men – Research in 31 Countries
A Nepalese woman waits to refill her cooking gas cylinders, in Kathmandu. The report’s authors are urging governments to refocus social protection policies to support older women. Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA By Karen McVeigh November 16, 2018 - Older women spend twice as much time as older men on unpaid work, research has found. A . Learn More
Orphan Trafficking – Analysis: Modern Slavery Act in Australia
Image by Chris Devers BY KATHRYN (KATE) E. VAN DOORE AND REBECCA NHEP July 13, 2018 - Recent estimates suggest that there are over 40 million victims of modern slavery in the world today. Modern Slavery is an umbrella term encompassing the offences of human trafficking, slavery, debt bondage, forced labour and other slavery-like practices. . Learn More
The Anti-Semitism that Led to the “Night of Broken Glass” in Germany, Has Not Gone Away
Parts of the Holocaust memorial project “Stolpersteine” (stumbling blocks) in Berlin. By Jill Petzinger in Berlin - November 9, 2018 Eighty years ago November 9, the Nazis instigated a horrific two-day mob attack against Germany’s Jews, smashing and looting thousands of Jewish homes and businesses and destroying more than 1,000 synagogues. . Learn More
USA – The Year of the Woman in USA Midterm Elections
By Eli Watkins, CNN - November 7, 2018 Washington (CNN) - From a pair of Native American women to a Somali refugee to the first openly gay man elected governor, the 2018 midterm elections brought a series of history-making votes that marked major accomplishments for women and LGBT candidates. Here's a rundown of the history made Tuesday night . Learn More
Gender Violence: A Major Driver of the Central American “Caravan”
Photo of woman and child in Honduras by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Mike Hammond UN Agencies Back Asylum Rights of Central American Migrants in Exodus to US By Cecilia Menjívar and Shannon Drysdale Walsh | November 5, 2018 “If you have any dignity, you will get out of here” – The Salvadoran police telling Ms. A.B. that she should leave her . Learn More
No Women, No Progress, Development Experts Warn
The fingers of malnourished one-year-old Alassa Galisou are pressed against the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding clinic in the town of Tahoua in northwestern Niger. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly Inequality in development presents a "grave challenge to progress" and could fuel extremism. By Emma Batha LONDON, Sept 14, . Learn More
India – Women Are Voting More Than Ever. Will They Change Indian Society?
(c) Getty Images By Milan Vaishnav November 08, 2018 - Women in India are casting their ballots more frequently, and in greater numbers. Today, women’s turnout has actually been higher than that of men in two-thirds of India’s state elections. This is a remarkable turn of events in a deeply patriarchal, conservative society. Why is this so . Learn More
Pakistan – Supreme Court Acquits Asia Bibi on Alleged Blasphemy Case – Orders Immediate Release from Prison
AFP, October 31, 2018 The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted Asia Bibi, a Christian woman condemned to death on blasphemy charges, after accepting her appeal against her sentence. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel had reserved its . Learn More
Researching Women’s Internet Access & Use – Toolkit
GSM Association, October 2018 In an increasingly connected world, women are being left behind. Although internet access is expanding, there is a persistent digital gender gap. Gender-disaggregated data on internet access and use is critical to measuring and understanding this gap and informing policy and actions to address it. However, this data . Learn More
Anti-Trafficking Review: Issue on Irregular Migrants, Refugees, Trafficked Persons
Anti-Trafficking Review October 31, 2018 International migration has become a ‘mega trend’ of our times, with more than 260 million migrants living outside their country of origin in 2017. Some move in search of better livelihood opportunities, others flee conflict, environmental degradation or natural disasters, and yet others are deceived or . Learn More
North Korea – Rampant Sexual Violence Against Women by Officials
Human Rights Watch, October 31, 2018 Impunity for Assault and Rape by Men in Power Oh Jung Hee is a former trader in her forties from Ryanggang province. She sold clothes to market stalls in Hyesan city and was involved in the distribution of textiles in her province. She said that up until she left the country in 2014, guards would regularly . Learn More
India – Religious Hardliners Defy the Court & Prevent Women from Entering Hindu Temple
Women hold placards as they attend a protest rally called by various Hindu organisations against the lifting of ban by Supreme Court that allowed entry of women of menstruating age to the Sabarimala temple, in New Delhi, India, Image: REUTERS/Stringer . Learn More
Turkey & Montenegro – Reports by Council of Europe GREVIO Committee Monitoring the Istanbul EU Convention on VAW
October 15, 2018 - The Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) published its evaluation reports on Montenegro and Turkey. . Learn More
Iran – Nomads Resist Urbanization; But Drought, Education, & Easier Life Draw Many to Cities – Gender
In Khuzestan Province, Masoumeh Ahmadi, 14, holds her mother’s shotgun. After a woman marries, she receives a firearm—with the approval of her husband and her father. Many women get one as a gift from their husbands after giving birth to their first son. The peaks of the Zagros mountain range are still dusted with snow. Long, twisting roads draw . Learn More
