Women's Rights in the News
News items on women's rights from around the world
COTE D'IVOIRE: Marital equality law sparks controversy
ABIDJAN, 4 December 2012 (IRIN) - The adoption by Côte d'Ivoire’s parliament of a law on equality between legally married couples has sparked anger, especially among religious people. For them, this law will create more problems in the home than it will solve.
Read more...Iran: Women's Right Activists Demonstrate in Tehran for Nasrin Sotoudeh
Scores of Iranian women’s rights activists gathered in front of the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office on Sunday December 2 to call for proper handling of the case of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the jailed lawyer who has been on a hunger strike for close to 50 days.
Read more...France set to enact sweeping changes to sexual equality laws
France is to enact sweeping changes to its sexual equality laws on a par with granting women the vote and legalising abortion, a minister declared on Friday.
Read more...Violence Against Afghan Women “More Extreme”
Following a spate of particularly brutal murders, Afghanistan’s minister for women has said attacks on women are becoming more extreme in nature.
Read more...Equality Pledge For Women
PARLIAMENTARIANS have pledged to remove from the Constitution all forms of discrimination against women.
Read more...Egypt's new constitution limits fundamental freedoms and ignores women's rights
‘It is appalling that virtually the only references to women relate to the home and family’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui
Read more...Uganda LGBT activists: Keep up international pressure against "Kill The Gays" bill
SAN DIEGO – Uganda’s draconian “Kill The Gays” bill is very much alive and well in Parliament, warns two top LGBT activists from that landlocked African nation.
Read more...India: Young woman and her family targeted for attending school
Women's rights organizations in India, led by STEPS Women's Development Organization, Pudukottai, are expressing outrage and demanding accountability in case where a 16-year old girl and her family in Tamil Nadu have become the targets of the local Jamat after defying a diktat to stop sending girls to school after the onset of puberty or class 8.
Read more...Afghan female leaders secure commitment from European Parliamentarians
A delegation of Afghan parliamentarians and female leaders today convinced the Afghan delegation to the European Parliament in Brussels how important it was to monitor the situation of women in the country when the international troops potentially withdraw in 2014.
Read more...Inquiry into Savita Halappanavar's Death Already Tainted
Investigations have been launched into the death of Savita Halappanavar, the Indian woman who died in Ireland after having a miscarriage.
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