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Illegal and Prolonged Confinement of Bahareh Hedayat, Iranian Human Rights Advocate

By Elahe Amani 7th August 2015 Bahareh Hedayat is a rights advocate whose advocacy for student and women’s rights placed her on the frontlines of the violent crackdown surrounding the June 2009 flawed presidential elections in Iran. She was arrested in December of 2009 and charged with three arbitrary offenses. She was sentences to two …

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In defense of peace, our bodies and our territories.

The Women of the World March of Women, meeting today in Vigo to celebrate our 4th International Action, and others all over the world, reject the aggression and the attacks against the March for Peace organized by the social movements, feminists and Unions (especially from the health Sector) in Ankara Turkey. We strongly reject the …

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Nigerian forces free 241 women, children in Boko Haram camps, arrest kingpin

(CNN)The Nigerian military rescued 241 women and children in a raid on two camps controlled by the Boko Haram terrorist group, the country’s military said Wednesday. (24-9-2015) The Tuesday operation unfolded in the villages of Jangurori and Bulatori, the statement said. The operations also netted the arrests of 43 militants belonging to the Islamist group, …

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Portugal tightens abortion laws, forcing women to pay to end pregnancies

Women will also be required to have counselling before a termination, in a move pro-choice campaigners said was designed to ‘humiliate’ women. Portugal has tightened its abortion laws, adopting a bill aimed at making women pay to end a pregnancy and requirements for more stringent tests before the procedure. On Wednesday, the governing centre-right coalition …

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4,000-year-old tablets found in Turkey include women’s rights

The Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum trade colony in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri continues to amaze archeologists, with an expert at the dig revealing that tablets citing women’s rights were discovered at the Bronze Age settlement. Excavations at the ancient tumulus site began in 1948. So far, it has been discovered the center was where the written …

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