Violence against women and girls
HRW Submission on Tajikistan to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Violence against women remains pervasive today in Tajik society. Survivors of domestic violence told Human Rights Watch harrowing stories of the worst kinds of abuse, including sadistic violence committed by perpetrators, all across the country across every socioeconomic category.
Tuesday، 23 October، 2018Animation video – Letters from child brides
ABAAD in Lebanon made an animated video, Letters from child brides.
Thursday، 20 September، 2018Rape as a political tool in India
The brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl from a Muslim minority group is not just about gender violence.
Wednesday، 25 April، 2018Juste Une Gifle? Interview with Niki Konstantinidou, the author of the book
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.
Thursday، 8 March، 2018Violence Against Women is Fundamentally About Power
IPSNEWS– Every woman and every girl has the right to a life free of violence. Yet this rupture of human rights occurs in a variety of ways in every community. It particularly affects those who […]
Monday، 25 December، 2017Disappearance of Daughters!
Nobel Laureate, Economist Amartya Sen, in way back 1990’s introduced the term “missing women”, showing a deficit in the number of women relative to the expected number of women in a region.
Tuesday، 23 May، 2017