News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 5
LIECHTENSTEIN: ‘We Have One of the Strictest Abortion Bans in Europe’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses struggles for abortion rights in Liechtenstein with Gabriella Alvarez-Hummel, a journalist and reproductive rights activist who works with Fristenlösung für Liechtenstein, an organisation that campaigns for the introduction of a legal time-limit abortion model.
UNICEF Report Underscores Rising Rates of Tech-Facilitated Sexual Abuse Targeting Children
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, September 3 (IPS) - A new report from UNICEF finds that approximately 1 in 5 of all children surveyed reported facing tech-facilitated sexual abuse or exploitation in a single year.
Gloria Steinem: A voice for women, to the very end
- UN News
Gloria Steinem, the journalist and women's rights campaigner who became one of the most influential voices of the feminist movement, has died at the age of 92. In an announcement on Instagram, her family said she had passed away on Wednesday at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her.
‘I am one who dies for life, not one who lives for death’ – Kurdish Political Prisoner Pakhshan Azizi
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, September 1 (IPS) - In 2024, Kurdish social worker Pakhshan Azizi was sentenced to death. She remains incarcerated in Evin Prison, Tehran, Iran. This is her story …
Family Planning and Population Dynamics Are Key to Water Security
- Inter Press Service
OTTAWA, Canada, August 28 (IPS) - This week is World Water Week, the annual conference of governments, business, and civil society on building a water-secure future as global population, climate disruptions, and water demand increase. In Washington, it’s also Water Resources Development Act season, when every two years the US Congress reauthorizes the legilslation that funds US drinking water, wastewater systems, and flood risk management projects.
Lailuma Built Opportunities for Afghan Women – Then She Was Killed
- Inter Press Service
FAYZABAD, Afghanistan, August 21 (IPS) - Afghanistan has seen a number of unexplained murders in recent months.One of the latest victims is Lailuma, the wife of well-known local singer Salam Maftoon and a community activist.
How the Taliban Hunt Women in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
ROME, August 20 (IPS) - FIVE years after the Taliban returned to power, Fawzia Koofi, the former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, denounces what she describes as “gender apartheid.”
Nairobi Biodiversity Talks Set the Stage for Key COP17 Decisions
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, August 18 (IPS) - Despite record participation in global biodiversity reporting and planning processes, countries remain off track to meet the world’s 2030 biodiversity goals, according to discussions that concluded this month at two key meetings under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
How Global Aid Cuts are Undermining Women-Led Humanitarian Response in Sudan
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 17 (IPS) - Women-led and women’s rights organizations (WLOs) in humanitarian settings are collapsing amidst a complicated predicament in which needs are surging and international support is dwindling.
PARAGUAY: ‘Transparency Should Strengthen Democracy, Not Turn Criticism of Those in Power into a Cause for Suspicion’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses the challenges posed by Paraguay’s ‘anti-NGO law’ with Hugo González, executive director of the Paraguayan Network of LGBTQ+ Artists (REPAR+), a civil society organisation (CSO) that promotes the rights of LGBTQI+ people, which has joined the constitutional challenge against this law.
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