If there is a will, there’s a way – a famous epigram we’ve heard many a times in our lives but Afroz went a step ahead by proving the statement.
She left Jeddah during the crises of Gulf War in 1991 by boarding a plane not knowing where she’s...
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Among women, Asian Americans have some of the highest rates of suicide in the nation. A professor who has been studying suicide since her own sister took her life links it and other mental health problems to model minority identity pressures.
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India is a country where the majority Hindus worship female deities like Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth or Saraswati, the goddess of learning and where the female form is revered as the Universal Mother- women are continue to be abused and disrespected. ...
For a long time domestic violence has been a crime that has been hidden away, but are we determined to bring it out into the open and tackle its root causes?
Presently, tentacles of domestic violence could be seen penetrating the region of Ireland as...
Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no other reason than that they are women.
In South Asian countries, the culture of patriarchy is deeply...
To be free from fear is a basic human need and is usually used to indicate the level of human rights in a society. In Taiwan, the status of women has been improving in the last thirty years; however, violence against women still threatens most women....
Domestic violence, spousal abuse, woman abuse - different terms, translated into many languages, are used ubiquitously across the world. Even as many developing countries begin to experience improved economic and political conditions, violence against...
According to Anil Naidoo, of Fahamu, an organization working for human rights and social justice in Africa, a project called the UmNyango would soon be launched in Africa.
The project would use the technology of short message service or SMS for rural...
India, a country well known for its rich and diverse culture where every state exhibits its own story, way of life and mores yet a common happening among these states, like anywhere in the world is ‘domestic violence’.
We boost that India is one of...
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...
Madeleine Meilleur, Minister of Social Services declared that the Ontario government would try to overcome the violence faced by the nomadic women with a $2 million boost for women's shelters.
In a news forum, the Minister said
‘Domestic...
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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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