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Iraqi lawmakers’ proposal to amend the country’s family law and grant religious courts the authority to legalize marriages for underage girls is being pushed by the country’s Shiite parliamentary factions as part of their appeal to conservative voters ahead of …
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Home is one of the most dangerous places on earth for women, a new United Nations report reveals. More than 60 percent of homicides of women are carried out by their intimate partners or by other relatives. The femicide index …
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It was exactly 12 years ago when Malala Yousafzai, now 27, was shot in the head by the Pakistan branch of the Taliban while riding home from school in a bus. On the same day — Oct. 9 — more …
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Throughout the world, sports for women and girls offer main avenues for their overall well-being as well as routes out of poverty, among numerous important benefits. Yet, the “safety, equality and dignity” for female participants in sports can be starkly …
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The new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has not addressed recent violence against unveiled women by the morality police, dampening hopes that his government is going to be much different from that of his ultraconservative, deceased predecessor Ebrahim Raisi, who was …
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A 1959 Iraqi law governing all family-related legal matters faces a proposed change that could allow the marriage of girls as young as nine years old. The draft bill would require couples who are getting married to also choose the …
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For nearly 26 years, Dr. Denis Mukwege, a politically outspoken gynecologist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been running a renowned hospital in a turbulent war zone over mineral resources in the country’s east to heal thousands of …
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Michelle Bachelet, a two-time president of Chile and ex-UN high commissioner for human rights, is the winner of our informal survey on which woman should be the next United Nations secretary-general, starting in the five-year term on Jan. 1, 2027. …
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BUGHENDERA, Uganda — In this East African country, many young women’s dreams of earning a university degree and pursuing a career are being shattered because they can’t access the contraceptives they need to avoid getting pregnant before they are ready …
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Women
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In the Taliban’s Afghanistan, it’s not uncommon for three women to share a hospital bed. Nor is it rare for premature babies to share incubators. This occurs in the most developed city, the capital of Kabul, and all over the …
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Every year, women’s equal roles in peace talks are highlighted in October at the United Nations. This time, the women, peace and security agenda, as it’s known, got attention outside the UN, near the steps to its main entrance on …
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Only 21 of the 192 speakers participating at the annual “high level” week of the United Nations General Assembly in September were women, a far cry from the UN’s gender equality ambitions included in the Sustainable Development Goals. Some of …
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“I became a diplomat by accident,” Cambodia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Sophea Eat, said. Yet her rise in the world of diplomacy is also a story of survival, hard work and resilience. Eat, 58, sat down with PassBlue at …
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