News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 97
Rahul Gandhis Long Walk Hailed, But Only Polls Will Determine Its Success
- Inter Press Service
GOA, INDIA, Jan 26 (IPS) - When countless supporters of the Indian National Congress, the main opposition party, arrive in Srinagar on January 30 to hoist the Indian flag, they would have walked 3,570 kilometres over 150 days.
UN deputy chief reminds Taliban: Islam does not ban women from education
- UN News
The UN must present “a united front” in the fight for women’s rights in Afghanistan, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said after returning from a two-week country visit spanning several continents.
‘Equal rights cannot wait’ on International Day of Women in Multilateralism
- UN News
The head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday underlined the need to achieve gender equality globally and fight hate speech, particularly that which targets women and girls online.
On International Day of Education, We Must Prioritize Girls in Humanitarian Crisis
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jan 24 (IPS) - “Is it a sin to be a girl? We don’t want to be at home and illiterate. We want to go to school, study and be intelligent.”
In just a few words, this plea for education from a young Afghan girl has captured the world’s attention. Her heartbreaking question shows how the Taliban’s recent ban on girls attending secondary school and university – effectively ending education opportunities for all Afghan girls and women – is not only violating their fundamental human right to education but shattering countless hopes and dreams in an instant.
Delivering On Our Promise of Universal Education
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jan 24 (IPS) - Our investment in education – especially for children caught in crisis and conflict – is our investment in a better future.
Education is our investment in peace where there is war, our investment in equality where there is injustice, our investment in prosperity where there is poverty.
‘We are not afraid’: Indigenous Brazilian women stand up to gender violence
- UN News
Women from Brazil’s indigenous communities are particularly vulnerable to gender-based violence, but UN-backed initiatives, and a change in the law, are encouraging them to seek protection.
Afghanistan: Top UN delegation tells Taliban to end confinement, deprivation, abuse of women’s rights
- UN News
The UN deputy chief and head of UN Women have conveyed a direct message to Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership calling on them to put the good of the country first and end recent policies towards women and girls that have confined them in their own homes, and violated their basic human rights.
Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO
- UN News
Barring girls and young women from classrooms in Afghanistan could wipe out huge gains made in education and create “a lost generation”, the UN’s educational and cultural organization, UNESCO, has warned.
UN calls for immediate release of 50 women and girls abducted in Burkina Faso
- UN News
Some 50 women and girls in Burkina Faso who were abducted last week while looking for food must be released immediately, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Pakistan: rights experts urge action on coerced religious conversions, child marriage
- UN News
Top independent human rights experts expressed alarm on Monday at a rise in abductions of girls as young as 13 in Pakistan, who are forced to marry and convert to Islam.
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