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News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 69
Keep pressuring Taliban amid ‘unparalleled assault’ on women’s rights
- UN News
The head of the UN agency that champions gender equality on Tuesday urged the international community to continue pressing for change in Afghanistan, accusing the Taliban of imposing “the most comprehensive, systematic, and unparalleled assault on the rights of women and girls” across the country.
#AfghanGirlsVoices Campaign to Elevate Voices of Young Afghan Girls on Global Stage
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 14 (IPS) - Two years ago, the then 19-year-old Somaya Faruqi and the Afghan Robotic Team travelled from Herat City to Kabul, the heart of Afghanistan—the Taliban had taken over Herat city, cutting off electricity and internet. The all-girls team’s great passion for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) had driven them to Kabul to rehearse for a competition.
Taking Stock of Two Decades of Trailblazing Protocol on Womens Rights in Africa
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 09 (IPS) - It promised to be the most defining, groundbreaking, and transformative protocol on African women’s rights. Specific in its approach, broad in its reach, and unique in its all-encompassing nature, covering issues such as HIV/Aids, widow inheritance and property disinheritance in a most unprecedented manner.
Blockade in Nagorno-Karabakh: When Bread and Sanitary Pads Become Luxury Items
- Inter Press Service
STEPANAKERT, Nagorno-Karabakh, Aug 08 (IPS) - Tatev Azizyan, a 28-year-old journalist from Nagorno-Karabakh, says she has explained to her child that they both have to switch to “energy save mode” to survive.
Stubborn and Persistent: The Gender Pay Gap Refuses to Budge
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 04 (IPS) - Last week, there was uproar in Kenya when a report about one of the largest banks, Equity Bank, revealed a 52 percent gender pay gap between their female and male employees working in similar positions. This difference is neither okay nor acceptable. However, documenting the gap is laudable because that is the first step in trying to fix it.
Nurturing future generations through breastfeeding
- UN News
Christine, her son, and her mother are among 100,000 refugees, mostly women and children, living in a camp in northwestern Uganda, served by the World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners, which are providing critical assistance to breastfeeding mothers.
“No” to Sex Education Fuels Early Pregnancies in Central America
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Aug 03 (IPS) - Pregnancies among girls and adolescents continue unabated in Central America, where legislation to prevent them, when it exists, is a dead letter, and governments are influenced by conservative sectors opposed to sex education in schools.
How Nigeria's Legal System is Failing to Safeguard Widows' Rights
- Inter Press Service
SOKOTO, NIGERIA, Aug 03 (IPS) - In February this year, Chichi Okonkwo not only lost her husband but was stripped of everything they owned together. Her husband was severely injured in a car accident about a month earlier. Despite being rushed to a hospital in Enugu, where they resided, he succumbed to his injuries weeks later. To compound her grief, Okonkwo’s late husband's male siblings forcibly entered her home in the city a few hours after his passing, confiscating her husband’s land documents, car, money, clothes, and marriage certificate.
Women Shatter Gender Barriers in Uganda's Fish Farming Industry
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 02 (IPS) - In a groundbreaking turn of events, women in Bugiri District, Eastern Uganda, have defied societal norms and broken into the traditionally male-dominated fish farming industry.
Afghan Girls, Women Deprived of Education, Find Hope in Africa
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Aug 01 (IPS) - When providing education to her small group of Afghan girls, who had been studying at a boarding school back home, became tenuous, Shabana Basij-Rasikh, relocated them to Rwanda.
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