Showing posts with label women’s rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women’s rights. Show all posts
Friday, 28 June 2019

Kosovar women fight patriarchy - 20 years after the war

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The art installation Thinking Of You, by the Kosovan-born, London-based artist Alketa Mrripa-Xhafa, in Pristina, Kosova – 2015. Photog...
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Monday, 11 March 2019

Iran - human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh sentenced to 33 years in prison.

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Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to a shocking 33 years in prison ...
Tuesday, 11 October 2016

Meet Sakena Yacoobi – Afghanistan’s mother of education

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Sakena Yacoobi in Sayabad learning centre in Afghanistan/  © courtesy of WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education)          ...
Thursday, 25 February 2016

Trouble in Paradise: Solomon Islands’ traditions foster inequality

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Solomon Islands/ credit: olli0815  / bigstock.com --> Solomon Islands , the string of paradise...
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Women refugees face assault, exploitation and sexual harassment journeying through Europe

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These women and girls have fled war in Syria and Iraq, walked for days across  hostile terrains, put their ...
Saturday, 31 October 2015

Gallery Olympe de Gouges in Paris honours women's rights pioneer

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Olympe de Gouges Gallery/credit: Veronique Mistiaen “DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN AND THE FEMALE CITIZEN...
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Monday, 26 January 2015

Morocco - First female Muslim leaders lead quiet revolution

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  This is a little gem I’ve found on the Frontline Club website: Casablanca Calling, a documentary about women leading a quiet ...
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Saturday, 8 March 2014

International Women's Day: Equal pay? Wait 100 years or become a man

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  To protest against unequal pay, Annelie Nordström, President of Sweden’s largest trade union Kommunal...
Thursday, 14 November 2013

Women's Rights in the Arab World - Egypt worst country for women

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Women were supposed to be one of the prime beneficiaries of the Arab Spring, but they have instead been some of the ...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Women Farmers Grow Food and Peace

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--> In periods of affluence, most people get along fine – even when they are from different ethnic or religious backgrounds, ...