In the northeastern province of Khon Kaen, Thailand, a Regional Workshop on Gender Sensitive and Coordinated Violence against Women (VAW) Services is being held from 28th to 30 of this month.
The workshop is being organised by ASEAN where...
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Spain's prime minister has initiated a crusade against domestic violence in Europe, personifying it as the nastiest form of human rights violations.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero President of the government of Spain preceded by Jose Maria Aznar...
Recently some cases have come from rural China where more than a third of women have committed suicide as a consequence of domestic violence.
On 27th of November, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) organised a news conference...
Violence against women takes various forms, like, assault, sexual exploitation, domestic violence, rape, trafficking in women and girls, forced prostitution, honor killings, dowry-related violence, female infanticide and other harmful practices and...
While addressing reporters on women issues, UNIFEM's Executive Director, Noeleen Heyzer declared to offer 3.5 million dollars grant to 17 countries in order to combat gender-based violence.
She said that the grant would be used to support the...
Fatema al-Najjar, a 55-year-old Palestinian woman and member of al-Qassam Brigades, armed wing of Islamic Hamas, gusted amidst Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza Strip injuring four of them.
According to the sources, the woman carried an explosive...
A three-day conference which was held by the China Society for Human Rights Studies gave platform to more than 70 human rights experts, scholars and officials from 19 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and America.
The director of the human rights...
Royal College of Nursing is supporting the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which happens to be on 25th of this month.
It is also be identified as White Ribbon Day, a crusade initiated by a faction of Canadian men in...
The centre of Public Health Ministry has come up with the information that round about 37 women folk becomes prey of violence each day.
They compiled the information from 82 hospitals from first of January to 17th of November according to which...
The state government of Himachal Pradesh, India has come up with a new verdict according to which a female foeticide would be dubbed as a Murder and any body informing the state government regarding the crime would be offered Rs. 10,000.
Mr....
According to the World Economic Forum and the London Business School, Philippines grabs the sixth while New Zealand holds the seventh position in the Gender Gap Index.
The result postulated has been based on:
1. financial partaking and...
A twenty-year woman Jane Doe has put Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on trial accusing him of two counts of rape as an accomplice for his role in arranging the marriage between her and her...
Sectarian violence has devoured every thing in Iraq. It has devastated all the livelihood in the region consequent upon which, women, children, old and sick people are left hungry and homeless.
According to the International Organisation for...
Said T Jawad, an Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States emphasized that education is the only tool, which would be instrumental in empowering women in the society.
While addressing at the students at Thunderbird University where 15 Afghan...
The days between the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, that is, November 25 and International Human Rights Day, that is, December 10, are termed as ‘16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence’, which means that the days...
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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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