Families return home after visiting an aid distribution point in eastern Aleppo's Al-Shaar neighborhood. Hameed Marouf/UNHCR By Diego Cupolo – 27 April 2017 . Learn More
Kashmir – Female Students in Kashmir Lead Anti-India Riots
Students from female colleges in Indian-administered Kashmir take part in mass protests against Indian soldiers. By Faisal Khan | 27 Apr 2017 Schoolgirls across the valley show their feelings in protest against the high-handedness of Indian police. [Faisal Khan/Al Jazeera] A 17-year-old was reportedly shot dead by security forces on April . Learn More
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: North Korea – Women, Contrasts, Rights, International Law, Time of Change
Photo EMGN.com The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – North Korea - is an exceedingly closed country. We rarely see photos of rural women – Do they know that North Korea signed CEDAW, and thus is accountable to the CEDAW Convention & Committee under international law. Are they aware that their country submitted a report to the CEDAW . Learn More
Women & Chemicals – The Impact of Hazardous Chemicals on Women
In our modern societies, women and men are all continually exposed to hazardous chemicals in their every day lives. But women are often differently exposed due to their (entrenched) gender roles and because of biological susceptibilities and health impacts. In this publication WECF looks at the impacts of highly hazardous pesticides, mercury, and . Learn More
Assessing Women’s Inclusion & Influence on Peace Negotiations – Making Women Count: Not Just Counting Women
Fifteen years after the adoption of the landmark UN Security Council Resolution 1325, women remain significantly underrepresented in peace and transitional processes. A central challenge is the lack of evidence-based knowledge on the precise role and impact of women’s inclusion on peace processes. When women have been included in the past, it was . Learn More
Nepal – Rural Women Still Banished to a Rustic Hut When Having Their Periods & Considered “Impure”
BBC’s Documentary Nepal – Banished For Bleeding explores why getting your period in Nepal is a big deal. Menstruating women face many restrictions . Learn More
The New Economic Model That Could Help End Inequality – Gender
Consider for Greater Gender Equality Kate Raworth - Senior Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University – 28 April 2017 Image: Kate Raworth and Christian Guthier/The Lancet Planetary Health The hole at the Doughnut’s centre reveals the proportion of people worldwide falling short on life’s essentials, . Learn More
EU – Violence Against Women in Europe – Istanbul Convention on Violence Against Women in the EU – 2017 Year to Combat EU VAW
The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence is based on the understanding that violence against women is a form of gender-based violence . Learn More
Indonesia – Female Muslim Clerics Congress Declares Fatwa on Child Marriage
Students walk after prayer during the first day of the holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school in Solo, Indonesia Central Java province. Reuters Photo. . Learn More
MATCH International Women’s Fund
We’re all about homegrown solutions to the issues that women, girls, and trans* people face. We dream of a world where there are more solutions to these barriers than there are barriers. But we don’t have the solutions. . Learn More
Switzerland – Divine Order: Film of Swiss Women’s Fight for the Right to Vote
Political and religious leaders in Switzerland cited the Divine Order as the reason why women still did not have to right to vote as late as 1970. Director Petra Volpe explores this surprising history through the story of Nora, a seemingly unremarkable housewife from a quaint village who must learn to become an unflinching suffragette leader. After . Learn More
South Sudan – Violent Conflict – Imminent Famine – Sexual Abuse – Displaced & Refugee Women
Photo: Reuters Via Al Jazeera. Violence Pushes South Sudan into Famine as Thousands, Especially Women & Children, Flee to Uganda “More than 60 percent of the refugees are children, many arriving with alarming levels of malnutrition… Recent new arrivals report suffering inside South Sudan with intense fighting, kidnappings, rape, fears of . Learn More
Four Wins at CSW 61 – 2017
By Kate Lappin – April 15, 2017 The UN Commission on the Status of Women this year took place in a hostile climate – both inside and outside the UN. Temperatures outside fell below zero and Blizzard Stella shut down the UN for a day. . Learn More
North Korea Agrees to a Visit from a UN Human Rights Expert for the First Time
UN Special Rapporteur Catalina Devandas-Aguilar "My upcoming visit to North Korea represents a key opportunity to learn firsthand about national realities, laws, policies and programs concerning people with disabilities, as well as the challenges and opportunities the government faces in implementing the Convention," said rights expert Catalina . Learn More
Spain – The Jihadist Mobilisation of Women in Spain, 2014-2016
By Carola García-Calvo for Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies – 26 April 2017 This article gives Carola García-Calvo’s intimate portrait of the jihadist mobilization of women in Spain. Based on her analysis, females who heed the radicals’ call exhibit a number of common traits – i.e., They’re typically young and . Learn More
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