On Saturday, Afghanistan's supreme leader and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada approved a strict dress code for women in public. (AFP) May 7, 2022 - Kabul: The Taliban on Saturday imposed some of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since they seized power, ordering them to cover fully in public, ideally with the traditional . Learn More
Governments, Civil Society Organizations & Academia Around the World Call for Data on Femicide to Prevent & Respond to VAW
12 April 2022 – Government and civil society representatives, women's rights advocates, feminists, and academia across the UNECE region joined the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development side event “One femicide watch in every country to end the shadow pandemic,” organized by the Government of Spain and UN Women, to shed light on experiences and . Learn More
#MeToo in MENA: The Women Shaking the Region Out of Its Silence on Sexual Harassment
Demonstrators attend a rally for International Women's Day in Iraq [Getty] Women from Morocco, to Egypt, Iran and Kuwait took their countries by storm in the past year through social media to break the silence on sexual assault and harassment. By Maedeh Sharifi – MENA: Middle East & North Africa 09 March, 2021- Women across the Middle East . Learn More
Lebanon – Fierce Race in Elections Expected with Record Number of Women Candidates
Consultant and business pioneer, Gistelle Semaan, is a parliamentary candidate on Shamaluna list in the North III district. By Sally Abou AlJoud, Al Arabiya English April 15, 2022 - In a country where women comprise less than 5 percent of parliament, 118 women candidates created cracks in the political glass ceiling, vying for a broader . Learn More
South Asia – Rape Victims in South Asia Still Face Vaginal Tests, Report Finds
An artwork in Delhi made to highlight sexual violence after the gang rape of a Dalit woman last year. Photograph: Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto/PA By Sarah Johnson 23 Apr 2021 - Physical vaginal tests are still used to determine whether women and girls have been raped in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, according to a new report. The practice remains . Learn More
Girls’ Performance in Math ‘Starting to Add Up to Boys’, Says UNESCO
© UNICEF/Mithila Jariwala - A 13-year-old girl solves a maths sum at a school in Gujarat, India. 27 April 2022 - The UN published promising news in the global fight for gender equality and opportunity on Wednesday, showing that when it comes to mathematics, girls are now performing as strongly as boys in the classroom – although there are plenty . Learn More
Syria – Women in “Widow Camps” Face Chronic Violence & Sexual Abuse: Report
Tens of thousands of single women, often widowed, live in camps in northwest Syria with little access to services [AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty] The New Arab Staff April 11, 2022 - Syrian women living in so-called "widow camps" in northwest Syria face chronic violence, and high needs and are sometimes pushed into "survival sex", a new report by . Learn More
Women as Weapons of War: A Spectrum of Sexual Violence in Ukraine & Beyond
By Taina Bien-Aimé, Executive Director of CATW, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women April 25, 2022 - In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking use of rape as a weapon of war. Sexual . Learn More
Colombia – Town’s Femicides Spike Is Linked to Armed Groups
This woman now lives in Medellín, where she fled after threats in her hometown. She struggles to make ends meet and says she has received no support from the authorities. (Samuel Ritholtz/TNH) By Kiran Stallone - PhD Candidate at University of California, Berkeley studying gender and civilian agency in conflict & Julia Zulver - Academic at the . Learn More
Malawi – Witchcraft Accusations – Women Stripped Naked, Hacked, Attempted Killings
February 10, 2022 - Police in Dedza have arrested 18 people from Mapulosi Village in the area of Traditional Authority Kasumbu in the district for hacking, stripping naked and attempting to kill two women over witchcraft accusations. Dedza is a district in the Central Region of Malawi. All the suspects belong to Nasibeko family who are also . Learn More
Sudan -‘Rape Will Not Stop Us’: In Sudan, Sexual Violence Is a Weapon Against Women’s Resistance
In Sudan, Sexual Violence Is a Weapon Against Women's Resistance By Nadine Talaat In-depth: Women are on the frontlines of Sudan’s popular uprisings demanding civilian rule, but security forces have been using sexual violence as a weapon to deter women’s political participation and defeat the resistance. 30 March 2022 - Since last October, . Learn More
UK – Femicide – The 125 Women Killed by Men Since Sarah Everard & What It Tells Us about Britain Today
The list is myth-shattering, but every death on it is almost unbearable to contemplate. We must remember their names... By Joan Smith 3 March 2022 - Some of their faces are familiar, but dozens more we are seeing for the first time. Their names are barely known, except to families and friends. But two other women and a teenage girl were killed . Learn More
Ukraine – Ukraine – Women on the Front Lines, but Not in the Headlines
A woman wears face paint in the colors of the Ukrainian flag while protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Feb. 24. HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/GETTY IMAGES By Luba Kassova, the author of The Missing Perspectives of Women in News, and Xanthe Scharff, the CEO and co-founder of the Fuller Project. March . Learn More
Afghanistan – Muslim Clerics Call on Taliban to Reopen Girls’ Schools, Say No Legal Justification for Banning Girls
Representative Image (Photo Credit: Reuters) Kabul [Afghanistan], April 8, 2022 (ANI): Religious scholars once again called on the Taliban to reopen all girls’ schools in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and said there was no legal justification for banning girls above sixth grade from going to school. “In light of the guidance of the holy religion of . Learn More
China – Divorce Is Down, But So Are Marriages
A Chinese couple celebrating their wedding, outside the Forbidden City in Beijing.Credit...Kevin Frayer/Getty Images By Alexandra Stevenson 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 March 23, 2022 - HONG KONG — Faced with a soaring divorce rate, the ruling Communist Party in China introduced a rule last year to keep unhappy marriages together by forcing couples to undergo . Learn More
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