An artwork in Delhi made to highlight sexual violence after the gang rape of a Dalit woman last year. Photograph: Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto/PA By Sarah Johnson 23 Apr 2021 - Physical vaginal tests are still used to determine whether women and girls have been raped in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, according to a new report. The practice remains . Learn More
Girls’ Performance in Math ‘Starting to Add Up to Boys’, Says UNESCO
© UNICEF/Mithila Jariwala - A 13-year-old girl solves a maths sum at a school in Gujarat, India. 27 April 2022 - The UN published promising news in the global fight for gender equality and opportunity on Wednesday, showing that when it comes to mathematics, girls are now performing as strongly as boys in the classroom – although there are plenty . Learn More
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Syria – Women in “Widow Camps” Face Chronic Violence & Sexual Abuse: Report
Tens of thousands of single women, often widowed, live in camps in northwest Syria with little access to services [AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty] The New Arab Staff April 11, 2022 - Syrian women living in so-called "widow camps" in northwest Syria face chronic violence, and high needs and are sometimes pushed into "survival sex", a new report by . Learn More
Women as Weapons of War: A Spectrum of Sexual Violence in Ukraine & Beyond
By Taina Bien-Aimé, Executive Director of CATW, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women April 25, 2022 - In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking use of rape as a weapon of war. Sexual . Learn More
Colombia – Town’s Femicides Spike Is Linked to Armed Groups
This woman now lives in Medellín, where she fled after threats in her hometown. She struggles to make ends meet and says she has received no support from the authorities. (Samuel Ritholtz/TNH) By Kiran Stallone - PhD Candidate at University of California, Berkeley studying gender and civilian agency in conflict & Julia Zulver - Academic at the . Learn More
Malawi – Witchcraft Accusations – Women Stripped Naked, Hacked, Attempted Killings
February 10, 2022 - Police in Dedza have arrested 18 people from Mapulosi Village in the area of Traditional Authority Kasumbu in the district for hacking, stripping naked and attempting to kill two women over witchcraft accusations. Dedza is a district in the Central Region of Malawi. All the suspects belong to Nasibeko family who are also . Learn More
Sudan -‘Rape Will Not Stop Us’: In Sudan, Sexual Violence Is a Weapon Against Women’s Resistance
In Sudan, Sexual Violence Is a Weapon Against Women's Resistance By Nadine Talaat In-depth: Women are on the frontlines of Sudan’s popular uprisings demanding civilian rule, but security forces have been using sexual violence as a weapon to deter women’s political participation and defeat the resistance. 30 March 2022 - Since last October, . Learn More
UK – Femicide – The 125 Women Killed by Men Since Sarah Everard & What It Tells Us about Britain Today
The list is myth-shattering, but every death on it is almost unbearable to contemplate. We must remember their names... By Joan Smith 3 March 2022 - Some of their faces are familiar, but dozens more we are seeing for the first time. Their names are barely known, except to families and friends. But two other women and a teenage girl were killed . Learn More
Ukraine – Ukraine – Women on the Front Lines, but Not in the Headlines
A woman wears face paint in the colors of the Ukrainian flag while protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Feb. 24. HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/GETTY IMAGES By Luba Kassova, the author of The Missing Perspectives of Women in News, and Xanthe Scharff, the CEO and co-founder of the Fuller Project. March . Learn More
Afghanistan – Muslim Clerics Call on Taliban to Reopen Girls’ Schools, Say No Legal Justification for Banning Girls
Representative Image (Photo Credit: Reuters) Kabul [Afghanistan], April 8, 2022 (ANI): Religious scholars once again called on the Taliban to reopen all girls’ schools in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and said there was no legal justification for banning girls above sixth grade from going to school. “In light of the guidance of the holy religion of . Learn More
China – Divorce Is Down, But So Are Marriages
A Chinese couple celebrating their wedding, outside the Forbidden City in Beijing.Credit...Kevin Frayer/Getty Images By Alexandra Stevenson 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 March 23, 2022 - HONG KONG — Faced with a soaring divorce rate, the ruling Communist Party in China introduced a rule last year to keep unhappy marriages together by forcing couples to undergo . Learn More
Somalia – All-Female Newsroom Launched to Widen Media’s Scope
Nasrin Mohamed Ibrahim interviewing for Bilan. ‘Men think you should come in, read the news and go home,’ she says of attitudes from male colleagues in the media. Photograph: Bilan By Isabel Choat April 11, 2022 - The first all-women media house in Somalia has been launched, creating a rare opportunity for female journalists in the country to . Learn More
Tigray-Ethiopia – Crimes Against Humanity & VAW in Western Tigray Zone
(Nairobi) – Amhara regional security forces and civilian authorities in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone have committed widespread abuses against Tigrayans since November 2020 that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Ethiopian authorities have severely . Learn More
USA – Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Confirmed as the First Black Female Supreme Court Justice
Jacquelyn Martin, Associated Press. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in for her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee March 21 on Capitol Hill in Washington. April 7, 2022 - WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by . Learn More
Mayan Midwives in Central America Mix Heritage with Western Medicine
Midwife Epifania Elías Gonzales examines Delfina Vicente López inside Vicente’s home on a remote hilltop not far from San Carlos Sija, Guatemala. During her 30-year career, Elías has helped hundreds of women in her predominantly K’iche' speaking Indigenous dialogue. TEXT BY MEGAN JANETSKY - PHOTOGRAPH BY JANET JARMAN MARCH 29, 2022 - NUEVO SAN . Learn More
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