Regulations on abortions in Ireland are among the strictest in the world Thousands of protesters marched in Dublin, and Irish expatriates joined in demonstrations around the world on Saturday, to put pressure on the Irish government to hold a referendum to repeal restrictive abortion laws. Regulations in the once stridently Catholic Ireland are among the …
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Violence against Women: a Battle that should be Won A New Tool for NGOs to Fight Violence Against Women Violence is still a bitter reality for far too many women over the world, and in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Yet, tools exist to protect women and fight for their rights. On the second anniversary of the …
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Girls listen to police officers talk about reporting sexual abuse, at a public school in Delhi.Photograph: Amrit Dhillon Amrit Dhillon in Delhi – The Guardian – 22-8-2016 Half of the student population in India’s capital suffer abuse, a taboo subject in many homes. Now police are visiting schools to encourage children to report it. In …
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On 22/08/2016 the feminist collective To Mov organised a workshop about the solidarity to refugees focused on women refugees, in the context of the SCI Hellas Workcamp in Lavrio “Creativity in refugee camp” (14-27 August 2016). You can see the presentation of Alexia Tsouni, member of the editorial team of To Mov.
Protest follows complaints by women’s groups of lenient sentences given to perpetrators in recent cases More than 50,000 people marched in Peru’s capital and eight other cities on Saturday to protest violence against woman and what they say is the indifference of the judicial system. Officials said the size of the protest against gender violence …
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