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Turkish authorities shut down first Kurdish all-female news agency

JINHA staff at a press conference in Istnabul Jinha Women’s News Agency/ Facebook   ‘We do not bow down to the decrees of the AKP, which is misogynistic and counts women as nothing’ By Alexandra Sims Turkish authorities have shut down the world’s first international feminist news agency amid a wide ranging government crackdown on …

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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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Black Protests – Women’s rights in Poland under a huge threat

A protest in Kraków in April 2016 against plans to tighten the law on abortion in Poland. Photograph: Łukasz Kamiński/Agencja Gazeta/Reuters European Women’s Lobby in solidarity with women in Poland! Women organisations in Poland and Europe are reacting strongly against the decision taken by the Polish Parliament on 23th of September to move ahead with …

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Thousands of protesters in Dublin and Irish expats demand referendum on Ireland’s abortion laws

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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