Women's Rights in the News
News items on women's rights from around the world
Women Secure a Third of Mexican Parliament
Female candidates are poised to occupy an unprecedented third of the seats in Mexico’s bicameral parliament when preliminary results for the Jul.1 election are confirmed.
Read more...Activists slam government inaction over women’s rights
BEIRUT: Women’s rights campaigners voiced Monday their frustration over the government’s inaction over key issues, namely equal citizenship rights and protection from domestic violence.
Read more...New Hotline in Kenya launched
Kenyan activists launched a hotline in Nairobi called "Aunty Jane”. This hotline shares information about how women can safely have an abortion using misoprostol, and to prevent post-partum hemorrhage (PPH – dangerous bleeding after giving birth).
Read more...Bomb kills head of women's affairs in Afghan east
A regional head of women's affairs was targeted and killed by a car bomb in Afghanistan's east on Friday, officials said, the latest act of brazen violence against women in the country.
Read more...Australia Muslim women’s group lashes out at polygamy claims
An Australian Muslims women’s organization has fought back against an Islamic cleric in the country telling women to accept polygamy if their husband wants to take another wife.
Read more...Mississippi anti-abortion-rights law upheld -- and clinic can stay open
A federal judge upheld Mississippi's anti-abortion-rights law Friday, but said the state's only clinic can stay open and will not face any penalties as it tries to comply with the new mandate.
Read more...Women's participation in the diplomatic negotiations on an ATT
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 calls for increased women’s participation in decision-making processes that relate to peace. The negotiation of an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is one such process as its goal, in the perspective of many, is to save lives.
Read more...Saudi Arabia to send female athletes to Olympics for first time
Every country competing at the London Games will include female athletes for the first time in Olympic history after Saudi Arabia agreed Thursday to send two women to compete in judo and track and field.
Read more...Human rights in Lebanese women's prisons gains EU support
The Head of the Delegation of the European Union (EU), Ambassador Angelina Eichhorst, and General Joseph Douaihy, Commander of the Gendarmerie, today launched, in the central women's prison in Baabda the EU-funded project “Promoting Human Rights Policy and Practice in Lebanese Women's Prisons.”
Read more...Afghans protest public slaying of woman
Dozens of men and women took to the streets of Kabul on Wednesday to protest the recent public slaying of an Afghan woman accused of adultery whose gruesome, execution-style killing was captured on video.
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