Minimum Age for Legal Marriage Around the World - Girls WUNRN welcomes updated information on legal marriage minimum ages for girls. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/the-lowest-age-you-can-legally-get-married-around-the-world-10415517.html Child marriage is still widespread in India despite laws raising the minimum age to 18 for . Learn More
Drought & Gender – India – Drought Hurts Low-Caste Dalit Women More – Hunger, Child Marriage, Prostitution
DROUGHT & GENDER - INDIA – DROUGHT HURTS LOW-CASTE DALIT WOMEN MORE – HUNGER, CHILD MARRIAGE, PROSTITUTION http://news.trust.org/item/20160523133537-m9pde/ "Women are the most vulnerable during drought because it is their duty to fetch water and provide food for the family" Rina Chandran A resident fetches water from a well outside . Learn More
What ISIS Women Want – Alternative Analysis
What ISIS Women Want – Alternative Analysis Foreign Policy - http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/17/what-isis-women-want-gendered-jihad/ Western women who join the Islamic State aren’t victims who've been groomed or seduced by men. They’re committed jihadi’s in their own right. BY SIMON COTTEE - MAY 17, 2016 - Simon Cottee is a senior . Learn More
Afghanistan – For Afghan Women: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back – Analysis
AFGHANISTAN – FOR AFGHAN WOMEN: ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK - ANALYSIS http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/13/for-afghan-women-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/ Website Link Includes Video. As the West packs up and heads home, women in Afghanistan are struggling for rights. Photo:Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images BY . Learn More
Argentina – Grandmothers of the Disappeared- UN Program Helps Reunite with Grandchildren
Argentina – Grandmothers of the Disappeared – UN Program Helps Reunite with Grandchildren http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/RecoveredidentityinArgentina.aspx Before he was even born, Guillermo’s parents were forcibly disappeared during Argentina’s military dictatorship, grim facts he was unaware of during his childhood and . Learn More
India – Heat & Drought Cause Dramatic Increase in Deaths – Heart Attack of Girl Age 12 + Farmer Suicides
India – Heat & Drought Cause Dramatic Increase in Deaths – Heart Attack of Girl Age 12 + Farmer Suicides http://everylifecounts.ndtv.com/blazing-sun-kills-11-year-old-out-to-bring-water-in-drought-hit-maharashtra-2290 Scroll down website to see chart of heatwave deaths in 23 years, and current major . Learn More
A Yezidi Woman Who Escaped ISIS Slavery Tells Her Story
A Yezidi Woman Who Escaped ISIS Slavery Tells Her Story Kirsten Luce for TIME - Nadia, a young Iraqi Yezidi who was abducted into slavery by members of ISIS, is photographed in the U.S. By Charlotte Alder – December 15, 2015 A Brave Yezidi Survivor Tells What She Saw Inside ISIS's System of Sexual Enslavement It is not easy for Nadia . Learn More
Germany – The Slow Pace of Gender Equality in Corporate Germany
Germany – The Slow Pace of Gender Equality in Corporate Germany http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-firms-slowly-adjust-to-new-boardroom-quota-law-a-1070622.html German Family Minister Manuela Schwesig is imploring companies to obey the new boardroom quota. Germany's statutory gender quota for supervisory boards took . Learn More
Nigeria – Young Woman Boko Haram Survivor Video + UN Envoy: “We Cannot Forget the Girls Abducted from Chibok.”
YOUNG WOMAN BOKO HARAM SURVIVOR VIDEO http://www.international-alert.org/media/story-khadija-boko-haram-survivor#sthash.62u4tWBU.ueWNQ9Uv.dpbs http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsId=53675#.Vw_xAq3VzIU Nigeria -‘We Cannot Forget the Girls Abducted from Chibok’ – UN Child Rights Envoy Special Representative of the . Learn More
USA – ERA: Equal Rights Amendment – Campaigning & Film by High Profile Hollywood Stars
USA – ERA: EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT – CAMPAIGNING & FILM BY HIGH PROFILE HOLLYWOOD STARS http://womensenews.org/2016/04/hollywood-actresses-embrace-a-movie-starring-the-e-r-a/ EQUAL MEANS EQUAL Film Segment: http://equalmeansequal.com/ Credit: Courtesy of Ney/Heroica Films Presenters at a screening of "Equal Means Equal" with . Learn More
Syrian Women, Fleeing Violence, Try to Cope in Turkey & Lebanon
Syrian Women, Fleeing Violence, Try to Cope in Turkey & Lebanon http://passblue.com/2016/04/06/fleeing-violence-to-violence-syrian-women-cope-in-turkey-and-lebanon/?utm_source=PassBlue+List&utm_campaign=128ff01fe7-Passblue_SHRI&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4795f55662-128ff01fe7-54981461 Syrian refugees visiting a private . Learn More
Afghanistan – A Year Later, Still No Justice for Farkhunda
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/01/a-year-later-still-no-justice-for-farkhunda/ AFGHANISTAN – A YEAR LATER, STILL NO JUSTICE FOR FARKHUNDA No justice for Farkhunda means no justice for all Afghan women who are victims of violence. It is long past due for a rectification of Afghanistan's laws protecting women. BY NOORJAHAN AKBAR – . Learn More
Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Majority Countries + Pakistan Christians Demand Protection
Scroll down to Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Majority Countries. http://gandhara.rferl.org/a/pakistan-christians-demand-protection/27644659.html PAKISTAN – CHRISTIANS DEMAND PROTECTION - WOMEN Family members mourn as they gather near the body of a relatives killed in Lahore blast on . Learn More
Kashmir – Half Widows – Tragedy of Life in Limbo – Film in Process
http://www.womensvoicesnow.org/a-conversation-on-the-half-widows-in-kashmir Half Widows in Kashmir by Sunayana Kachroo and Danish Renzu The WVoice, Vol. 4, No. 1 February 16, 2016 Photo taken from www.facebook.com/khalidthefilm/ Sunayana Kachroo: While men in conflict zones are celebrated, decorated, and revered for their . Learn More
Kenya – Government Fund for Past Pre-Election Rape Survivors, Has Yet to Reach the Women Victims Who Feel Forgotten
Kenya – Government Fund for Past Pre-Election Rape Survivors, Has Yet to Reach the Women Victims Who Feel Forgotten Women’s eNews - http://womensenews.org/2016/03/in-kenya-forgotten-rape-survivors-have-stories-to-tell/ Credit: Direct Relief on Flickr, under Creative Commons By: Agnes Odhiambo | March 14, 2016 (WOMENSENEWS)—A year ago, . Learn More