Women’s human rights
Afghan women still jailed alongside murderers for ‘failing’ virginity test
From domestic violence to forced sex work, and women categorised as “moral criminals” are jailed alongside convicted murderers.
Friday، 2 November، 2018Remedies for Forced Marriage – A Handbook for Lawyers
Remedies for Forced Marriage brings together expert commentaries by lawyers and activists working on the issue of forced marriages and interference with choice in marriage in four different countries: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and the UK.
Tuesday، 28 July، 2015CSW59 –Beijing Betrayed
Two decades after the Fourth World Conference on Women, women and girls around the world deserve better than this year’s CSW outcomes
Tuesday، 7 April، 2015Letter to the EU Commissioner for Development Piebalgs on women’s rights in Afghanistan
Dear Commissioner Piebalgs,
We are writing to urge you to ensure that women’s rights are a top priority in the new programming of EU development cooperation to Afghanistan for the period 2014-2020. This is a crucial time for the European Union to show its political and financial support to Afghan women and girls.
Karzai: a legacy of failure on Afghan women’s rights?
Dr. Massouda Jalal opendemocracy.net With more fundamentalists predicted to win seats in the forthcoming election, the future is likely to see once again the use of religion as an instrument of extreme gender based oppression […]
Thursday، 22 August، 2013
