The year 2020, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, was intended to be ground-breaking for gender equality. Instead, with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, even the limited gains made in the past decades are at risk of being rolled back. The pandemic is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing...
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‘Improperly veiled’ women should be made to feel unsafe, say Iran supreme leader reps
Iranian women wearing face masks walk down a street in the capital Tehran amid the novel coronavirus pandemic on August 9, 2020. (AFP) Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya English Monday 05 October 2020 Representatives of Iran’s supreme leader are urging law enforcement to make public places “unsafe” for women who are...
Yemen’s ‘microgrid girls’ power community amid war and COVID-19
By Veronique Mistiaen 18 Oct 2020 “The role of women was housework only,” laments Huda Othman Hassan, a young woman from Abs, a rural district in the north of Yemen, near the border with Saudi Arabia. But now a new project is helping shift those norms. Last year, Othman and...
Happy International Women’s Day
On behalf of the WFF Team: Happy international women’s day to all of you who’ve led us to this moment. Cheers to women who have built each other up, and champions who are leading. United, we can achieve anything. #WomensDay for #SDG5 among all other basic rights! We are the force for change
U.S. threatens to bolt from U.N. Human Rights Council
CBS NEWS, UNITED NATIONS — The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, went to Geneva to deliver a direct message to the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council: Shape up or the U.S. will ship out. It’s the first appearance by a person in her position before the...
The U.N. Human Rights Council whitewashes brutality
Washington Post Op-Ed by Niki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The president of Venezuela, whose government shoots protesters in the street, recently thanked the international community for its “universal vote of confidence” in that country’s commitment to human rights. The Cuban deputy foreign minister, whose government imprisons thousands...
Nepali woman takes human trafficking message to Mt Everest summit
Nepali woman takes human trafficking message to Mt Everest summit The Himalayan Times – KATHMANDU: More than 20 climbers including a Tamang woman successfully climbed the world’s highest peak on Saturday morning after they found a fair weather to make the final summit pushes on Mt Everest, according to...
Hillary Clinton says she’s back to being ‘part of the resistance’
Hillary Clinton has officially joined “the resistance.” Business Insider – May 3, 2017 – In a Tuesday morning interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in New York City, the former Democratic presidential candidate talked about life after her loss to President Donald Trump in November. “I’m back to being an activist...
Melania Trump Is Honoring These 13 Women for Their ‘Exceptional Courage’
Fortune – Mar 29, 2017: First Lady Melania Trump will bestow the State Department’s International Women of Courage award on Wednesday to 13 women from around the world who are working to advance peace, security, and women’s rights in their home countries. “It will be my great honor to share...
50th Anniversary of Amnesty International
May 02, 2012 at 12:00 AM New Song to Benefit Amnesty International New York Times Blog – One of the last musical projects Levon Helm participated in at his rustic studio in Woodstock, N.Y., was “Toast to Freedom,” a heart-warming single that will go on sale Wednesday to raise money for Amnesty International on its...