Tag: Womens rights
Filmmakers Jacquot and Doillon, accused of sexual assault, taken into custody
French filmmakers Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, accused by actresses including Judith Godrèche of sexual violence, were taken into custody on Monday July 1st at the juvenile protection unit, AFP…
In Doha, the Taliban at the UN table, but without Afghan women and civil society
Starting June 30, in Doha, Qatar, two days of discussions on Afghanistan will be held, in the presence, for the first time, of a Taliban delegation invited to the UN…
Democratic doctors launch into electoral battle to defend abortion rights
Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated federal constitutional protection for access to abortion. Since then, more than a dozen states have removed this right and the issue is…
in Paris, thousands of demonstrators launch the “feminist alert” against the RN
One week before the legislative elections, tens of thousands of people, according to associations and unions, demonstrated this Sunday, June 23 in France to denounce the “ hazard » for…
a text aiming to criminalize abortion – even resulting from rape – is controversial
In Brazil, an anti-abortion bill is controversial. This project proposes to toughen the legislation which criminalizes the voluntary termination of pregnancy by putting on an equal footing a homicide and…
Is the National Rally, increasingly popular among women, a threat to their rights?
After the success of the National Rally in the European elections and the dissolution of the National Assembly in France, feminist associations are concerned about seeing women’s rights threatened by…
In Latin America, political power is becoming feminized through illusion
Circumvention of quotas, gendered distribution of mandates, stereotypes about female candidates… If Latin America is regularly presented as a model in terms of the feminization of power, the region still…
In the footsteps of Alice Milliat, pioneer of the women’s Olympics
Almost no one knew her name until a few years ago, yet her work is immense: Alice Millat fought all her life to allow women to participate in sporting competitions,…
violence against women, another issue of the presidential campaign
In a few days, one hundred million Mexicans will go to the polls to elect their new deputies, senators, governors, mayors, but also their new president. Claudia Sheinbaum, the former…
#MeToo in the hospital: “We are waiting for things to move in the area of sanctions”
While the floor is freed following the testimony of infectious disease specialist Karine Lacombe, who accuses emergency physician Patrick Peloux of “sexual and moral harassment”. For the first time since…