A girl makes a pigtail to another girl against the sunset in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. REUTERS/Ajay Verma By Nita Bhalla | @nitabhalla | Thomson Reuters Foundation NEW DELHI, June 2, 2017 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An increasing number of underage girls in India's towns and cities are being married off, a study has revealed, . Learn More
Egypt – UN Experts Condemn Egypt Clampdown on the Women’s Rights Movement
Egypt - UN Experts Condemn Egypt Clampdown on the Women’s Rights Movement GENEVA (15 December 2016) – A group of United Nations experts* has strongly condemned Egypt for escalating its action against women human rights defenders and women rights groups as part of a continuing clampdown on civil society. “The Government’s actions are . Learn More
EGYPT – JAN. 11, 2017 UPDATE ON CONTINUED CRACKDOWN ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS LEADERS & PROGRAMS IN “NGO FOREIGN FUNDING” CASE
Egypt - Assets Freeze of Nazra for Feminist Studies & Its Director Is Not an End to Nazra Feminist Work 11 January 2017 - North Cairo Elementary Court decided today, 11 January 2017, to freeze the assets of feminist and woman human rights defender Mozn Hassan, Founder and Executive Director of “Nazra for Feminist Studies”, freeze . Learn More
Egypt – Police Shut Down El-Nadeem Centre for Victims of Violence & Torture
Both Egyptian and foreign NGOs are governed by a strict law [Mohamed el Raai/AP] February 9, 2017 - Egyptian authorities have closed the offices of a prominent human rights group that helps victims of violence and torture, according to the organisation and a police official quoted by the AFP news agency. El Nadeem Centre for the . Learn More
Egypt – New Repressive Law Deeply Damaging for Human Rights & NGO’s + Continued Crackdown on Women’s Rights Programs & Leaders
Repressive New Law Deeply Damaging for Human Rights & NGO’s - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights GENEVA (1 June 2017) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday said the issuance of a repressive new law further restricting space for human rights monitoring, advocacy and reporting by . Learn More
We Need to Think Harder About Terrorism & Gender
Police officers join members of the public to view the flowers and messages left in honor of the victims of the recent terrorist attack in Manchester. Oli Scarff / AFP / Getty By Heather Hurlburt and Jacqueline O'Neill – June 1, 2017 Was the Manchester attack explicitly an attack on girls and women — on female culture? The apparently . Learn More
UN Special Rapporteur Freedom of Religion or Belief Report to the Human Rights Council 2017 – Gender
For Full 20-Page 2017 Report, First Go To Link - http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/34/50 Then go to the right side of the screen and then click on UN Official Language Translation of choice. Examples of Gender Components in Report: As in the case of previous mandate holders, the Special Rapporteur will . Learn More
UNICEF – One in Four Children in the Middle East & North Africa Lives in Poverty – Girls
FILE - Mothers wait for their children to be examined for signs of malnutrition at a walk-in nutrition clinic in Africa May 16, 2017 - A study by the United Nations children's agency UNICEF shows that one in four children in the Middle East and North Africa lives in poverty and deprivation, lacking even the most basic necessities, such as proper . Learn More
The Stolen Childhoods of Kashmir in Pencil & Crayon
By Soutik Biswas BBC News, Srinagar - 29 May 2017 Illustrations gathered from children in Indian-administered Kashmir These are pictures of loss of childhood and innocence. They speak about a violent world outside shuttered homes. They reveal the terrors of the present and the fears for the future. The colours are vivid. Red . Learn More
The Politicisation of Religion & Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights: Intersections
http://arrow.org.my/publication/afc-religion-srhr/ Direct Link to Full 48-Page 2017 ARROW Publication: http://arrow.org.my/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/AFC-23_1_2017-WEB.pdf . Learn More
AID IN SUPPORT OF GENDER EQUALITY & WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT – MARCH 2017 OECD REPORT
Direct Link to Full 34-Page 2017 Publication: http://www.oecd.org/development/gender-development/Aid-to-Gender-Equality-Donor-Charts-2017.pdf . Learn More
Families Can Drive Gender Equality, But Only If We Help Them Evolve
15 May 2017 | By Shahrashoub Razavi The concept of family lends itself to exaggerated claims. Depending on who you talk to, the decline of the traditional family in recent decades either means the triumph of individualism and the onset of “pure relationships” or the dissolution of society, population decline and the death of the nation. For . Learn More
No Security Without Women’s Agency – Responses to Terrorism & Violent Extremism May Undermine Gender Equality, Security
24 MAY 2017 - Five months into 2017 and we have already witnessed a mass swell in mass demonstrations and public engagement worldwide. People everywhere are heading to the streets calling for social justice, transparency, democracy and human rights, with women activists on the forefront of many of these People Power initiatives. However, at the . Learn More
Basketball Federation Now Allows Hijab in Professional Basketball
Basketball governing body FIBA ratifies proposal overturning ban on head coverings including hijab. Many have been forced to give up basketball on the professional level due to FIBA's ban on headgear [File: Ali Jarekji/Reuters] 4 May 2017 - Headgear, including the hijab and yarmulkes, will be allowed in professional basketball . Learn More
Nicaragua – Indigenous Women’s Radio Addresses Gender Violence, Trafficking, Health
"Her husband listened to the show and realised she had rights too, that she had the right to leave the house and meet with other women." By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA, May 22, 2017 - (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Huddled around solar-powered radios, generations of Miskito women in Nicaragua tune in almost daily to the first and only radio . Learn More
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