News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 127
Human Rights Violations and Culture of Impunity in South Asia
- Inter Press Service
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IPS) - As countries across South Asia continue to battle the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, causing serious public health and economic crisis, this region, which is home to almost 2 billion people, is also grappling with the erosion of democratic norms, growing authoritarianism, the crackdown on freedom of press, speech and dissent.
Human Trafficking, Rape, Extortion Behind 'Forced Conversions', say Experts
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Jan 19 (IPS) - Two years after Michelle, 15, was kidnapped, sold, forced to convert to Islam and married to a stranger, relatives still ostracise her.
Key Pillars Mostly in Place to Speed up Africa's Free Trade in 2022
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 19 (IPS) - The official start of free trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in January 2021 moved a major continental aspiration closer to reality.
Adolescents Left Behind Global AIDS Response - Experts Experts
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 18 (IPS) - The ominous warning came in 2019 through an anonymous message on her mobile phone to stay away from a man she met on social media.
Experts decry measures to ‘steadily erase’ Afghan women and girls from public life
- UN News
Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, independent UN human rights experts warned on Monday.
Kenyan Domestic Workers’ Doomed Voyage to the Gulf
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 14 (IPS) - Distress calls from vulnerable Kenyan women in Saudi Arabia experiencing mistreatment and torture at the hands of their employers went from 88 in 2019/2020 to 1,025 just one year later.
Climate Action Incomplete Without Women's Contribution
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 12 (IPS) - Judy Wangari is one of an estimated 800,000 smallholder potato farmers who, according to the National Potato Council of Kenya, contribute at least 83 percent of the total potato production.
Clean Water, Decent Toilets, Hygiene Challenge for Southern African Community
- Inter Press Service
Blantyre, Malawi, Jan 10 (IPS) - The toilets in the maternity wing of Namatapa Health Centre in the populous Bangwe Township in Blantyre, Malawi’s commercial city, fell into disrepair a few years ago. So, pregnant women who come to deliver their babies and their guardians use two pit latrines.
Truth as War Causality? The Case of Ethiopia
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Jan 05 (IPS) - A brutal drama is unfolding in Ethiopia and it is difficult to find straightforward accounts of what is happening there. However, this does not prevent people from taking a unilateral stand for either of the factions involved in the disaster.
Discriminatory Sexual Violence Laws in Latin America Stigmatize Adolescent Victims of Abuse
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 05 (IPS) - Across Latin America and the Caribbean there is a culture of impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence. Crimes against women and girls often go unpunished and under-reported due to societal misconceptions about victimhood and the nature of sex crimes.
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