by Tendayi Chirawu | 14 Sep 2020 | Women's rights, World
A viral campaign on Instagram meant to empower women has its recent roots in a bleak reality familiar to women who are victims of violence in Turkey. Women march in support of the Istanbul Convention on preventing violence against women, Istanbul, Turkey, 19 July...
by Tom Heneghan | 11 Aug 2020 | Women's rights
Men have long dominated the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church. But there is a whiff of change in the air as women eye positions of power. Marianne Pohl-Henzen, who was appointed to a senior Catholic administrative post previously held by a priest, in Fribourg,...
by Lizan Nijkrake | 3 Jun 2020 | Health and Wellness, Human Rights, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows, Women's rights
The world was making progress in curbing female genital mutilation, a rite of passage to womanhood in many countries. COVID-19 is setting back those efforts. A six-year-old girl screams in pain while being cut in Somalia, 17 June 1996 (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju) Rhobi...
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by News Decoder | 23 Oct 2019 | African Leadership Academy, Student Posts, Women's rights, Youth Voices
This poem is a work of fiction that captures what some women in her society experience. Planting Voices By Rachel Langalanga Something has been clinging to my chest for more than a decade. l was broken in several ways and had no one to talk to. A man had reached...
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by News Decoder | 3 Jul 2019 | Decoders, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Women's rights
By Maggie Fox Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures globally. It is grist for a raging political debate in the United States, nearly half a century after the highest court in the country ruled that women have the right to choose whether...
