Issues and Analysis
3rd National Meeting of Women Human Rights Defenders: Public Statement
On the 25thand 26th of January, the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) convened a meeting of more than 60 indigenous, rural and mestiza WHRDs. Dedicated to the defense and promotion of the human rights of women, they gathered from diverse regions of the country for the Third National Meeting of Women Human Rights Defenders.
Read more...The Digital Safety Gap and the Online Harassment of Women
Men Who Hate Women was the original language name of The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo. When the book was to be published in English the name was changed.
Read more...Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault condemns the attacks on women in Tahrir Square on Friday January 25th
These attacks represent a startling escalation of violence against women in Tahrir Square in terms of the number of incidents and the extremity of the violence which took place.
Read more...Russian Parliament Confronts Next Threat to Kids: “Homosexual Propaganda”
The Russian parliament's valiant effort to defend the nation's children continues. In the last year, Duma deputies have labored feverishly to shield Russia's youth from child pornography and online enticements to drug use and suicide (creating an Internet blacklist to ban such material), and—more recently—they passed a law to put an end to the scourge of American adoptions of Russian orphans.
Read more...Japan Values Women Less – As It Needs Them More
Despite anti-discrimination laws and a steadily growing number of employed women, Japan is falling behind the rest of the world on gender equality. Widespread discrimination persists, and has only grown more subtle over the past years.
Read more...Have governments or advocates failed domestic workers in Saudi Arabia?
On Wednesday January 9, 2013 a young woman in Saudi Arabia was executed by the government in a case that has brought together global advocates, agencies and governments. The campaign to save her life lasted almost 7 years.
Read more...Death sentence and detentions raise profile of rape in Somalia
The recent execution in Somalia of a soldier convicted of rape and the detention of a journalist investigating sexual assault have given the traditionally taboo issue of gender-based violence an usual degree of prominence.
Read more...No Plan B: Why Is the Indian Health Service Denying Native American Women Access to Emergency Contraception?
“No, ma’am,” says the pharmacy tech over the phone at the Choctaw Nation’s health clinic in Hugo, Okla., when I ask if the clinic carries emergency contraception.
Read more...Africa: Malawi’s women stand up for healthcare rights under HIV/AIDS
(WNN) Lilongwe, MALAWI, AFRICA: For women across the African nation of Malawi, the new appointment of President Joyce Banda is an exciting indicator of change. With President Banda’s history as an advocate, rural African women often caught in the cycle of severe poverty and hardship hope that this new president will be a sympathetic ally in the fight for women, and their families, to receive greater access to education, healthcare, opportunity and human rights.
Read more...Defeating Invisibility: A Challenge for Afro-descendant Women in Colombia"
As women and Afro-descendant, the women from the Black Communities’ Process in Colombia (Proceso de Comunidades Negras en Colombia–PCN), join the call to see violence against women as a human rights problem that has a multi-dimensional character.
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