Representative Image (Photo Credit: Reuters) Kabul [Afghanistan], April 8, 2022 (ANI): Religious scholars once again called on the Taliban to reopen all girls’ schools in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and said there was no legal justification for banning girls above sixth grade from going to school. “In light of the guidance of the holy religion of . Learn More
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Afghanistan – Taliban Have Detained 29 Women & Their Families in Kabul, Says Envoy
Taliban fighters walk at the frozen Qargha Lake, near Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP By Emma Graham-Harrison 12 February 2022 - The Taliban have detained 29 women and their families in Kabul, a senior US diplomat said on Saturday, adding to concerns about rising numbers of people seized and held indefinitely . Learn More
India Karnataka State – Debate & Protests on Hijabs in School & Minority Rights – Court to Decide
Muslim women demonstrating in Bangalore, in the Indian state of Karnataka, on Monday. Credit...Manjunath Kiran/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Suhasini Raj and Emily Schmall February 11, 2022 - UDUPI, India — An Indian court has said that students in the southern state of Karnataka should stop wearing religious garments in class until it . Learn More
EU – Feminism & Women’s Rights Movements
There are people who believe that we do not need feminism today, but nothing could be further from the truth. Women have struggled for equality and against oppression for centuries, and although some battles have been partly won - such as the right to vote and equal access to education – women are still disproportionally affected by all forms of . Learn More
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Afghanistan – Taliban Says All Afghan Girls May Be Back in School by March – Uncertainties Remain
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
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
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