Tag: Womens rights
Women’s rights are regressing all over the world, alert associations
In a document published Monday, February 13, several associations warn against the regressions against the rights of women which are multiplying throughout the world. Right to abortion revoked by the…
the main protest movements against the regime since 1979
On February 11, 1979, Iran turned the page on a 2,500-year-old monarchical regime. Ayatollah Khomeini, exiled for fourteen years for opposing the Shah, takes power. He must deal with the…
Excision: better informing mothers and their daughters to fight against this mutilation
They are 200 million women to be circumcised. And every six minutes, another little girl comes to inflate this figure. On the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance…
state fosters women’s economic dependence, report says
In a note published this Friday, February 3, the Observatory for the economic emancipation of women dissects the way in which French social policies and taxation tend to disadvantage women.…
The use of abortion soon in the French Constitution?
The senators voted Wednesday, February 1 in favor of the inclusion in the Constitution of the “freedom of women” to resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy. The proposed constitutional law…
Jennifer Haigh, an American novelist in the reconquest of women’s rights
Jennifer Haigh was born in 1968 in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania. She studied in France and first turned to journalism, before devoting herself to literature. She wrote her first novel while living…
In the French school environment, associations are still fighting against sexism
While the High Council for Equality drew up a report on Monday, January 23 ” alarming of sexism in France, the associations in the field believe that education, which nevertheless…
Sexism in France: an alarming situation
“Sexism is not receding in France. On the contrary, some of its most violent manifestations are worsening and the younger generations are the most affected”. This is what the HCE,…
Barriers to education still strong for girls in crisis areas
On the occasion of World Education Day, this January 24, several NGOs recall the extent to which inequalities between girls and boys persist in access to learning. Within regions in…
Dismissal confirmed on appeal for French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin
The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed on Tuesday January 24 the dismissal order from which Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin benefited in July 2022, accused since 2017 of rape. Sophie Patterson-Spatz,…