China is the only nation where suicidal rates are higher in case of women than men and that the ratio is soaring in rural regions postulated the state media.
Yang Fude, vice-president of Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital quoted, China is the only...
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Zhou Fenying was 22, when she and her sister-in-law were taken by force from their village in Eastern China, and transported to a military brothel by the Japanese soldiers during the 2nd World War.
She has witnessed the vile history of pain and...
Once a sex slave by Japanese soldiers during the world war II, Lee Yong-soo requested Japan's government to ask for forgiveness in the midst of an escalating international row over the fate of the so-called ‘comfort women’, a Japanese euphemism for...
Like any other rural vicinity in Africa, Orango Island, in Guinea-Bissau, too has their conventional rituals, which has long been female dominated. Yes, this so called under privileged region has ‘matriarchal’ form of marriage ceremony.
A girl...
Women in China, particularly western side, are being slaughtered so that they could become brides of a dead man.
This is because of the prevalence of a weird custom operating in the country according to which, if an unmarried man dies, he must...
South China's Guangzhou municipality is pondering over a law that would be instrumental in broadening the job avenues for women, which were primarily male dominated.
The bill has advocated a fine of 5,000 yuan (about 641 U.S. dollars) for the...
China like India has a stereotypical patriarchal society where boys are preferred over girls.
Consequent upon which, recently, more than 70% of female undergraduates have experienced discrimination based on their gender as they struggle to available...
Sun Jingxia is among those few teachers in China who had not even completed high school but had been teaching math and Chinese for more than thirty years.
She was also not financially sound yet equipped herself with a middle school education and a...
In order to put off provincial girls from turning to prostitution in the big city of Shenzhen and to frighten away the men who patronize the brothels, China came up with an idea, according to which, police officials in Southern China paraded nearly 100...
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...
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...
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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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