A woman tries on a headscarf at an event at Le Bourget Exhibition centre - © Thomas Samson, AFP 15/07/2021 - Companies may ban Muslim employees from wearing a headscarf under certain conditions, the European Union’s top court said, in two cases brought by Muslim women in Germany who were suspended from their jobs after they started wearing the . Learn More
Zimbabwe – More than Half of the Women in Zimbabwe Have Faced Sextortion – Survey
Zimbabwe loses close to $2bn (£1.5bn) to corruption annually, contributing to financial instability, according to Transparency International. Photograph: Bloomberg Nyasha Chingono in Harare Zimbabwe has recorded an unprecedented number of women reporting being forced to exchange sex for employment or business favours. More than 57% of women . Learn More
Afghanistan – In the Taliban’s New Afghan Emirate, Women Are Invisible
Burqa-clad women shop at a market in Kabul following the Taliban’s military takeover of Afghanistan on Aug. 23. HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES By Lynne O’Donnell, an Australian journalist and author. AUGUST 27, 2021 - As the Taliban consolidate control over their new Islamic emirate in Afghanistan, women have largely disappeared from public . Learn More
Haiti – Women & Girls Left ‘Traumatised’ in Aftermath of Haiti Earthquake
Photo: (ActionAid ) By Leonie Chao-Fong August 27, 2021 - Women and girls who survived the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti earlier this month say they are “traumatised” and fear “all kinds of aggression” as they attempt to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of the disaster. The 7.2-magnitude quake that struck the impoverished Caribbean . Learn More
Iran – Increase in Child Marriages
The legal age for marriage in Iran is 13 years for girls and 15 years for boys. Iranian officials have reported an increase in the overall number of child marriages last year (2020) compared to 2019. According to the Statistics Center of Iran, the marriage rate of girls aged 10-14 last year increased by 10.5 percent compared to 2019. It . Learn More
Egypt – First All-Women Islamic Choir Defies Gender Taboos
Women in Egypt are finding their voices in a new way – singing in a choir. (Credit: Steve Evans, Wikimedia Commons) By Menna A. Farouk CAIRO, Aug 24, 2021 - (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — The words of the Islamic hymns being rehearsed in a small studio just outside Cairo are well known among Egyptian Muslims, but they have never sounded so . Learn More
Global Alliance on Media & Gender Urges UN Countries to Help Women Journalists in Afghanistan
An Afghan woman journalist conducts an interview with bystanders. Contact person: GAMAG Chair, Aimée Vega Montiel - Email: aimeevegamx@yahoo.com.mx 17 August 2021 - The Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) is deeply concerned about the situation of women, media professionals, and women journalists in particular after the Taliban gained . Learn More
The Philippines: Cyber-Libel Charges Against Maria Ressa Dismissed
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa speaks to members of the media as she arrives to a court in Manila on March 4, 2021, to testify for the first time to deny dodging taxes as authorities continue a crackdown against the country's independent media. (Photo by maria Tan / AFP) August 13. 2021 - A global coalition supporting Filipino journalist . Learn More
China – Women & Poverty
Image from i-stock: 1206956433 China declared the victory of eliminating extreme poverty at the end of 2020 — ten years ahead of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is reported that, during the eight-year national poverty elimination campaign from 2012 to 2020, over 98 million people who used to live below the poverty . Learn More
Zimbabwe – UN Urges to End Child Marriage After 14-Year-Old Bride Dies in Childbirth
Photo UNAMID By Columbus Mavhunga for VOA News August 12, 2021 - HARARE — Women’s rights activists, opposition groups, and the United Nations are pressuring Zimbabwean authorities to arrest a man who had married a 14-year-old who died last week while giving birth at a church shrine. Zimbabwean police say they are investigating the . Learn More
Pakistan – Failed Support for the National Commission on the Status of Women
Photo @ Lala Rukh By Ayesha Khan, PhD Researcher July 27, 2021 - In 2000, the first Pakistani government body to monitor women’s human rights was set up. But, two decades on, its future is in peril because no agreement can be reached on who to appoint as Chair. When the first Pakistani government body to monitor the state’s compliance with . Learn More
India – Girl’s Alleged Rape & Murder Sparks Protests
Activists hold a candlelight march protesting the alleged rape and murder of a 9-year-old Dalit girl in New Delhi, India on August 4, 2021. © 2021 Pankaj Nangia/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images By Jayshree Bajoria Protests over sexual assault have renewed in India’s capital, Delhi, after a 9-year-old Dalit girl was killed on Sunday. Her family . Learn More
Tajikistan – Male Police Continue Targeting Women Wearing Hijabs
Women in Dushanbe - CurrentTime TV By Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 30 July 2021 - The long-running regime campaign to prevent women wearing the hijab (Islamic headscarf) intensified from March, human rights defenders including Muslim women say. Officials stop women in the street, question them, and order them to take off their hijab. "When they . Learn More
Can a Resurgence in Labor Unions Help Working Women?
By John Budd* - 2021 First came the wave of teacher strikes led by women fighting the devaluing of their work, then Google employees walked out in protest of its handling of sexual harassment and (later) formed the Alphabet Workers Union, and now racial justice is a central theme as Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama vote on whether to unionize. . Learn More
Malta – OSCE Media Freedom Rep Welcomes the Public Inquiry Report on Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia
Valletta Malta, Memorial to journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who was assassinated in 2017 (Shutterstock / Paul Mendoza) VIENNA, 2 August 2021 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Teresa Ribeiro welcomed the report published by the independent Public Inquiry Board into the assassination of renowned investigative journalist Daphne Caruana . Learn More
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