DEMONSTRATIONS FROM BUENOS AIRES TO LAGOS DEMAND JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF FEMICIDE AND URGE REFORM TO PROTECT Women. DEMONSTRATORS HAVE TAKEN TO THE STREETS ACROSS ASIA, AFRICA, EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS TO MARK International Women’s DayWith Many Demanding An End To Gender-Based Violence and INEQUALITY. In Cities Like Buenos Aires,Continue Reading
ISRAEL’S 15-MONTH WAR ON GAZA, AS well as severe restrictions it. humanitarian AID and Israeli Forces’ Attacks On Health facilitians and targeting of Healthcare Workershave led to “Life-Threatening Danger” for pregnant women and Babies, human rights watch (HRW) has said in a new report. LEAVE THE ONGOING CeasefireThe Precarous ConditionsContinue Reading
Tigray, Ethiopia – “I was angry all the time,” says Bezunesh, spinning wool in her small mud house in Bora, a remote district of deep valleys, sloping mountains and small terraced farms in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray. It has been a few years since the mother of eight, whoseContinue Reading
Sydney, Australia – Sam Hall, an Aboriginal woman from Ormiston in southeast Queensland, was 40 weeks pregnant when she felt her baby’s movements slow. She was already anxious about her son’s safety – earlier scans had found possible problems with her pregnancy, and her partner had genetic heart issues. ButContinue Reading
Johannesburg, South Africa – For more than a decade, Johanna Motlhamme has been fighting to get her family home back after it was sold from under her, leaving her and her four children without their rightful inheritance. The 74-year-old’s plight is one that has its roots in the racist lawsContinue Reading
Hospitals hit by 24-hour shutdown as protests demanding protection for health workers and condemning violence swell. Hundreds of thousands of Indian health workers and their supporters have launched a nationwide strike to protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor last week at a government hospital in theContinue Reading
Activists and doctors across India are planning to march on Wednesday evening to demand justice for a female doctor, who was raped and murdered while on duty in a hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata. Protests titled “Reclaim the Night” are expected in West Bengal, Delhi, Karnataka, Odisha, Assam,Continue Reading
Abuja, Nigeria – When children turn 10, their first double-digit milestone is usually a time of excitement. But not for Elizabeth John, who could only feel dread about what was to come. A day after her 10th birthday, three older women held her legs down firmly as her mother pressedContinue Reading
