Bakers Delight is a large Australian-owned bakery franchise chain with outlets in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. A Bakers Delight ad depicting two tween age girls bound and gagged to promote lemon tarts. The photo was sent to Collective Shout by a supporter, who saw the image at Currambine Central shopping centre in Perth. The chilling . Learn More
Pakistan – Abduction, Forced Conversion & Marriage of Age 13 Girl – Call for Legal Reforms
Rita Raja, pictured here with her children, holds up photos of her 13-year-old who had allegedly been abducted and forced to covert her religion and marry her 44-year-old Muslim neighbour. Credit: Zofeen T. Ebrahim/IPS By Zofeen EbrahimReprint | KARACHI, Pakistan, Nov 4 2020 (IPS) - October 13 began like any other day at the Lal house as Raja . Learn More
Afghanistan – Police Woman Shot, Blinded, for Getting a Job
Khatera, 33, an Afghan police woman who was blinded after a gunmen attack in Ghazni province - REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail By Abdul Qadir Sediqi November 10, 2020 - KABUL (Reuters) - The last thing 33-year-old Khatera saw were the three men on a motorcycle who attacked her just after she left her job at a police station in Afghanistan’s central . Learn More
India – The March for Rights of Women Farmers
A woman reaps wheat crops during the harvest season near Raispur village in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh. (PTI Photo/Arun Sharma) By Asmita Bakshi – October 31, 2020 Kudiya ta chidiya hundiya ne; par parr ni hunde kudiya de. Peke vi hunde ne, te sohre vi hunde ne; par ghar ni hunde kudiya de. Harinder Bindu, 42, a farmer and women’s . Learn More
USA – Kamala Harris Makes History as the First Woman & Woman of Color to Be US Vice President
Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Kamala Harris at their first joint appearance after she was announced as his running mate .Photo - Erin Schaff/The New York Times By Lisa Lerer and Sydney Ember Nov. 7, 2020 - From the earliest days of her childhood, Kamala Harris was taught that the road to racial justice was long. She spoke often on the campaign trail . Learn More
Mexico – Indigenous Women Address Gender Inequality Through Community Radio
October 15, 2020 — Women from the Mé Phaa Indigenous community of San Miguel El Progreso, Mexico, have learned more about how they can address gender inequality through a series of workshops on community radio, leadership, and visual arts, as well as documentary screenings – all part of a project supported by WACC Global and Cultural . Learn More
Kenya – Defiance Against Anti-FGM Law
A still from a video posted on Twitter showing girls who have undergone FGM being paraded through the street. Photograph: Twitter By Peter Muiruri 21 October 2020 - Kenya has seen a setback in its progress to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) after an open parade in defiance of the government clampdown on the practice took place this . Learn More
Israel – Conscientious Military Service Objector Woman Begins 3rd Sentence in Prison – Objects to Policies Towards Palestinians
Israeli conscientious Objector Hallel Rabin., Photo: Mesarvot // +972 Magazine October 29, 2020 - Israeli conscientious objector Hallel Rabin began serving a 25-day sentence in military prison on Wednesday for refusing to join the Israeli army over its policies toward the Palestinians. Rabin, 19, from Kibbutz Harduf in northern Israel, arrived at . Learn More
Pakistan – Solidarity with Women Journalists & Call for End to Online Violence Against Women
Islamabad, 12 August 2020 - Media Matters for Democracy expresses solidarity with the women journalists who have called out online violence they face on a regular basis on social media platforms. A statement released by a group of women journalists on 12th August highlights a culture of hateful speech, incitement, harassment, and doxxing that . Learn More
African First Ladies Peace Mission Calls for Greater Protection, Equal Opportunity & Celebrates The Girl Child
The African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM), known by its French Acronym MIPREDA, is a product of the World’s 4th Women Conference organized by the United Nations in Beijing, China in 1995, otherwise known as the Beijing Conference. The AFLPM in its conceptualization, is designed as an umbrella body of wives of African Heads of State/Presidents . Learn More
USA – Latina Women’s Wage Gap Surpasses that of Women in All Other Racial Groups
Alistair Berg | DigitalVision | Getty Images In 2020, Latina Equal Pay Day is Oct. 29, marking how far into the new year Latinas have to work to earn the same pay white, non-Hispanic men earned the previous year. When translated into a dollar amount, Latinas today earn, on average, just $0.55 for every dollar earned by White men, leaving them . Learn More
Iran – Female Bicyclist Angers Hard-Liners by Riding Without Her Hijab
Hard-liners have taken to the streets of the conservative Iranian city of Najafabad to condemn this woman for riding a bicycle without wearing a veil. October 23, 2020 - By Golnaz Esfandiari A young Iranian woman who rode a bicycle without wearing a hijab has spurred angry protests by hard-liners in Najafabad, a conservative city in Iran’s . Learn More
Coronavirus: Why Are Women Paying a Heavier Price?
Women and girls have been disproportionately hit by COVID-19 as the pandemic worsens existing gender inequality. [Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera] By Virginia Pietromarchi 11 September 2020 - Humanitarian crises can affect the lives of men and women differently – and the coronavirus pandemic is no exception. Women have shown better . Learn More
Women – Organized Crime – Corruption
Corruption & Gender: Women & Men Affected Differently by Corruption Abu Dhabi, 18 December - Corruption disproportionately affects vulnerable populations and hits the poor the hardest, especially women, who represent a higher share of the world's poor. In society, gender commonly delineates divisions of labour, control over resources and . Learn More
ONLINE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & CYBER BULLYING Virtual Webinar – Thursday November 5, 2020
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