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India – Women Call to Criminalize Marital Rape

At receiving end: A patriarchal set-up has led to acts of violence against women. PTI By Prem Chowdhry - Author and Former Academic, Delhi University October 18, 2021 - Feminists and women’s rights groups have long demanded criminalising of marital rape. But unlike domestic violence, and the various other aspects of rape, marital rape is yet to . Learn More

Turkey – Women Demand Equal Treatment in Mosques

By Sevilay Nur Saraclar – 10 September 2021 Zeynep Doğusan recounts how a friend was one day leaning against a pillar in a mosque behind the men’s section, admiring the view of the building. A mosque employee came up to her and said that she was not allowed to be there. “Our friend really felt like she had been kicked out of the mosque,” Doğusan . Learn More

Russia – Plan To Halve Abortion Rates To Spur Population Growth

The program also sets out the goal of ensuring that 80 percent of women considering an abortion undergo consultations with a doctor, with a focus on increasing the likelihood that they reject the procedure. (illustrative photo) September 22, 2021 - MOSCOW - Russia's government has approved measures aimed at halving the number of abortions carried . Learn More

Immigrants Film – Mexico to US Working & Living – Gender

An evocative audiovisual meditation on the experiences of Mexican immigrants living and working in rural America This  intimate cinematic  portrait of two small towns - one in Mexico and one in Minnesota - is  an  evocative  audiovisual meditation on  the  experience of Mexican immigrants living and working  in rural America. Vivid . Learn More

China – #MeToo Activist Among those Arrested in China’s Widening Crackdown on Civil Rights

China #MeToo (source: NuVoices) Guangzhou police revealed that one of China’s most well-known #MeToo activists, Sophia Huang Xueqin, has been detained along with labor activist Wang Jianbing. This news comes two weeks after the pair were reported missing under suspicious circumstances. The two activists disappeared on September 19, one day . Learn More

Poland – Polish Mothers Rally in Solidarity with Migrants

Human Rights Poland 10/24/2021 Protesters at a village on Poland's border with Belarus are demanding the government drop a state of emergency to allow aid workers to help stranded migrants. Polish mothers protested on Saturday against migrant pushbacks at the border with Belarus and demanded they get humanitarian help. The protests come . Learn More

Russia – 15th Anniversary of the Murder of Human Rights Journalist Anna Politkovskaya

by Nadezda Azhgikhina, RUJ Executive Secretary, European Federation of Journalists Vice President Anna Politkovskaya was not the first journalist killed in Russia after the end of USSR. On the day of her assassination in Moscow October 7, 2006, the death list of the Glasnost Defense Foundation consisted of 211 names. It took us, the organizers of . Learn More

Afghanistan – The Tradition of Afghan Girls Who Live as Boys, May Be Threatened

Ali, 14, wears jeans and a shirt while her sister Setar, 16, wears a traditional outfit for men, in Kabul, in a practice known as "bacha posh.” Analysis by Lisa Selin Davis September 4, 2021 (CNN)The last time the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, after the Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s, life for women and girls was ghastly. As a report from the . Learn More

Middle East & North Africa Women Face the World’s Widest Gender Gap

The gender gap in the Middle East and North Africa is the world's largest and will take more than a century to close, the World Economic Forum said. At the current pace the gender gap in the region will take 142.4 years to close, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2021. That figure compares to around 52 years in Western Europe, where . Learn More

USA – A Century After Women Gained the Right to Vote, the Majority of Americans Still See Challenges for Gender Equality

By Juliana Menasce Horowitz and Ruth Igielnik A hundred years after the 19th Amendment was ratified, about half of Americans say granting women the right to vote has been the most important milestone in advancing the position of women in the country. Still, a majority of U.S. adults say the country hasn’t gone far enough when it comes to giving . Learn More

Afghanistan – Taliban – New All-Male Government – No Women!

© AP Photo/Muhammad Farooq - ASSOCIATED PRESS September 7, 2021 - KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban on Tuesday announced an all-male interim government for Afghanistan stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule from the 1990s and the 20-year battle against the U.S.-led coalition, a move that seems unlikely to win the international support . Learn More

Iceland – Women Win Majority of Parliament Seats in Iceland’s Election

Iceland's PM Katrin Jakobsdottir talks to supporters of her Left-Green Movement at a party event in Reykjavik [File: Tom Little/ AFP] 26 September 2021 - Iceland’s national election has, for the first time, seen more women than men elected to a European parliament. Final results on Sunday also showed the country’s ruling left-right coalition . Learn More

Internally Displaced Women & Girls

Who are ‘internally displaced persons’ and what is ‘internal displacement’? According to the 1998 Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: “Internally displaced persons are persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to . Learn More

Mexico – Ten Women & Girls Murdered Every Day in Mexico

Activists demonstrate against domestic violence and femicides in the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, in September. Photograph: Juan Carlos Cruz/EPA By David Agren in Mexico City 20 Sep 2021 - At least 10 women and girls are murdered every day in Mexico, according to a new report that says victims’ families are often left to carry out . Learn More

Afghanistan – Taliban Imposes New Dress Code, Segregation Of Women, At Private Afghan Universities

Afghan women take part in a protest for their rights under the Taliban in downtown Kabul on September 3. September 06, 2021 – By Frud Bezhan KABUL -- The Taliban has imposed a new dress code and gender segregation for women at private universities and colleges in Afghanistan, in line with a decree issued to educational institutions and obtained . Learn More

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