Women’s Rights
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Report due on ‘failings’ for fatal family
NSW Coroner Teresa O’Sullivan is due to release her findings and recommendations on Wednesday into the deaths of Jack and…
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Three women in Istanbul
I am quite certain that I never will. Nicholas Karides It is a city that conjures two key references for…
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‘We tried it the other way’: Morrison and ministers push Liberals to adopt quotas
Separately, a hunt is on for Coalition staff involved in sharing videos of lewd acts performed in Parliament House and…
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We know what it takes to raise men who don’t rape, so why don’t we act on it?
Most contemporary men, and most teenage boys thankfully, are caring and ethical. Steve Biddulph The Age They like and value…
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‘We have a simple solution’: Lawyer for locked up Dubai princess Sheikha Latifa pushes for her release
The lawyer for a daughter of Dubai’s ruler has urged the Gulf emirate to release the young woman from almost…
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Anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations
Our thoughts are with the Stolen Generations, the men and women in our program and everyone affected by the past…
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‘They thought I was so low’: Women say they were harassed, bullied, ignored at powerful water agency
But she said that dream shattered one day on a van ride with a group of co-workers — all men…
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Family of girl, 12, forced to marry abductor condemn Pakistan authorities
The family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six…
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Asylum seeker rights ‘under attack’ at Europe’s borders, UN warns
The UN voiced alarm at increasingly frequent pushbacks and expulsions of refugees at Europe’s borders, warning that the very idea…
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‘Hear me now’: Australian of the Year Grace Tame’s speech in full
She told ABC’s News Breakfast she could feel the atmosphere in the room. ABC “And the feeling was reconnection, the…
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‘Nowhere is safe’: Colombia confronts alarming surge in femicides
When authorities pulled the lifeless body of four-year-old María Ángel Molina out of a river in rural Colombia on 13 January,…
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Irish prime minister to make formal apology over deaths of 9,000 children at Catholic-run care homes
The report, which covered 18 so-called Mother and Baby Homes where young pregnant women were hidden from society for decades,…
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South Korean court orders Japan to compensate 12 Korean sex slaves from WWII
The landmark ruling is set to rekindle animosities between the Asian neighbours — Japan immediately protested, maintaining that all wartime…
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Saudi activist who campaigned for women’s right to drive to be released from prison within months
A Saudi court has handed prominent activist Loujain al-Hathloul a prison term of five years and eight months for terrorism-related…
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Saudi activist who campaigned for women’s right to drive sentenced to nearly six years in prison
A Saudi court sentenced prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to nearly six years in prison, her family said, after…
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Fear of child removal preventing Indigenous women from reporting family violence
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are not reporting family violence for fear of having children removed, according to new…
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