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Indonesia passes legislation banning sex outside marriage | Indonesia
Indonesia’s parliament has approved legislation that outlaws sex outside marriage while making other sweeping changes to the criminal code –...
Iran’s moment of truth: what will it take for the people to topple the regime? | Iran
For the past 12 weeks, revolutionary sentiment has been coursing through the cities and towns of the Persian plateau. The...
Fake Abortion Care – an Issue That Extends Across the Pond and Calls for Global Action
In virtually every part of the world, accessing abortion care is already complicated enough. When one of the biggest tech...
Indigenous Femicide: The Neglected Horror
Indigenous women in the USA and Canada face alarming femicide rates. These sixteen days of “Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” should...
WHRD-IC inputs to UN SR report on ‘Women, Girls and the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment’ |
Posted on December 1, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment On behalf of the Women Human Rights Defender International Coalition...
Hong Kong withholds British lawyer’s visa, delaying Jimmy Lai trial | Hong Kong
Hong Kong has temporarily blocked a top British human rights lawyer from representing jailed pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, in a...
Major Drivers of Femicide, A Global Pandemic
Femicide is the systematic killing of women and girls because of their gender. The word “femicide” was first coined in...
GW Complex Litigation Conference a Major Success; Collaboration From All Sides of Courtroom
By Christina Grube “Why would you go to any other conferences?” – Anne Andrews, Partner at Andrews & Thornton The...
The World’s Response and Resistance
On the 13th of September 2022, Mahsa Amini was arrested by morality police in Tehran, Iran, for not abiding by...
Women, life, freedom, food: chefs spread the word on Iran protests | Iran
When Layla Yarjani thinks of Iran, she thinks of ice-creams by the Caspian Sea and eating beef tongue sandwiches with...