Gender & Minorities

Palestinian activist Randa Farah suggests that Saharawi women have traditionally possessed great autonomy despite being Muslim:

Gender-based violence is a persistent worldwide problem, occurring in every culture in all societies. The underlying problem seems to be that many societies consider it a ‘private’ affair and therefore ‘acceptable’.

Hundreds of indigenous women and girls were murdered in Canada. To many, it’s a baffling fact.

Recently, there were proposals in the UK parliament to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases.

These one-year fellowships (renewable for up to 3 years) will be awarded to young women leaders between the ages of 17-35 who are driving transformative change in their communities and are looking to grow their projects to scale and sustainability.

Women have now climbed to the highest apex of judicial power in a number of countries. They have also climbed higher in positions of power in several countries. Both the chief justice and deputy chief justice in Zambia as of mid-2012 were female jurists. The chief justice of Nigeria is female.

November 26, 2012.

The Sudanese security forces in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan/Nuba Mountains state, started arresting women early November and interrogating them about their relations to the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement/North, which is fighting the Sudanese government in the region since June 20

On 4 November 2012, the new Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon announced the composition of his first Cabinet with two women appointed as part of the 10-member executive.

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