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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has supported a bill to punish ‘femicide’ with life imprisonment. Published On 26 Nov 202526 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Italy’s parliament has formally added the crime of femicide – the deliberate killing of women and girls due to their gender – to its…
About 83,000 women and girls were intentionally killed worldwide last year – 60 percent of them at the hands of partners or relatives. Published On 25 Nov 202525 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share More than 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members around the…
Imagine walking for days and nights to escape gunfire. You carry your child in your arms, guiding them through the darkness to avoid drone attacks. You have no food, no water, and nowhere safe to go. This is the reality for families in Darfur and across Sudan, where civilians are being trapped, targeted, and terrorised…
Sheinbaum calls for nationwide review of sexual harassment laws, as attack shines light on Mexico’s poor record on women’s safety. Published On 6 Nov 20256 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has called for sexual harassment to be made a crime nationwide after being groped on…
Growing up in Rawalpindi, a city adjacent to Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, Mahnoor Omer remembers the shame and anxiety she felt in school when she had periods. Going to the toilet with a sanitary pad was an act of stealth, like trying to cover up a crime. “I used to hide my pad up my sleeve…
If bill is signed into law, Portugal would join several European countries which already have full or partial bans. Published On 17 Oct 202517 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Portugal has approved a bill to ban face veils used for “gender or religious motives” in most public spaces that…
If bill is signed into law, Portugal would join several European countries which already have full or partial bans. Published On 17 Oct 202517 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Portugal has approved a bill to ban face veils used for “gender or religious motives” in most public spaces that…
San Miguel Chicaj, Guatemala — In the remote highlands of Baja Verapaz, women are rediscovering their strength through a simple yet powerful tool: their voices. For generations, Indigenous women in Guatemala have carried families and traditions, but their own wellbeing often came last. Now, through “Well-Being Clubs” supported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM),…
A Kenyan court this week ordered the arrest and extradition of a British national suspected of murdering a 21-year-old woman in a town close to a United Kingdom army training camp in Kenya in 2012. The ruling has brought renewed attention to the long-running case of the young woman, Agnes Wanjiru, whose murder in Nanyuki,…
The Trump administration has confirmed it plans to destroy the already purchased supplies, preventing their distribution. Published On 5 Sep 20255 Sep 2025 Belgium has called on the administration of United States President Donald Trump to abandon a plan to destroy a massive stockpile of contraceptives for women as part of its rollback on foreign…
