Advocacy & Lobbying
Online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active women in Afghanistan has significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country in Aug. 2021, according to a report released Monday by a U.K.-based rights group.
Afghan Witness, an open-source project run by the non-profit Center for Information Resilience, says it found that abusive posts tripled, a 217% increase, between June-December 2021 and the same period of 2022.
Click here to read the full article published by ABC News on 20 November 2023.
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Large-scale protests that erupted in 2022 across Iran, centering on women’s rights, captured the world’s attention.
Iranians peacefully protested in the streets of places ranging from Tehran to small towns across the country, chanting, “Woman, life, freedom.” The protests reflected many Iranians’ growing frustration with the political regime in power since 1979 – and its ongoing violation of citizens’ basic rights, especially those of women and other historically marginalized groups.
Click here to read the full article published by The Conversation on 16 November 2023.
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Almost every council in Australia has a gallery of “dead men”, says Licia Heath. In the Cairns regional council, the gallery of past mayors – overwhelmingly white and male – is in the civic reception room.
Underneath their gaze, a change is taking place. A group of Indigenous women and women from other culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are meeting to learn how to launch their own political campaign.
Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 17 November 2023.
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The Director General of the Nigeria Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, has urged Nigerian political, traditional and religious leaders to emulate Somalia by electing more women to the National Assembly.
Like Nigeria, Somalia operates a bi-camera legislature. Its 54-member Senate has 14 parliamentary seats occupied by women, representing 25.93 per cent, more than eight times higher than Nigeria’s parliament with 3.67 per cent of female senators.
The Nigerian Senate has only four female members.
In Somalia’s House of Representatives, there are 54 women out of 275 members.
Click here to read the full article published by the Daily Trust on 15 November 2023.
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If current trends continue, more than 340 million women and girls— 8 per cent of the world’s female population—will live in extreme poverty by 2030.
The gender gap in power and leadership roles also persists, and if progress continues at the current pace, it will take another 286 years to reach gender equality in public life.
Without ambitious investments to scale-up prevention programmes, implement effective policies, and provide support services to address violence against women and girls, countries will fail to end gender-based violence by 2030.
Click here to read the full article published by UN Women on 13 November 2023.
Calls for peace filled the air as representatives from over 20 existing and newly emerging women’s anti-war initiatives from various civic and political backgrounds and geographical locations within Sudan gathered in Cairo, Egypt.
The meeting aimed at coordinating their efforts towards peace enforcement in Sudan.
The United Nations Women, UN Integrated Transition Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), Crisis Management Initiative and Inclusive Peace organized the three-day meeting entitled, "Strategy Meeting: Towards Enhancing Coordination among Women's group".
Click here to read the full article published by the Sudan Tribune on 13 November 2023.
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