Taking Stock of Two Decades of Trailblazing Protocol on Womens Rights in Africa — Global Issues

Taking Stock of Two Decades of Trailblazing Protocol on Womens Rights in Africa — Global Issues

Women and girls in Kenya’s West Pokot celebrate as the government cracks down on those practising harmful Female Genital Mutilation in the area. CREDIT: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Wednesday, August 09, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Aug 09 (IPS) – It promised to be the most defining, groundbreaking, and…

Vulnerable Women Suffer the Worst Face of Discrimination in Argentina — Global Issues

Vulnerable Women Suffer the Worst Face of Discrimination in Argentina — Global Issues

“Migration is a right,” read the handkerchiefs held by two women at a demonstration in the Argentine capital for migrants’ rights. At left is Natividad Obeso, a Peruvian who came to Buenos Aires in 1994, fleeing political violence in her country. CREDIT: Camilo Flores / ACDH by Daniel Gutman (buenos aires)…

Transgender People Face Growing Violence, Discrimination in Pakistan — Global Issues

Transgender People Face Growing Violence, Discrimination in Pakistan — Global Issues

Transgender people often entertain at weddings and other events, but they increasingly face violent acts, especially since part of an Act ensuring their rights was recently struck down. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS by Ashfaq Yusufzai (peshawar) Monday, July 24, 2023 Inter Press Service PESHAWAR, Jul 24 (IPS) – “The problems transgender people…

Women Suffer Harassment and Discrimination on Chile’s Public Transport — Global Issues

Women Suffer Harassment and Discrimination on Chile’s Public Transport — Global Issues

Perla Venegas is one of 1444 female bus drivers in the surface public transport network in Santiago, Chile, which aims at gender inclusion and offers job stability and shift flexibility compatible with family life. CREDIT: Orlando Milesi / IPS by Orlando Milesi (santiago) Monday, June 26, 2023 Inter Press Service SANTIAGO,…

A Caribbean Writer Fights Gender-Based Violence with Lit, Protests — Global Issues

A Caribbean Writer Fights Gender-Based Violence with Lit, Protests — Global Issues

by SWAN – Southern World Arts News (paris) Wednesday, March 08, 2023 Inter Press Service PARIS, Mar 08 (IPS) – For the past six years, Jamaican writer and scholar Opal Palmer Adisa has been one of the voices crying out against the prevalence of gender-based violence in the Caribbean and elsewhere….

Gender Central to Parliamentarians Programme of Action — Global Issues

Gender Central to Parliamentarians Programme of Action — Global Issues

Cooperative members in southern Lebanon make a rare, traditional bread called Mallet El Smid to be sold at the MENNA shop in Beirut. Women are central to meeting the SDGs, say parliamentarians. Credit: UN Women/Joe Saade by IPS Correspondent (johannesburg) Thursday, February 23, 2023 Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, Feb 23 (IPS)…

In Zimbabwe, Economic Crisis Pushes Underaged Girls to Sex Work — Global Issues

In Zimbabwe, Economic Crisis Pushes Underaged Girls to Sex Work — Global Issues

The continuing economic crisis and high women’s unemployment have resulted in many underaged girls turning to sex work in Zimbabwe. In the area near Penhalonga, the girls target artisanal miners in the region. Credit: Farai Shawn Matiashe/IPS by Farai Shawn Matiashe (mutare, zimbabwe) Thursday, February 23, 2023 Inter Press Service MUTARE,…