Women’s rights activist seeks ‘civil supremacy’ in Pakistan
A Pakistani human rights activist who spoke out against the army has fled the country after months in hiding. Gulalai Ismail (above, far right) is now in the US, having eluded… Read more »
Category: women’s rights
Regime crackdown fails to silence Iran protests
The global campaign to free Iranian human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh is gathering momentum, as a regime crackdown fails to silence protests. More than 600,000 have signed a petition calling… Read more »
International Women’s Day: defending women’s rights against authoritarianism
Women’s Learning Partnership Promo 2019 (English) from Women’s Learning Partnership on Vimeo. A recent public hearing of the US House Intelligence Committee dealt with the threat of rising authoritarianism and… Read more »
Women’s rights a symptom of the Americas’ crisis of democracy
The Crisis of Democracy and Women’s Rights in the Americas is the subject of a discussion hosted by the Inter-American Dialogue, featuring Larissa Arroyo, director of Asociacion Ciudadana Acceder – ACCEDER;… Read more »
International effort to end gender-based workplace violence
Governments, employers, and workers from around the world will meet beginning May 28, 2018, to discuss a proposed international treaty on violence and harassment in the workplace, Human Rights Watch… Read more »
Sima Wali, Champion of Afghan Women’s Rights, R.I.P.
Sima Wali, who fled the Soviet-backed coup in Afghanistan in 1978 to wage what she called a “jihad for peace and equality” by women against “gender apartheid” imposed by… Read more »
Votes Without Violence
Electoral violence subverts basic standards for democratic elections — a cornerstone of democratic governance, the National Democratic Institute notes. The effects, or even merely the threat, of violence, can… Read more »
Women’s empowerment a rare bright spot in democracy landscape
In a global democracy landscape marked by considerable gloom, progress in women’s political empowerment is a rare bright spots of recent years, argues the Carnegie Endowment’s Thomas Carothers a… Read more »
Activist ban highlights ‘existential threat’ to Egypt’s civil society
An Egyptian activist was prevented from flying to Beirut for a women’s rights conference on Monday after passport control officials told her she was banned from traveling, Reuters reports:… Read more »
What is the Arabic for democracy?
The collapse of the post-colonial Arab system is, at its heart, a crisis of legitimacy. The impact of colonialism, often blamed by Arabs for their woes, should not be… Read more »