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Bangladesh's garment workers face exploitation, but is it slavery?
It may be splitting hairs over what is and is not slavery, but mislabelling paid workers as slaves could harm their cause.
Read more...INDIA: Punish the perpetrators of assault on women Human Rights Defenders in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received very disturbing information regarding the assault on five women human rights defenders working with Sahjani Shiksha Kendra (SSK) in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Read more...Iran's New Penal Code Retains the Punishment of Stoning
Justice for Iran, May 18, 2013| Just days prior to the approval of Iran’s revised penal code, the Guardian Council has once again included the sentence of death by stoning as part of the Islamic Republic’s penal code. During the process of revising the said document, the Islamic Republic Parliament had replaced stoning with execution or lashing. However, adultery remains punishable by stoning in the final draft of the penal code, which the president is expected to give his assent to within the next few days.
Read more...Georgia: Homophobic violence mars Tbilisi Pride event
Police in the Georgian capital Tbilisi failed to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) activists as thousands of people violently attacked a Pride event today in what Amnesty International said was an ineffective response to organized and violent homophobia.
Read more...'The Other' and LGBT Rights in Turkey
In 2009, Dr. Binnaz Toprak, then a professor of political science at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, authored a report titled "Being Different in Turkey: Religion, Conservatism and Otherization." The report, jointly published with the Open Society Foundation in Turkey, demonstrated how the conservative religious politics of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had intensified the sense of "otherness" and marginalization of people "with different identities or preferences."
Read more...Global Advocacy & Communications Officer, PP Global
Planned Parenthood Federation of America. New York, NY, USA.
Read more...Senior Manager, Corporate & Foundations Relations
EngenderHealth. New York, NY, USA.
Read more...Training, Counseling and Gender Advisor, Peru
Cuso International. Iquitos, Loreto, Peru.
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