Issues and Analysis
Grace Ushang’s Death and the Indecent Dressing Bill
by Asma’u Joda & Iheoma Obibi
Grace Ushang was a young Nigerian woman who had every right to expect a bright future. Now she is dead merely because she was female.
Read more...Rural Poverty Has a Woman's Face
Some transformations occur so imperceptibly that people only become aware of them when the new reality has set in. That’s exactly what happened in Mexico’s countryside, where economic and social conditions have combined to put rural production largely in the hands of women.
Read more...In a Guinea Seized by Violence, Women Are Prey
Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium here last week, with victims and witnesses describing rapes, beatings and acts of intentional humiliation.
Read more...Health Expectations - Celebrating Achievements of the Cairo Consensus and Highlighting the Urgency for Action.
On the occasion of ICPD +15 UNFPA and the Population Reference Bureau are very happy to launch the publication: Health Expectations - Celebrating Achievements of the Cairo Consensus and Highlighting the Urgency for Action.
Read more...Religion, Politics and Gender Equality in Turkey: Confrontation, Coexistence or Transformation?
UNRISD - This is the Final Research Report on Turkey in the Religion, Politics and Gender Equality Project.
Read more...Pakistan: The proliferation of madrassas is posing a threat to Sindh’s non-violent Sufi landscape
Importing Intolerance
"I have had nothing to eat since last night; Ghazi Baba has stopped feeding us and deprived us by closing his doors,” says a 60-year-old woman who has been living at the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi for the last 20 years. The shrine was shut down by the police on June 18, 2009, after it received a terrorist threat.
Read more...Indonesia: New law in Aceh makes adultery punishable by stoning
17/09/2009: The Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) international solidarity network and the Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women (SKSW Campaign) are gravely concerned to learn of a set of regressive new laws introduced in Aceh, Indonesia on 14 September 2009.
Read more...Iran's One Million Signatures Campaign Member Jelveh Javaheri Receives Six Month Sentence as Protections for Prisoners' Rights Continue to Deteriorate
October 5, 2009 - One Million Signatures campaign activist Jelveh Javaheri has been issued a six month prison sentence by Iran's Revolutionary Courts for her participation in a peaceful protest on June 12, 2008.
Read more...Sudanese authorities must abolish the punishment of flogging and repeal discriminatory laws
Police in Khartoum stormed into a restaurant on 5 July and arrested 13 girls and women for wearing trousers in public. After two days in custody, 10 of the women, who were not represented by lawyers, were found guilty of indecency.
Read more...Religion and Healthcare in the European Union: Policy Issues and Trends
The Equal Rights Trust is pleased to announce the publication of Religion and Healthcare in the European Union: Policy Issues and Trends, a policy research report commissioned by the Network of European Foundations, in the framework of its ‘Religion and Democracy in Europe’ initiative. The report presents an analytical discussion of health policy issues on which religion has an impact.
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