Women's Rights in the News
News items on women's rights from around the world
Younger girls forced into prostitution in economic crisis: conference
(Reuters) - Younger and younger girls are being dragged into prostitution because of the global economic crisis, a conference on women's rights was told on Wednesday.
Read more...Tunisian Activists Launch Campaign to End Violence against Women Farah Samti
The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD) is commemorating the International Day to End Violence against Women through a campaign to raise awareness about women’s rights across the country. The day is celebrated worldwide on November 25.
Read more...Arab Spring to take years to improve women's rights - activists
(Reuters) - The Arab Spring has failed to deliver greater political power to women in the region or to offer them better protection from sexual harassment, but may yet yield female-friendly reform, a conference on women's rights heard on Tuesday.
Read more...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.
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