From hunger fasts in Bahrain, to women’s only marches in Yemen, to Asmaa Mahfouz (known as “a woman worth 100 men”), whose anti-Mubarak video helped trigger the revolution against autocratic rule, to the defiant Iman Al-Obeidi in Libya,
US ambassador at large for Global Women's Issues, Melanne Verveer, held a roundtable discussion at the US embassy on Monday to discuss the future of Egyptian women, following the January 25 Revolution.
Yesterday, 18 April 2011, the Hungarian Parliament adopted a new Constitution. The new text and the process under which it has been developed and accepted has been widely criticised as grossly curtailing human rights and democratic values.
Yemeni women activists are responding combatively to the media war waged by state outlets this week aimed at denouncing female participation in protests sweeping the nation.
Since the horrific Mar. 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated her coastal town of Minato, in Ishinomaki city, Masami Endo’s three-year-old daughter has been crying and clinging to her every night. Endo is very worried about her child.
Part of an ongoing series about women and the challenges they face across the world. South Asian women lag behind men in literacy, workforce participation, reproductive rights and most other areas.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s wife, Emine Erdoğan, who had a meeting with the Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) female deputy candidates over the weekend, told them that they will be the hope of not only Turkish women, but also of women in neighboring countries.
Activists say women, who make up more than half of the population, need more than 25% of official positions.