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A bizarre incident has become known in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh in India. Where a woman is reported to have committed the downtrodden custom called ‘sati’ by jumping into the funeral pyre of her husband. The husband, Prem Nararyan had died following prolonged illness. The wife committed the act of ‘sati’ of her own [...]
A female teacher sacked because Bible says so. Yes people, this is what a Baptist in the U.S did to a female Sunday School teacher after more than 50 years on the job because he believes the Bible bans women from teaching men. Tim La Bouf, Watertown First Baptist Church Pastor and a city council [...]
Since October 2005, roundabout 38 lawyers in Iraq have been killed because they were defending women’s right. They were generally taking cases that were involving violation of Islamic Law like, adultery, honor killings, and cases of women asking for custody of their children. In July, Iraqi lawyer Salah Abdel Kader was found murdered in his [...]
South Africa’s Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka said on Wednesday that a "paradigm shift on the part of those who still have control of the economy" is needed to draw more women into economic activity. Referring education as the most important element in the empowerment of women in South Africa, she said that women themselves [...]
August 26, the date when women won vote in America. The American Congress has named it as Women’s Equality Day. The usual business of the day is floor speeches on Capitol Hill, with women’s history buffs and feminists. With the passage of time, we have seen that women have made tremendous progress in nearly all [...]
The military school at Citadel, south of Carolina, has been dogged by the charges of sexual harassment. According to the latest survey, 20% of the female cadets and 4% of male cadets reported of being sexually assaulted since enrollment. The majority of the reported incidents involving women occurred in the barracks or elsewhere on campus. [...]
Women these days in Nepal are busy fasting and praying. They could be seen clad in red thronging the streets of Nepal. This is generally the scene in the country every year at this time as devout and not-so devout Hindu women prepare to undertake a daylong fast praying for the long life of their [...]
Mohammed Al-Qadhi a Yemeni journalist and columnist write that the political parties have shown no support for women in the region. However, they talk about the matter in lofty speeches but nothing actually comes out of it. He further said that women in power themselves are also not in favor of changing the social scenario. [...]
Women groups in New Delhi, India presented the recommendations to the Planning Commission, keeping gender equality and gender justice as the central goal of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. The recommendations have been prepared in collaboration with the Ministry of Women and Child Development, UNIFEM and the United Nations Development Programme. It also recommended the strengthening [...]
Recently, it has become known that women in the U.S. military and related institutions are at significant risk of being sexually assaulted, harassed and raped, by their fellow service members. Sexual assault survivors and their advocates have called for systematic change that will provide for their safety by analyzing incidents of violence against women in [...]
