Tag: Womens rights
UN calls for protection of girls from child marriage
The United Nations recalled this week, in a press release published on Tuesday 4 April, that in Niger, ” girls have the right to be protected from early marriage “.…
In Iran, cameras to spot unveiled women
The Iranian police announced this Saturday, April 8, that henceforth unveiled women will be identified using surveillance cameras installed in public places and on the roads. With our correspondent in…
doctors implicated in the death of M’mah Sylla sentenced to heavy sentences
Tuesday April 4, four men were sentenced in Conakry in the case of M’mah Sylla, a young woman who died in November 2021 after being raped in a neighborhood clinic.…
“Seven winters in Tehran”, protest against the death penalty
It’s a shocking documentary that was released in theaters in France, after being screened at the last Berlin Festival: Seven winters in Tehran reconstructs the tragic fate of Reyhaneh Jabarri,…
young people still determined to demand more freedoms
In Iran, six months after the death of Mahsa Amini, street protests to demand more freedoms are less numerous. It must be said that the repression was severe. However, the…
women’s soccer star forced out of club after year of cyberbullying
Soccer player Scarlett Camberos has been forced out of her club by a man who harasses her online and on the streets. Her Mexican club announced on Tuesday (21) that…
Diariata N’Diaye, words to heal the ills
For more than twenty years, Diariata N’Diaye has used art and words to raise awareness among the youngest about sexist and sexual violence. Slammer, author, entrepreneur, facilitator, founder of the…
Davina Ittoo, the voice of women in Mauritius
/ Podcasts / Literature without borders Davina Ittoo is an author of poetry, novels and short stories. She lives and teaches in Mauritius where she is a lecturer at the…
Chowra Makaremi, for an Iranian We
Because she can’t stand the memory lapses between her and this country of Iran, she took the camera. And of course, that an anthropologist such as Chowra Makaremi takes the…
Poland sentences activist for providing abortion pills
This is a first in Europe. A Polish activist was sentenced on Tuesday March 14 by a Warsaw court for sending abortion pills to a pregnant woman and victim of…