Ishim, a women’s monastery of St. John in the Tyumen region of Siberia has been freezed by the registration Service of Russia.
The state agency said that the monastery, headed by a U.S. citizen, failed to meet the registration rules for NGOs in...
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Life for women in Afghanistan is as always going through the tough patches however, United Nations program of bee keeping by the female refugees is a ray of hope towards earning their livelihood.
Participation of approximately 50 women has been...
The Australian Active Ageing (AAA) a nationwide study has postulated that women with lower incomes anticipate the danger of violence than old age.
The results corresponded with the International Week without Violence (October 25-31) and the national...
According to a recent study by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), half of the working women in the Territory take paid maternity leave when having a baby in comparison with the women all over the country.
The survey further revealed that...
Minister of International Cooperation and Minister for Official Languages and La Francophonie, Josee Verner pronounced two new projects in Afghanistan that would focus the role of women and girls in society.
She made the declaration on her visit to the...
The Daily Times have stated that Afghans who are residing in 18 camps in the north western Kohat and Hangu districts of Pakistan have declined to register themselves as refugees because they are not in favour of male photographers clicking their female...
A ban has been imposed on wearing niqab in the dormitories of Cairo University consequent upon which, it has given rise to protests in Egypt.
On the issue sheik Ali Samman, president of the permanent committee for dialogue with other religions at...
Lately, United Nations report the UN Mission in Liberia’s (UNMIL) fifth on human rights has stated that due to the indigent judicial system of Liberia, women and children are suffering from sexual violence.
The information for the survey was...
Darfur’s horrendous conflict has made the region venerable for the women folk. They feel unprotected in the camps as well. Statistically, for the past two weeks, around 21 women and girls are being victimized in the camp itself.
Lately Hawa, a victim...
Transition Enterprises LLC and Barbara Davis Employment Services in Red Bank are planning to start a workshop called ‘Women in Transition’.
Its aim would be helping and advising those women who would plan to return to work or experiencing some kind...
While addressing the third Asian Women Entrepreneur Eid Fair, Commerce and Water Resource Minister, Hafiz Uddin Ahmed asserted that women entrepreneurs play a very important part in the financial growth of the country.
Representatives from Pakistan,...
Recent study has postulated that the rate of violence against women is higher in Arctic than in the rest of Canada.
But some social workers have pointed out that till some extent, society is responsible for it because in some parts, violence is...
It is a universal phenomenon that a generation is always in revolt with the previous generation. This can be seen in the women’s history as well. The Flapper Generation of the 1920s was a direct revolt against the previous high-mindedness of the...
Statistics Canada has put forward a report which throws light on the prevalence and severity of violence against native women.
It has taken onto account the previous related data as well.
It updated a report of 2002 called Assessing Violence...
Interview
Suzanne Swift, the then twenty one year old Army Specialist, was arrested for showing her reluctance in going back to fight in Iraq. She served in Iraq for a year but decided she won’t return and went AWOL. Not only did she feel the war lacked purpose, Swift said her superiors repeatedly sexually harassed her while serving in Iraq.
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