Topic: Women’s Rights
Five key moments in the crushing of Afghan women’s rights
December 18, 2023 · By Yogita Limaye, Afghanistan correspondent for www.bbc.com
Five key moments in the crushing of Afghan women’s rights “We are going to allow women to study and work within our framework. Women are going to be very active in our society,” the Taliban announced in their first press conference shortly after seizing power on 15 August 2021. Two years on, these assurances have […]
Read More...Study Tracks Millions of Child Brides
July 24, 2014 ·
By RICK GLADSTONEJULY 21, 2014 More than 700 million women alive today were married as children, and about 250 million of them — more than one in three — were wed before they reached 15, Unicef said in a study released Monday, on the eve of an international meeting in London, the Girl Summit, sponsored by Unicef and the […]
Read More...Research details pornography's harmful effects to women, society
June 2, 2014 ·
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service (NCR Online via CNUA) Continued research into pornography show its ill effects on women and all of society, according to speakers May 16 at the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation 2014 Summit in Vienna, a Washington suburb. Based on her research, Gail Dines has concluded, “We have basically let […]
Read More...Research details pornography's harmful effects to women, society
May 26, 2014 ·
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service (NCR Online via CNUA) Continued research into pornography show its ill effects on women and all of society, according to speakers May 16 at the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation 2014 Summit in Vienna, a Washington suburb. Based on her research, Gail Dines has concluded, “We have basically let […]
Read More...INTERNATIONAL WOMEN/S DAY
March 12, 2014 ·
Preda children and youth paraded in Olongapo city last 8 March to celebrate the dignity and rights of women.They are all victims of exploitation and abuse and have a strong motivation to advocate for the rights and dignity of women and children . They are empowered at Preda Foundation to speak out and demand their […]
Read More...Hope at last for Yemen's child brides
December 3, 2013 ·
country’s leaders finally act to stop forced marriages of girls as young as NINE • The Yemeni minister for Legal Affairs is to put forward a bill to ban it • Since 2008, cases of brides as young as nine have come to light • Campaigners have offered a cautious welcome to the reports • […]
Read More...THE GREATEST MISSION
October 14, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Malala Yousafzai, the 16 year-old Pakistani girl who defied the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education and was shot in the head but survived, has been granted the European Human Rights Award. Many thought she would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, it went to the Organization for the Prohibition of […]
Read More...Indian Women need equality, not protection
August 31, 2013 ·
By Virginia Saldhana (UCAN via CNUA) Until things change fundamentally, India remains unsafe for females. The gang rape of a young photojournalist on August 22 in Mumbai is just the latest in a string of such brutal attacks across India. In each case, the media moves into overdrive by capturing every frame and soundbite to […]
Read More...Responsibility for rape is a male issue
August 31, 2013 ·
By Matthew Vickery (New Internationalist via CNUA) I am a feminist – and male. Thankfully, a few of us do exist. Yet the idea of a ‘male feminist’ still seems to confuse many men. Indeed, after my blog post exposing a sexist pub quiz went viral last month, I received many tweets and comments from […]
Read More...Abused girls' institution trauma
August 6, 2013 ·
By Madeleine Hamilton (Eureka Street via CNUA) On Fridays, when I push my two preschoolers in their double stroller to the Preston market, I pass the Anglicare office in Murray Road. Outside is a billboard featuring a miserable, heavily-mascaraed teenage girl and the message, ‘Foster care: Changing her life … and yours.’ ‘I’m sorry,’ I […]
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