Tag: women’s rights

Little attention has been paid to women and girls in humanitarian settings, those whose safety has already been reduced due to conflict, natural disaster or displacement.

"Violence against women is endemic in every country and culture, causing harm to millions of women and their families, and has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic."

“The reason for this is because women are over-represented in the hardest-hit sectors: service, leisure/hospitality, education and healthcare services.”

Perhaps in 2020, the best monuments to the fight for women’s rights — for all our rights — may look nothing like what most of us would imagine.

“From now abortions will be rightly treated as a health issue. The previous law required a woman seeking an abortion to go through many hoops.”

"The point is for there to really be a loss, that is, for this day to happen without us. ...It had to be something like this, radical and cutting, so that the loss for everyone would be seen, or rather the absence, the lack of our presence."

Women and trauma in the Trump-Putin era.

The ongoing fight to finally make the ERA Article 28 of the Constitution will certainly provide us with many new ones.

“I didn’t ask for forgiveness ever or permission ever. I just did what I thought was right.”

"To build fairer and more inclusive economies we must instill gender parity across education, health, politics, and economic participation."