By CARA ANNA October 5, 2022 - DOLLOW, Somalia (AP) — A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won’t. It hasn’t for a very long time. Mohamed Ahmed Diriye is 60 years old, and he’s completing the grimmest journey of his life. He set off from a seaside city . Learn More
Lebanon – Economic Collapse Prompts Rise in Gender-Based Violence
More women are seeking help, just as it becomes harder to get. By Tessa Fox BEIRUT 0 October 4. 2022 - All through the first eight years of her marriage, Gouri’s husband abused her. But as Lebanon’s massive financial crisis plunged the household into economic distress, the violence got worse. Gouri, 23, who asked that her name be changed . Learn More
Abolishing Militarised Masculinities
Other structures of state violence – such as police, prisons and borders – utilise militarised masculinities to police, guard, enforce, control and kill on behalf of the interests of capital, privilege and power. Capitalism is at the heart of these institutions – the military, the carceral system and border “enforcement” are all meant to protect . Learn More
Senegal – Women Need to Express Their Anger. Silence Is the Friend of Injustice
Against protocol, I was passed over as president of the National Assembly for a man. It is time for female MPs to fight for equal representation By Aminata Touré* 5 October 2022 - Over the past 12 years, Senegalese women have made great strides in politics. In July’s elections, women won 73 parliamentary seats out of a total of 165 – the . Learn More
EU – Women in Europe Need ‘Greater Econo mic Independence’ to Avoid Poverty: UN Special Rapporteur
Women in Europe should be given “greater economic independence” through equal pay, childcare support and the sharing of domestic duties to ensure that they do not fall into poverty, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Olivier De Schutter recently conducted a two-month mission to the European Union, where . Learn More
International Day of Older Persons – 29 September – Challenges & Resilence + WUNRN Older Woman’s Voice Poem
29 September 2022 - Secretary-General António Guterres drew attention on Saturday, the International Day of Older Persons, to the “resilience of the more than one billion older women and men” in a rapidly changing world. “The past years have witnessed dramatic upheavals – and older people often found themselves at the epicenter of crises,” he said . Learn More
Violating International Law, Putin to Sign Russia Annexation of Ukrainian Regions
The annexation marks perhaps the darkest moment in relations between Russia and the West since the Cold War, following a NATO warning Thursday that damage to two Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea was the result of “deliberate, reckless and irresponsible acts of sabotage.” Workers fix a banner reading “Donetsk, Luhansk, . Learn More
South Sudan – Rape Has Become So Common that Women Do Not Report It
South Sudan Rape So Common Women Do Not Report It - UN By Nichola Mandil - BBC News, Juba September 23, 2022 - A United Nations human rights team says incidents of rape have become so common in South Sudan that many women are no longer bothering to report repeated sexual attacks. Rape victims lack access to medical and trauma care, . Learn More
Pay Transparency Can Address the Gender Pay Gap
September 16, 2022 - On the average, women, are paid about 20 per cent less than men, globally. While individual characteristics such as education, working time, occupational segregation, skills and experience, explain part of the gender pay gap, a large part is due to discrimination based on gender. In addition, women have been among the worst . Learn More
After 2 years of Slowing Progress, The Global Community Must Prioritize Gender Equality
By Rebecca Henderson September 12. 2022 - In its 2022 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Report, the UN documents a discouraging picture of gender equality progress around the world. As one of its 17 SDGs, the goal of helping women achieve parity across all facets of societal life has slowed during the past two years. The global community, . Learn More
Girls Worldwide Lag Behind Boys in Mathematics, Undermined By Discrimination & Gender Stereotypes – UNICEF Report
NEW YORK, 14 September 2022 – Girls worldwide are lagging behind boys in mathematics, with sexism and gender stereotypes among the root causes, according to a new report published today by UNICEF. Solving the equation: Helping girls and boys learn mathematics features new data analyses covering more than 100 countries and territories. The report . Learn More
Poet Amanda Gorman Launches UN General Assembly with Emotional Poem: An Ode We Owe
Poet Amanda Gorman Launches UN General Assembly with Emotional Poem: An Ode We Owe In a new poem called “An Ode We Owe,” Amanda Gorman urged action on the climate crisis, hunger and poverty, and gender and racial equity. She read to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday: AN ODE WE OWE How can I ask you to do good, When we’ve barely . Learn More
Sri Lanka – How the Economic Crisis Looks for Women
By Shefali Rafiq COLOMBO – September 13, 2022 - With inflation soaring above 64 percent, Sri Lankans have been reeling for months from an economic crisis that is jeopardising their health, education, and basic living standards, driving many into hunger and poverty. The skyrocketing costs of living have impacted everyone, but some marginalised . Learn More
Kyrgyzstan – Rising Domestic Abuse Figures, & Many Cases Go Unreported
By Farangis Najibullah & Zamira Kozhobaeva September 9, 2022 - BISHKEK -- Nearly 5,000 cases of domestic violence were reported in Kyrgyzstan in the first six months of 2022, according to the Central Asian country’s Interior Ministry, with the overwhelming majority of the victims being women. The number puts the country on track to match . Learn More
Scotland – Right to Free Period Products Becomes Law in Scotland
Scotland has made public health history by making it the law for public settings to provide period products. It is the first country in the world to protect the right to free sanitary products with new legislation that has come into force on Monday. The Period Products Act means councils and education providers have to make the free items . Learn More
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