Tag: Womens rights
mobilization against a law reinstating excision
In Gambia, several dozen people demonstrated in front of the National Assembly in Banjul. For the second time this month, this Monday, March 18, deputies were considering a bill aimed…
the vice-president visiting a clinic practicing abortion, a first
Abortion is at the heart of the American presidential campaign. Vice President Kamala Harris was visiting Minnesota on Thursday, March 14, to a clinic that practices voluntary terminations of pregnancies.…
the Île-de-France region opens its “Shelter” for Olympic visitors who are victims of sexual violence
The Île-de-France region has announced the inauguration of a safe place for victims of sexual assault and harassment, in a system intended for tourists and visitors to the Paris region…
“There was war everywhere”, the moving testimony of Rehema, a refugee in Nakivale in Uganda
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the east of the country has been plagued by armed conflicts for almost thirty years. In recent years in particular the province of…
Place Vendôme, a ceremony to celebrate the constitutional text
In France, the guaranteed freedom of women to resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) is now enshrined in the Constitution. The text was formally sealed, Friday March 8, 2024,…
Amnesty International highlights abuses against cross-border traders
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the NGO Amnesty International (AI) publishes a report on the working conditions of women who make a living from informal cross-border trade. Four…
Sarah Daninthe: “Paris 2024 will be equal Games, but I’m a little afraid of what’s next”
On March 8, 2024, International Women’s Day, sportswoman Sarah Daninthe is our great international guest. Great fencing champion, bronze medalist at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, world champion in…
Between obstacle course and marathon, the long road to gender equality in sport
The Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games are fast approaching. The opportunity to look at the place of women in sport and its evolution in recent decades on the occasion of…
Sarah Daninthe, former fencer on duty for women’s rights
Editor-in-chief of the RFI morning show on the occasion of International Women’s Day this Friday, March 8, Sarah Daninthe flourished in fencing, including an Olympic medal in Athens in 2004.…
a public ceremony to seal the Constitution for Women’s Rights Day
This is the very last step for the inclusion of abortion in the French Constitution, and also the most symbolic. President Macron will be in Paris at noon at the…