Women demonstrate in Lausanne ahead of a nationwide strike in Switzerland – Getty Image By Imogen Foulkes BBC News, Geneva Women across Switzerland have begun a day of demonstrations against what they say is the country's unacceptably slow pace to equality. June 14, 2019 - Friday's protest comes 28 years after similar action saw half a million . Learn More
Nigeria – Our Girls Need You!
Photo: Chika Oduah/VOA - The Dapchi students went back to school after they were kidnapped (file photo). By Dr. Eleanor Nwadinobi* 12 June, 2019 - Five years ago, in April 2014, the world gasped in horror at the news that Boko Haram insurgents had swarmed out of the Sambisa Forest in northeastern Nigeria's Borno State to kidnap some 200 girls in . Learn More
ANNE FRANK’S DIARY READING HONORED HER 90TH BIRTHDAY IN VENICE’S GHETTO
Anne Frank in 1940. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Ninety people, as many as the years she would have celebrated, took turns reading the entire Italian translation over several hours. June 12, 2019 - Had the Holocaust never happened, Anne Frank could have turned 90 on June 12. To honor the occasion, a marathon reading of her well-known diary . Learn More
Sudan – Doctors Say Dozens Raped During Sit-In Attack
Demonstrators block a main road in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, during a general strike. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Hospitals in Khartoum record more than 70 cases of rape in aftermath of attack on protest. Many rapes also were not reported. Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Khartoum & Jason Burke June 11, 2019 - Doctors believe . Learn More
Iran – Launch of 2,000 New Morality Police Units in Response to Women’s Hijab Protests
Young Iranian women in Tehran CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES By Ahmed Vahdat - 7 June 2019 Iran has introduced 2,000 new morality police units in reaction to what officials call an “increasing defiance” of the compulsory wearing of hijabs. The units, called “resistance groups for verbal and practical response to bad-hijabi women”, were launched recently . Learn More
ALGERIA – RURAL POOR WOMEN, ESPECIALLY WIDOWS, TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR OWN LIVES & EMPOWER OTHERS
Houria Belouahri (third from the right) after a meeting with women from a cooperative created in the Bordj Bou Arreridj Province, Algeria. Photo courtesy of El Ghaith Association In remote and rural Algerian communities, poverty among women is high. For vulnerable groups, such as widows, it’s even higher. A project funded by UN Women Fund for . Learn More
UK – Domestic Abuse Victims More Likely to Suffer Mental Illness – Study
Women who had been to their GP about mental health problems were also three times more likely to report domestic abuse at a later date. Photograph: Antonio Guillem Fernandez/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Stock Photo Sarah Boseley - Health Editor June 7, 2019 - Women who have been abused by a partner are three times more likely to suffer depression, . Learn More
Bangladesh – Girl Age 19 Who Reported School Sexual Harassment, Was Burned to Death
Nusrat was doused with kerosene and set on fire on a rooftop. Getty Photo By Mir Sabbir, BBC Bengali 29 May 2019 - Sixteen people have been charged in Bangladesh over the shocking murder of a teenager who was burned to death after reporting sexual harassment. Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was doused with kerosene and set on fire on the roof of her . Learn More
Cambodia – Surrogate Mothers Risk Criminal Trafficking Charges/Prison with New Law
More than 30 Cambodian women paid to carry babies for clients have been released on bail after agreeing to keep the children. — Reuters picture By Matt Blomberg Dozens of surrogates have been charged under human trafficking laws in the Southeast Asian nation and face up to 20 years in prison PHNOM PENH, May 17, 2019 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) . Learn More
Education, Science, & Technology for Empowering Women – UN HRC 41 Panel (06/26/2019)
South-North Korea Women for Peace, Family, Rights & Development – HRC 41 Panel (06/28/2019)
Human Right to Peace Expert Meeting – UN Human Rights Council Session 41 (06/26/2019)
China Abandoned Baby Girls & Elderly Widows – UN Commission on the Status of Women Session (06/25/2019)
PAKISTAN – CALL FOR PASHTUN TRIBAL REGION TO CHANGE STRICT GENDER SEGREGATION IN SCHOOLS, IN LIFE
Photo Flickr - Adeel Anwer 27th February 2019 - By Gulla Afridi – Voice of a Remote Region of Pakistan Pashtun culture insists upon a strict gender regime, separating women from men. Women are not permitted to compete with men, or even to speak with them. When women have to go out of their homes, for instance to the market, they feel hesitant . Learn More
Paraguay – Girls & Boys March to Protest Sexual Abuse, Rapes
Banners read "Don't be indifferent, children are victims of abuses and the State would not do anything." | Photo: EFE 2 June 2019 - Denisse Herrera Hundreds of children and teenagers took to the streets of the Paraguayan capital Asuncion on Sunday, to protest against the impunity surrounding cases of sexual abuse and rapes in the . Learn More
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