Hard-line students in Afghanistan protest women's rights decree as un-Islamic ...
Washington Post
It is imperative for the development of Afghanistan that women are able to exercise their rights and be free from violence in their homes and workplaces, UN Special Representative Jan Kubis said in a Monday statement. In another worrisome sign for ...
Afghan women's rights in peril, group says Los Angeles Times
'Dark future' for women's rights in Afghanistan PublicServiceEurope.com
More Afghan women being jailed for 'moral crimes,' rights group says Arizona Daily Star
Human Rights Watch

A Global Goal on Gender Equality, Women's Rights and Women's Empowerment ...
Pravda
... by without a news story on some violation of women's rights. In recent months, appalling incidents of violence against women and girls, from Delhi to Johannesburg to Cleveland, have sparked public outrage and demands to tackle these horrific abuses ...

Worrying Signs Afghan Women's Rights Will Slip After US Departure
The Atlantic
Afghanistan's law on the "elimination of violence against women" is regularly used by women's advocates and lawyers to jail those who force girls into marriage, marry off girls as young as 10 or 11, force women into prostitution, or use females to ...
Afghan MPs block divisive women's rights law Aljazeera.com
Afghan rape victims still subject to criminal charges: Women's rights ... Washington Times
Women's rights legislation is stymied in Afghanistan Boston Globe
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BBC: Women's Rights Activists Bogaletch Gebre wins King Baudouin Prize
Tadias Magazine
Also known as female circumcision, it is seen as a traditional rite of passage and is used culturally to ensure virginity and to make a woman marriageable. It typically involves removing the clitoris, and can lead to bleeding, infections and childbirth ...

2013's Youngest Power Women
Forbes
FORBES Power Woman newcomer and Spanx founder Sara Blakely, 42, has opened the shapewear giant's first set of standalone retail stores across the U.S. this year. The youngest self-made female billionaire's story is a remarkable one. The one-time ...

Special female police unit to combat violence against women
Egypt Independent
... five days of closure,... READ MORE · Power outage at Cairo airport. Power went out more than once at the Cairo International Airport on Wednesday, causing some X-ray machines to go out of. ... sparked by the second anniversary of the January 25 ...

Fifteen Minutes Of Power: Women Who (Briefly) Rocked 2013
Forbes
15 Minutes Of Power: 15 Women Who Rocked 2013. Each year in curating the FORBES annual Most Powerful Women list we scour the world press for mentions of leading ladies with a particular eye for newcomers who could join these mighty ranks.

Power Woman Helene Gayle: How To Make The Greatest Impact On The Most ...
Forbes
67 slot on the Power Women list precisely because her decisions affect so many. Particularly, her ... I always knew that I wanted to do the most that I could for the most people, Gayle told FORBES recently at the Forbes Women's Summit: Power Redefined.

Bollywood Actors Stand Up Against Violence
Huffington Post
As we celebrate the support and endorsement from Bollywood actors to stop domestic violence and promote women's rights, however, we can't help but wonder where that same support is in the U.S. and the Western World. How would it look different if more ...

Afghan Parliament Halts Debate On Women's Rights Bill
NPR (blog)
Afghan Parliament Halts Debate On Women's Rights Bill. by Eyder Peralta. May 18, 201312:55 PM. A boy holds the ... As the BBC reports, the bill would have solidified a law passed by presidential decree in 2009, which banned "violence against women ...