Poster for ‘Cuerpos juzgados’ (‘Bodies on Trial’) | Courtesy of Mariana Carbajal By Mariana Carbajal 21 March 2022 - “I was unconscious. When I woke up and saw the police were there, they were handcuffing me […] I didn’t even understand […] I only know that they just beat me, treated me very badly and at the end, when I asked what was . Learn More
Turkey – DYING TO DIVORCE – Film on Violence Against Women & Femicide
Filmed over 5 years, DYING TO DIVORCE takes viewers into the heart of Turkey's gender-based violence crisis and the political events that have severely eroded democratic freedoms. Through intimately shot personal stories, the film gives a unique perspective on the struggle to be an independent woman in modern Turkey. More than one in three Turkish . Learn More
How Gender Inequality & Climate Change Are Interconnected
Nurun Nahar has two children and lives lives in a remote part of Islampur, Jamalpur. When floods destroyed her house in Bangladesh in 2019, she had to move to a shelter. Photo: UN Women/Mohammad Rakibul Hasan. 28 February 2022 - Gender inequality coupled with the climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It poses threats to . Learn More
North Korea – Many Women Earn More Than Their Husbands, But Still Do the Home Chores
December 9, 2021 – Before she fled south six years ago, Kim Eun Kyoung spent her days in one of North Korea’s many informal markets. She sold household goods and illicit South Korean tv dramas. In the evening, she did the housework and looked after her daughter. She says her husband worked just a few hours a day at his state-mandated factory job . Learn More
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes – Men Ending Men’s Sexualized Violence
Put Yourself in Her Shoes™ Since 2001, men, women, and their families around the world have joined award-winning Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®: The International Men's March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault & Gender Violence. It is a dramatic opportunity to raise awareness in your community about the serious causes, effects, and remediations to . Learn More
Why Is Peacemaking Left Almost Entirely to Men?
A Spartan woman says goodbye to her son as he goes to war in an 1881 drawing by Dionisio Baixeras. UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGES By Janine di Giovanni, a columnist at Foreign Policy and a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. In Aristophanes’s fifth-century B.C. . Learn More
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Jordan – Mothers Married to Foreign Husbands Still Cannot Pass on Jordan Citizenship Rights to Their Children
Jordanian women and their children protest for the right of mothers passing on their nationality to their children to mark International Women's Day in 2014 in Amman, Jordan. [Getty] By Lyse Mauvais 16 March 2022 - When Zeinab Abu Tabikh got married, she did not realise that she was about to embark on a lifelong journey to secure basic . Learn More
Break the Bias Against Women at Work – Toolkit of 50 Ways to Fight Bias
50 Ways to Fight Bias is a free digital program to empower all employees to identify and challenge bias head-on. The program includes almost 100 instances of workplace bias, including the compounding biases women experience because of their race, sexual orientation, disability, or other aspects of their identity. 73% of women experience bias at . Learn More
Afghanistan – Taliban Have Detained 29 Women & Their Families in Kabul, Says Envoy
Taliban fighters walk at the frozen Qargha Lake, near Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP By Emma Graham-Harrison 12 February 2022 - The Taliban have detained 29 women and their families in Kabul, a senior US diplomat said on Saturday, adding to concerns about rising numbers of people seized and held indefinitely . Learn More
Syria – Lack of Protection & Rights Contribute to Increase in Crimes Against Syrian Women
January 15, 2022 - As women have been affected the most by the aftermath of all wars and conflicts, feminist movements around the world have worked hard to set plans for putting an end to all violations against women and make local and international laws protect them. However, these laws have failed so far to stop women falling victims and being . Learn More
Telegram Social Media App Exposes Women’s Intimate Pictures
IMAGE SOURCE,KLAWE RZECZY By Global Disinformation Team BBC World Service Story by Lucy Swinnen, Jack Goodman, Hannah Gelbart, Maria Korenyuk and Juliana Gragnani. February 15, 2022 - A BBC investigation has found that women's intimate pictures are being shared to harass, shame and blackmail them on a massive scale, on the social media app . Learn More
Asia’s Coronavirus & Inequality Crisis – Women & Minorities
The additional burden that the pandemic has placed on public health systems is putting the lives of women and girls in Asia at increased risk. They are more likely to be excluded from health services, including COVID-19 testing and treatment, and the situation is only getting worse. Around 60% of women in Asia Pacific report facing additional . Learn More
Baby Formula Marketing ‘Pervasive, Misleading and Aggressive’ – UN Report
© UNSPLASH/Holie Santos. A mother carrying her newborn baby. 22 February 2022 - Parents and pregnant women globally are exposed to aggressive marketing for baby formula milk, according to a report launched jointly by two UN agencies. How marketing of formula milk influences our decisions on infant feeding, the first report in a series by the . Learn More
Colombia – Court Decriminalizes Abortion
Women celebrate after Colombia's constitutional court voted to decriminalize abortion until 24 weeks of gestation, in Bogota, Colombia, on Feb. 21, 2022. (Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters) By Samantha Schmidt and Diana Durán February 21, 2022 - BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Colombia’s constitutional court voted Monday to decriminalize abortion in the first 24 weeks . Learn More
India Karnataka State – Debate & Protests on Hijabs in School & Minority Rights – Court to Decide
Muslim women demonstrating in Bangalore, in the Indian state of Karnataka, on Monday. Credit...Manjunath Kiran/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Suhasini Raj and Emily Schmall February 11, 2022 - UDUPI, India — An Indian court has said that students in the southern state of Karnataka should stop wearing religious garments in class until it . Learn More
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