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India: Women Push Back After Mass Groping At Bangalore New Year’s Event

Foto: Indian police stand by crowds during the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Bangalore, where hundreds of men harassed women. – STR/AFP/Getty Images Chhavi Sachdev – January 6 After a woman was gang-raped and died of her injuries in New Delhi in December 2012, the Indian government tried to set up swift and judicious ways …

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Human Rights Commissioner on the health of Iranian human rights defenders

On Arash Sadeghi, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, Mohammad Reza Nekounam and Morteza Moradpour 28.12.2016 Source: © 1995-2016 Federal Foreign Office (Germany) Following current reports about the critical condition of several incarcerated Iranian human rights defenders on hunger strike, Bärbel Kofler, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office, issued …

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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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