Afghanistan's first all-female flight on Kam Air. Photo: Josh Cahill (center) A routine 90-minute flight in Afghanistan just made history. The country's only private airline, Kam Air, is celebrating its first flight with an all-female crew, which it says is the first in the South Asian country's history. Kam Air's first female Afghan pilot, . Learn More
China – Landmark Case – Court Orders Man to Pay Wife for Housework
Chinese women spend nearly four hours a day on unpaid work, according to OECD statistics February 23, 2021 - A Beijing divorce court has ordered a man to compensate his wife for the housework she did during their marriage, in a landmark ruling. The woman will receive 50,000 yuan ($7,700; £5,460) for five years of unpaid labour. The case has . Learn More
New Zealand – Sanitary Products to Be Free in Schools
The initiative announced on Thursday comes following a pilot in 15 schools in Waikato where about 3,200 young people were given free period products [File: Nick Perry/AP] 18 Feb 2021 - New Zealand’s schools will provide access to free sanitary products for female students from June as part of the government’s latest attempt to stem “period . Learn More
Webinar: Online Violence Against Women & SDGs
Commission on the Status of Women Session 65 ONLINE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & SDG’s Agenda 2030 Virtual Webinar – Wednesday March 17, 2021 11.00 EST Webinar registration https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kuHbEQQOQsSYSarnsvTH_Q Online is the new front line for violence against women and girls, and it has increased . Learn More
Afghanistan – Destitute Widows’ Lives
A woman and child beg on a bridge in Ghazni. Feb 19, 2021 - Parwana, an Afghan mother of five, begs on the streets of the southeastern Afghan city of Ghazni. She says seeking charity is her only means of survival since her husband, a policeman, was killed by the Taliban two years ago. “When my husband was killed, I sent the authorities several . Learn More
Yemen – Peacebuilding Requires Women’s Role, Engagement
Kawkab Al-Thaibani By Sania Farooqui NEW DELHI, India, Feb 15 2021 (IPS) - The armed conflict in Yemen which has lasted six years, has killed and injured over thousands of civilians, displaced more than one million people and given rise to cholera outbreaks, medicine shortages and threats of famine. By the end of 2019, it is estimated that . Learn More
USA – Women of Color Still Lag Behind in the Workplace
By Adia Harvey Wingfield October 2020 - A little over 100 years ago, the U.S. Congress ratified the 19th amendment, which ruled that women could not be denied the right to vote because of their sex. This amendment was the result of hard-fought efforts from many women (and some men) who recognized that disenfranchisement then, as now, was a blight . Learn More
Dealing with Menopause Depression
By Alyssa – March 31. 2020 Menopause is the time in a woman’s life when she stops getting her menstrual period. When a woman reaches her 40s or 50s, her reproductive hormones naturally decline. The result is not only the cessation of her period, but also various other physical and mental changes. While many people talk of hot flashes, menopause . Learn More
Every Step Counts – 7 Personal Testimonies of Social Democratic Women’s Activism in South East Europe
This is the shared journey of social democratic women activists, spanning two decades in pursuit of gender equality. Coming from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Slovenia and the UK, it is their record, told in their words – their personal insights, their strategies, challenges, successes, lessons learnt and tips for future . Learn More
Iraq – Women in Iraq Will Not Be Silenced
By Intisar Al-Mayali 9 February 2021 - When the October 2019 demonstrations happened, many women and girls of all ages went to the protests. Their stories were everywhere on social media; they were inspiring and influential and they still are. Their role was not traditional or superficial. Women were planning, writing, hurting, among the . Learn More
Bangladesh – Culture of Misogyny & Masculine Impunity Driving Sexual Violence
By Shireen Huq NEW DELHI, India, Jan 11 2021 (IPS) - In October 2020, Bangladeshi citizens took to the streets, outraged by the reports of gruesome gang rapes and sexual violence that were taking place in the country. According to Ain O Salish Kendra, a Bangladeshi human rights organization, 975 women were raped in the first nine months of 2020, . Learn More
FGM – Ending Female Genital Mutilation Is Essential to Give Girls Control Over Their Own Lives
The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP), an advocacy group supported by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, holds an Anti-FGM workshop aimed at empowering women to claim their rights and those of their daughters. Photo: UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women February 6, . Learn More
FTX Safety Reboot: Collective Feminist Contribution to Digital Security Capacity Building
By APCNews The FTX: Safety Reboot explores how we occupy online spaces, how women are represented, how we can counter discourses and norms that contribute to discrimination and violence. It is about strategies of representation and expression and enabling more women’s rights and sexual rights activists to engage technology with pleasure, . Learn More
USA – Why Asian-American Women Have the Highest Jobless Rates During This Past 6 Months of the COVID Pandemic
A nail salon in New York last August. Noam Galai / Getty Images file By Katherine Kam January 27, 2021 - While customers once indulged in hot stone manicures and strawberry mojito foot soaks at Studio 18 Nail Bar in Orange County, California, co-owner Christie Nguyen no longer has her seven manicurists on the payroll. All are Asian American . Learn More
Women’s Property Rights Are the Key to Economic Development
BY NISHA AREKAPUDI & NAYDA L. ALMODÓVAR-RETEGUIS “Land belongs to the man, the produce in it to the woman!!!” All over the world, women farm land to both feed their families and make a living – yet they have no say in how it is managed. This common African saying perfectly embodies women’s struggle to own and inherit property throughout . Learn More
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