Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian President Lula de Silva's chief of staff, was nominated today to represent the Worker's Party in the upcoming presidential election. She is known as the "iron lady." Lula is term-limited.
This is just horrid. Christian Science Monitor reports that for the first time in Malaysia, three women were caned this month after being charged with adultery by a court of Islamic law.
On the heels of Laura Chinchilla's victory in the Costa Rican presidential election and Evo Morales's appointing women to half of his cabinet positions, the Christian Science Monitor
United Nations human rights experts share the unease Afghan civil society representatives voiced in London last week about the protection of women’s human rights during peace negotiations with the Taliban.
Alex DiBranco at Change.org's Women's Rights blog recently wrote a post titled "Afghan Women Choose Suicide Over Facing Continued Violence" about a report released by the Canadian Government showing dozens of women are still
At an international conference in London this week, seventy countries pledged to back Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s plan to reach out to some members of the Taliban. Despite reassurances that reconciliation would not betray hard-won social and political freedoms, much of the rhetoric from power players at the summit gave civil society observers the impression human rights –especially the rights of women– could soon be on the negotiating table.
Activists also expressed anger at the exclusion of women and civil society from preparations for the conference itself.
Suicide is now the leading cause of death among women in Nepal age 15-49. Women of childbearing age more likely to die by their own hand than in childbirth. The data comes from a maternal mortality study undertaken by the Nepalese government, and this is not the outcome that anyone expected to find.