Topic: women
Ireland: Women’s rights ‘are not respected here’
April 2, 2015 · By the Irish Examiner
Ireland is eight years late in submitting a major report to the UN on tackling discrimination against women. And an expert in human rights has responded to the delay by saying “the autonomy and bodily integrity of women” are not respected in Ireland. The report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms […]
Read More...International Women’s Day – Images that empower women
March 9, 2015 · By Catherine Marshall for EurekaStreet.com.au
Sitting behind a bus at traffic lights recently, my teenage daughter and I tried to figure out what the image plastered across its back was advertising. It was a pair of long, slim female legs. I peered at the tiny object placed in the bottom right-hand corner of the image. ‘Is that toilet paper?’ I […]
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