Tag: Womens rights
World Cup 2022: Are the criticisms against Qatar all justified?
Human rights flouted, conditions for migrant workers, excessive air conditioning, a few days before the launch of the 2022 World Cup, criticism remains strong against Qatar. But are they all…
dropping the mullahs’ turban, another way of protesting
The Iranian demonstrators do not lack ideas, even less courage, to protest against the regime. They refuse to bend despite the bloody repression that has befallen them since the death…
Maha Abdelhamid, color pioneer
The Blacks of Tunisia are organizing, verbalizing, emerging from a silence that lasted until the 2011 revolution. One of these voices announces the color, she says: “Like all black women…
Since 9:10 a.m. this Friday, women have been working for free, and wage inequalities are still stagnating
Friday, November 4, 9:10 a.m. A date and a time that symbolize in France the wage gap between men and women, and the discrimination still too present in the world…
“We must legislate ambitiously on cyberbullying”
For the past week, a wave of testimonials from “streamers” has been surging on Twitter. They denounce the harassment they suffer en masse and the prevailing sexism of a deeply…
In Poland, clandestine abortions have multiplied since the almost total ban on abortion
More than 44,000 abortions have been carried out clandestinely in Poland thanks to the association Aborcja Bez Granic (Abortion without borders, in French). Voluntary termination of pregnancy became almost illegal…
judge drops charges in abortion case
Prosecuted for homicide for having given birth to a baby who died shortly after birth, a Salvadoran woman obtained the abandonment of the legal action by a judge. El Salvador…
Sportswoman Elnaz Rekabi back in Iran
The Iranian sportswoman Elnaz Rekabi, who had participated without a veil in the Asian climbing championships in South Korea, returned to Tehran on Wednesday October 19, greeted like a hero…
Repatriation of families of jihadists: “The procedure will follow its usual course in matters of terrorism”
France proceeded this Thursday to the repatriation of fifteen women and 40 children who were held in jihadist prison camps in northeastern Syria controlled by Kurdish forces. The adults were…
Oxfam releases damning report on discrimination in Indian society
In India, the international NGO Oxfam delivers an alarming report on discrimination. For women, Muslims or citizens of low caste, the rate of access to employment and the salary are…