News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 141
Landmark gender equality forum concludes with concrete commitments, plan to advance parity by 2026
- UN News
With the chief of the UN’s gender empowerment agency declaring that women are still “sitting in the corridors when men are inside at the table negotiating peace”, the historic Generation Equality Forum in Paris concluded on Friday with new commitments designed to address that, and other injustices.
Dalit and Muslim Indian Women Leading Change in South Sudan
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Jul 02 (IPS) - Two Indian women, one Muslim and the other Dalit (former untouchables), separated by culture and geography, have found common ground in leading change in conflict-torn South Sudan.
France Needs More Civil Liberties and Less Hypo-Securitization of Religion
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Jul 01 (IPS) - In 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans for tougher laws to tackle what he called, “Islamist Separatism”, and a crackdown on “radical Islamists” in France, which he said were materializing through repeated deviations from the Republic’s values. To counter this, President Macron announced his plans to create a “French Islam”, a practise of the faith which would be regulated by the state.
Anti-Gay 'Therapy' Offered at Uganda Health Centres Run by Aid-Funded Groups
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Jun 30 (IPS) - At Mulago, Uganda’s biggest public hospital, a receptionist at an HIV clinic for marginalised and ‘most at risk’ populations, including LGBT people, said that an undercover reporter’s 17-year-old gay brother could “quit” his same-sex attraction.
Women must no longer be ‘squeezed into a small corner’, landmark Forum declares
- UN News
In a bid to put gender equality at the heart of COVID recovery, UN Women kicked off a three-day “landmark effort” in Paris on Wednesday, aiming to lay out ambitious investments and policies to bridge the chasm between where women stand in the world today, and where they should be, by 2030.
COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbates Domestic Workers Plight in Bangladesh
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Jun 30 (IPS) - Rani Akter, a mother of five, usually works as a domestic helper in Dhaka’s Zikatola area. When the coronavirus pandemic broke out in Bangladesh last March, her employers asked her not to come to their homes for fear of infection.
“I lost my work in three houses one after the other, which became a nightmare for me. My rich employers did not allow me in their homes as they thought that I might carry the invisible virus,” Akter told IPS.
Generation Equality: Alongside COVID lies an ‘equally horrific pandemic’ threatening women
- UN News
As the world grapples unevenly with the effects of COVID-19, “a parallel and equally horrific pandemic” has threatened half the world’s population, the UN chief said on Tuesday, in the lead up to the Generation Equality Forum in France.
Acceleration Rights Plan for Gender Equality Mooted at Equality Forum
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 28 (IPS) - As the global gathering for gender equality, the Generation Equality Forum, kicks off in Paris on June 30, 2020, IPS conducted an exclusive interview with Katja Iversen.
Towards an Equal Future in Parliaments
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 28 (IPS) - In elections last October in Georgia, women’s share of seats in parliament went up by nearly seven percent, following the enforcement of a 25 percent quota for women candidates.
COVID-19 as Instigator of Bigotry, Chauvinism and Megalomania
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 24 (IPS) - A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By the end of April 2019, a government campaign to vaccinate more than 40 million children under five against polio in Pakistan was suspended after a series of attacks on health workers and police.
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