News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 123
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Women Lighting the Way in Off-Grid Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
Harare, Zimbabwe, Mar 04 (IPS) - Electricity transmission lines run through Chiedza Murindo’s home in Murombedzi, a small town in Zvimba district in Mashonaland West province, but her house has no electricity. That is the harsh reality for much of Zimbabwe’s rural population, where only 13% of households live without power compared to 83% of urban households.
International Women's Day, 2022 - War, Autocrats and Fossil Fuels – Women on the Front Line
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Canada, Mar 04 (IPS) - For decades women’s demands for political and economic inclusion have placed them centre-stage in mass struggles against dictatorships across the world. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its indiscriminate attacks on civilians now put women’s movements firmly on the front line of war, autocrats and fossil fuels.
Canada urged to amend transgenerational discriminatory Indian Act
- UN News
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) called on Thursday, for Canada to fully address long-standing gender-based discrimination in its Indian Act, which continues to affect tens of thousands of descendants of indigenous women today.
Women Bear the Brunt of Post-COVID Employment Woes in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Mar 03 (IPS) - The COVID-19 pandemic did not hit everyone equally and employment has shown a clear gender-differentiated impact. Two years after the start of the pandemic, it is more difficult for women than men to recover their jobs, and this is clearly reflected in Latin America.
International Women's Day, 2022 - Women are the Answer to Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Mar 03 (IPS) - When countries improve their Global ranking, there is rejoicing within the community that progress has been made at last.. but has it and why does it matter ?
International Womens Day, 2022 - Sexual Violence Laws are Failing Adolescents
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Mar 03 (IPS) - At Equality Now, we have been on a years-long journey to track and analyze sexual violence laws and their implementation around the world. This work was born after working with survivors of sexual violence for over two decades and observing that women and girls reported similar barriers to justice regardless of where they were from.
Young Argentine Women Forge a Future in Cooperative Factory
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 02 (IPS) - "We started making shampoos and soaps in the kitchen of a friend’s house in 2017. We were five or six girls without jobs, looking for a collective solution, and today we are here," says Letsy Villca, standing between the white walls of the spacious laboratory of Maleza Cosmética Natural, a cooperative that brings together 44 women in their early twenties in the Argentine capital.
COVID-19: Depression, anxiety soared 25 per cent in a year
- UN News
In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global rates of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25 per cent, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Women Demanding Justice & Peace in the Streets of Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 02 (IPS) - This will be the second International Women’s Day since the brutal coup erupted in Myanmar – and women remain fiercely in the lead in demanding justice and peace in the streets and behind closed doors.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Collective Solutions to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Climate Action
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 02 (IPS) - The devastating effects of climate change continue to disproportionately affect women and girls in the poorest regions, who have contributed the least to global warming.
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