Issues and Analysis
US Embassy in Tel Aviv excludes Palestinians from reception honoring the LGBT community in Israel
Aswat- Palestinian Gay Women was recently invited to attend a reception hosted by the US Embassy in honor of the LGBTQI community in Israel, planned for Thursday 16th May. Enquiring about speakers at the event, Aswat learned that no Palestinian LGBTQI activists had been approached to speak, and that only Jewish Israeli campaigners were invited to speak. Despite requests on our part to be included in the list of speakers, the Embassy repeatedly made the excuse that arrangements had been finalized and that there had not been room to include us in the list of speakers.
Read more...Ethiopian woman fights for rights in Middle East
The issue of domestic workers’ rights in the Middle East has plagued Ethiopian women for years, with ongoing reports of abuse, neglect and sexual violence often coming to the forefront of media across the region.
Read more...New Rule for State-Paid Childbirth Stirs Discontent in Armenia
A government decree in Armenia that bars pregnant women who are not residents of Yerevan from receiving free childbirth services in the capital is causing discontent in outlying regions.
Read more...Women’s Rights Still Denied in Latin America
Latin American states are still failing to provide guarantees for women’s educational, sexual and reproductive rights, according to activists from different regions of the world meeting in the Mexican capital.
Read more..."No Justice? No Peace!" The Women Absent from Colombia's Peace Talks
“No Justice? No Peace!” Never has this chant, which I have heard so often at anti-war rallies, felt so real to me as during the last few months observing the ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas.
Read more...Little support, no justice for Mali rape survivors
During the rebel takeover of northern Mali in April 2012, many women said they were subjected to rape or sexual assault.
Read more...Migration in the UN – the World’s Hot Potato
This year’s 46th session of the UN Commission on Population and Development took place between 21 and 26th April 2013 and reviewed the theme “New trends in migration: demographic aspects”.
Read more...Ireland’s Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill: 21 Years After X, Business As Usual?
In the wake of the tragic and preventable death of Savita Halappanavar, Irish politicians promised that this government would ‘not become the seventh to “neglect and ignore” the issue of the Supreme Court ruling abortion on the X Case’.
Read more...To stop sexual violence, it’s time to look in the mirror
The world is waking up to the fact that sexual violence is wreaking havoc on the lives of women and communities in conflict zones—and poses a real threat to lasting peace.
Read more...Violence against indigenous women and the twofold challenge
Militarisation of indigenous territories force women to face unconscionable abuses based on gender discrimination.
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