When women’s rights are discretionary
Fifa purports to uphold human rights. Its decision, in 2010, to award the hosting duties for the 2022 tournament to Qatar was not, however, without controversy.
Fifa purports to uphold human rights. Its decision, in 2010, to award the hosting duties for the 2022 tournament to Qatar was not, however, without controversy.
Amini, 22, died on 16 September three days after slipping into a coma following her arrest by Iran’s morality police for an alleged breach of the country’s oppressive dress code.
This culture of discrimination has to change first if we are to ensure that women get their rightful access to inheritance and property.
New challenges have surfaced due to quick technological changes, rise of neoliberalism. and the Covid 19 pandemic. Women still face discrimination, exploitation, bias, and stereotyping, continuing violence, unequal pay for equal work, gross inequalities in domestic and childcare responsibilities
The former leader during his interactions with the Taliban focused mainly on three things -- girls' education, women's prestige in the Afghan society, and an all-inclusive government.
Disturbing news comes in the form of a fatwa on lady doctors, on the future of co-education and on imposition of penalties on lady artists, singer, journalists, and students. The only light at the end of the tunnel is the fact that Afghan women have now taken to the streets to claim protection of rights they had gained in the last 20 years.
The Taliban have sought to portray themselves as more moderate than when they imposed a strict form of Islamic rule in the late 1990s. But many Afghans remain skeptical and thousands have raced to the airport, desperate to flee the country.
India’s strong response came after Pakistan’s outgoing UN envoy Maleeha Lodhi commented on the situation in Kashmir, revocation of Article 370 and women’s rights in the Valley during the debate on October 29.
Women are still married as children, trafficked into forced labour and sex slavery and every day more than 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, Tripathi said.
After years of campaigning by women activists, on Sunday the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia was lifted. It…
