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Protests in Poland as proposed laws curtail women’s rights

Religiously conservative Law & Justice party embarks on nuclear family agenda, described as ‘payback time for the church’ after years of liberalism Campaigners are planning to step up resistance to Poland’s ultra-conservative government after it cleared a constitutional path for hardline law changes, expected to include a total ban on abortion and curbs to gender …

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COP21 is too male dominated and has male priorities, says UN special envoy

The climate change talks going on in Paris are too dominated by men, to the detriment of effective action on saving people from the ravages of global warming, the UN’s special envoy on climate change has said. Mary Robinson, the former UN human rights chief and Ireland’s first female president, told the Guardian in an …

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Kabul Women Seek Justice For Rokhshana Stoned to Death

Dozens civil society activists gathered in capital Kabul to seek justice for 19-year-old Rokhshana who was stoned to death by the Taliban in western Ghor province. The activists, mainly women, strongly denounced the public execution of a woman and called it an un-Islamic and inhumane act. Forced to marry against her will, the young Rokhshana …

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Opposition criticizes gov’t over death of 25-year-old Dilek Doğan

A number of opposition lawmakers have criticized the government over the death of 25-year-old Dilek Doğan, who was shot by police in her house during an anti-terror raid and later died of her injuries, saying that nobody should commit crimes in the expectation that the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) will protect them because …

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