Women’s rights

Watch Interview with Rodolfo Domínguez Márquez, Human Rights lawyer and feminist by Guissou Jahangiri FIDH Vice-President and Exec.dir of Armanshahr | OPENASIA

Indian women form 620km human chain in support of lifting of temple ban.

A conventional portrait of a highly unconventional woman, Erika Cohn’s documentary “The Judge” has a worthy subject in Kholoud al-Faqih, the first woman to be appointed, in 2009, to the Middle East’s religious courts.

THE GUARDIAN By Liz Ford in Penjikent and Jomi  Women in Tajikistan involved in the Zindagii Shoista project, which is tackling domestic violence. Photograph: Anisa Sabiri for the Guardian. For 22 years, Rano Mahmurodova was violently […]

Saudi feminists launch online radio. Operating out of a small room in an unknown country, a new internet radio station broadcasts a programme aimed at campaigning for greater women’s rights in Saudi Arabia.

Human Rights Program – Harvard Law School Women’s Victimization in Transitional Justice and their Fight for Democracy and Human Rights: The Story of Taiwan By Yi-Li Lee Research Working Paper Series March 2018 Women, even […]

Saudi Arabia is well known for the severe limits it imposes on women’s rights – the legal status of the woman being inferior to that of the man – in all fields, even in the simplest acts of daily life.

Every year on the 25th of November, the whole world is outraged at violence against women. One day, over 365 days in which women suffer relentlessly all forms of assault, rape, murder perpetrated in their vast majority by men and most often with complete impunity.

Gender equality, women’s empowerment and protection of women’s rights, are intrinsic to sustainable development and conflict prevention.

Time Earlier this week, I did something perfectly ordinary: I renewed my U.S. driver’s license. That’s something I couldn’t do in my home country of Saudi Arabia because there is no women’s section at the DMV […]