Women's Rights in the News
News items on women's rights from around the world
Northern League’s Regional Presidents Reject RU486 – “Not in our Hospitals” Says Zaia
MILAN, ITALY – Distribution of the RU486 pill in Italy has started, and so have the arguments. Since Thursday morning, health authorities and hospital pharmacies have been able to order the “morning-after” abortion pill.
Read more...Women Make Progress But Honour Killings Persist
AMMAN, Apr 22, 2010 (IPS) - Earlier this month, a 33-year-old man was charged with hammering his wife to death and dumping her body on the highway leading to the Queen Alia International Airport. The husband confessed to murdering her ''to defend his honour,’’ as she was meeting a male friend.
Read more...Rights Activist Dis-invited as Keynote Speaker on Violence Against Women Due to Right Wing Pressure
Statement by Charlotte Bunch, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University
Read more...10-year-old's pregnancy fuels Mexican abortion debate
Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- A pregnant 10-year-old, allegedly raped by her stepfather, has become the latest lightning rod in the country's heated abortion debate.
Read more...Pakistan Edges Closer to Banning Domestic Violence
Pakistan edges closer to banning domestic violence, even as Islamists warn of 'chaos'
Read more...Tories leave abortion out of G8 plan
“Canada’s contribution will not include funding abortion” in G-8 programs
Read more...Errant priests’ secret children to sue church
When Pat Bond told her lover Henry Willenborg, a Franciscan priest, that she was pregnant, he urged her to have an abortion.
Read more...Indonesia Upholds Controversial Blasphemy Law
JAKARTA — After months of hearings and protests from both sides, Indonesia’s Constitutional Court ruled Monday that a 45-year-old law banning religious blasphemy was constitutional and would remain on the books.
Read more...Mexico rejects church criticism of sex education
MEXICO CITY — Mexican educators and officials defended the country's public school sex education Friday from criticism by a Roman Catholic bishop who said such teachings make celibacy vows more difficult for priests to keep.
Read more...Vatican press release on Bertone's statement A Clumsy Disavowal as worse as Bertone's words
Brussels, 14 April 2010 - Today's statement by the spokesperson of the Vatican Press Room, Federico Lombardi, seems to disavow clumsily Tarcisio Bertone's outrageous comparison between paedophilia and homosexuality. Federico Lombardi said that “the Church authorities do not believe it to be their competence to make general statements of a specific psychological or medical nature” adding that these are to be looked for in the specialised literature.
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