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Detention of World March of Women activists in Turkey

Statement of the World March of Women After the detention of the Co-Mayors of Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality, Ms. Gültan Kışanak and Mr. Fırat Anli, both members of the People’s Democrat Party, on the 25th October 2016 in the surrounding buildings of the municipality accused of having terrorist links,   today the police attacked the demonstrators protesting …

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Women’s rights in Morocco

Women’s rights Morocco/Western Sahara Annual Report 2015/2016 Amnesty International Women faced discrimination in law and in practice, and were inadequately protected against sexual and other violence. In March the King asked the government to revise Morocco’s restrictive abortion laws. In May the authorities said that access to abortion would be extended to women whose health …

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Argentina: hundreds of thousands of women set to protest against violence

Report of Uci Goni from Buenos Aires Organizers urge women to stop work and other activities for an hour in Wednesday ‘women’s strike’ following rape and torture of a 16-year-old girl Hundreds of thousands of women in Argentina are expected to join a national protest over violence against women on Wednesday, after a horrifying attack …

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Virginia introduces law to stop 12-year-old girls getting married

The effort to update the laws involved Republicans and Democrats Between 2004 and 2013, around 4,500 children under the age of 18 got married in the state of Virginia. Of these girls, more than 200 of them were aged 15 or under. Last week, the authorities in the state introduced new legislation that updated rules …

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Iran: 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman faces imminent execution after grossly unfair trial

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – 11 October 2016, 17:21 UTC The Iranian authorities must urgently halt their plans to execute Zeinab Sekaanvand, a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman who was arrested when she was just 17-years-old and convicted of the murder of her husband after a grossly unfair trial, Amnesty International said today. She is due to be executed …

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