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CAR Borrows Leaf From RNP’s Isange One Stop Centre

CAR Borrows Leaf From RNP’s Isange One Stop Centre

A delegation of 12 including lawmakers, security force personnel and welfare experts from Central Africa Republic (CAR), on Wednesday visited Isange One Stop Centre at Kacyiru Police Hospital, to purposely learn from Rwanda’s modal of fighting Gender Based Violence (GBV). The delegation, is in Rwanda for a five day visit aimed at getting acquainted on […]

Outrage as 9 Sudanese women face 40 lashes for wearing trousers

Outrage as 9 Sudanese women face 40 lashes for wearing trousers

A Sudanese Christian woman arrested for wearing trousers has narrowly escaped the punishment of 40 lashes, in a case that human rights groups say is further damning evidence of the government’s intolerance to its Christian population. Fardos Al Toum, 19, was arrested for indecency along with 11 other women in June in front of a […]

Moroccan women ‘freed’ over wearing skirts in Inezgane

Moroccan women ‘freed’ over wearing skirts in Inezgane

Two Morocco women have been acquitted of indecency charges after they went on trial for wearing short skirts, their lawyer says. They were arrested on 16 June in a market in Inezgane, near Agadir, after being heckled by market traders. Their case sparked a national outcry and an internet petition calling the arrest an attack […]

Pope pays homage to the women of Paraguay

Pope pays homage to the women of Paraguay

Pope Francis has paid a tribute to Paraguay’s women and mothers during Mass celebrated at the country’s main pilgrimage site, Caacupe, “I pay homage to the women of Paraguay, who were able to rebuild a country destroyed by an unequal war,” he said. Most of Paraguay’s male population died in a devastating war against Brazil, […]

Miss Namibia Drops Swimsuit Category

Miss Namibia Drops Swimsuit Category

IN December 2014, Miss World pageant owners re-wrote pageant history after they announced that the swimwear category would be scratched from the official programme from 2015. Seven months later, Miss Namibia national director Conny Maritz has revealed that this year’s pageant will follow suit. Speaking to The Namibian last week, Maritz said the move may […]

Sahrawi Women Are Seen As Powerful and Are Leaders

Sahrawi Women Are Seen As Powerful and Are Leaders

Women in the Sahrawi culture are seen as powerful and are leaders in their community. They are the doctors in the camp hospitals, the scientists in the small laboratory which makes basic drugs for the refugees, the teachers in the school and the ones who call the shots under the tented roofs, said The Independent. […]

Moroccan women on trial on charges of “gross indecency” for wearing skirts

Moroccan women on trial on charges of “gross indecency” for wearing skirts

Two women have gone on trial in Morocco on charges of “gross indecency” for wearing skirts. The two were arrested in Inezgane last month, after a market trader drew attention to what they were wearing and a crowd gathered round, reports say. An internet petition calling the arrest an attack on personal freedom has attracted […]

Sudanese prophet says kill American women & children

Sudanese prophet says kill American women & children

A Muslim cleric in Sudan with a history of incendiary statements against the U.S. says that under Islam, there is no distinction between combatant and civilian and thus American women and children are fair game for militant attacks. “In its war with the infidels, Islam recognizes no distinction between regular armies and civilians,” the cleric, […]

Afghanistan Is No Country for Women

Afghanistan Is No Country for Women

Thirteen years after the fall of the Taliban, women in Afghanistan continue to suffer oppression and abuse. Research by Global Rights estimates that almost nine out of 10 Afghan women face physical, sexual or psychological violence, or are forced into marriage. In the majority of cases the abuse is committed by the people they love […]

What it means to be female in Nigeria

What it means to be female in Nigeria

What does it mean to be female in Nigeria? Women in Nigeria are using a hashtag on Twitter to share their experiences of everyday gender discrimination. It started with a small book club meeting in the capital of Abuja on Sunday. Its members were discussing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “We Should All Be Feminists”, based on […]

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