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China rejects international pleas to release five feminists from jail

  Britain, the EU and US ambassador to the UN among those calling for activists detained just before International Women’s Day to be freed Tania Branigan China correspondent China has rejected calls from Britain, the US ambassador to the UN and others to release five feminist activists detained just before International Women’s Day. Hua Chunying, …

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Afghan women carry body of lynched woman to burial

An Afghan woman who was beaten to death by a mob for allegedly burning a copy of the Quran has been buried in Kabul, her coffin carried aloft by women’s rights activists in a rare protest in a male-dominated society. Hundreds of people, shouting “Allah o Akbar” (God is greatest), demanded the government bring the …

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China Celebrates International Women’s Day By Arresting Women’s Rights Activists

BEIJING — Chinese authorities rang in Sunday’s International Women’s Day with a contradiction: celebrating the country’s first draft law on domestic violence while simultaneously arresting feminist activists who have campaigned for these legal protections. Fellow activists and lawyers representing the women say that an initial police sweep across multiple cities on March 6 netted 10 …

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Honduran Court Declares Feminist Leader Guilty

Gladys Lanza’s defense indicates they will continue fighting for her. Feminist leader Gladys Lanza has been found guilty on the charge of defamation against the public official Juan Carlos Reyes, and is facing up to four years in prison and is barred from participating in political organizations. However her defense says that this is not …

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