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Iraq: Repressive Laws Roll Back Rights

January 16, 2025 From Human Rights Watch https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/01/16/iraq-repressive-laws-roll-back-rights (Beirut) – The Iraqi ...

Advocates count 48 femicides in rural Ontario in last 5 years. Here's why women in those areas are at risk

By Isha Bhargava December 27, 2024 From CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/advocates-count-48-femicides-in-rural-ontario-in-l...

Afghan women 'banned from midwife courses' in latest blow to rights

By Flora Drury and Turpekai Gharanai December 3, 2024 From BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3l1035nlo Women training as...

‘No excuse’: A global call to end violence against women

November 25, 2024 From UN News https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1157451 On the 25th anniversary of the International Day for the...

What veteran Army nurses say about their experiences serving in Vietnam

By Kerry Breen November 11, 2024 From CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/veteran-army-nurses-share-experiences/ Between 1967 and 1968,...

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Transforming Pain into Purpose: The Story of Rina Gonoi

October 11, 2024 By Adia From Young Women's Global Action Alliance Every child has a dream — whether it's to be a firefighter, an...

Hundreds rally in the streets of Paris to support world abortion rights

By Diane Jeantet September 28, 2024 From ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/hundreds-rally-streets-paris-support-world-abor...

Women and girls in Sudan disproportionately impacted by ongoing conflict

September 27, 2024 From UN News https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1155056 Women and girls in the midst of the brutal conflict between...

Why Pakistan's female doctors don't feel safe

By Farhat Javed September 24, 2024 From BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y9g751xg4o Women working in hospitals in Pakistan say...

Taliban’s Law Promoting Virtue And Eliminating Vice Or As We Call It - Gender Apartheid

By Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab August 26, 2024 From Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2024/08/26/talibans-law-promoting-virtue-an...

Draft Iraqi law allowing 9-year-olds to marry would ‘legalise child rape’, say activists

By Zainab Al Mashat and Omar Al Jaffal August 9, 2024 From The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/0...

USA: Abortion bans and restrictions cause extensive harm, violate human rights

August 5, 2024 From Amnesty International https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/08/usa-abortion-bans-restrictions-cause-extensive-h...

Mexico's first female president offers little on women's rights

By Diana Baptista June 3, 2024 From Context https://www.context.news/socioeconomic-inclusion/mexicos-first-female-president-offers-lit...

Six months into the war on Gaza, over 10,000 women have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned

April 16, 2024 From UN Women https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-release/2024/04/six-months-into-the-war-on-gaza-over-10000-wom...

Saudi Arabia, Lagging on Women’s Rights, Is to Lead U.N. Women’s Forum

By Vivian Nereim March 28, 2024 From The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-un-women.html...

Ghanaian Woman Entrepreneur is Revolutionizing Transportation–Building Electric Bikes to Improve Air Quality

By Andy Corbley January 24, 2024 From Good News Network https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ghanaian-entrepreneur-is-revolutionizing-transpor...

Sexual violence in Sudan conflict becomes as commonplace as the fighting

By Verity Bowman January 10, 2024 From The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/women-and-girls/sexual-violence-war-sudan-...

Brutal killings of women in Western Balkan countries trigger alarm and expose faults in the system

By Jovana Gec, Sabina Niksic, and Zana Cimili December 5, 2023 From AP News https://apnews.com/article/balkans-violence-women-killings-d1...

‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7

By Jeffrey Gettleman December 28, 2023 From The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-is...

Israeli doctors: Many of 30 released female hostages were assaulted in Gaza

December 22, 2023 From i24 News https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1703254945-israeli-doctors-confirm-that-30-released-female-h...