(Image credit: Nathan Dumlao, Unsplash) By Kiersten Marek June 7, 2021 - Imagine a world where financial actors actively sought out and paid gender experts to advise them on lending criteria and the terms attached to stimulus loans. Imagine gender justice organizations weighing in on reports produced by banks and consulting firms, . Learn More
Iran – Women Share Stories Of Sexual Abuse In Iranian Prisons
Female prison guards inside Tehran's notorious Evin prison. (file photo) By Golnaz Esfandiari Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi says Iranian prison authorities use sexual abuse and harassment systematically to break the will of incarcerated women -- and that she herself has been a victim. Fear, shame, and a culture of avoidance may keep . Learn More
China – Facing a Demographic Crisis, to Allow Three Children Per Family
Students paint on a wall ahead of the Children's Day in Hefei, in China's eastern Anhui province. (AFP/Getty Images) By Lily Kuo - May 31, 2021 China on Monday said it would allow all married couples to have three children, up from the limit of two, as it further loosened decades of population controls that have left the country in a . Learn More
The Patriarchal “Non-State Torture War” Against Women & Girls
By Jeanne Sarson, co-founder along with Linda MacDonald of Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST) This blog exposes the never before exposure of the extensive global reality of the many forms of non-State torture victimizations that are being perpetrated against women and girls--women and girls being a collective group deemed as unequal in . Learn More
Muslim Women Are Using Sharia to Push for Gender Equality
Muslim women in India protesting against the use of Sharia as a tool for oppression. Anjay Purkait/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Sharia is often portrayed as barbaric and particularly regressive in terms of women’s rights. Citing Sharia, lawmakers in some Muslim-majority countries have punished theft with amputation, and sex . Learn More
Afghanistan – Women Should Be the Centerpiece of the Peace Process
Afghan women listen to speeches during the final campaign rally for Abdullah Abdullah in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, on September 25, 2019. PAULA BRONSTEIN/GETTY IMAGES By Roya Rahmani Afghanistan has been seeking peace for decades. Perhaps it is time to embrace the fresh perspective that women can bring. Afghans have already seen the benefit of having . Learn More
The Hidden Pressures on Mothers of Responsibilities Overload
(Image credit: Getty Images) By Melissa Hogenboom18th May 2021 When it comes to household responsibilities, women perform far more cognitive and emotional labour than men. Why is this, and is there anything we can do about it? Organising a playdate, or booking the kids’ medical check-ups. Working out how to hide vegetables in their evening . Learn More
COVID Sets Back Gender Parity by a Generation
The United Arab Emirates, along with Togo, Serbia, Lithuania and Timor-Leste, are at the top of the list for making the most progress in narrowing the gender gap, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum [File: Christopher Pike/Reuters] By Radmilla Suleymanova 30 Mar 2021 - The coronavirus pandemic has widened the gender gap by a . Learn More
International Women’s Day for Peace & Disarmament – May 24
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate and endorser of the Women's Appeal, holding the nuclear abolition flame outside a Nobel Peace Summit meeting. Photo credit: Alyn Ware Monday May 24, 2021 Today, in conjunction with the International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, the World Future Council (WFC) and Parliamentarians for Nuclear . Learn More
China – Feminists protest against wave of online abuse with ‘internet violence museum’
Chinese rights activists blanketed a hill with hundreds of abusive messages sent to women to highlight sexist trolling on social media. Photograph: @FeministChina By Helen Davidson in Taipei 13 May 2021 – Late last month, an “unknown hill in the Chinese desert” was blanketed in scores of large red and white banners, flapping vitriol in the . Learn More
EU – Protecting the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls
Protecting the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls is a new strategic objective for the Council of Europe’s work to promote gender equality and women’s rights under the Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2023 Many migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls have been exposed to various forms of gender-based violence, . Learn More
STEMMing the Tide of Women’s Career Progress
By: Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers Women and girls weren’t doing very well in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine) before the Covid 19 pandemic. Despite accounting for over half of the college-educated workforce, women in the United States made up only 29% of those employed in science and engineering occupations in . Learn More
Lebanon – Underage Marriages Increase in during the Pandemic
Children dressed as brides take part in a Beirut protest against underage marriage May 15, 2021 - Aid groups in Lebanon say the country's ongoing economic crisis, compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, is forcing more children into underage marriages. "From what we have been able to observe in the field and from what our local partners are . Learn More
Zoom Fatigue Is Worse for Women
New study suggests Zoom fatigue impacts women more than men. By Kim Elsesser April 19. 2021 - Since the pandemic started, employees and students alike are complaining of Zoom fatigue, that exhausted feeling after a day of online meetings or classes. However, a new study has found that Zoom fatigue may not impact everyone in the same way, and . Learn More
Kyrgyzstan – Four Men Face Trial in Deadly Bride-Snatching Case
Protesters hold up pictures of Aizada Kanatbekova at a demonstration in Bishkek after her death. BISHKEK -- Four men will face trial in Kyrgyzstan for their role in a deadly bride-snatching case that shocked the Central Asian country in April. The lawyer for Aizada Kanatbekova's family, Nurbek Toktakunov, told RFE/RL on May 4 that an . Learn More
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