Kenya Poor Women Workers Often Abused Abroad as in Saudi Arabia The President’s Family and Allies Allegedly Profit. By Abdi Latif Dahir and Justin Scheck - Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya November 14, 2025 - The reports were piling in, one worse than the next. Kenyan maidsorking in Saudi Arabia had their passports confiscated, wages denied . Learn More
Turkey – Thousands Rally in Turkey Against Violence Towards Women
Thousands Rally in Turkey Against Violence Towards Women Around two thousand protesters rallied in Istanbul on Tuesday to denounce gender-based violence in Turkey, where around half of murders of women remain unsolved. Chanting the names of victims, the demonstrators, most of them women, members of the LGBTQ community or both, marched up a . Learn More
Ending violence against women a matter of dignity, equality and human rights
Ending violence against women a matter of dignity, equality & rights 19 November 2025 - When Salma* was just 15, she was forced to get married, even though she wanted to stay in school and become a doctor someday. Instead, she found herself tied to a man who “changed from being kind to being a monster.” He would beat her “with his bare . Learn More
Woman Musician Spurned the Concertmaster’s Advances. Now She’s Classical Music’s #MeToo Vigilante.
She spurned the concertmaster’s advances. Now she’s classical music’s #MeToo vigilante. October 19, 2025 - Katherine Needleman, the principal oboist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, has led a movement to bring sexual harassment and abuse within the classical-music industry to light. But her tactics have drawn criticism. (Sarah L. Voisin/The . Learn More
South African Women Stage Lie-Down Protest Against Gender-Based Violence Ahead of G20 2025 Summit
South African Women Stage Lie-Down Protest Against Gender-Based Violence Ahead of G20 2025 Summit Story by MICHELLE GUMEDE JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hundreds of women wearing black gathered in a Johannesburg park on Friday, one day before the start of the Group of 20 summit, to stage a 15-minute lie-down protest symbolizing the 15 lives lost daily . Learn More
Ending World Hunger Costs Less than 1% of Military Spending
Ending World Hunger Costs Less than 1% of Military Spending 18 November 2025 - Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP). By 2026 a staggering 318 million people would face crisis levels . Learn More
Women Toiling in India’s Insufferable Heat Face Mounting Toll on Health Prolonged exposure to hot weather can hinder people’s ability to lead safe and productive lives, experts say.
Deadly Heat Worldwide Prompts $300 Million for Climate Health Research at COP30 By Simon Jessop, Lais Morais and Anna Portella Philanthropies put $300 million into health-related research Brazil launches plan for climate-related health policy Experts warn climate change is worsening health indicators worldwide BELEM, Brazil, Nov . Learn More
Women’s Leadership & Political Participation
Facts & Figures: Women’s Leadership & Political Participation Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. However, data show that women are underrepresented at all levels of decision-making worldwide and that achieving gender parity in . Learn More
Women in Black: Silent Vigils Against War, for Peace
About Women in Black Who are Women in Black? Women in Black is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence. As women experiencing these things in different ways in different regions of the world, we support each other’s movements. An important focus . Learn More
Devaki Jain – Legendary Feminist India Economist, Author
Devaki Jain - Legendary Feminist India Economist, Author By Neha Kirpal Born in 1933, Devaki Jain was a ‘sport’ in the true sense – game for anything as a child, however unusual or risky. In The Brass Notebook (Speaking Tiger, 2020), the feminist economist and academician has sportingly put down a no-holds-barred, intimate and political . Learn More
Pakistan – Honor Killings – Graveyard for Victims +
Pakistan: Inside a Graveyard for Victims of 'Honor Killings' In Pakistan, hundreds of women are killed every year after being accused of "dishonoring" their families. DW joined a Pakistani women's rights campaigner to visit a graveyard in Sindh province where victims are buried. Fattu Shah is a remote village in the north of Pakistan's Sindh . Learn More
Aid Cuts Shutdown or Suspend One in Three Women’s Anti-Violence Programmes
Aid Cuts Shutdown or Suspend One in Three Women’s Anti-Violence Programmes 27 October 2025 . Funding cuts are dismantling the frontline organisations working to end violence against women and girls, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Monday. A new UN Women report, At Risk and Underfunded, based on a global survey of 428 women’s . Learn More
Sudan Women Call for Peace + UN Rights Chief Warns ‘Abominable Atrocities’ Likely Continue in Sudan’s El Fasher
Does the world have the courage to stand with Sudanese women in their call for peace? UN Rights Chief Warns Atrocities Likely to Continue in Sudan’s El Fasher 7 November 2025 - Warnings of worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan continue, despite reports of a ceasefire deal brokered by international mediators on . Learn More
Mexico – Many Expat Women Reset Lives in Mexico City
Mexico - Many Expat Women Reset Lives in Mexico City Annie Correal and Marian Carrasquero reported this story from Mexico City. Leer en español October 30, 2025 - Three years ago, Hannah McGrath felt lower than ever before, unemployed and staying in a relationship just to help pay Los Angeles rent. “I felt very, very lost,” she . Learn More
International Trade Unions in Action to End Violence & Harassment in the World of Work – Gender
Ending violence and harassment through a gender-transformative approach has been a central pillar of the ITUC campaign for the ratification and implementation of C190.2 This campaign has been built through the inspiring work of affiliates in their campaigns, advocacy, and bargaining initiatives to create a world of work free from violence and . Learn More
