Women

The brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl from a Muslim minority group is not just about gender violence.

The report is a far cry from the media frenzy that was caused by the announcement of symbolic reforms, such as that set out in the September 2017 Royal Decree giving Saudi women permission to drive.This report casts a harsh light on the scandalous situation of Saudi women HRDs.

Women and girls routinely face sexual and gender-based violence during war and its aftermath, maternal mortality is endemic in conflict-affected areas and amplifying women’s voices is critical to removing risks to their well-being.

“The woman question,” she wrote, “is nothing more or less than a question of human rights. That the emancipation of woman means in reality the emancipation of the human being within her.’”

On the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day, FIDH is launching a website page presenting 101 shocking statistics on sexist violence and discrimination against women worldwide.

This is no utopia. We still have our problems. Power inequalities still exist. Parliamentary democracy is just one, and not necessarily the best, way of doing democracy.

Just One Slap? is a French creative non-fiction about Katya in her thirties and mother of baby Zoe, victims of domestic violence in France. It focuses on physical and psychological violence of Katya’s former partner, as well as the institutional violence directed against them.

“History is written by men.”  This also applies to film history.  Guy-Blache was one of the first female filmmakers to direct movies during the origins of cinema itself.

The most recent rape and murder in Pakistan caused a huge public outcry. Though similar cases in India have tended to attract fewer headlines, sexual violence in both countries is an ongoing problem

Asma Jahangir, a leading Pakistani rights activist, fearless critic of the military’s interference in politics and a staunch defender of the rule of law, died on Sunday in Lahore. She was 66.