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
Call for Applications for Vacancies of UN Special Procedure Mandate Holders – Gender
The SPECIAL PROCEDURES of the UN Human Rights Council are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. The system of Special Procedures is a central element of the United Nations human rights machinery and covers all human rights: civil, cultural, economic, . 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
India – Debate on Muslim Marriage Reform
By Javed Anand - April 28, 2017 Three issues relating to Muslim personal law in India — triple talaq, nikah halala and polygamy - are coming up soon for hearing before a Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court. Muslims who are hoping for a verdict that declares these practices not only unconstitutional but also “un-Quranic” confidently cite . Learn More
Saudi Arabia – Domestic Violence Cases Up in 2016 – Report
By LULWA SHALHOUB | 26 April 2017 JEDDAH: Lack of firmness in dealing with domestic violence and child abuse cases caused reported incidents to rise by 18 percent and 19 percent respectively in 2016, a senior member of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) told Arab News. A new NSHR report that reviewed cases from 2016 says it received . Learn More
Arab MENA Women in the Legislative Process – Analysis
Arab MENA Women in the Legislative Process Women continue to face challenges in accessing the higher echelons of political power, but also in playing a more substantive role in the policymaking process. . Learn More
Online Gender-Based Violence – UN Experts Call for Sensitive, Timely & Cooperative Response
Photo: ITU 8 March 2017 – Urgent attention, creativity and cooperation are needed to address online gender-based abuse, but authorities should be careful to avoid curtailing freedom of expression in doing so, two United Nations human rights experts said today. “Online gender-based abuse and violence are undeniably a scourge, and governments . Learn More
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