Women’s Rights
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Rethinking Talks with the Taliban
The diplomatic agenda should be more focused, with issues like security cooperation and economic stability insulated from a main track…
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Friday essay: ‘too many Aboriginal babies’ – Australia’s secret history of Aboriginal population control in the 1960s
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article may contain images of deceased people. The Conversation It contains…
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Japan Broadens Ban on Restraints of Jailed Women in Labor
Government Should Further Expand Prohibition on Restraining Pregnant People During a Diet session last week, Japan’s Ministry of Justice announced…
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Irish voters overwhelmingly reject proposed changes to constitution
Ireland has overwhelmingly rejected proposed changes to references on family and women in its constitution, delivering a rebuke to a…
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The Taliban and the Global Backlash Against Women’s Rights
They have systematically violated the rights of women and girls including as they relate to education, paid employment, freedom of…
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Protect Women with Disabilities from Violence in Mexico
Imagine being trapped with someone who is violent and abusive towards you and having no way to escape Carlos Ríos…
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Nobel peace prize: Narges Mohammadi wins on behalf of thousands of Iranian women struggling for human rights
Mohammadi is serving multiple prison sentences in Evin prison in Tehran on charges which include spreading propaganda against the state.…
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An Opportunity to Remedy Inequality in Pakistan
The Sindh provincial government in Pakistan has taken an important step to mitigate harm from last year’s devastating floods and also provide…
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The Taliban’s war on women in Afghanistan must be formally recognized as gender apartheid
Since then, Afghan women have been denied the most basic human rights in what can only be described as gender apartheid. Vrinda…
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Easier access to the medical abortion pill is a good thing. But it’s just one step in the fight for reproductive justice in Australia
For a very long time, women have been indoctrinated to think that anything they get, no matter how small, they…
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“I Don’t Want to Disappear”: How Mexico’s Criminal Violence Reshapes Women’s Lives
The state has taken some steps to address this crisis, but it can do much more. Angélica Ospina-Escobar ICG Two…
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The Whitlam government gave us no-fault divorce, women’s refuges and childcare. Australia needs another feminist revolution
Australia’s history of women and political rights is, to put it mildly, chequered. Angela Woollacott The Conversation It enfranchised (white)…
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El Salvador: Court Hears Case on Total Abortion Ban
Inter-American Court Ruling Could Set Precedent in Latin America and the Caribbean HRW (Washington, DC) – An Inter-American Court of…
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Iran probes ‘deliberate’ poisoning of schoolgirls across the country
Iranian authorities say they are investigating the poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls across the country. Aina J. Khan NBCnews The mysterious incidents may…
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Taliban Restrictions on Women’s Rights Deepen Afghanistan’s Crisis
Yet the principled response remains to mitigate the harm these harsh rulings are doing to the most vulnerable Afghans. ICG…
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Afghanistan: single women and widows are struggling to find their next meal under Taliban restrictions
She has an 18-year-old daughter who is blind and a 20-year-old son who lost both legs in a mine blast.…
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