Women were banned from education, work and public life during the Taliban's previous rule 20 years ago [File: Petros Giannakouris/AP] 17 Jan 2022 - Girls’ schools across Afghanistan will hopefully reopen by late March, a senior Taliban leader has told the Associated Press, offering the first timeline for the resumption of high schools for girls . Learn More
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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
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
African Perspective: Women’s Rights as Human Rights
By Leonida Odongo - Kenya The Maputo Protocol[1] outlines various rights in relation to women. These include Non discrimination against women where it calls for equality between men and women and integration of gender perspective in policy decisions, legislation, development plans and activities. Article 27 of the Constitution affirms the right . Learn More
Afghanistan – Taliban Says Women Not Able to Travel Without a Male Relative Chaperone
In another blow to women's rights, Afghan women will only be able to travel short distances unaccompanied.(AFP: Sajjad Hussain) December 26, 2021 - Afghanistan's Taliban authorities say women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative. The guidance, . Learn More
Afghanistan – The Tradition of Afghan Girls Who Live as Boys, May Be Threatened
Ali, 14, wears jeans and a shirt while her sister Setar, 16, wears a traditional outfit for men, in Kabul, in a practice known as "bacha posh.” Analysis by Lisa Selin Davis September 4, 2021 (CNN)The last time the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, after the Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s, life for women and girls was ghastly. As a report from the . Learn More
Afghanistan – Taliban Imposes New Dress Code, Segregation Of Women, At Private Afghan Universities
Afghan women take part in a protest for their rights under the Taliban in downtown Kabul on September 3. September 06, 2021 – By Frud Bezhan KABUL -- The Taliban has imposed a new dress code and gender segregation for women at private universities and colleges in Afghanistan, in line with a decree issued to educational institutions and obtained . Learn More
Societies That Treat Women Badly Are Poorer & Less Stable
Via Professor Valerie M. Hudson Basra and Tororo - September 11, 2021. "A woman who drives a car will be killed,” says Sheikh Hazim Muhammad al-Manshad. He says it matter-of-factly, without raising his voice. The unwritten rules of his tribe, the al-Ghazi of southern Iraq, are clear. A woman who drives a car might meet a man. The very possibility . Learn More
Kyrgyzstan – Women Kidnapped, Raped, Wed Against Their Will
Dinara struggles as a relative of the man who abducted her tries to force a white scarf on to her head, signifying her submission to his demands to be married. Dinara, 22, finally accepted her lot, saying: ‘This is our tradition.’ Photograph: Noriko Hayashi/Panos May 30, 2021 - Aisuluu was returning home after spending the afternoon with her aunt . Learn More
Bangladesh – Solar-Powered Floating Schools – Girls
About the Project 12-23-2020 - The non-profit organization Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha introduced solar-powered floating schools in Bangladesh to ensure children’s uninterrupted education even during the height of the monsoon. In addition to ‘Transforming Education’, the initiative was judged to have best provided innovative financing of primary . 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
Launch of the Global Observatory for Women, Sport, Physical Education
Lausanne, July 9th, 2021: the Global Observatory for Women, Sport, Physical Education and Physical Activity has been established as an incubating association in Lausanne, Switzerland, with UNESCO’s support. Thanks to the commitment of the Swiss authorities, including the Canton of Vaud, the City of Lausanne and the University of Lausanne, this . Learn More
Afghanistan – As Troops & Diplomats Leave, Remember Women’s & Girls’ Rights
Countries retreating from Afghanistan show little concern for the dark future they are leaving behind for women and girls. Let us not look away. By Nadia Hashimi July 1, 2021- With foreign troops and diplomats hastily fleeing Afghanistan and humanitarian aid withering, Afghan women face rapidly escalating crises of health, education, and violence . Learn More
Child Marriage & Domestic Violence: Study in 16 African Countries
By Anthony Idowu Ajayi * – The Conversation June 3, 2021 - The number of girls who marry before their 15th birthday has remained unchanged for 20 years in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has the highest rate of child marriage, with nearly four in 10 girls married before age 18. In Niger, for example, over 77% of girls are married . Learn More
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