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U.N. Pact Leads a Dutch Woman to Political Victory

By Leontine Bijleveld ● Uncategorized ● March 26, 2014

Dutch activists just used CEDAW to end a party’s longstanding religious objection to female candidates. That’s a lesson for women in the U.S., one of the few U.N. members that has not ratified the pact.

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Indian Women Channel Rape Outrage into Elections

By Swapna Majumdar ● Uncategorized ● March 20, 2014

For the first time, 350 women’s and civil society organizations in the influential state of Tamil Nadu are uniting against national parliamentary candidates who are “gender unjust.” Their coalition demands rights to land, education, livelihoods and safety.

U.N. Probes Canada’s Neglect of Aboriginal Women

By Sally Armstrong ● Uncategorized ● March 8, 2014

The first CEDAW investigation in a developed country is a “big black eye for Canada,” says one activist. The findings may not produce government action, but can stir activism, says Sally Armstrong in this excerpt from the book “Uprising.”

Women’s Day Already Underway in Monrovia

By Reem Zubaidi ● Uncategorized ● March 7, 2014

Female-focused events are erupting around March 8. African women are digging into land rights, safety activists are planning another Million Women Rise march in London and the Twitter hashtag #IWD2014 is booming.

Saudi Male Guardianship Protest Sent to Committee

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● March 4, 2014

“I want to feel like I am a Saudi citizen, now I just feel like I am a follower of a man,” says a Saudi woman who sympathizes with the petition to abolish male guardianship. Two female members of the Shura Council told a signatory that the petition has been sent to a human rights committee.

Women’s Champions Cheer a Victory in Afghanistan

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● February 19, 2014

“Now we are going to be very attentive to what is going to happen and we are going to work with the Ministry of Justice,” one safety activist said after Karzai refused to sign a law that would have kept perpetrators of domestic abuse from facing justice.

Iranian Women Give Nuclear Diplomacy Mixed Marks

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● February 18, 2014

Sanctions easing by the U.S. could lessen Iran’s isolation and help the country’s civil society groups. But some exiled women’s rights activists are pessimistic. Real human rights progress, they say, can’t be expected from a religious dictatorship.

Anti-FGM Campaigners Mark Progress in Egypt

By Jessica Gray ● Uncategorized ● December 20, 2013

After the death of 13-year-old Suhair al Bata’a this summer, an intensive awareness campaign about the hazards of FGM/C reached into 11 governorates across Egypt. But advocates say the battle against a practice dating back to the age of the Pharaohs will take time and persistence.

Iceland Tops New Environment and Gender Scorecard

By Juhie Bhatia ● Health & Science ● November 16, 2013

The scoring system measures 72 countries on such things as rates of anemia, access to agricultural land and women in policymaking positions. The United States has the lowest rates of anemia, but factors such as its failure to ratify CEDAW pushed it to 14th place.

How 9 Countries Score on Women’s Rights and the Environment

By Juhie Bhatia ● Health & Science ● November 16, 2013

The Environment and Gender Index (EGI) monitors women’s empowerment and gender equality in the environmental arena in 72 countries. This photo gallery shows how nine countries ranked.