Indians demand swift action against rapists as protests spread after woman's murder
Category: Gender based violence
2019-12-03
Protesters are calling for swifter justice, with tens of thousands of rape cases stuck in a slow and cumbersome legal system
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Sudan scraps law curtailing women’s rights
Category: Gender in the world
2019-11-29
Thousands of women flogged, fined during Bsahir’s ironfisted rule under archaic public order law for ‘indecent and immoral acts’. |
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After 150 years, Vienna opera house stages first opera by a woman
Category: Women and Culture
2019-11-27
That will change next month, with the premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s operatic version of Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography |
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End rape—an intolerable cost to society
Category: Gender based violence
2019-11-22
UN Women Executive Director’s Statement for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2019
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Children as young as five make up most of Madagascar’s mica mining workforce
Category: Events
2019-11-22
Investigation finds thousands of children are scavenging in deadly conditions for mineral widely used by car and electronics firms |
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Danish study rejects link between abortion and suicide
Category: It`s interesting to know
2019-11-21
Suicide attempts are mostly closely associated with having previous contact with psychiatric services or use of medication to treat depression, anxiety or psychosis
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Congo court hands life sentence to warlord for murder, sexual violence
Category: Gender based violence
2019-11-21
United Nations investigators say his forces were responsible for abducting and repeatedly gang raping at least 17 women in a cave last year
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Joana Choumali wins 2019 Prix Pictet photography prize
Category: Women and Culture
2019-11-20
Artist becomes first African to win the prestigious prize, for embroidered pictures created following terrorist attack
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French paedophile surgeon may have had more than 250 victims
Category: Gender based violence
2019-11-19
French prosecutors say a retired surgeon jailed since May 2017 for sexually abusing four girls may have had more than 250 victims |
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