Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, (second from left) a human rights activist and co-founder of a widows association in the municipality of Comalapa, Guatemala has spearheaded the construction of a memorial for victims of the conflict in Comalapa. It’s called the “Center for the Historical Memory of Women”. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown For many women around . Learn More
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South Korea – Internet Sexual Images Can Ruin Women’s Lives
June 16, 2021 (Seoul) – Widespread internet posting in South Korea of sexual images of women and girls without their consent is having a devastating impact on the victims, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should be doing more to prevent and respond to these digital sex crimes. The 96-page report, “‘My Life is Not Your Porn’: Digital . Learn More
Disaster Patriarchy: How the Pandemic Has Unleashed a Compounded Crisis for Women
In disaster patriarchy, women lose their safety, their economic power, their autonomy, their education, and they are pushed on to the frontlines, unprotected, to be sacrificed. Illustration: Hanna Barczyk/Purple Rain/The Guardian By V: Formerly Eve Ensler June 1, 2021 - As Covid-19 has swept the world there has been an explosion of violence . Learn More
India – Marginalised Girls Fighting Child Marriage
Priyanka Berwa convinced her parents to put off her marriage and started a movement [Devendra Kumar Sharma/Al Jazeera] By Parth MN 9 Jun 2021 - Rajasthan, India – “I want to study at least up to 12th standard (grade)” was Saira Bano’s heartfelt cry when her parents started looking for a groom for her in October 2020. It had been a tough year . Learn More
Muslim Women Are Using Sharia to Push for Gender Equality
Muslim women in India protesting against the use of Sharia as a tool for oppression. Anjay Purkait/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Sharia is often portrayed as barbaric and particularly regressive in terms of women’s rights. Citing Sharia, lawmakers in some Muslim-majority countries have punished theft with amputation, and sex . Learn More
EU – Protecting the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls
Protecting the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls is a new strategic objective for the Council of Europe’s work to promote gender equality and women’s rights under the Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2023 Many migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls have been exposed to various forms of gender-based violence, . Learn More
Careers have no gender, connect girls to tech, for a brighter future UN urges
ITU/R. Farrell 22 April 2021- Despite information and communication technology playing such a key role throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief said that half the world remains offline, in his message marking International Girls in ICT Day, on Thursday – most of whom are women and girls in developing countries. According to the . Learn More
Africa Young Women’s Manifesto
The Africa Young Women’s Manifesto is a political document that sets out critical issues of concern for young women of Africa and makes demands for addressing them. The Manifesto is the result of five Africa Young Women Beijing+25 Regional Barazas that convened over 1500 participants and over 30 partners with the objectives of FEM: . Learn More
Canada – About 160 Women & Girls Killed in Canada Last Year, Near All by Men
By Alyshah Hasham- Courts Reporter March 17, 2021 - Last year, 160 women and girls were killed in Canada — almost all by men. Where the relationship is known, half the accused killers were current or former partners and a quarter were family members. One in five women and girls killed by a man was Indigenous. The stark numbers shared in . Learn More
Afghanistan – Girls’ Singing Ban Dropped After Activist Outrage
Afghanistan's government has distanced itself from a plan to ban girls from singing after women's rights activists opposed education officials for promoting a "Taliban-like" policy. Afghanistan's Education Ministry is stepping back from a decision released in a memo that would apparently have banned girls older than 12 from singing in public. The . Learn More
Child Marriage Is Rising – In Nepal & Across the World
Sapana, 17, at home in Rapti Sonari, Nepal.Credit...Uma Bista for The New York Times By Bhadra Sharma and Jeffrey Gettleman March 8, 2021 - RAPTI SONARI, Nepal — Sapana dreamed of becoming a government official. Each night, in her hut along a bumpy dirt road, the 17-year-old lit a single solar-powered bulb dangling from the ceiling and hit the . 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
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
UK – Elimination of Tax on Tampons & Other Sanitary Products
“At last the sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as nonessential, luxury items can be consigned to the history books,” one supporter said. Credit-Stefan Wermuth/Reuters By Christina Morales January 1, 2021 - Britain on Friday became the latest country to transform its measures on sanitary products by abolishing the so-called tampon tax, . Learn More
The Hidden Debt of Care – Caregiver Women
Albertina is 15 and the oldest of three sisters. When her mother died she took over responsibility for raising her younger siblings. Now she wants to become a nurse. CHRIS DE BODE/PANOS By Amy Hall – 22 November 2020 It’s an essential ingredient for life. It keeps us fed, nurtured and healthy and enables social systems to function. It’s skilled, . Learn More
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