World Refugee Day 2023 20 June 2023 - Each year on 20 June, the world celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution. The 2023 theme of World Refugee Day is “Hope Away From Home.” What is World Refugee Day? World Refugee Day is an . Learn More
Sudan – Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid Worsen Amid Sudan’s Raging Combat
Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid Worsen Amid Sudan’s Raging Combat By Lisa Schein JUNE 10, 2023 - GENEVA — Whether Sudan’s warring parties stick to the latest U.S.-Saudi Arabian-brokered cease-fire agreement remains an open question. What is not in doubt is that Saturday’s 24-hour truce has capped another murderous week of intense fighting in . Learn More
India – Struggle to Eradicate an Old Scourge: Witch Hunting
India - Struggle to Eradicate an Old Scourge: Witch Hunting Once driven largely by superstition, the brutal practice is now often simply a tool to oppress women, in many cases violently. By Suhasini Raj - Reporting from Tiruldih and Raidih in the state of Jharkhand in India May 13, 2023 - They ushered the young woman into their home and . Learn More
World Elder Abuse Day – June 15 – Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Older Age
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day - 15 June Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Older Age Policy, Law and Evidence-based Responses In the context of last year’s commemoration of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD), the World Health Organization in partnership with Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), Office of the United . Learn More
Peasant Woman Who Feeds the World: Poem + Civil Society Report on the Right to Food Guidelines
WUNRN Direct Link to Full Civil Society Report on the Right to Food Guidelines, INCLUDING POEM (below): http://www.csm4cfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/EN-CSM-LR-2018-compressed.pdf . Learn More
Coded Bias Film – Gender – People Imbed Their Own Biases Into Technology
CODED BIAS - FILM “People imbed their own personal biases into technology.” A film by Shalini Kantayya Film Trailer Segment: CODED BIAS | Trailer | Women Make Movies - YouTube When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies misclassify women and darker-skinned faces, she is compelled to . Learn More
The Women Fighting Fire With Fire
The Frontline talks to women who work on wildfires by setting forests ablaze to reduce wildfire risk in a world shaped by climate change. Lenya Quinn-Davidson grew up with fire. She saw it rip through her backyard in Trinity County, a rural, forested area in northern California. She watched her mother cook meals to bring to firefighters . Learn More
Children Under Attack – Call for Action to Protect Children in War – UNICEF
Children Under Attack Children are coming under attack in conflicts across the world. We can’t accept this as a ‘new normal.’ Around the world, attacks on children continue unabated. The number of countries experiencing violent conflict is the highest it has been in the last 30 years. The result is that more than 30 million children have been . Learn More
Iran – Narges Mohammadi, Women’s & Human Rights Activist – Serving 10 Years in Prison +
IRAN - NARGES MOHAMMADI WOMEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVIST – YEARS IN PRISON – LOSS OF FAMILY, CAREER & FREEDOM By Farnaz Fassihi June 2, 2023 - When Narges Mohammadi was just a little girl, her mother told her to never become political. The price of fighting the system in a country like Iran would be too high. That warning has proved . Learn More
Japan – Demographic Woes Deepen as Birth Rate Hits Record Low
Japan - Demographic Woes Deepen as Birth Rate Hits Record Low By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO, June 2, 2023 (Reuters) - Japan's birth rate declined for the seventh consecutive year in 2022 to a record low, the health ministry said on Friday, underscoring the sense of crisis gripping the country as the population shrinks and ages rapidly. The . Learn More
Strong Is The New Pretty: Girls Empowerment – Video of CSW 67 Panel
WUNRN has received so much interest in this CSW 67 Panel on Girls: Strong Is The New Pretty. We have requests for the PANEL VIDEO and are sharing it with you now.: Girls Empowerment: Strong Is The New Pretty - https://youtu.be/srRJ-B9ounY WUNRN . Learn More
Decades of Hard-Won Gains for Women Are Unraveling Fast. How Can We Stop This?
Decades of Hard-Won Gains for Women Are Unraveling Fast. How Can We Stop This? By Natalie Samarasinghe May 15, 2023 - Nearly a quarter of women and girls cannot escape unwanted sex. Eleven percent are unable to make decisions on contraception. The recent report from the United Nations Population Fund is the latest source of grim statistics . Learn More
World Hunger Day – May 28 – Women & Hunger
WORLD HUNGER DAY – MAY 28 – WOMEN & HUNGER In countries facing conflict, famine and hunger, women and girls often eat last and least. Girls might be attracted or pushed into early marriage, while boys separated from their families during an economic migration might slide into malnutrition if they can't care for themselves. What Is . Learn More
Maldives – Tourist Paradise, But Local Women Outside Home, Face Sexism, Misogyny, Patriarchy, Violence
Maldives - Tourist Paradise, But Local Women Outside Home, Face Sexism, Misogyny, Patriarchy, Violence By Fathimath Uzma Naseem April 5, 2023 - When I walk it is with my head down, handbag clutched to my chest and my keys gripped in my palm as a weapon – always. Always I am on alert in case a man tries to overpower and attack me. The . Learn More
Mexico-US – Challenges of MIGRATION for Women. Families – Freight Train Risks
Thousands of migrants risk death on Mexico’s ‘Beast’ train to border By Isabel Vincent For more than a decade, desperate migrants crossing Mexico on their way to the US border have risked their lives to hop a series of fast-moving freight cars — referred to collectively as La Bestia or “the Beast” — that are so dangerous they are known as . Learn More
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