JAISALMER,INDIA - Unidentified women draw water form the well and take it to their home in rural areas of Jaisalmer, India. By Chantal de Jonge Oudraat* & Michael E. Brown* January 25, 2022 - Gender issues, climate change, and security problems are interconnected in complex and powerful ways. Unfortunately, some of these connections have not . Learn More
No Women’s Liberation Without Migrant Representation
Credits @RadicalGirlsss By Aleksandra Kuśnierkiewicz, from the European Network of Migrant Women and RadicalGirlsss. This article was adapted from the speech Aleksandra gave at #FiLiA2021 during the Political Participation of Migrant Women Panel. Migrant women have things to say. Through their experience of intersecting discriminations, migrant . Learn More
Iran – Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Another 8 Years in Prison
Situation of Political Prisoners Worsens as Iranian Government’s Assault on Peaceful Dissent Intensifies Activists, Lawyers, Dissidents being Kept Behind Bars with Continuous New Convictions January 24, 2022 – In an ongoing campaign to silence human rights defenders and crush dissent in the Islamic Republic, the prominent rights defender . Learn More
USA – For the Sake of a Visa, I Was Forced into Marriage in Arizona – At Age 15
(Samia Ahmed for The Washington Post) By Sasha K. Taylor - Sasha K. Taylor is a forced child marriage survivor and former FBI analyst based in D.C. January 19, 2022 - When I was 15 years old and living in Arizona, I was forced by my family to become a visa bride. I am a U.S. citizen, ethnically Pashtun, born in Karachi, Pakistan, and raised in . Learn More
South Asia – Incomes Dip for South Asia’s Women Home Workers as Heat Rises
Mumbai, India – Reuters Photo By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India, Jan 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rising heat and heavier rains across South Asia, as the planet warms, are forcing home-based women workers to cut down on hours as their houses get hotter or are flooded often, resulting in a loss of income they cannot afford, researchers . Learn More
Turkey – Yet Another Femicide as Issue Remains Rampant
January 22, 2022 - With the femicide problem in the country aggravating and people taking to social media expressing their deep concerns, a new femicide case of a nurse who got shot by a man who stormed into a family health care center in Istanbul has triggered a nationwide wave of anger. Ömür Erez, a 33-year-old nurse working at a family health . Learn More
Canada – Women in Niqab – Study
Download: Women in Niqab Speak: A Study of the Niqab in Canada – 75 Pages Executive Summary Very few pieces of faith based clothing in Canada have ignited as much impassioned debates as the Muslim practice of the niqab. Covering the woman’s body and hair and leaving only the eyes visible, the niqab has often been problematized as a symbol of . Learn More
China – Births Hit Historic Low, a Political Demographic Challenge
A newborn at a hospital in Danzhai, China, last year.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Steven Lee Myers and Alexandra Stevenson January 17, 2022 - China announced on Monday that its birthrate plummeted for a fifth straight year in 2021, moving the world’s most populous country closer to the potentially seismic moment when its . Learn More
Egypt – Teenage Girl Digitally Blackmailed, Commits Suicide – 2 Males Arrested – Public Outrage
Speak Up, Facebook, an Egyptian feminist initiative, posted the text of a letter in which Basant protested her innocence January 4, 2022 - Two people have been arrested in Egypt after a teenage girl who was allegedly being blackmailed with digitally altered images killed herself. The sister of Basant Khaled, 17, told the Youm7 news website . Learn More
EU – The Female Face of Energy Poverty Is Still Invisible
Research has since long found that poverty has a female face, so clearly, the female population is more likely to experience or fall into energy poverty. [Michael Gaida / Pixabay] By Michaela Kauer, Director of the Brussels office of the City of Vienna, linking Vienna with EU policy and global sustainability goals. April 13, 2021 - Currently, the . Learn More
Afghanistan – UN Experts Decry Taliban Measures to “Steadily Erase” Afghan Women & Girls from Public Life
UN Experts Decry Taliban Measures to "Steadily Erase" Afghan Women & Girls from Public Life GENEVA (17 January 2022) – Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, a group of UN human rights experts* said today. The experts reiterated their . Learn More
India – NGO’s Face Permit Bans regarding Licenses & Foreign Funds
Photo by: Pacific Press Media Production Corp. / Alamy via Reuters By Kunal Purohit // 13 January 2022 For India’s nonprofit sector, the new year has been a harbinger of grim news and a reminder of old struggles. Making use of a controversial law criticized by the UN Human Rights office, the Indian government in early January stripped nearly . Learn More
Kenya – Alternate Rites of Passage for Girls to Replace FGM
Kenya First Lady Margaret Kenyatta has lobbied stakeholders and communities to support the adoption of alternative rites of passage that involves mentorship to replace Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). By Beth Nyaga December 7, 2021 -“The proposal to take girls through a 15-day initiation programme comprising of sessions on mentorship into . Learn More
South Korea – Male Anti-Feminist Activists Target Gender Equality & Women’s Rights
Bae In-kyu, the head of Man on Solidarity, one of South Korea’s most active anti-feminist groups, leading a rally in Seoul last month. “Feminists are a social evil,” he has said.Credit...Woohae Cho for The New York Times By Choe Sang-Hun Jan. 1, 2022 - SEOUL — They have shown up whenever women rallied against sexual violence and gender biases in . Learn More
Indonesia – Married Woman Flogged 100 Times for Adultery; Partner Received Only 15 Lashes
© CEK MAD The court handed down a heftier sentence for the married woman after she confessed to investigators she had sex out of her marriage 13 January 2022 - An Indonesian woman was flogged 100 times Thursday in conservative Aceh province for adultery while her male partner, who denied the accusations, received just 15 lashes. Ivan Najjar . Learn More
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